Booking seats in advance on the Glacier Express
A traveler named Keely is planning a trip to Switzerland on November 5th and has bought a Swiss Rail Pass. She is trying to reserve seats for the Glacier Express but is confused because the website says reservations can only be made 93 days in advance, yet some seats appear booked for her dates.
- You can generally reserve seats for the Glacier Express 90 days prior to your trip, but resellers like Happy Rail may allow bookings earlier.
- If you book multiple seats together, you are usually assigned seats next to each other.
- To choose specific seats while reserving, you should book directly through the Glacier Express website.
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Hi
We are travelling to Switzerland o 11/05/20. We have bought a Swiss Rail Pass for our trip. I am trying to reserve seats for our train trips. The Golden Pass line was easy. However the Glacier Express website says that you cannot reserve until 93 days before travel yet the seating plan shows seats already reserved for my dates. Is it possible to reserve them somewhere else?
Happy Rail allowed me to enter my dates & add a reservation to my basket but it didn’t seem to offer seat allocation? Does it give you the option after you hit the pay button?
Thank you in advance for any help you can give.
eely
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Hi Keelystill,
Welcome to MySwissAlps!
In general you can make seat reservations on the Glacier Express 90 days in advance. However resellers such as Happy Rail do accept bookings much earlier. Unfortunately you may not be able to specify which seats to reserve. Under normal practice you do however get assigned seats next to each other if you book more than one seat at the same time.
More details about the Glacier Express and seat reservation here: https://www.myswissalps.com/activity/glacier-express/
Regards,
Anna
Wow!!! Thank you so much for such a quick reply! That’s all the info I needed.
Thanks again 😁
Hello Keely,
If you want to select seats when making reservations the only place to do it is here.
I think Anna meant to link you to http://www.myswissalps.com/glacierexpress/tickets.
Thank you rockoyster. You know I will have to go back and make that correction 🙂
Cheers,
Anna
Thank you both so much for such quick and helpful replies! Thank you!
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