{"id":1169,"date":"2012-10-21T13:52:09","date_gmt":"2012-10-21T11:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/?p=1169"},"modified":"2012-10-21T22:36:50","modified_gmt":"2012-10-21T20:36:50","slug":"snownrail-2012-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/transportation\/snownrail-2012-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Snow&#8217;n&#8217;Rail 2012-13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The truly excellent Snow&#8217;n&#8217;Rail offer from Swiss Railway is available for another winter sports season with Engelberg and the Engadine already open for business. The package is broadly the same as last season &#8211; there are only small increases in prices and the extensive selection of resorts is pretty much the same (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.swisswintersports.co.uk\/rosswald.php\" title=\"Rosswald\">Rosswald<\/a> is the only addition). It is however now possible to buy the tickets online as well as from ticket machines (in English) and over the counter.<figure id=\"attachment_1171\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1171\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/00038492_w.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/00038492_w-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"FLIRT in Winter\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/00038492_w-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/00038492_w.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1171\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(c) SBB photo<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<p>To recap on the nature of the offer if you are not familiar with it: For dozens of Swiss winter sports resorts you can buy a ticket to use public transport from all the major railway stations all the way to the resorts, where you can then exchange a voucher issued with your ticket to get a lift pass &#8211; sometimes there is a refundable deposit on the lift pass. The combined ticket is at a significant discount to buying the tickets separately, usually 20%. In addition you can enter a draw for a weekend break for four and can get 15% discount hiring kit from Intersport. The lift passes can be selected for 1, 2 or 6 days. <\/p>\n<p>The English language web site for the Snow&#8217;n&#8217;Rail is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sbb.ch\/en\/leisure-holidays\/day-trips\/snownrail-roll-on-winter.html\" title=\"Snow'n'Rail\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. The new season brochure will be available at railway stations from 1st November. It is not in English unfortunately, although at this blog&#8217;s companion site at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swisswintersports.co.uk\" title=\"Swiss Winter Sports\" target=\"_blank\">Swiss Winter Sports<\/a> every Snow&#8217;n&#8217;Rail destination is covered in detail in English. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The truly excellent Snow&#8217;n&#8217;Rail offer from Swiss Railway is available for another winter sports season with Engelberg and the Engadine already open for business. The package is broadly the same as last season &#8211; there are only small increases in prices and the extensive selection of resorts is pretty much the same (Rosswald is the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/transportation\/snownrail-2012-13\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Snow&#8217;n&#8217;Rail 2012-13&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-features","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1169"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1180,"href":"https:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169\/revisions\/1180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}