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Hi we were in Switzerland in June first week, the ticket checkers in trains just scanned QR code on e tickets or downloaded STP s on mobiles they did not checked passports or closely checked persons .Same in other transports too.
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Hi, We were in Switzerland last week and only had our tickets scanned with no need to show our passports on all our numerous train journeys except for one time when we were moving from Wengen to Lucerne.
When we got on the near empty train at Interlaken Ost the lady ticket collecter was not very friendly at all. I had our Swiss Travel Passes together with our passports ready for inspection even though up until now we had not needed our passports. She scrutinised our tickets and passports and as she could find nothing wrong told us off for putting our two hand luggage bags on the seat beside us instead of in the luggage rack. We met no one else like her during the whole of our holiday. We found the Swiss to be very friendly.
Jane
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Hi Grace,
It might be fine as long as everything else like the passenger name and passport number on the pass is fine. But it would be best to get Rail Europe’s confirmation. Be sure to check your spam folder as their reply may have gone there. If not, please give them a call through their North American number: (800) 438-7245.
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We didn’t travel with our passports unless we were moving between hotels. We did have photo ID.
Our travel passes were checked but our passports were never asked for, neither was our photo ID.
Even in most of the hotels in Switzerland our passports weren’t checked.
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Ah yes, regarding passports: you do need to travel with the passport or other ID of which the number is printed on your Swiss Travel Pass. It will not be asked for every time, or perhaps not even at all, but they do check randomly. We were asked for it twice on our last trip.
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Thank you everyone for your helpful input. I will definitely give them a call Arno, just to be on a safe side. So looking forward to visit Switzerland!