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train travel question in austria & switzerland
Hi all,
A question to train travel in Switzerland & Austria.... Lets say I purchase a ticket from Innsbruck to Vienna, can I stopover at Salzburg for a few days before continuing on to Vienna with the same ticket? Is this true in Switzerland too, lets say travel from Zurich to Interlaken and I stop by Luzern for a couple of days? Thanks in advance. |
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train travel question in austria & switzerland
wrote in message oups.com... Hi all, A question to train travel in Switzerland & Austria.... Lets say I purchase a ticket from Innsbruck to Vienna, can I stopover at Salzburg for a few days before continuing on to Vienna with the same ticket? Is this true in Switzerland too, lets say travel from Zurich to Interlaken and I stop by Luzern for a couple of days? Thanks in advance. Would doubt you could do that on single tickets. I believe you would have to continue your journey on the same day, or buy separate tickets for each leg of the journey. Suggest you post your question to misc.transport.rail.europe newsgroup for a more definite answer. Regards David Bennetts Australia |
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train travel question in austria & switzerland
On Apr 30, 11:06 am, "David Bennetts"
wrote: wrote in message oups.com... Hi all, A question to train travel in Switzerland & Austria.... Lets say I purchase a ticket from Innsbruck to Vienna, can I stopover at Salzburg for a few days before continuing on to Vienna with the same ticket? Is this true in Switzerland too, lets say travel from Zurich to Interlaken and I stop by Luzern for a couple of days? Thanks in advance. Would doubt you could do that on single tickets. I believe you would have to continue your journey on the same day, or buy separate tickets for each leg of the journey. Suggest you post your question to misc.transport.rail.europe newsgroup for a more definite answer. Regards David Bennetts Australia Hi David, Thks for your advice. I''ll put up another post on misc.transport.rail.europe. |
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train travel question in austria & switzerland
On 30 Apr, 09:00, "Helmut Uttenthaler"
wrote: wrote: Hi all, A question to train travel in Switzerland & Austria.... Lets say I purchase a ticket from Innsbruck to Vienna, can I stopover at Salzburg for a few days before continuing on to Vienna with the same ticket? Yes. Austrian domestic tickets for a distance over 100 km are valid one month, you can make as much intermediate stops as you want. Is this true in Switzerland too, lets say travel from Zurich to Interlaken and I stop by Luzern for a couple of days? Unfortunately I don't know the exact rules for Swiss tickets. BTW: International tickets are usually valid 2 months and also allow stops. There is little to gain as tickets sold in both countries are based on km distance so two tickets are going to be more or less the same as one through ticket. www.sbb.ch or www.obb.at to check out prices |
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train travel question in austria & switzerland
this true in Switzerland too, lets say travel from Zurich to Interlaken and I stop by Luzern for a couple of days? Zurich to Interlaken ticket would not probably route you through Luzern , unless specially reqested . |
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train travel question in austria & switzerland
mr lim wrote:
There is little to gain as tickets sold in both countries are based on km distance That's true... so two tickets are going to be more or less the same as one through ticket. ....but the prices are degressive, so two tickets for 200 km cost more than one ticket for 400 km. In Austria a domestic ticket for 200 km costs 28 EUR, whereas a ticket for 400 km costs 45,4 EUR, which is cheaper than 2*28 = 56 EUR. So you loose money, if you buy seperate tickets. However, you usually won't loose money on international trips if you buy seperate tickets from/till border, as at the border the kilometric fare calculation starts from the beginning and the two sections in the two countries are just added. It's often even cheaper to buy seperate tickets, as domestic fare is often cheaper than international fare (not in Switzerland, but in Austria and many other countries). However, the domestic fares are only availabe if you buy the ticket in the respective country and some railways (for example Hungarian railways) don't allow using cheap domestic tickets for parts of an international trip... Helmut |
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train travel question in austria & switzerland
"mr lim" skrev i meddelandet oups.com... this true in Switzerland too, lets say travel from Zurich to Interlaken and I stop by Luzern for a couple of days? Zurich to Interlaken ticket would not probably route you through Luzern , unless specially reqested . Over Luzerne and the narrow gauge is the shortest route, it's less expensive (45CHF vs 61CHF over Olten-Bern) takes a little longer time (about 40min longer) and is a much more interesting and scenic route. You're likely to be asked about the preferred route when booking. |
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