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Please, Mary, you can't even get a cappuccino at Sprungli for 13 CHF.

It costs more to use the McClean at Luzern Bahnhof.


Tschuss,

Thin

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Thin - so if you were buying two products that offer exactly the same thing - you would pay 13 francs or even a few cents more for it?

Yeh you probably would but sensible folk would not.

I thought that the Swiss card gives you R/T from any entry point in Switzerland to a town/city in Switzerland and then back THE SAME WAY. IOW - You can't come back from a different town to a different exit point. Anyone know for sure?

http://www.swisstravelsystem.com/en/...html?id=137552

<b>What is the difference between the Swiss Card and the Swiss Transfer Ticket?</b>

Both tickets allow you to travel from the airport/border railway station to your holiday destination and back. The transfer both to and from your destination must be by the most direct route. The Swiss Card also gives you a 50% discount off the regular fare price when you travel by train, bus, boat and mountain railway. Both tickets are valid for one month. <u>The places of arrival in and departure from Switzerland need not be identical. </u>

I thought that the Swiss card gives you R/T from any entry point in Switzerland to a town/city in Switzerland and then back THE SAME WAY. IOW - You can't come back from a different town to a different exit point. Anyone know for sure?>

I have read and been told that you need not go back from where you came with the Swiss Card - but from any airport or border station an out to any of these - do not have to be the same way. Perhaps things have changed - one definitive sources to find out call Byron at www.budgeteuropetravel.com - he sells Swiss Passes, Cards, etc and will know the definitive answer if anyone needs to know - I've bought various passes from him for years and he will answer all questions or find a definitive answer from the railways if he is not sure.

The Swiss Transfer ticket is only of use to folks going from a Swiss border station or airport to one place, like the Jungfrau Region, and who then will be staying put or traveling only a little around or buying a local travel pass like the Berner Oberland or Jungfraubahn Passes. Otherwise the Swiss Card or Swiss Pass will be better deals for most.

We're going to Wengen for a week, probably at the end of Jan. I've looked at the Swiss Card but it's $430 for 2 people and with only 25% off the Jungfraujoch trip (which we've never gone on and probably will this time), it doesn't seem to make sense to get that card. However, who knows how much we would use it once we're there?

I've been to Switzerland 3 times and have always gotten the Swiss Saver Card for husband and me. If the individual prices even come close to what the cards will cost, we go for the card. So easy to use them. No going to ticket counters. But for this trip I'm stumped. And, there's no Jungfrau regional pass for the time we're going.

kenav -- you are mixing up a few things I think

Swiss Half Fare Card -- 1/2 off everything

Swiss Card -- Same as half fare card, except in/out also included. If your in/out is more than the difference, then the Swiss Card is cheaper (though usually marginally so). Example, from Zurich, 2nd class is a few CHF cheaper with the Swiss Card.

Not sure what the Swiss Saver Card is. (did you mean half fare card? or Swiss Saver Pass)

BTW: the Swiss card (and half fare card) are good for 50% off Jungfraujoch. It's the Pass that is only good for 25%.

thanks indy. Still complicated, though.
Yes, I meant Swiss Saver Pass (I think!)

BTW: the Swiss card (and half fare card) are good for 50% off Jungfraujoch. It's the Pass that is only good for 25%.>

Well it depends on where you are starting from - Swiss Pass (Swiss Saver Pass exactly same thing except 2-5 names on one pass for a cheaper rate than a single pass) - gives 100% coverage from Interlaken-Ost to Wengen or Grindelwald then 25% from there via Kleine Scheidegg to the Jungfraujoch - for variety go up one way and return the other.

So when you see the Jungfraujoch price as often mentioned from Interlaken with a Swiss Pass you get more than 25% off all told - just on the last segments you get 25% off - Half-Fare Card only gives 50% off Interlaken to Wengen or Grindelwald vs 100% coverage with a Swiss Pass - complicated but a bit different than sounds and depends on where you start from.

Not sure what the Swiss Saver Card>

there is no Saver version for the Swiss Card or Swiss Transfer tickets - Saver is a generic term for railpasses where two or more names on one pass gets a discount over buying individual passes - obviously you have to be on the same train as there is but one pass but all the names on the pass need not be on the train say if one party member decides not to do a day trip or something - the pass is still valid and that makes complete sense.

labern - must be leaving about today - please report back!

thanks