hi guys you know what time it is it's time for a beer and to give you some tips on how to save money traveling germany because i'm traveling myself and i see how ridiculously expensive some things are so i've prepared a list for you with the best money saving tips for germany and i'm pretty sure that even if you live in germany you don't know many of these tips when you're traveling you have three main expenses accommodation transportation and food and also activities but that's the smaller part probably let's start with transportation if you want to go from one city to the next one usually the quickest way is to take a train but trains can be ridiculously expensive in germany until maybe two three years ago there was only one provider for the trains and that is the deutsche bahn so they basically have a monopoly and can ask whatever price they want and as germans are they only give you a good price for the train ticket if you book far in advance as much as possible if you want to go from berlin to stuttgart for example which is almost through the entire country takes like six seven hours you would have to pay NUMBER_TOKEN euro for the train ticket if you book one day in advance or the same day but if you book the same train ride for the same train six weeks in advance it's only NUMBER_TOKEN year old so you need to pay NUMBER_TOKEN more if you don't plan ahead in germany and that's actually the reason i rarely take the train because i i hate planning so far ahead i don't know about you but i'm glad i know what i eat for dinner you know so book these train tickets as far in advance as possible and as i mentioned there's a new competitor on the market it's called flix train they don't cover all the cities in germany yet but they have like five or six major routes they cover and the train tickets there are way cheaper so go check them out another alternative which is even cheaper would be the flex bus the buses but um yeah you will need a lot of time if you want to go the same ride from berlin to stuttgart if you need seven hours with the train you would probably need like NUMBER_TOKEN to NUMBER_TOKEN hours with the bus i personally wouldn't recommend taking the bus for trips that are more than three or four hours long because they're not very comfortable ah another thing for the train tickets if you are traveling only within a federal state of germany a bundesland with a group of people you can get very good and cheap group tickets it costs i think NUMBER_TOKEN euro for a day so you can pay NUMBER_TOKEN euro for five people all together that's the whole price and you can go the whole day as much as you want around the federal state but only with the regional train not the ice you know not the fast one another great alternative is the blablacar which is a platform everybody who has a car and is going to another city can live there right there and you can book a spot in their car to go to this specific city or to a city on the road when i was studying this was the only way i got around through germany because it's one of the cheapest ways to do so you usually pay between NUMBER_TOKEN and NUMBER_TOKEN euro per NUMBER_TOKEN kilometers depending on the car they use and i've probably taken NUMBER_TOKEN to NUMBER_TOKEN trips with blablacar
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