Travelling in a sleeper car normally includes bed linen and sometimes breakfast, too. Travelling in a couchette car includes bed linen unless you use the so-called night tramper tariff (see below).
There are couchette cars with four couchettes in each compartment and others with six. For sleeper cars, there are some with three, some with two and even cars with only one bed per compartment. Depending on the number of beds per compartment, you will have to pay different supplements, or you will have to buy a 1st class ticket which usually costs 50% more than 2nd class.
I will try to give a price overview below but the system is quite complicated, and not every train has all types of compartments.
If you have reserved a bed or couchette, you must be there at last 15 minutes after train departure.
If you do not have a sleeper or couchette car supplement, you are not allowed to hang around in these cars (not on the aisles, either).
Children of more than 10 years of age must have a bed/couchette for their own.
Exception: The InterCityNight, a new hotel train cruising between Berlin and Munich/Berlin and Bonn, uses so-called global prices that contain everything.
PRICES 3 beds per 2 beds per 2 beds per 1 bed per 1 bed per
IN DM compartment compartment compartment compartment compartment
car type AB33 car type AB33 car type T2 car type T2 car type AB33
2nd class 1st class 2nd class 1st class 1st class
price ticket ticket ticket ticket ticket
category required required required required require
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D1 64.00 96.00 96.00 --- 215.00
D2 68.00 102.00 --- --- 215.00
D3 --- 90.00 90.00 170.00 ---
D4 57.00 86.00 --- --- 200.00
P2 70.00 105.00 105.00 175.00 245.00
P3 74.00 111.00 111.00 185.00 259.00
P4 78.00 117.00 117.00 195.00 273.00
EN2 *) --- 124.00 124.00 209.00 ---
EN3 *) 94.00 141.00 141.00 --- 294.00
CS 3 54.00 80.00 --- --- 187.00
GS 2 44.00 66.00 --- --- 154.00
GS 3 50.00 75.00 --- --- 175.00
GS 4 56.00 84.00 --- --- 196.00
GS 5 62.00 93.00 --- --- 217.00
GS 6 72.00 108.00 --- --- 252.00
PL 2 50.00 75.00 --- --- 175.00
PL 3 54.00 81.00 --- --- 189.00
PL 4 56.00 84.00 --- --- 196.00
PL 5 58.00 87.00 --- --- 203.00
PL 6 60.00 90.00 --- --- 210.00
*) EuroNight tariffs include breakfast.
Now you know the prices for each price category. But which rides are
assigned which category? You would need a long list to know it... I
have this list, but I cannot include it here. It may change at any
time, and then I would have to type it all over again :-(... thus,
I will try to give you some examples that make it possible for you
to guess which price category a specific ride will fall into.Lots of trains fall in the "P3" category, this seems to be some sort of default category. Trains that use P3 include
and stops in between.The D1 category is used for many trains that go via Berlin or Dresden, such as
and stops in between.The PL categories seem to be used for Poland:
and stops in between.
Please remember that these are only a few examples to give you an
idea of the prices.
The RailServer will give you sleeper car connections if you
use the #ONLY SLEEPER command.
PRICES IN DM Standard Standard BahnCard BahnCard Children Children Comfort class single bedroom 349.00 174.00 262.00 131.00 Comfort class double bedroom 438.00 218.00 328.00 164.00 Comfort class 1 bed in double 219.00 109.00 164.00 82.00 Touris class Armchair 139.00 69.00 104.00 52.00Car transport is DM 150.00, motorbike DM 100.00, bike DM 8.60.
Not all trains have all types of couchette compartments available; most of the newer trains have four-couchette compartments.
Following is a complete list of the trains that have the cheap "night tramper" couchettes (the others are too many to list):
with some stops in between.The RailServer will list couchette car connections if you give the #ONLY COUCH command in your query.