🚅 Deutschland Ticket with Credit Card & Instant Validity

As a tourist, you can also purchase the country-wide German public transport pass at Mo.pla. It can be valid starting from today, and you can pay with a credit card or PayPal. They also speak English.

updated 15 Jul 2024

category Travel

Deutschland Ticket

After the success of the 9-Euro-Ticket in 2022, the German government has introduced a permanent low-fare monthly pass called the Deutschland Ticket (Germany Pass).

Validity

The Deutschland Ticket is valid for the following means of transport at all times across all of Germany (including Berlin):

Local buses, local night buses
Trams (Straßenbahn, Stadtbahn)
U-Bahn
S-Bahn
Regionalbahn (RB)
Regional-Express (RE)

It is not valid for long-distance transport, including:

InterCity (IC)
EuroCity (EC)
InterCityExpress (ICE)
Flixtrain, Flixbus, or other long-distance buses

The ticket is valid for exactly 1 calendar month, e.g., from 1 May to 31 May. (So you cannot buy it for a period from 15 May to 14 June.)

Where to Buy

You can purchase the ticket at any local public transport company in Germany where the ticket is valid. For expats and tourists, I recommend the Mo.Pla app; see details below.

Is It Worth It for Tourists?

If you’re staying in Berlin or Germany for at least a week, the ticket may already pay off. A 7-day ticket for Berlin ABC (covering Berlin, its suburbs, and Potsdam) already costs the same: €49^[1].

But the Deutschland Ticket allows you to use all local public transport without worrying about going too far out of the city. You can even take day trips to Dresden or Leipzig using regional trains (which takes about 3 hours one way, with 1 change).

Additionally, in the Mo.Pla app, you can use a non-German phone number and pay by debit or credit card, so no EUR bank account is needed.

Be sure however to cancel your ticket early enough, as it is a subscription and will renew itself.

Buy the Ticket at Mo.Pla

The Deutschland Ticket from Mo.Pla:

Has an English interface (+ 6 more languages)
Allows you to subscribe with no deadline (so even on 31 May, it would still be valid for May)
Allows you to subscribe and then pause your subscription, so you can essentially buy it only for one month
Allows you to pay by debit or credit card (so no EUR bank account is required)

Mo.pla comes with Android or Apple app. They might be not accessible from your country, but then you can simply use their website / web app.

To buy the ticket, you first need to create a profile with your email, password, name, address, and phone number.

Then start the booking. You can buy the ticket starting from today – but it will only be valid to the end of the current month.

Having bought the ticket, you will receive a digital ticket as a QR (AZTEC) code inside the app, so be sure to carry your charged smartphone while traveling, along with your ID or passport.

Additionally, you will receive an email with the ticket's QR code. I always print it out and carry it with me as a backup in case I lose my phone. Technically, a ticket on paper is not valid since 2024, but I think having it on paper is still better than nothing.

If you lose your phone, you can still access the ticket on another device by logging in with your email address and password.

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