City Buses in Regensburg and other Regensburg, Germany Transportation Tips

'Mode': AROUND
Category: Bus
Getting TO/AROUND: Like most European cities, when one uses buses in Regensburg, one does not pay fare upon entering, one has to have a ticket or pass prior to using the public transit. There are automated ticket kiosks located at many bus stops in Regensburg. One can purchase different amounts of tickets. This was a few years ago, then these did look like cards with lines on them. When one entered the bus, one pushed the card into a validator box and it printed the date and time on it. You are then valid to ride for specified time. One can also purchase passes at several locations, usually the little "Imbiss" kiosks sell bus passes. Be sure if you use the buses in Regensburg that you have some sort of valid ticket as the transit cops do patrol and will yank you off and cite you if you do not have a ticket. From what I have been told if they realize your are a foreigner, they can be pretty nasty about it! Also make sure, if you take the bus away from the city out a way that you paid correct fare, as there are "zones" for the buses and you have to have bought the correct ticket or punched your card enough to travel there and you will get in trouble if the transit police audit you and find you deficient. They are not sympathetic at all!
Have fun, but be careful!

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'Mode': TO
Category: Train
Getting TO/AROUND: Deutsche Bahn has regular, several- times- daily, rail service to Regensburg. I don't know if Lufthansa or Condor flies to Regensburg or very nearby, but Nuernberg and Muenchen are only about an hour away by rail and Frankfurt about three. Several luxurious ICE and IR trains go to Regensburg every day.
If one is buying a Eurail or Deutsche Bahn pass, I suggest you buy a first class pass, it is worth the extra money, as the first class cars, especially on the ICE trains are very ,very nice. They have reclining seats with personal video and music, are plush and usually uncrowded. Plus, if you travel on a weekend the trains in second class may be packed and you may have to stand, which is no fun! Even if second class is full, in my experience, first class usually had plenty of room.
One usually doesn't need to reserve a seat, either. You can sit in a reserved seat as long as you vacate it or get off at a stop before the city that the person the seat was reserved for commences travel. The conducters don't have a problem with that.
If you have a pass, make sure you have it validated at a station before you get on the train because you only have so many days within to use them if they are for a certain amount of trips. (That's so the conductor knows that your pass hasn't expired!)
After you get on the train, show the pass to the conductor when they ask for your ticket, they will stamp it on the box of the day that is unused if the date hasn't been stamped already there. If you change trains that same day, just show it to the conductor on the next train so they know you have been validated to travel that day. It's really fairly simple and passes work out to be much cheaper than point-to-point single tickets or even round-trip fares in Germany, and they are much less hassle than messing with tickets!

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