Venice To Munich via train

I'm finding Venice-Munich advance tickets for as little as 48 euro on the OBB website, 50 euro on bahn.de.

It might be worth just booking the darn thing instead of paying for supplements in Italy and Germany, and a ticket from Brenner to Mittenwald (assuming you want to take the fast train).

Also, there's one train that's direct from Venice, without having to change at Verona. The prices I quoted are for this train. 1:50 pm on a random date in late August (Oct-Nov won't be on sale yet). Comparable pricing for the Verona-Munich leg on most other trains--you'd have to get to Verona on your own dime/pass.

One other potential upside of the ticket from Venice is that trip wouldn't count as one of your travel days on your pass, if that's a consideration. Fastest too at just over 6:30 travel time. Time for a final lunch in Venice?

just tossing out ideas...

I just looked at the Eurail Pass site for the first time ... the passes are rather expensive, it seems to me.

But presumably people think they're a good deal (or at least a convenient way to travel, and worth the extra cost).

Train-Expert here (because I work in Sales of the Swiss Federal Railway SBB), though not that expert like the "man from seat 61".

But probably the easiest way by train from Munich to Venice is in the night. Starting at Munich at 11.35 pm
and arriving after a nights sleep in Venice at 8.24 am.
With an Eurail-Pass you are able to get a so called "Partial Pass"-Price which will be for example for a bed in a 6-berth compartement around 55 Euros, which will include the reservation of the bed. The bed itself would be if you had a pass for the whole trip itself around 30 Euros, so you will "only" pay around 25 Euros for the journey through Austria...

Sounds like a hostel dorm on wheels! Woohoo!

the 6-bed-compartements are a lot like hostel dorms, you're right.
And the more you pay the better you will have it. You could also have a single compartement with toilet and shower
but that might about 4 times that price, like it would be in a "normal" hotel.

The best thing about travelling by night train is that you save yourself a night in a hostel/hotel. So that saved money has to be worth also something.

At the risk of stating the bleeding obvious, but the journey from Munich to Venice (or vice versa) is through some of the most beautiful and accessible alpine scenery in Europe - why on earth would you do it at night? To save a few dollars? Is that what life is all about?

Yes, of course if someone likes to do that, it's for sure nicer to spend at least 6 1/2 hours on a train to watch the scenery, than doing it at night, but if your goal is to visit Germany and Italy and make the most of your short time in this two countries it's not only about saving money, but saving time in this case a whole day!

Nah ... I can't buy that one. The night train is only for hard-core locals who have done the trip a dozen times or more!

Tourists who are curious about Europe should avoid it! Money (and even time) are not everything!

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