{"id":2658,"date":"2020-11-10T20:22:38","date_gmt":"2020-11-10T19:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/?p=2658"},"modified":"2020-11-11T18:23:12","modified_gmt":"2020-11-11T17:23:12","slug":"snownrail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/transportation\/snownrail\/","title":{"rendered":"Snow’n’Rail"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The Swiss Railways provide an excellent discount deal for skiers, called Snow’n’Rail, which typically discounts the price of a rail ticket to a ski resort by 20% and the lift pass by 10%. it is available online or at Swiss Railway stations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The new schedule for 2020\/21 is out, and it is always interesting to see which new resorts have been added and which have fallen off the scheme. Sadly there have been some substantial losses this year – Zermatt<\/a>, Saas-Fee<\/a>, Gstaad Mountain Rides<\/a> and the Vaud resorts (Leysin<\/a>, les Diablerets<\/a> and Villars-Gryon<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That still leaves a number of outstanding destinations such as Engelberg<\/a>, Andermatt<\/a>, Davos<\/a>, St Moritz<\/a>, Wengen<\/a>, Portes du Soleil<\/a> and Verbier<\/a>, amongst others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The brochure available at railway stations is thin on details this year, relying on you to see what is available at the Swiss Railways web site<\/a>. Where routes include buses or cableways, these are also included in the offer. Swiss Railways also offer discounts on a number of other rail and winter sports combinations, such as tobogganing, snowshoe walking and cross-country skiing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Austrian Railways, \u00d6BB, offer a similar scheme<\/a> which includes world class resorts like St Anton<\/a> and Kitzb\u00fchel<\/a>. They also run overnight services from Amsterdam, Hamburg and D\u00fcsseldorf to the ski resorts and a shuttle to Kitzb\u00fchel from Munich.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A full list of Alpine resorts which have a railway station is at the Snow and Rail<\/a> web site. Daniel Elkan at SnowCarbon<\/a> can assist people wanting to get to the Alps from the UK by train, offering a wider selection of resorts where the last leg might require a bus or taxi transfer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Swiss Railways provide an excellent discount deal for skiers, called Snow’n’Rail, which typically discounts the price of a rail ticket to a ski resort by 20% and the lift pass by 10%. it is available online or at Swiss Railway stations. The new schedule for 2020\/21 is out, and it is always interesting to … <\/p>\n

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