Need advice on my itinerary & Pass

Hi Ziela,

In your case, a Swiss Pass would be more economical than a Eurail Pass in Switzerland: it includes free traveling in the Glacier Express, a discount on the Swiss Transport Museum, free traveling for your son, free city transport and free traveling in more trains in the Bernese Oberland. I would recommend a 3-day Swiss Saver Flexi Pass and use the free travel days on September 22, 23, 26. You would still get discounts on the days you don't travel or only do limited traveling: September 24 and 25. Of course you could take a 4-day pass as well, depending on your further plans, if any.

In addition you can use the Eurail France-Germany Pass for the other two countries.

You can get everything you need from one website: the Swiss Saver Flexi Pass from this page, the Eurail France-Germany Pass from this page and the Glacier Express (and other) reservations from this page. Tip for the seat reservations: if it can't find any trains to book, then try a longer trip. For example: if Chur to Brig doesn't deliver results, the try Chur to Zermatt. It's just seat reservations, so price wise it doesn't matter.

I don't know about the museums in Germany, but it doesn't sound realistic do to such a long trip plus two museums in one day. I would suggest to slow down and indeed book an extra night. Traveling times are in the timetable.

You may have already seen it, but good hotels for train travelers in Interlaken can be found here.

By the way, which model railway are you referring to?

Hi Ziela,

Glad to be helpful!

1. You are using the pass actually. A Swiss Saver Flexi Pass includes free travel days and "discounted days", so you would use the latter on September 24 and 25 because you've only planned short trips there. Of course you can buy a 5-day Swiss Saver Flexi Pass if you feel more comfortable to have the maximum of free traveling available on all days. See this page for how the pass works.

2. Sure, that's all included. As long as you travel within France and Germany only, your trips are covered by that pass.

Thanks for the model railway clarification. There was another one in Interlaken, but it closed a few years ago. Just wanted to make sure you didn't plan to visit the non-existing one.

Hotel Tell is a bit further away from the rail stations, but I guess you already knew that. You can get there by bus or just walking a bit more.

Hi Ziela,

Both passes allow you to choose the number of free travel days that you want, and you can use those days within a month (Swiss Saver Flexi Pass) or within two months (Eurail France-Germany Pass). So it's up to you if you find it comfortable to have free traveling available on all of your days, or just on the days you have actually planned long trips. For example, on September 25, you do very limited traveling so there's no need to have a free travel day. You would get a discount on the trip up to Schynige Platte (Teddyland) anyway. You're more flexible if you have free travel days on all days. If the weather is bad, it's kind of useless to go up to Schynige Platte, but you could decide to go to Bern or do a boat trip and not pay for that.

If you want free traveling on all days, then get a 5-day Swiss Saver Flexi Pass (Sep 22 - 26) and a 7-day Eurail France-Germany Pass (Sep 26 - Oct 2). On the last day there's a short leg from the Swiss border to Zurich which should be paid for in full (unless you want a 6-day Swiss Saver Flexi Pass to prevent that).

On the other hand, if you prefer the more economical option of having free travel days for your longer trips only, then get a 3-day Swiss Saver Flexi Pass as explained before and a 4-day Eurail France-Germany Pass (Sep 26, 29 and Oct 2, and one extra day since there is no 3-day pass).

On September 26 you have the Swiss Saver Flexi Pass for the Swiss leg and the Eurail France-Germany Pass for the French leg.