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14 July 2019 at 7:35:20 #822839

Hello!

First time traveller to Switzerland so have a couple of questions I hope to get help with.

The trip: Family of 5, 4 day/3 nights in the second week of August. Coming from London to Zurich and staying in Interlaken for the first night and Lauterbrunnen the rest of the nights.

Question 1: I’ve been reading about the Half-Fare travel card and the complimentary Family card that comes with the purchase. Seems like getting the half-fare card will save us about $200.00 given I did the math right. But I ran into some trouble when I was looking to book the Jungfraujoch train. There is one child on the trip and when trying to book a ticket for the child, there was only the option to choose “half-fare card” or “child (6-16yrs old without junior card)” and the price for the child ticket turned out to be the same as the adult half-fare price. Is this supposed to be like this? or am I supposed to not add the child ticket to the purchase at all since we will have the Swiss Family Card?

Question 2: Is booking ahead of time for the Jungfraujoch train recommended? Since we are going in the second week of August, we predict is prime tourist season so thought that booking ahead and reserving seats would be best. Would love your thoughts.

Question 3: Planning on taking the Zurich to Interlaken via Luzern “Golden Pass” train. From the research I did, it looks like I buy the train tickets on SBB and make seat reservations for the “Golden Pass” train on here http://www.mob.ch/en/reservat ion-procedure

Is this the right website? And is seat reservations also recommended for this train?

Those are my questions! Help would be much appreciated! Thank you!

All the best,

Stef

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[rockoyster]

14 July 2019 at 8:09:22 #917744

Hello Stef and welcome to MySwissAlps,

Q1. You don’t neeed a ticket for a child covered by a Swiss Family Card. It is also best to wait until you know what the weather is doing before commiting to a trip to Jungfraujoch. It is an expensive excursion if the weather is not favourable.

Q2. Have a look at this thread.

Q3. You are at the right site for reservations but you don’t really need reservations on the Luzern-Interlaken Express. It is just a regular hourly commuter train despite the impressive name.

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14 July 2019 at 13:29:53 #917745

Hi Stef,

In addition to Rockoyster’s answers above also read the following link and use the provided spreadsheet for detailed calculations. You might want to compare the Swiss Travel Pass to the Swiss Half Fare Card, both making you eligible for the Swiss Family Card you mention:
– http://www.myswissalps.com/tr ain/ticketspasses/prac tical/chooserailpass
– http://www.myswissalps.com/sw isshalffarecard
– http://www.myswissalps.com/sw isstravelpass
– http://www.myswissalps.com/sw issfamilycard

For input about the weather, weather forecast and the Jungfraujoch, incl. ticket purchase options, online and upon arrival, check:
– http://www.myswissalps.com/we ather/forecast
– http://www.myswissalps.com/ab outswitzerland/practic al/websites, I use MeteoSWISS for forecast
– http://www.myswissalps.com/ju ngfraujoch

Also see:
– http://www.myswissalps.com/go ldenpass
– http://www.myswissalps.com/ti metable, to find out about traveling times and connections

Get back to us anytime for further input.

Happy planning.

Best,
Steph