Travel from Salzburg to Zurich 12 June 2013

Switzerland is a German Speaking country.  And is one of the 26 Shengen Countries.

Our family Europe tour in June 2013 continued to Switzerland.  We had traveled  from Austria on 12 June 2013.


We were in Munich, Germany on 11 June 2013.  Please click the link for our previous day's  wanderlust.


We came from Salzburg, traveled by train (railjet 32). The train departed at 8:02am.

waiting for the train























The travel from Salzburg to Feldkirch by train via Innsbruck was very scenic.  I would be uploading to youtube the photos we have taken during the travel.

For our travel schedule, I read that the train would not go direct to Zurich.  There would be a few transfers.  We found it inconvenient with our 4  big luggage. So  I just booked from Salzburg to Feldkirch and from Feldkirch, we would try to find a van to transfer us to the very first city of Switzerland that we would reach which is the city of Buch.

Luckily, Railjet 32,  terminated at Feldkirch, Austria though, there was a bus to take  all the  passengers going to Zurich.  I have asked the conductor if we would be allowed to take the bus, our paid itinerary was up to Feldkirch only.  He said we can if we are going to Zurich.

The bus stopped at  Buch, Switzerland (the border).  2 or 3 officials boarded the bus and have checked if there were suspicious passenger(s).  They asked 2 teens sat behind for their passports and failed to show.  The teens were asked to get off the bus.  At first, the teens were making excuse until one of the officials raised his voice.  I felt so sorry for the kids.  Probably they were running away and would like to live in Switzerland.

The bus terminated at Sargans, Switzerland station and advised us to take the regional train to Zurich which would take about an hour or more.  I bought  first our Swisspass in Sargans before we boarded the train to Zurich. We left Sargans around 1:45pm

ABOUT SWISS TRAVEL PASS


Exploring Switzerland has never been so easy! The Swiss Travel Pass is your all-in-one ticket to travel by rail, road and waterway throughout the whole of Switzerland. And it includes many bonus benefits. Enjoy total travel freedom – with just a single ticket.

Advantages at a glance.

• Unlimited travel by rail, road and waterway
• Including most panorama pleasures*
• Free travel on public transport in 75 towns and cities
• Free admission to more than 480 museums
• 50% discount off most mountain railways
• Children under the age of 16 travel free of charge when accompanied by at least one parent holding the Swiss Family Card
• Swiss Travel Pass and Swiss Travel Pass Youth are also available as print@home tickets
• Only persons domiciled outside Switzerland and the Principality of Liechtenstein are entitled to purchase this ticket

Swiss Travel Pass.

Validity: 3, 4, 8 or 15 consecutive days.

Swiss Travel Pass Flex.

The Swiss Travel Pass Flex is valid on a certain number of days within any given month.  

Validity: any 3, 4, 8 or 15 days within a month.

You can obtain the Swiss Half Fare Card Combi as an additional card when you purchase a Swiss Travel Pass Flex or a Swiss Transfer Ticket. It costs CHF 60 and offers the same services as the Swiss Half Fare Card.

Swiss Travel Pass Youth and Swiss Travel Pass Flex Youth.

The Swiss Travel System also issues a special ticket for young travellers – the Swiss Youth Pass, which may be purchased by travellers aged under 26. It entitles the holder to the same advantages as the S Swiss Travel Pass or Swiss Travel Pass Flex, but costs 15% less.

Validity: as with Swiss Travel Pass and Swiss Travel Pass Flex.

Swiss Travel Pass

Consecutive travel days.

Adults.

		2nd class	1st class
	3 days	CHF 210	CHF 336
	4 days	CHF 251	CHF 402
	8 days	CHF 363	CHF 581
	15 days	CHF 440	CHF 704

Swiss Travel Pass Youth

Young adults aged under 26.

		2nd class	1st class
	3 days	CHF 179	CHF 286
	4 days	CHF 213	CHF 342
	8 days	CHF 309	CHF 494
	15 days	CHF 374	CHF 598

Children of age between 6 and 16 are free of charge with one accompanying parent.
We bought Swiss travel pass 2nd class  Adults (2) and Youth (1).


For further info and updates, visit SBB site

http://www.sbb.ch/en/home.html

When we boarded the train to Zurich from Sargans, with our luggage, we just went in on the very first car.  We did not realize it was for 1st class passengers.

We have been sitting for more than half an hour when a lady went inside the carriage and checked our pass.  She informed us that the carriage is for 1st class and  our pass was 2nd class. We needed to transfer.  Goodness! what about our big stuff?  The conductress was very kind and said to transfer to station where the train will take a little long.  Most of the stop intervals take only 1 minute.  A few are 2 minutes.  so we have transferred on the 2 minutes interval. 

 I will show you on the next post the swiss transportation site I was visiting for our travel from one city/region to another.  We had our lunch in Zurich and we walked around the old town.  We left Zurich around 6pm to Lucerne.  We had stayed in Lucerne for 3 nights.  

...continues to  Family trip to Zurich, Switzerland 12 June 2013

See also: 

Train travel from Salzburg to Zurich on video

Swiss Transport Museum visit, 13 June 2013.

Europe tour June 2013