From East to West by Train Across the Czech Republic, or the Czech Railways Loyalty Program cdBody

⚠️ Note: the images in this post were lost during an outage in 2016. The Broken Image Placeholder plugin automatically replaces the missing images with a funny placeholder.

Over the last 2 days I traveled 2 times to Ostravice from Ropice. It is 61 km one way, and with my IN50 card a return ticket costs me 60 CZK, so on the way there I pay one crown per kilometer and on the way back I ride without a draft in my wallet :). And the Railways throw that crown in “for the road” :). So I pay 60 CZK and get 6 little points. I looked at some of the benefits you can get with CD Body points – you can find the full list at 👻 The server got shut down, the owner moved out, and DNS forgot all about it.

For each one I calculated how good a deal it is. The list only includes benefits I might use someday; I really do not need the CD pro Vas magazine delivered to my home when the very same thing is available for free at almost every station and on every train. The best deal by far is the vouchers for train attractions, and the most expensive one, without competition, is a seat reservation on the SC Pendolino. For the return ticket I chose the route from Bocanovice to Stitary, assuming the buyer has no discount on CD trains:
From Bocanovice to Stitary

From Stitary to Bocanovice
And you can find the results at 👻 This link is now just a fossil from the days when people still trusted the internet.. Ladies and gentlemen, hold on to your hats, our train is now departing the station 🙂

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