Even if the 49 euro ticket becomes a 58 euro ticket from 2025, the chances of being able to take someone with you on a subscription will not increase despite the increased price.
49 euro ticket: Impossible to take someone with you even with a 58 euro ticket
Since May 1, 2023, the Deutschlandticket has been available as a non-transferable ticket, but from January 1, 2025 it will no longer cost 49, but 58 euros. While other monthly tickets allowed you to take another adult or your child with you at certain times of the day, the 49 or 58 euro ticket is not designed for this.
- Children under six years of age generally travel free on public transport. If children exceed this age limit, you have to pay. The same would apply to the offspring your own 49 euro ticket will apply, from January 2025 the 58 euro ticket.
- For two adultsdie with two children – for example an eight-year-old and twelve-year-old child – want to travel, 49 or 58 euros no longer seem so cheap: They will have to pay 196 or soon 232 euros.
- Not only Families with children have the 49 euro ticket real disadvantages. Dog owners and cyclists also have to pay extra.
Taking someone with you with the Germany ticket: alternatives
In order not to alienate travelers, individual transport companies have thought about ways to organize cheaper travel with the Deutschlandticket.
- This is how most transport companies such as, for example, determine Dresden Transport Authority (DVB)that holders of the 49 euro or 58 euro ticket through an additional fee still Take other people with you on public transport may. So far it's about an additional nine to ten euros. However, in some cases these additions only apply on weekends.
- Die Lower Saxony government planned for 2023 Nationwide 29 euro ticket for schoolchildrenas NDR reported. That would at least provide some financial relief when traveling with children over the age of six. According to the newspaper Hase Post, students and trainees are still waiting for the cheaper offer and can only use the Lower Saxony tariff for 29 euros from 2 p.m.
- There is also in the Saarland for just over 30 euros a month Young people ticket for students, trainees and voluntary services.
- On the Germany Ticket Social For example, proven social assistance recipients are entitled to 39 euros.
- Since the Transport companies her maintain other subscription offersand the 49 or 58 euro subscription is only intended to be an additional offer, it is worth comparing whether you would be better served with a different subscription for your older children.