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Suggestions for the best pass for my itinerary

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Dear All,

I am traveling to Switzerland for the first time for a conference in Zurich. Request your help in deciding what is the best thing to buy - travel pass or half fare or something else.

Planned itinerary:

June 16: arrive in Zurich airport. Depart to interlaken/ lauterbrunnen.

June 17: to jungfraujoch

June 18: to Zurich

June 19 to June 22: travel within Zurich between hotel and conference venue

June 23: Zurich to Lucerne

June 23: Mt Pilatus

June 24: back to Zurich

June 24: flyback from Zurich airport

What’s the best pass for me for travel? Also, if there are any suggestions on the itinerary, please do give them.

Thank you for all the help!

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Get a hotel near the Zurich conference and walk to it or have the company pay for that.
The biggest expense would be your trip to the top of jungfraujoch and pilatus

Go with the half fare card which give you an additional 50% off those mountain excursion and on super saver tickets on these routes:
Zurich to Interlaken
Interlaken to Zurich
Zurich to Luzern
Luzern to Zurich
Super saver tickets are non refundable and only good for the train and time you buy them for travel.

Posted by
268 posts

Can the half fare card be applied to the super saver tickets for even greater savings?

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8889 posts

Yes, Super Saver tickets have a "half" and a "full" price. When you go to the SBB website ( https://www.sbb.ch/en ) and look up a train, the "from" price shown is always assuming you have a Half Price Card, either a supersaver half price fare or a normal half price fare.
If you click on that it lets you display the non supersaver and full price options.

BTW, your trip on the first day is Zürich Flughafen (the station at the airport) to Lauterbrunnen. NOT Zürich city centre (Zürich HB)
Price Zürich Flughafen to Lauterbrunnen is CHF 41.30 with a Half Fare Card, CHF 82.60 full fare.

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