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30 June 2019 at 15:10:52 #822570

Good morning!

I have been researching train tickets from Paris into Switzerland. On your page describing different train tickets, you mentioned, “An alternative to booking a ticket to the Swiss border station, is to book a ticket for the “passholder fare”.” We are planning to purchase Swiss Rail Passes. Therefore, this seems like a very cost effective approach, however I am struggling to find this type of ticket on the ticketing websites.

Do you have a specific website where this is the case and do you have any more information on the passholder fare ticket?

Thank you!

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[pvonk]

30 June 2019 at 18:44:37 #916524

Can you give a link to the page you are referencing?

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30 June 2019 at 22:03:10 #916525

“apHere is the link. http://www.myswissalps.com/tr aintickets/france

Here is the part about the “passholder fare”

An alternative to booking a ticket to the Swiss border station, is to book a ticket for the “passholder fare”. That’s a ticket for the entire route for people who own a rail pass for Switzerland or France. The ticket is cheaper than a regular ticket because the leg covered by the rail pass is free. An advantage of this fare is that it includes a seat reservation for the entire route, not just to the border. Passholder fares are not always available, nor needed (because reservations are not required within Switzerland). If they’re unavailable, you simply book to/from the border;

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30 June 2019 at 22:42:35 #916526

In my experience booking (well in advance for cheapest fare) the internal French leg on a French TGV is usually cheaper than any passholder fares, but only if you are set up to have a valid pass or other travel validity from the Swiss border

[Arno]

2 July 2019 at 9:49:45 #916527

Hi Falls45,

Welcome to MySwissAlps! The easiest way to book is to buy a ticket from Paris to the Swiss border (Basel or Geneva, depending on where you are going to). Then use your Swiss Travel Pass for the rest of the trip.

A few websites offer a passholder fare, which is not cheaper than the above, just a different approach. The only advantage is that the seat reservation from Paris will be valid until wherever in Switzerland you get off the train, instead of until the border. In reality that doesn’t matter much as you can simply stay seated anyway, and in case of trains from Paris you will in many cases get off at the border to switch to a different train. If you want to check passholder fares you can do so at https://www.raileurope .com/train/tgv-lyria-7535, by selecting the Swiss Travel Pass while searching for tickets. There may well be no difference between prices with and without a pass. I’d go for the first approach: a ticket to the border, which is available from any of the websites here: http://www.myswissalps.com/tr aintickets/france/pric e.

For Swiss Travel Pass purchase options you can look here: http://www.myswissalps.com/sw isstravelpass/price.