I have a Euro Rail Global Pass for my wife and I, both Australian Senior Citizen. Our planned Itinerary for Italy and Switzerland are starting on 31 May 2024:
- Castiglion Fiorentino (attending a wedding) to Naples (2 nights in Naples), From Naples to Florence (2 nights), Florence to Venice (2 nights), Venice to Milan (1 night). We will come back to Rome for 2 night stay to take our flight back to Australia on 17 June
- Travelling to Switzerland on 7 June travelling as per below trajectory: Milan to St. Moritz via Bernina Express (1 night), St. Moritz to Zermatt (2 nights) using Glacier Express, Zermatt to Interlaken (3 nights) using local/regional train. From Interland we will try to cover Jungfrau, Mount Pilatus, Mount Titlis and a day trip to Geneva using Golden Line.
Given train travel in Italy is not that expensive and we do no really need first class travel we intend to amend our Euro Global Pass dates from 22 days to 10 days just to cover Switzerland. That will save me probably A$$800 compared to A$500 the likely train travel costs in Italy. My questions are:
- would it be worth changing Euro Global Pass dates?
- would be wise to buy any other swiss travel pass such as Half Fare Pass or Regional Passes so that the combined use of Global Pass and Swiss passes would reduce mountain excursions cost from say 25% to 50% or in some cases 100% discount. Note we will be using Funicular, Cogwheel, chair lift, Gondola, mountain trains etc.
- Any other advice to make the best use of our time particularly in Switzerland will be appreciated.
Habibur Rahman (Habib)
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