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Germany has monthly local public transport passes for 49€ for all local public transport including regional trains. So if you wanted to go that kind of distance, you propbaly buy that instead and use public transport for some trips in the city or for some other trip. For groups some states have state passes, which can be very cheap as well. Lower Saxony for example has the Niedersachsenticket, which is 25€ for the first person, another 6€ for the next and then 5€ for each of the next three people. That works for a day after 9am for all regional public transport in the state. So you could get everybody within a normal sized car on a similar distance for 46€.
In other words, I am sorry, but public transport in the Netherlands is more expensive then in Germany. At least it is on time thou.
That pass doesn't cover trains you actually want to take between regions. It's basically a subway pass equivalent.
Source: I still pay €25 to go to the nearest city because it's a 1+ hour train ride and going local station to local station sucks. Yes I have been busted by the Deutche Bahn employee checking Tickets and thought the country wide pass worked.
Ulm- München is abou 120km and it takes to 2:00 by regional train. Berlin - Magdeburg is also similar and at about 1:45. Both can be used using that pass.
Aalen to Stuttgart can't. Stuttgart to München Can't.
"using that pass" means not taking the direct train line. And stopping locally.
Don't ask me, ask a DB employee telling me that pass isn't valid for those connections.
Edit: here's the carve out
Sounds like a nice concept, I wish we had something like that here. And you might think trains run on time but there's actually quite a lot of delays recently. Because our network is relatively small and almost everything passes through Utrecht all it takes is 1 minor disruption somewhere around there and it's mayhem.