The Top 10 Ways Germany’s 9 Euro Ticket Can Give You a Pretty Bad Headache
Photo: Imanuel Marcus
Millions of Germans, expatriates, immigrants, tourists and other contemporaries are buying 9 Euro Tickets these days. Will many of them regret their purchase soon? Probably. This is why.
Sofia, Bulgaria, May 21st, 2022 (The Berlin Spectator) — Most of us love to travel on train tracks, especially when the price is right. This applies until we become aware of the fact that there is a list of “The Top 10 Ways Germany’s 9 Euro Ticket Can Give You a Pretty Bad Headache”. Here they are:
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When you want to use the ticket for a nice little daytrip to Brandenburg, but have to share the train with 3.8 million other Berliners who had the same genius idea at the same glorious moment.
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When other 9 Euro Ticket passengers make you feel old by offering you their seats, even though this means they will have to stand for two hours, on a regional train that is overcrowded, thanks to the 9 Euro Ticket.
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When you are sick and tired of overcrowded trains after one day of traveling and vow never to use one again, even if they introduce a 20 Cent Ticket.
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When you end up in Freiburg on a Sunday evening because you love making use of your 9 Euro Ticket so much, but suddenly remember you have to be at the office in Berlin the next morning.
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When the crowds on those regional trains annoy you so much that you decide to purchase a First Class ICE bullet train ticket from Berlin to Munich for 117.90 Euro, thirteen times the price of the 9 Euro Ticket.
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When the sparkling water and that tiny bag of potato chips you purchase at the station cost more than the damned ticket you are using.
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When you have to wait in line in front of the onboard toilet for 14 hours, thanks to thousands of other 9 Euro Ticket holders who are on the same train.
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When some of the countless other passengers around you blow their Corona aerosols into your face while they tell you about the rather dull travel experience they acquired with their 9 Euro Tickets.
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When your friends ask you how much the 9 Euro Ticket is.
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When you arrive at Hanover Central Station for the 32nd time on one single day, and for the 257th time in a week.