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* Ticket machines on tram stops give you unstamped (unvalidated) tickets which you validate inside the tram at any time later. Bus drivers sell stamped (validated) tickets.
* You can validate your ticket in both trams and buses. The machines "beeps" when you do so.
* Inside most of dresden DVB AG trams there is a ticket machine that gives you an already stamped (validated) ticket. You cannot rely on the phrase: "I am already hanging around the machine to buy a ticket the very next moment" when inspectors are showing up around you within seconds. The given argument will definitely not be helpful! You do not hold a valid DVB AG transportation document in yours hands!
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* you find a nice driver willing to do a loop for you meaning that he must drive off the motorway after that "Aral" petrol station, make a U-turn, take the motorway in the opposite direction and drop you off at the petrol station, and only then he can either enter Dresden or make another U-turn if he is heading West;
== Public transport / ==The public transport in Dresden consists of buses, trams and regional S-Bahn trains. All of them can be used with the same ticket given it is valid for your zone. * You can validate your ticket in both trams and buses. The machines "beeps" when you do so. Tickets can not be validated in the S-Bahn, you have to do that on the platform or your ticket might be considered invalid.* Ticket machines on tram stops give you unstamped (unvalidated) tickets which you validate inside the tram at any time later. Bus drivers sell stamped (validated) tickets.* Inside most of dresden DVB AG trams there is a ticket machine that gives you an already stamped (validated) ticket. You cannot rely on the phrase: "I am already hanging around the machine to buy a ticket the very next moment" when inspectors are showing up around you within seconds. The given argument will definitely not be helpful! You do not hold a valid DVB AG transportation document in yours hands!* People carrying an adult monthly, yearly or job ticket can take somebody along on saturday, sunday and public holidays for free. This is possible from the day before (e.g. friday for weekends) 6PM until the day after (e.g. monday for weekends) 6AM. Just ask around at the stops. Unfortunately students cannot take you. === Blackriding (Freeloading, Freeriding) ===
[''The information below does not apply to the S-Bahn city train. See [[Deutsche Bahn]] instead'']
* Ticket inspectors mostly carry a very small waist backpack or normal (but almost empty) backpack underneath a vest/shirt where their DVB AG computer devices or official papers are in.
* Ticket inspections are -not- conducted (as in some other european cities) -on- bus or tram platforms or -on- open bus or tram doors but -only- when vehiles are moving between two stops.
* After 8 P.M. (20.00 hrs) you need to get into the bus through the first door where the driver sits. Drivers are supposed to check tickets but usually do not give them a closer look. You might be lucky when you quickly show an older (and now invalid) DVB AG ticket.
* Most DVB AG ticket inspections are conducted from around 9 A.M. (09.00 hrs) to around 1 P.M. (13.00 hrs).
