Hi all,
I am travelling through Italy, France, Switzerland and Slovenia this April-June, and I am trying to determine the best value option for train travel. My first journey will be on April 22, my last on June 3. I’ve listed every planned train journey below.
I’m trying to determine the best-value option. Should I get a Eurail pass, a Swiss Pass, or a combination of passes and single fare tickets?
Are all the below trips worth using a whole day of a pass, or are some/all of the journeys short enough/regional enough for a standalone ticket to be better value? If so, what days would you use a pass on? What pass would you suggest?
Complicating things somewhat is the fact I’m travelling with my partner up until Lyon, and we would obviously like to be seated together on those train journeys we take. He has the option of buying a shorter pass too, if it represents good value. I’ve indicated
- Naples > Rome
- Florence > Pisa > Lucca > Florence (Day trip)
- Florence > Cinque Terre (probably Vernazza)
- Cinque Terre > Milan
- Milan > Lyon
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- Lyon > Colmar
- Colmar > Basel
- Basel > Lucern > Basel (Day Trip)
- Basel > Bern
- Bern > Zermatt
- Zermatt > Chur (via Glacier Express) > Buchs, for Liechtenstein
- Buchs > Maribor (Euronight)
- Venice > Bologna
- Bologna > Rimini > Bologna (Day Trip)
- Bologna > Rome (Fiumicino)