Excursion tips

On this page we would like to give you some tips for excursions and day trips. These are located both inside and outside the ticket area. For the destinations outside the ticket area, we will also explain how to get tickets.

Important note

Remember that your semester ticket is only valid for public transport. This means that you can take buses, streetcars, S-Bahns, RBs and REs. Your semester ticket is not valid in ICs, ECs, ICEs, in Flixtrains, long-distance buses etc.

You can find more information here: Information on the semester ticket

The page is under construction. Pictures, descriptions and more tips will follow.

Tips within the ticket area

The following towns and cities are within the ticket area. So you can reach them without paying anything extra.

We present them in alphabetical order:

Bad Homburg

Bad Kreuznach

Bad Nauheim

Bingen

Darmstadt

Frankfurt

Fulda

Gießen

Koblenz

IMPORTANT: Only via left side of Rhine (via Bingen and Bacharach)

Limburg an der Lahn

Marburg

Rüdesheim

Wiesbaden

Worms

Beautiful Christmas markets in ticket area

The following towns and cities are within the ticket area. So you can reach them without paying anything extra.

We present them in alphabetical order:

Bad Münster am Stein

Bad Nauheim

Mainz

Michelstadt

Wiesbaden

Tips outside the ticket area

The following towns and cities are outside the ticket area. This means that you will have to buy additional tickets if you want to get there. You can find out exactly which ones and what to look out for here.

We present them in alphabetical order:

Aschaffenburg

Route Last stop in ticket area
via Darmstadt Babenhausen
via Frankfurt and Hanau Großkrotzenburg

Cochem

Route Last stop in ticket area
via Koblenz Koblenz Hbf

Heidelberg

Route Last stop in ticket area
via Worms and Mannheim Bobenheim
via Frankfurt and Mannheim Lampertheim
via Frankfurt and Darmstadt Weinheim-Lützelsachsen

Kassel

Route Last stop in ticket area
via Frankfurt and Marburg Neustadt (Kr Marburg)

Köln

Route Last stop in ticket area
via Koblenz Koblenz Hbf

Luxemburg

Remember that Luxembourg is located in another country and therefore there may be certain entry and exit regulations due to the Corona pandemic. Please inform yourself about this beforehand.

Route Last stop in ticket area
via Koblenz und Trier Koblenz Hbf

Mannheim

Route Last stop in ticket area
via Worms Bobenheim
via Frankfurt and Groß-Gerau Lampertheim

Traben-Trarbach

Route Last stop in ticket area
via Koblenz Koblenz Hbf

Trier

Route Last stop in ticket area
via Koblenz Koblenz Hbf

Würzburg

Route Last stop in ticket area
via Frankfurt and Hanau Großkrotzenburg
via Darmstadt and Aschaffenburg Babenhausen

More general tips

symbol image bus train tram How do I get to Koblenz for free? What do I have to do if I want to travel outside the ticket area?
For this purpose, we have created a separate page where we answer such questions so that you can make the best use of your semester ticket:
Tips for using the semester ticket
You need tips for excursions? Then you will find them here:
Excursion tips

You have more tips?

You have more tips that you want to share with your fellow students. Then share them with us 🙂 Send us an email with the place, what you can do there, maybe some photos etc.. You can find our contact details on the top right (on your PC) or further down (on your smartphone).