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Train Tickets option

Posted by (Austin, TX, USA) on

Rail tickets options that I am thinking of..................

Here is the travel plan:
Paris -> Geneva(spend few hours there) -> Zermatt -> Rome (via night train)

using various websites: Bahn, Sbb, raileurope... I estimated some of the costs....and came up this options

Get a Eurail regional France-Italy pass for 4 days - $570
then get a one day swiss pass for $120........for a total of $690.

Is it possible to buy a one day swiss pass when I am in Paris?

Will the ticket price be cheaper when If I were to just buy P2P tickets when I am in these cities (expcept for the night train to Rome)

Posted by
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The prices you see for P2P tickets on the Trenitalia website are the prices you would pay at a ticket counter there. You can't buy tickets online from them, but you can get prices.

A rail pass is questionable for Italy. Using a rail pass in Italy often includes a "passholder supplement" (for Italian Eurostar) that might be as much as half the P2P ticket price.

Posted by
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What site showed you a one-day Swiss pass for $120? The only thing comparable that I've found is a Swiss Transfer Ticket for $111 that allows you to travel from an airport or a border station to a point in Switzerland and then from there to an airport or border station. I think you could use that to go Geneva-Zermatt and Zermatt-Visp where you would connect with the night train to Rome.

For your routes a Eurail pass would not be cost effective. The standard 2nd class fare for Paris-Geneva is 77 EUR. Booked well in advance (up to three months allowed) at www.tgv-europe.com, you can get a Piccolo fare (non-refundable and non-exchangeable) of 38 EUR.

The standard fare for Geneva-Zermatt is 88 CHF (58 EUR) and for Zermatt-Visp it is 33 CHF (22 EUR). The total is only a couple of euros more than a Swiss Transfer Ticket.

For the Visp-Rome night train you can go to the Swiss Rail site and ask them to send you a fare quote by e-mail. Or you can get it by making an international phone call. Swiss Rail may not offer you discount fares as low as Trenitalia does for this route, but you won't be able to book through Trenitalia anyway.

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