Travelling with children

Nearly all our IC trains have a coach with a children’s play area. Pre-schoolers especially will find lots to do:

• Children’s books published by Tammi
  
• Toy locomotive with coaches
  
• Slide with a guard rail
  
• Playmates of other children on the train
  
• Accessible toilet in the downstairs area of the coach with the play area, comes with a baby care table, potty and bottle warmer.
  

Family compartments offer you a peaceful place to travel with infants. There’s plenty of room to play, read and eat snacks.

Family compartments provide infants with a place to nap comfortably as there’s space for a carry cot on the floor.

• The compartment has four seats and two stools for children.
  
• Charge your devices using the two available power sockets.
  
• An accessible toilet is downstairs in the coach, which comes with a baby care table, potty and bottle warmer.
  
• A coach with a play area is conveniently close to the family compartments.
  
• Some prams may be too large for the family cabins. Prams can be stored in the designated space marked with a picture of a pram. Travel strollers and pram bassinets, however, are usually small enough for family cabins. There are a couple of steps on the way to the family cabin, the doorway is 66 cm wide.
  

Travelling on a night train is easy even with the tiniest family members. You will sleep better in a bed than dozing off on the back seat of a car. In the morning, you will wake to continue your journey completely refreshed.

• Children aged 0–10 travel on night trains for free when sharing a berth with another passenger. However, please note that the beds are 0.75 metres wide and 2.00 metres long. A child travelling in the same sleeping berth does not need their own ticket, but kindly inform our customer service 0600 41 900 (3,55 € / answered call + lnc/mcc) about the child travelling with you.
  
• If you need a safety net for a child sleeping on a berth, you can pre-order one free of charge from our customer support 0100 3232 (cost 0,06 €/min + lnc/mcc). The net can only be installed to a lower berth, and it will be in place when you board the train.
  
• Sleeper cabins have enough space for most travel cots for children. The maximum dimensions of cots are 120 cm x 60 cm. Please note that the cabin doors always open inwards, making a travel cot a potential obstacle when exiting the cabin in an emergency.
  
• The amenities in sleeper cabins do not include a potty.
  
• Please also note that you might want to have a water bottle available at night as the tap water on the train is not drinkable. Night train passengers can of course use the restaurant car services until late at night and again early in the morning.
  
• Here are more detailed tips for the night train if you are travelling with children
  
• Read more about night trains and car-carrier trains