Question by nila: Pls help me with rail passess and tickets for switzerland? are there any diffrence between raileurope and SBB?
I am visiting switzerland for two days and my itinery goes like this
Day one- travel from lucerne to Engelberg and take a cable vehicle to Mt. titils and come back see nearby locations
day two- take a golden pass from lucerne to interlaken and then to jungfrau. evening come back to lucerne.
With this itinery which rail pass would be most advantageous? If SBB is diverse from eurail which 1 would suit much better and are these trains come to the very same station or different?
Alpinealli,
How does the journey take 10 Hours?What I recognize is the jouney duration is 2.30 hours to reach Jungfrau from Interlaken. By taking the return journey in to account I will be spending 5 hours.correct me If Iam wrong.
Best answer:
Answer by Martin S
Nicely when I was in Switzerland I used the Swiss Rail Pass, it was excellent for all trains, buses and boats (ferry). But you had to purchase the rail pass before going over. The price was proper too, but I do not believe it covered the Golden Pass thru Interlaken.
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the sbb is the swiss railway organization. and i belive the raileurope is like a trainticket good for all of europ. so check if a raileurope ticket is good for switzerland. if so, you most likely will have to pay a little extra for the jungfraujoch.
if the ticket is no good for switzerland, go to a trainstation there and let them help you getting the best ticket for your trip!
Hey, have a great time!!!!
Raileurope is just a conglomerate of the different national railways. Any Raileurope ticket would be good in Switzerland.
The SBB also has its own offers, but for a minimum of three days (of course you don’t HAVE to use it all three days). In my (fairly limited) experience, it’s worth getting the Swiss one if you’ll only be taking trains in Switzerland, otherwise get the Raileurope one.
With either ticket, you will still have to pay I believe 50% of the cable car ticket to Titlus (I’m guessing about 20CHF), a small supplement for the Golden Pass (perhaps 10CHF), and 50% of the price on the Jungfraujochbahn (about 80CHF).
By the way, your second day could be really exhausting. It’s about 10 hours on the train, so you don’t have much time to look around along the way. First day sounds great.
Hi Again!
Yes Interlaken to Jungfraujoch and back would be 5 hours on the train, and doable in a day. But you said you were starting and ending your day in Lucerne, and Lucerne to Interlaken is about 2 hours. The Golden Pass with the Panorama cars are only, I think, every two hours, so it would be the wait time that makes for 10 (I guess).
Here’s the English version of the SBB site. You can enter Luzern to Luzern via Jungfraujoch and see for yourself how long it takes.
http://www.rail.ch
And as Starwalker said, you do want to spend some time on Jungfrau; there’s a stop halfway up that it’s worth getting out for (then back up on the next train, 30 min later). I found though that after a couple hours at the top I was feeling kind of tired and ill, from the thin air. And wear a winter coat! When I went, it was very foggy, couldn’t see much.
Starwalker is right too, that you don’t NEED to reserve on the Golden Pass, but if you want to be guaranteed a spot in the Panorama car, it’s worth it. (That’s what the 10CHF is for.)
Here’s a great day-trip from Lucerne, costs way less than the Jungfraujoch and simply stunning:
http://www.myswitzerland.com/en/navpage.cfm?category=Top_Attractions&subcat=Nature&id=8793