Swiss advice needed

Hello Shirl! A Eurail Austria-Switzerland Pass could be worth your money if you plan to travel quite a lot in Austria too. If not, you're better off with one of the Swiss rail passes (as they cover more than the Austria-Switzerland Pass does). You have several options (here's how to calculate which pass is the cheapest solution):

- if the Swiss part of your stay is in May, you can profit from the 4 day Swiss Saver Flexi Pass 2 for 1 offer. It allows 4 days of free traveling, to be used for longer transfers (e.g. Zurich-Interlaken, your resort-Swiss/Austrian border, and some other long trips you may want to make) and discounts for shorter local trips on the remaining days in between the first and last free travel day. You could buy one offer for 2 adults and one regular Swiss Flexi Pass for the 3d adult;
- the Swiss Half Fare Card, offering a 50% discount on almost all trips and often a good solution for a holiday in which short, local trips are your main goal.
In both cases, the 9 year old will travel for free. You'll find links to validity maps on the rail pass pages, showing where the validity ends during your trip to Austria. This depends on your train connection, but in many cases it's Buchs or Feldkirch.

Hotels can be found through the hotel page. A holiday appartment is worth considering too. Tips on cheap accommodation and other tips to save on your travel costs can be found here. Interlaken is a good resort. Wilderswil (still very central), Lauterbrunnen and Grindelwald are fine alternatives.

Hi Shirl! One correction on my previous post: if you decide to use the 4 day Swiss Saver Flexi Pass offer, the 3rd adult can profit from it as well, so you don't have to buy one regular Swiss Flexi Pass as I advised before. Just get to the order page (you'll find instructions in our explanation topic), enter 3 adults and follow the further instructions. The 3rd adult will pay the reduced price of CHF 262 instead of the regular Swiss Flexi Pass price.

Hi shirl. The Swiss Pass is valid up to the Swiss/Austrian border (please refer to the validity map we link to from the Swiss Pass page), so you need an additional ticket for the Austrian leg to Innsbruck. The map I mentioned also shows where free traveling is granted and where discounts apply (if you want to get to the Jungfraujoch, you can travel for free up to Wengen; between Wengen and Jungraujoch a 25% discount applies).

Yes, the 3d person would receive a discount too. But as of this morning, the 2 for 1 promotion is offered by several resellers. They differ slightly in details, such as whether a 3rd person can be added and how much this costs. You can best enter Singapore as your country of residence in the upper right corner of the Swiss Pass page, select the promotion variant of the pass, and then see which resellers you can choose from. If you click 'more information', you'll also see details on shipping costs.

Hikes in the Bernese Oberland are listed here.