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I know how to find what trains I *can* take a bicycle on, but the ICE trains in particular require a bicycle reservation.  How do I book that?

The bahn.de site says you can only book a bicycle reservation with a meatbody ticket, but my meatbody is getting on with the EURail pass.  I can buy a seat reservation on its own, but that isn’t helping me with a bike reservation.

Where do I go from here?  Bike reservations are notoriously difficult on ICE trains, so this is a non-starter for me to “wing it”.

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Just visited a Hbf.  They deny that someone with a railpass could ever buy a bicycle-only IC/ICE ticket online (though many say you could), and that you must visit an Hbf in person to buy a bicycle-only ticket.

What a pain.

Ahh well, not the end of the world though.

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On bahn.de you can also just book a bike ticket (with reservation if needed).

Please ask questions in the community and not via a private message. That's the quickest way to get a response. I don't work for Eurail/Interrail.
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Yes, except that isn’t working.  If I pretend I’m going to book a meatbody ticket, it shows all the trains have available bicycle bays with the happy green bicycle.

But if I change the ticket from a meatbody+bicycle to just a bicycle, suddenly wow, all the trains forever have all their bike bays fully booked.  It’s like DB doesn’t want railpass users to take bicycles or something.

Frustrating, and pretty much terminal for my use for my railpass.  Fortunately, I haven’t initialised it yet, so I can still refund it.

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sadrik wrote:

Yes, except that isn’t working.  If I pretend I’m going to book a meatbody ticket, it shows all the trains have available bicycle bays with the happy green bicycle.

But if I change the ticket from a meatbody+bicycle to just a bicycle, suddenly wow, all the trains forever have all their bike bays fully booked.  It’s like DB doesn’t want railpass users to take bicycles or something.

I'd rather guess it's a bug. I've seen it work. If you're in a hurry, call DB.

Please ask questions in the community and not via a private message. That's the quickest way to get a response. I don't work for Eurail/Interrail.
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  • April 3, 2025

Just visited a Hbf.  They deny that someone with a railpass could ever buy a bicycle-only IC/ICE ticket online (though many say you could), and that you must visit an Hbf in person to buy a bicycle-only ticket.

What a pain.

Ahh well, not the end of the world though.

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