Help in planning Swiss tour

Hi Sumit, and welcome to the forum. First of all, Switzerland has so much to offer that you can easily spend all your weekends there. That would add up to six day trips in Switzerland, and that's not enough to cover all there is to see. You can browse this forum and the day trip sections at this website find out about the highlights. So just staying in Switzerland would be my choice, but I'm very biased of course :-). If you're curious of traveling times, just use the Swiss timetable and enter some trips to Austria, France, Germany etc. That will give you an idea of what's doable in one day or weekend.

As for a rail pass: that really depends on your ultimate travel plans. If you plan intensive traveling in neighbouring countries, take a look at the Eurail Passes. If you spend most of your time in Switzerland, pick Swiss rail pass instead. The Swiss Half Fare Card is an option indeed (do note that the discounts for traveling into Austria don't go for the regular 1 month variant, which is the pass you should use). If you plan to make some long and expensive day trips in your weekends, you can also consider a Swiss Flexi Pass. This allows free traveling on some days, to be used for those day trips, and discounted traveling on remaining days, with a maximum validity of 1 month. These discounted days may come in handy if you need public transportation in or near Lucerne on workdays.

Thanks again Annika for your detailed reply. I am in Switzerland now and have purchased a Half fare card. I was also planning to purchase a Swiss-Austria 4 day pass. However at Zurich Airport station I was told the same cannot be purchased in Switzerland because the minimum they sell is 5 day pass from Eurail. Is this true ? If its possible to purchase a 4 day Swiss-Austria Pass, can you please let me know from where I can purchase the same. ( i am staying in a service apartment near Luzerne).

Also I was planning to travel to Jungfraugh this weekend. however the feather forecasts suggests it may be partly cloudly along with snowfall. Is it still advisable to make this trip . Normally if it rains does it also means the visibility gets drastically reduced ?

Thanks again so much for your help.

--Sumit

Hi Sumit,

Well, you just need to do the math to see what's economical, but a one country pass (Eurail Austria Pass) makes more sense to me in this case.

Sure you can purchase a Swiss Flexi Pass in Switzerland. You probably didn't pick the right pass type on our Swiss Flexi Pass page. If you want to see the purchase options for your exact situation, you really need to fill out exactly what you want: your country of residence, pass type, travelers and preferred currency.