Buy 1 Swiss regional pass, and get 1 for free

Dear travelers,

This is an offer from our partner Switzerland Travel Centre: if you order one regional pass, you'll get the second pass for free. The start date of these passes needs to be between June 1 and June 30, 2011 or between September 1 and October 31, 2011. Passes that start at the end of June or the end of October may be used for traveling in July or November. If you posses a nation wide pass of the Swiss Travel System, you even get an additional discount (please click the order links below for details). This promotion is offered for the following passes:

2nd class Regional-Pass Bernese Oberland for 7 days
Order the pass from the UK or Ireland or from other countries
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2nd class Adventure Card (Upper Valais and parts of Uri and Graubünden) for 2 days
Order the pass from the UK or Ireland or from other countries
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2nd class graubündenPASS for 7 days
Order the pass from the UK or Ireland or from other countries
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2nd class Tell Pass (the Lake Lucerne region) for 7 days
Order the pass from the UK or Ireland or from other countries
More about this pass

This is how to order this promotion: click one of the links above (depending on your country of residence). In the window that opens, order one (1) regional pass and enter a start date between June 1 and June 30, 2011 or between September 1 and October 31, 2011. Fill out the other fields as well. You will then be asked whether the offer should be applied to your purchase. If you choose to do so, you'll receive one extra regional pass with the same start date, at no cost.

Enjoy your traveling in these beautiful regions!

Hello thorntons, and welcome! A Swiss Pass covers the trip from the Swiss border up to Interlaken, so you'd have to purchase regular tickets from Paris to the Swiss border (as the pass isn't valid in France). Depending on the train connection you choose, the border station will probably be Basel. You should book seats for the TGV train in any case.

By the way, if you have further questions about the Swiss Pass, would you mind creating a new topic as the current topic is related to regional passes? This helps forum visitors to have a clear overview of topics and related answers. You can get to the rail forum and click 'Start new topic' in the upper right corner. Thank you :-)!

Best regards,

Hi AnninAus, and welcome! The Regional Pass-Bernese Oberland offer may be a good choice indeed. If you choose this option, you should start the validity immediately at day 1, as part of your trip Zurich-Interlaken will be covered by the Regional-Pass. This goes for part of your outbound trip as well. Please refer to the link 'Overview of the network on which the Regional-Pass Bernese Oberland is valid' down at the Regional-Pass page. As for shipping: you can have your passes delivered to one of the addresses you'll be staying during your tour around Europe in the weeks prior to your stay in Switzerland. It'll be sent by certified mail though, so you'll have to receive the passes yourself and sign for approval. I think you can ask our partner STC to send your passes right after ordering as well. You can best contact STC to ask for this.

Apart from the Regional-Pass, the Swiss Card is worth considering. It covers all of your inbound trip (Zurich-Interlaken) and outbound trip (Lauterbrunnen-Milan), and offers a 50% discount on your trips on day 2, 3 and 4. Although it doesn't offer free traveling once you're in Interlaken and Lauterbrunnen, it may still be cost effective, as 'free travel days' on a Regional-Pass still mean that some mountain lifts and trains are discounted (and not for free). But this depends on your exact plans of course. Calculations based on your plans could show which solution is cheaper.

I hope this doesn't complicate things :-). Kind regards,

Hi tanino! I assume you are referring to the Regional-Pass Bernese Oberland? In that case it's as follows:

- on free travel days, the routes indicated by red lines are for free. The routes indicated by blue and green lines are discounted;
- on the remaining days, the routes indicated by red, blue and green lines are discounted. So yes, these discounts are available on all days of the pass's validity.

The map we link to ('Overview of the network...') at the bottom of the Regional-Pass Bernese Oberland page offers further explanation.

Hi Paul,

1) Schilthorn and Jungfrau are 50% discounted. All details about the pass are listed here, including a link to a network map showing the discounts and free traveling.
2) You can use the free travel days in any order you want.

Enjoy your traveling!