Error when booking Colmar to Lauterbrunnen

Question

Hi. I am trying to book a reservation to my journey on a train with my Global Pass Plus from Colmar to Lauterbrunnen. I keep getting errors. Attached are two images. One image is the original error when I would almost finish the booking process. The second image is what I believe the issue might be. There seems to be an issue with the Basel to Spiez leg of the portion? Based on that blue highlighted message, I should be ok to travel on this route without a reservation as long as I have my pass? This is the first time I’ve run into issues when planning for my trip. The Colmar route starts at 11:23 and arrives in Lauterbrunnen at 14:56 on Dec 20th if needed.

There is a short transfer at Spiez but from what I can tell, the transfer is from 2 to 3 which is an adjacent platform so 3 minutes should be ok? Thank you for the help.

BrendanDB · Accepted Answer

For this route you don’t need reservations. Your pass is your ticket.

The journey planned is mostly done by regional trains which you cannot reserve. Just hop on the train you want to take and show your pass upon inspection. No reservations needed, you just need to add the train you want to travel on to your pass.

You can reserve trains in Switzerland, but it’s just a waste of money. Don’t do it and just hop on. Trains in Switzerland have plenty of capacity and lots of free seats (and nobody reserves a seat on domestic routes there, so you’ll get weird looks if you say you reserved a seat).

The short transfers in Switzerland are perfectly doable. The whole rail system is made around it. Punctual trains and smooth connections are a matter of national pride there ;)

KC_Royals · Answer

Thank you!

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