Hi all. I'm worried about sometimes only having 5 minutes between interchange trains. If a bought a ticket from Zermatt to Interlaken but for example the train interchange for Visp to Spiez is only 5 minutes do I ignore that and just get on next train.? How does this work with reserved seats and luggage?. Sue 🤗
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Best answer by BrendanDB
It’s Switzerland, probably the best rail country in the world. Short connections like yours are made to work and are very easy to do. 3 minutes connections is the minimum between domestic trains in Switzerland, and almost always work.
If it wouldn’t (very unlikely), then just wait for the next train.
Reserving seats in Switzerland on domestic trains is a waste of money, please don’t do that. Just find a free seat and sit where you like.
Trains there have plenty of capacity and are very frequent, so no need to worry about that.
+7It’s Switzerland, probably the best rail country in the world. Short connections like yours are made to work and are very easy to do. 3 minutes connections is the minimum between domestic trains in Switzerland, and almost always work.
If it wouldn’t (very unlikely), then just wait for the next train.
Reserving seats in Switzerland on domestic trains is a waste of money, please don’t do that. Just find a free seat and sit where you like.
Trains there have plenty of capacity and are very frequent, so no need to worry about that.
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Sue Willow wrote:
If a bought a ticket from Zermatt to Interlaken [...]
If you have a pass, then that is your ticket. You don't need to buy any other tickets for trains covered by the pass. You may need reservations for some trains, but as BrendanDB says, that's a waste of money in Switzerland.
That's great advice. Thank you.
I still have lots of questions as travelling by train for 8 weeks, Austria, Switzerland, France and Italy.
4 people.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated especially the reserved seats within countries, domestic trains.
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5 minute changes are not a problem in Switzerland and in Switzerland, reservations are a waste of money.
Start here for advice on reservations:
https://www.seat61.com/interrail-and-eurail-reservations.htm
Please ask questions in the community and not via a private message. That's the quickest way to get a response. I don't work for Eurail/Interrail.
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5 minutes its more than enough in Switerzland, maybe in Zurich, Geneva, Bern you might have to run if your next train is far, but all the other stations you mention are small so you shouldn’t have any issues with that.
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Sue Willow wrote:
That's great advice. Thank you.
I still have lots of questions as travelling by train for 8 weeks, Austria, Switzerland, France and Italy.
4 people.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated especially the reserved seats within countries, domestic trains.
🤗
I’ve traveled a bit in Austria and its ok without reservation. France the same, I can’t remember having any issues to be honest. Italy its a completly different story. In Genova I had the option of reserve a seat for the train at 11 am to go to Turin or take the one at 1 pm without reservation. I wanted the seat one because that would allow me to have more time to explore Turin but at the end I decided to take the one without reservation and when I arrived to the station and the train with seat reservation had a 3 hours delay. I’m not advicing you to don’t reserve seats, just keep in mind the trains in Italy can have some delay (maybe not 3 hours the whole time) but always try to avoid connections or see if there’s another train you can catch in case you miss the one you wanted.
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