‘Bahn.bonus’ is the name of Deutsche Bahn’s ‘frequent flyer’ programme. Except (and I don’t need to tell you that Deutsche Bahn is a railway company) it’s not flying. It might, sometimes, be very fast, but that doesn’t make it flying.
As far as I can tell, every time you purchase a rail ticket, you can choose to add points to your bahn.bonus account. When you have enough points, you can claim ‘rewards’ – a €5 voucher to buy a coffee on the train, that kind of thing.
Living in Staffordshire, I don’t use Deutsche Bahn that much, but on my last trip to Germany I took a short rail trip which was just enough, when added to all the points already on the account, to break through the boundary into the area of decent rewards. Actually, when I saw how many ‘points’ I had, and remembered that you get a point for every euro spent, the reward was very nearly an aneurysm.
What though, is the ‘reward’ for spending three thousand euros on rail travel? What could they possibly give me to improve the Deutsche Bahn experience?
Frequent travellers on DB should be able to guess the answer to this one: Free car hire.
Song playing as this was published: Ray Montagne - Track 01.mp3
Mr Fact: underscoring my lack of attention during the Copyright Law module.
Which has nothing, whatsoever, to do with Deutsche Bahn or their ‘Frequent Flyer’ programme. But this Blog is nothing if not educational. You thieving g*t! *Insert winkey smiley here*
This blog is ‘educational’? Educational? I’m cut to the bone. That’s a worse description than that on an old chemistry set I found in the attic of my parent’s house emblazoned with the parent-reassuring words; “With instructions for over 170 safe experiments” and some very suspicious 1970s haircuts. Thankfully, my education has been good enough to be able to add written instructions for a few decidely unsafe experiments before donating it to the local Sunday School sale….
Oh. You’re talking about the script that picks up what WinAmp is playing, aren’t you? Well, I just haven’t added the full title of Ray LaMontagne’s songs form the legally purchased album yet, that’s all. Looks Heavenwards and whistles inconspicuously….
No, Mr Fact, I am not talking about WinAmp. Or Ray LaMontagne. (Isn’t he the chap reputed to have lived the last 20 years in the middle of the North American wilderness somewhere, with just trees, bears, and a bang-up-to-date recording studio for company?)
You had a chemistry set with instructions for 1970s haircuts? See, now that’s what I call educational.
Queenie: Okay, I give up. I don’t know exactly (that means ‘at all’) what you’re talking about. Thieving g*t. Me?
And it didn’t actually provide instructions for 1970s haircuts, just example photographs and chemicals for the necessary perms.
Ah - the good old days. When chemistry sets still were unsafe and you could set a house on fire just by being inquisitive. But those were the 1960s, of course. And the chemistry set was confiscated.