One MIGHT save some money by carefully planning your itinerary to optimize the days on a Swiss Flexi Pass. Not only does it cover rail travel, but also includes boat tours, free or half-price travel on many of the mountain cable cars, and admission to more than 500 museums and exhibitions. © 2020 Vlastníkem a provozovatelem stránky www.ourswissexperience.com je Hana Hurábová. Your email address will not be published. If you own a Swiss Travel Pass, you don’t have to queue at the ticket office, just join the queue of passengers on the […], Your email address will not be published. For prices below, I used the SBB website. We had planned on doing one more mountain lift and a couple of other things that would have been fully or partially covered by our pass during our last days and got rained out. You can also get a Family Card, that means children 6 – 16 years travel for free if accompanied by at least one parent. Be sure to ask at museums if they take the Swiss Pass. As you can see, there is no such significant difference in cost for Option 1 (by car, without the Swiss Travel Pass) and 3 (by train, with the Swiss Travel Pass). Notify me of follow-up comments by email. 2012 Bastille Day Celebrations Coming to A City Near You! More likely than not, it’s more worth it to get the Swiss Travel Pass. Click here for instructions on how to enable JavaScript in your browser. And the Family Card doesn’t cost anything. If you get on a train going in the wrong directions, like we did in Gruyere, you don’t have to worry that it will cost you any extra money. The convenience of this, especially with kids, was worth the extra cost. One of the most frequent questions I get from my blog readers is the one concerning the Swiss Travel Pass. Sice teda jen virtuální, ale neva. There are other options that you can research such as the Swiss Half Fare Card and regional 1-day travel passes. Determine what trains and public transportation you’ll be taking and from there, you can figure out how much the cost is then compared it to the price of the Swiss Travel Pass. 12 things you probably didn’t know about me, A day trip to Wallis: Brig & the thermal baths Brigerbad, Grand Tour of Switzerland - enjoy your "slow travel" epic road trip - Our Swiss experience, Hiking with kids: along the lakeshore from Chillon Castle to Montreux - Our Swiss experience. When I added it all up, I saw that we actually spent a little MORE money going with the Swiss Travel Pass (but REALLY not a big difference). The regular Swiss Travel Pass is only good for consecutive days. It’s up to you whether you prefer the convenience of the train and enjoying the luxurious views or focusing on driving the car. We never had any doubt that traveling by train with our toddlers was the way to go on our recent trip to Switzerland. How does it compare to a Swiss Half Fare Card (SBB Half Fare Card)? I'm just starting out; leave me a comment or a like :), Branch Brook Park: NJ’s Cherry Blossom Paradise. That’s great, what do you think? Já a Roger. (If you are still gathering ideas for a trip to Switzerland, visit my post on my Switzerland highlights). This conclusion does not take into account the amount of time one would have spent buying tickets for all of the trains and buses and boats that we took. Thanks in advance! However, there also is a Swiss Travel Pass Flex that can used on non-consecutive day within a month. To really determine if the Swiss Travel Pass if worth it, you’ll have to do some calculations. Several places that we visited gave us free admission with our passes, even though I didn’t see it advertised on their website.