SB60 airport express bus to Bonn HbforRE6 to Düsseldorf Hbf?

From

The bus station outside Terminal 1, stand (Bussteig) 5; the bus calls at Terminal 2 three minutes later

To

Bonn Hauptbahnhof bus station, stand F2, in 41 minutes (39 in the evening and on Sundays), setting down first at Konrad-Adenauer-Platz in Beuel (26 minutes), then Brüdergasse/Bertha-von-Suttner-Platz (36) and Markt (38)

Luggage

A low-floor express bus that SWB says runs at motorway speed; no wheelchair space on board, so folding wheelchairs travel as luggage.

Runs

05:30–00:30

Journey

39–41 min

The surcharge is per person, per ride, and a group ticket does not waive it: EUR 5.00 an adult, EUR 2.50 a child, on top of a level-2 ticket, due even from a child riding free on someone else's ticket. Only a Deutschlandticket, an eezy.nrw check-in fare, a Rail&Fly naming the SB60, or a disabled pass with the supplement escapes it.

Buy or validate the surcharge ticket before you board. The VRS app sells both; the bus's cashless machine behind the driver sells the airport ticket with surcharge included, or the surcharge alone — card, phone or watch, no cash. In Bonn, street machines sell a combined "SB60" ticket at the same price.

The train costs more: EUR 13.90, and needs a change — the S19 to "Siegburg/Bonn" (in Siegburg) and the 66 tram, or the S19/RE6 to Köln Hbf and a train back down. The RB26 trips reaching Bonn Hbf via Cologne in 47 minutes are empty turnarounds, not a service you can board.

Five or more of you: the level-2 24hTicket 5 Personen at EUR 26.40 plus five surcharges is EUR 51.40, against EUR 52.50 in singles. Four are better off with four singles at EUR 42.00.

Last bus 00:30, first 05:30, every night. Between them the only way to Bonn is a taxi on Cologne's meter, whose compulsory area includes Bonn.

Since 9 February 2026, while the Friedrich-Ebert-Brücke (Nordbrücke) is closed to vehicles over 7.5 tonnes, the bus is diverted and skips Mozartstraße, Frankenbad/Kunstverein, Innenministerium and Beethovenhalle/SWB.

Konrad-Adenauer-Platz is on the Beuel side of the Rhine, not in the city center; the center stops are Brüdergasse and Markt.

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From

Flughafen Köln/Bonn station, platform 3 — the same train that serves Köln Hbf

To

Düsseldorf Hauptbahnhof in 59 minutes, via Köln Messe/Deutz (10), Köln Hbf (14, with a five-minute stop), Dormagen, Neuss and Düsseldorf-Bilk; the train continues to Düsseldorf Flughafen and the Ruhr

Luggage

An RRX regional express; no published luggage rule, and busy between Cologne and Düsseldorf at rush hour.

Runs

04:48–00:48

Journey

59 min

Buy the ticket to Düsseldorf, not to Cologne: the airport's EUR 4.00 level-1b ticket ends at the Cologne city boundary, and the through fare is level 3.

A level-3 ticket bought for Düsseldorf is valid on that route only, by the tariff's cross-border rules — not for a day around the whole network.

Five or more of you: the 24hTicket 5 Personen at EUR 55.60 is the price of four singles and saves EUR 13.90 on five.

The ICE from the airport's long-distance platforms also reaches Düsseldorf through Cologne, on a Deutsche Bahn fare that changes by the day; this ticket does not board it.

Düsseldorf has its own airport, one stop and 15 minutes beyond the Hauptbahnhof on this train.

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