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hi all! my family (6 people total - all adults over 25) is traveling one way from Munich to Varenna in a few weeks. we were planning to take a train and tried to book tickets on Deutsche Bahn, but we can't get the website to work. it keeps erasing our birthdays, so we can't complete the purchase. I looked at Trainline and Rail Europe, but they were significantly more expensive. (not necessarily opposed to paying the expense if these options work, just trying to understand if i'm doing something wrong??)

any tips? is there another site I should be looking for train tickets on? or should we just abandon ship and fly from Munich to Milan?