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Making sense of the VRR zones (Duesseldorf, Dortmund etc)

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In theory a Mobib Card might do but I would not advice to use anything the conductor might not be familiar with. They tend to be sub contractors and often not well trained.
 
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radamfi said:
Is travel to the Netherlands excluded from the free travel offer? The map

https://www.vrr.de/de/tickets-tarife/ticketuebersicht/freie-fahrt-am-geburtstag/

doesn't show the Arnhem and Nijmegen zones where you can normally use VRR tickets.
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Another example of how rubbish the VRR is. It appears not to be included as they are defining the "VRR-Gebiet" to be what is shown on the map (official sources contradict eachother between "VRR-Verbundram" and "VRR-Verbundtarifraum", with some stuff being only in the later vv). If you ask the VRR and/or Keolis and/or Abellio, you are very likely to get at least a number of different answers larger than 2 (one of them will be no, one of them will be yes and one of them might be yes, but only in special circumstances).

Don't even try to understand the logic behind it - there is none.
 
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Spoorslag '70 said:
It's not quite as simple: A 24h B ticket starting in Mülheim would allow to make all journies in all directions that are a B fare from Mülheim, not plainly two zones... check the table I linked earlier.

The zones are: Bochum, Bottrop/Gladbeck, Dinslaken/Voerde, Düsseldor Mitte/Nord, Duiburg Mitte/Süd, Duisburg Nord, Essen Mitte/Nord, Essen Süd, Gelsenkirchen, Hattingen/Sprockhövel, Herne, Krefeld, Mettmann/Wülfrath, Moers, Oberhausen, Ratingen/Heiligenhaus, Rheinberg and Velbert.
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Thank you. Would you agree that for a journey from Gelsenkirchen to Bochum with the above ticket, you would be obliged to travel via Essen, as the ticket wouldn't be valid across the 26/36 border?
 
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AnkleBoots said:
Thank you. Would you agree that for a journey from Gelsenkirchen to Bochum with the above ticket, you would be obliged to travel via Essen, as the ticket wouldn't be valid across the 26/36 border?
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In my eyes the ticket should be valid, as it is valid in both of 26 and 36. It's zonal in the sense that when you have found out the zones it's valid for, you can make unlimited journies within the zones, without the borders between them being relevant (again, for singles or weekly tickets (and upwards) the rules are different, but for day tickets this interpretation *should* be the correct one, but the VRR is always good for having ambigous rules).
 
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