Making a seat reservation to Bernina Express

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A traveler is planning a trip on the Bernina Express from Tirano to Chur on February 12th and is struggling to reserve seats for their family of three. Despite purchasing tickets, they encountered issues with seat reservations on multiple websites and are seeking straightforward suggestions to resolve their problem.

Key takeaways:
  • Check the Bernina Express official page for seat reservation options under the Tickets and Packages tabs.
  • If your tickets do not include seat reservations, consider using the Bernina Express website directly for booking.
  • Keep trying to contact ACP Rail about your reservation issue, as they may provide specific assistance.
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  • Anonymous
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    14 January 2017 at 14:22:54 #810573

    Hello,

    Thank you for your previous advices on how to book tickets to a certain Bernina Express train! I have now bumped into another problem called seat reservations to this specific train. I cannot find a way to do it. First I tried Rhb site, but direct Bernina train from Tirano to Chur doesn’t show in those pages. It hasn’t shown there once after November when I purchased the tickets from ACP Rail’s site. Next I tried ACP Rail site for seat reservations. The site hasn’t worked for multiple days now. It keeps giving me an error message that online prices are currently unavailable for the selected route. I’ve tried contacting ACP but haven’t received an answer yet. In the meanwhile I tried to book seats from here: http://www.myswissalps.com/ti metable but this specific Bernina train doesn’t show in there either. It leaves from Tirano at 14:26 pm to Chur.

    I’m pretty lost here! 🙂 I already have the train tickets for 12th of February so three seats for our family would be nice! Any suggestions of how to proceed?

  • Arno
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    Reply 1 of 4 • 14 January 2017 at 15:57:40 #858046

    Hi helenn,

    Your tickets may include seat reservations, but if not you can find booking links on the Bernina Express page (Tickets and Packages tabs). I’d suggest to give it a try on http://www.happyrail.com/en/p ass/europe/switzerland /panoramic-trains.

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    Reply 2 of 4 • 14 January 2017 at 23:28:04 #858047

    I am trying to figure out how best to get from Locarno to Bellinoza and take the Bernina Express from there to Chur. Any help would be appreciated, thank you

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    Reply 3 of 4 • 15 January 2017 at 8:59:52 #858048

    Hi smketer and welcome to MySwissAlps,

    Can I ask that you post this question on the rail forum as its own thread? This is Helenn’s thread and we’d be happy to help you there. 🙂

    Thanks!
    Lucas

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    Reply 4 of 4 • 15 January 2017 at 16:37:01 #858049

    Sure, sorry didn’t mean to hijack anything

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