UK travelers: buy passes before the price increase

Dear travelers,

As announced recently, it's much cheaper to buy your passes online than at the station in Switzerland. However, the online prices in GBP will be increased by about 10% on February 2, 2015. If you live in the UK or Ireland, now is the time to purchase your passes for this year!

To purchase at the current low price, please visit the Swiss Railways webshop at www.swisstravelsystem. co.uk.

Low prices in GBP are also still available via www.acprail.com, but I don't know how long that will last.

All points of sale can be found on our pass page, like the Swiss Travel Pass page.

Hopefully you can take advantage of this. Enjoy your train rides!

Arno

Thanks for your compliment Gily6855! That note about the 2 months is just about the issueing of the passes. You can go ahead and purchase now, they just won't send the passes right away because your trip is more than 2 months away. There are people ordering a year in advance, so that's no problem whatsoever.

Hi Arno,

Thanks for the info. Do all prices generally increase during Feb time-frame? I will be buying shortly from Canada. Also, does buying through 3rd party provide any extras rather than buying from SBB directly?

2 things I noticed, thought wud share, lower online cost is offset by CHF45 shipping fee they r charging to send the cards to me here and also if you try to buy online before 2 month of your start date, it's greyed out, does not allow.

Hi marchendtrip,

This announcement is just for travelers from the UK and Ireland. For the UK, there are no shipping costs for those why prefer to receive physical tickets. But if one selects "Online Ticket", the pass can be printed at home and hence there is no shipping fee either.

You're from Canada. If you prefer to order through the SBB, you'd better not use the UK site, but the international SBB webshop. Payment is in Swiss francs there. For a better deal you can order through your local Canadian reseller here: raileurope.ca/rail-tickets-passes/swiss-pass/index.html. Those prices are much lower at the moment. I don't know how long they will keep that up through.

Regardless of where you live you can always compare prices in the Price sections of any of our pass pages, like here. Please check if your country of residence is set correctly on that page. It should be okay automatically.

I have not experienced the 2 month limit. I just tried to order for June and that worked. Which exact website were you trying?