Cologne Welcome Card

Get Tourist Office Discounts for Museums, Attractions and Travel

May 8, 2009 Kathleen Curry

Seeing the sights in Cologne can be both affordable and easy when purchasing the town's Welcome Card.

Visiting a city which offers a variety of landmarks, museums, restaurants and shopping areas can be a little overwhelming. Which places should be seen? Which museums should be visited? Which restaurants should be tried? How best to get to all of these different locations? And most important of all, how much will it cost to do all of these when the fees for each place are all totaled together? The city of Cologne has made all of this much easier by offering the “Welcome Card” program to visitors.

Cologne is a beautiful German city located right on the Rhine River and is the fourth largest city in the country. The city is best known for the Dom Cathedral and Cologne Carnival, the biggest street fair in Europe. Cologne is a lively city full of pubs, museums, shopping and thermal spas and is all easy accessible with the S-Bahn going to the Cologne Hauptbahnhof.

The Cologne Tourist Office offers vacationers a way to experience Cologne in an inexpensive and complete way. The Cologne Welcome Card is a travel and discount card which includes free travel by bus or rail throughout the entire region, including as far as Bonn. Discounts with the Welcome Card include sightseeing, exhibitions, bars, restaurants and shopping.

Cost and Use of the Welcome Card

Welcome Cards can be purchased based on the number of days one intends to travel and are not transferable.

Prices

Validity

Single

persons

*Groups and families

24 hours

9.00 €

18.00 €

48 hours

14.00 €

28.00 €

72 hours

19.00 €

38.00 €

*Family: 2 adults accompanied by maximum 3 children up to 14 years of age

Group: up to 3 adults

The Card can be obtained at CologneTourismus offices and many of the citys hotels. The easiest place to find the Welcome Card is at the tourist office located right across the street from the Cathedral. This office also offers souveniers for sale as well as information. The location and contact information are:

Cologne/Köln Tourist Board

Unter Fettenhennen 19

50667 Cologne

Tourist-information telephone: +49.(0)221.221 30400

There are so many wonderful things to experience in Cologne, the last thing a visitor to this amazing city wants to have to do is spend too much time worrying about how to get from here to there or how much everything is going to cost. The Cologne Welcome Card helps take some of those worries away.

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