Tickets & Fares

Bicycles

Passengers can travel with their bicycles on urban railway and underground lines, on regional rail transport and on trams in the designated carriages, provided there is sufficient space (if necessary, the staff will decide).

During nights without underground night-time services, i.e. the nights from Sunday/ Monday to Thursday/ Friday, one bicycle can be taken on the N1 to N9 bus lines, provided sufficient space is available. Exceptions: the nights before public holidays.

If little space is available, wheelchair users and prams/pushchairs take priority. Passengers are not automatically entitled to travel with a bicycle. Please always place your bicycle in the specially designated areas, as this makes it easier for you to board an alight with them.

Travelling with dogs

Users of Single Tickets and Short Trip Tickets require a reduced fare ticket for each dog travelling with them. Small dogs which can be transported in a bag or similar can travel with you free of charge.

You can take a large dog with you free of charge if you have a valid Day Ticket, Small Group Ticket, Group Day Ticket for schoolchildren or a season ticket.

This provision is also applicable to holders of a disabled person's pass with supplement and valid stamp. Guide dogs for the blind, which accompany a blind person, are carried free of charge.

If you have several dogs with you, please purchase a reduced fare ticket for each (additional) dog.

Carriage of severely disabled persons

Passengers who hold a disabled person's pass with supplement and a valid stamp can use all means of transport within the VBB fare zones free of charge within the scope of the statutory provisions (Severely Disabled Law Art 145 Para. 1 Social Code - Volume Nine (SGB IX)).

Persons accompanying severely disabled persons can generally travel with them free of charge if the disabled person's pass indicates the need for them to be constantly accompanied. In this case the disabled person can also travel with a dog free of charge in place of an accompanying person.

DB's "route directory" is only significant for free of charge use of DB trains if it includes lines which wholly or partly lie outside the VBB fare zones. This provision applies to severely disabled passengers in general and is independent of their place of residence.

Conditions of carriage

The conditions of carriage are included in Part A of the current VBB tariffs. These are available on this site as a download.

Passengers who hold valid tickets can

• travel with children up to the age of 6 (a maximum of three children on ferries) and
  
• luggage and
  
• a pram/pushchair

free of charge.