Cycles

You may take hand luggage and easily transportable objects free of charge on bus & rail.

This also includes a

• stroller with child,
• a wheelchair or a wheeled walker,
• a pair of skis, a snowboard or a toboggan per person,
• small animals in a suitable transport container, as well as
• a bicycle trailer or handcart with small children sitting in it,
• a folded bicycle in a standard saddlebag, and
• tricycles, balance or small bicycles for children of preschool age.

For each additional item or if, for example, prams or wheelchairs are used to transport luggage, you will need a discounted single ticket.

• More information on single tickets

The operating personnel will decide whether items are to be accepted for carriage and where they are to be stowed in the vehicle.

Please note that passengers with prams and wheelchair users always take precedence.

Details on taking bicycles, items and animals with you can be found in the "small print".

• Tarif des Verkehrsverbundes Oberelbe - Teil 2 (small print) (Tariff of the Oberelbe transport association) PDF, 842 KB

Cycles are only permitted to a limited degree on trains, buses, trams, ferries and the special tourist services. Prams and wheelchairs will always be given priority.

The number of cycles that can be accepted is limited to the number which can be carried without endangering or inconveniencing other passengers. In individual cases, vehicle staff have discretion over whether cycles can be carried.

Cycles with a combustion engine and unconventional designs (e.g. load carriers) are not permitted.

• Further information on taking cycles on buses and the railways

Price level A

For journeys within one fare Zone (outside Dresden fare Zone) as printed on the ticket. 

VVO Region

For journeys in the whole VVO region. 

As a monthly travelcard or monthly travelcard holder, as well as pupils with the BildungsTicket or with the AzubiTicket VVO, you can take your bicycle with you free of charge within the corresponding tariff zone(s).

Narrow gauge railways

Taking bikes on the Radebeul–Radeburg Railway and the Weisseritz Valley Railway is no problem, because the narrow gauge trains have a luggage / bike compartment with space for 30 bikes.

• Further information on the Radebeul–Radeburg Railway
• W•Further information on the Weisseritz Valley Railway

Dresden Funicular Railway

A maximum of four bikes may be carried on the Funicular Railway. Please note that bikes will need to be carried up/down several steps.

• Further information on the Funicular Railway

The Suspension Railway has a luggage section in each compartment at the top and bottom. Each will take up to seven bicycles.

• Further information on the Suspension Railway

Kirnitzsch Valley Tramway

The Kirnitzsch Valley Tramway can only carry a limited number of bicycles.

• Further information on the Kirnitzsch Valley Tramway

Meissen city tour

Bicycles cannot be taken on the Meissen city tour shuttle buses.

• Further information on the Meissen city tour

Taking cycles on the Elbe ferries is no problem at all. At busy periods the ferries are constantly criss-crossing the river. So if there is no room for you and your bike, you won't have to wait long.

Just sit back, cross over and cycle on the other side of the Elbe!

On the Elbe ferries under the VVO tariff the cycle day ticket can be used within its geographical and time limits. If, while you are cycling, you only wish to use the ferry, you just pay the actual ferry fare.

• Further information on the cycle day ticket
• Further information on the Elbe ferries

If you are travelling with your bicycle beyond the VVO, you will need a local transport day ticket for bicycles (Deutschlandtarif) at a price of € 7.00 (as of 15 December 2024) in addition to the Deutschlandticket.

• Further information on taking bicycles on DB trains

If you travel with your dog beyond the VVO, larger dogs count as passengers and are charged like an adult person (booking under the term "dog" instead of a passenger. Small dogs (up to the size of a domestic cat) can travel free of charge in the transport container.

• Further information on taking dogs on DB trains