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Hi, I was wondering if it’s worth me buying the Swiss Travel Pass as I already plan to buy the EUrail global pass. 

My travel plans are:
Copenhagen - Stockholm - Kiruna - Narvik - (fly from Tromso) London - Paris - Interlaken - Zermatt (Glacier Express) - Milan (will day trip from Milan to Lake Como or some else) - Rome then flying home.

I will be staying in Interlaken. My days will look something like:

  1. Mount Rigi, Gratweg Stoos if it’s open (it will be early January), Lucerne
  2. Grindelwald First, walking around to Lake Bachalpsee, Iseltwald
  3. I’m still deciding which villages, but mainly Mannlichen, Lauterbrunnen, Murren, Grimmelwald, Wengen. 

Is it worth me buying a Swiss Travel Pass for 3 days if I already have the EUrail global pass for 7 days in 1 month if this is what my itinerary will look like? Or should I go for the other Swiss travel pass options like the Half Fare? My hotel will also give me a travel card? I’m not entirely sure what that’ll include either. 

Any advice is appreciated, thank you so much! 

I count about 8 travel days, potentially 10-11. For Kiruna - Narvik you best get ordinary tickets and not use your pass, since it’s not a big distance.

I wouldn’t buy a Swiss travel pass, it’s quite a hefty extra cost. You better exchange your 7 day pass and buy some extra travel days (go for a ten day pass for +/- 70 EUR extra). The more pass days you get in a pass, the cheaper each pass day gets. Ordinary Swiss train tickets are quite pricey, even for short distances. So a Eurail pass is quickly good value, especially in Switzerland.

Depends on the hotel, but in most larger Swiss cities you have to pay a tourist tax. In return you usually get a sort of guest card, which sometimes includes a travel card for local public transport (only limited to the city where you are staying) and some discounts on local museums and activities.

But I don’t know the situation in every Swiss place of course, ask the hotel where you are staying?

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