Swiss Travel Pass, Flex or Half Fare for 8 days?
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We are a couple who will be travelling to Switzerland this September. We are trying to compare which pass would be better for our itinerary (the 8 consecutive day travel pass, and 8 non consecutive day travel pass flex, or the half fare card).
tentatively, we plan on doing the following (attached is a table we prepared for comparison of the prices as well):
day 1 – we may start using the pass and go on a boat in lake geneva, then travel from geneva to interlaken via golden pass
day 2 – while at interlaken, we plan to go sky diving in the morning and then go on the boat rides in lake thun & brienz in the afternoon, would there be enough time to do all? the boats would start from interlaken ost/west and after we reach thun & brienz – do we take the boat back to interlaken ost/west or do we take the train?
day 3 – schilthorn & jungfraujoch – we figured since we’d be in lauterbrunnen, why not go to both instead of going back to interlaken right away, but would we have time to visit both places? how long would we need to explore jungfraujoch?
day 4 – travel from interlaken to zermatt
day 5 – if we get the 8 day consecutive pass, maybe we can ride the cable car to matterhorn? or would it be better if we just get the swiss pass flex and skip this day – what are the things we can do in zermatt that would not require the swiss pass or would there be a lot to do and see here with the use of the swiss pass?
day 6 or 5 – travel from zermatt to chur via glacier express – we read too that we can combine the gotthard express with glacier express – will we have time to do this? we will leave zermatt at around 8:52am, we stop at andermatt at around 11:54, transfer to goschenen, ride the gotthard express at 13:14, then ride it back again from fluelen to goschenen from 14:10 to 14:41, then from andermatt still go to chur (but with a regular train and not with the glacier express anymore?) – will it be worth it to try the gotthard but miss the andermatt-chur part of the glacier express?
day 7 or 6 – travel from chur to lugano then to luzern via bernina express
day 8 or 7 – boat ride to fluelen and trip to rigi
day 8 (if we use the pass flex) – travel from luzern to zurich, we can also go on boat rides in lake luzern & lake zurich or maybe use the pass to visit museums – would this be more worth it than using it for a day while in zermatt?
1. did we miss any importation transportation or connection?
2. did we miss any transportation fare that would affect the pass that we should get?
3. would any of the days we planned be too hectic and even if we were able to maximize the travel pass, we would not have enough time to enjoy the places we’ll see because we are rushing?
4. would it be better to get a flex pass so we can use the pass for another day in other places instead of the ones we included above? (like it would be a waste to use the pass in any of the days we included above so better to just skip the day and use the pass on another day)
5. we read that if we get the half fare card – we would be able to avail of the 1 day travel pass – how does this work? would it be worth it for us to get this?
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