If you have Berner Oberland Pass and are planning to visit a place covered by the pass, do you stand on ticket holder line or non ticket holder line..
For example, if I want to visit Harder Kulm and is covered by BO pass, can I just stand on much shorter ticket holder line?? or do I have to get the tickets using the BO pass (and therefore line up in much longer non ticket holder line)?
And I guess that applies to Gondola rides to various mountains as well..
Posted by
Green Bay
20178 posts
With a pass, you don't "get tickets", you just board the train and when the ticket inspector comes by, show your pass.
Posted by
Wengen
1716 posts
This is about mountain railways.
One issue with the Berner Oberland Regional Pass when you get it on paper is that you cannot use it to open the turnstiles at many cable cars. If that is the case you do indeed need to pass via the ticket office
Posted by
Bend, Oregon
2324 posts
There is no short line for pass holders.
We didn’t go to Harder Kulm. But we rode lots of other trains, the Allmendhubel funicular & gondolas. For the trains, you just present your pass to the conductor if asked.
For the gondolas, there was rarely any line in June. Maybe 4 people before us going through turnstiles.
We had paper passes and ran into issues at the turnstiles for the gondolas. If you have the digital pass, you scan the barcode or QR code and pass through the turnstile. Our paper BO Passes, had a bar code on the back, but it did not work for access. We always had to wave over an employee to give us access. A bit of a pain. I recommend buying the passes online, so you get the digital pass. We bought ours at the train station and received paper passes.
Posted by
Forest Grove, OR
11342 posts
If you download the pass to your phone and can scan it, it is very easy to pass through the turnstiles and use the Ticket Holder line. Paper passes require an attendant to come over and let you in. Last fall, the first time we actually had digital passes was seamless. So buy online and download.