I have been trying to look up train prices & I keep getting different amounts. So that I don't have any surprises, could someone look over my prices & tell me if I have figured it correctly?
Zurich to Lucern: $25.00/person
Lucern to Lauterbrunnen: $40/person
Lauterbrunnen to Montreux: $70/person
Montreux to Geneva: $33.00/person
I would of course buy the 1/2 price Fare card which would reduce the above prices by 50%.
Are the above prices basically correct??
THANKS
Not so dumb, pretty much spot on, a couple of comments.
The prices I looked up were in Swiss Francs (chf), which is just a smidge more than a $.
Reduce the price of Lauterbrunnen to Montreux by 10 chf (~$) by specifying via Zweisimminen in order to take the Golden Pass railway through the mountains. Very scenic as well as less money, but taking just a bit longer.
I get 30 chf from Montreux to Geneva. If going to the airport, it is 5 chf more.
You have nominally 155 chf of train tickets. That is not enough to reach the break even point of 240 chf of tickets, so as it stands, buying a Half Fare Card will cost you money, not save. Now that would change if you went to the Jungfraujoch, which is about 100 chf round trip from Lauterbrunnen. Then it would save a small amount.
Looking at the SSB.church website for
ZÜRICH FLUGHAFEN - LUZERN via ZÜRICH
9/19/2015
Second class single journey is approved at 29.00 CHF. Thats a bit over $30 USD at Interbank.
http://fahrplan.sbb.ch/bin/query.exe/en
Although the OP did say Zurich, not Zurich Airport, which is 25.00 chf.
And hopefully the OP is not using raileurope.com to price the various segment. Hopefully they know to use the www.sbb.ch official Swiss Train website.
The Half-Fare Card will apply to all transportation (including buses, boats, lifts, city trams, and airport connections), so these train trips are only part of your equation. Those prices match what we have sketched out for a convenient overview at http://www.ricksteves.com/travel-tips/transportation/trains/switzerland-rail-passes.
