Hi there...

We are going to Europe for the first time in the month of July and want to go from Zurich to Venice by overnight train. Please help me in identifying the routes and timings etc. We are going to buy a EURAIL Select pass which covers 3-4 adjacent countries for a total of 10 days worth of travel.

Any help will be thoroughly appreciated !!!

Cheers

There is a timing leaving Zurich at 6:40 PM which connectcs to the CityNightLine timing in Innsbruck (deps 11:05 PM)

You can easily take a look yourself:

go to www.sbb.ch and click on the "EN" version at the top.

BAsically, there is no direct connection Zurich to Venice.
I would think very hard about the Eurail pass...not a great value these days.

>>>We are going to buy a EURAIL Select pass which covers 3-4 adjacent countries for a total of 10 days worth of travel.<<<

You need to look at ticket costs for all your trips before buying an expensive rail pass. If an overnight train existed from Zurich to Venice (it doesn't), the pass would not pay for sleeping accommodations. It also doesn't include mandatory seat reservations in Italy (10€ on the faster trains).

What train trips are you planning? If you are spending a lot to time in Switzerland, you might be better off with the Swiss half fare card instead.
http://www.swisstravelsystem.ch/en/c...ckets/tickets/

Have you thought about flying? I flew this route a few years ago, and enjoyed it very much.

It's not a long flight, so you can pick up a day of traveling there. It's also a pretty flight over the Alps.

I'm no expert (I went two times between Geneva to Venice on an overnight train but that route no longer exists).

I'm just chiming in to agree that you need to double-check before buying a pass. They aren't always necessarily the best value.

Adding to the chiming in, we spent a month in Europe buying train tickets as needed and later we compared the cost to a pass and we had saved quite a bit of money - and used quite a few trains. If you do buy one be VERY careful filling it in correctly. My friend was slugged a 150 euro fine for a simple (and honest ) mistake.