 Poster: A snowHead
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Hopefully this is in the right section.
I'm trying to work out the best/cheapest way to get four of us from Zurich airport to Wengen on Thursday. As far as I can work out, the train ticket cost is 85CHF each way which seems a hell of a lot. I'm tempted to look at hiring a car, but that seems a bit daft given that we'd have to park it up in Lauterbrunnen and get the train up to Wengen anyway. But if it works out cheaper it may be an option, I think the drive is about 90 miles.
Does anyone have any suggestions as to what's the best way of doing this? I guess the Swiss transfer ticket is another option, but that seems way more expensive than I remember from last time I bought one.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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jonm, The Swiss Transfer ticket will be less. It's currently £89 return and gives you a return journey from any Airport to any resort. You can get them from here:-
http://www.swisspasses.com/railpass/transfer/
The last time I ordered one it arrived the following day.
Edit: Oops, I shpuld have read all you post first. I see you've already considered that. 
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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geepee, no worries  If we can pick them up at Zurich that'll be an option, not sure I want to chance waiting for it in the post.
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Won't let me order one for Thurs as it's less than four days away 
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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jonm, What about if you order directly from swiss rail, can you do that less than 4 days before?
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| seems way more expensive than I remember from last time I bought one. |
Exchange rate is pretty poor at the moment, and won't improve any time soon. We started buying half-fare cards a few years ago - really helps if you do 2 or 3 trips a year.
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jonm, two small beers
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One for self, one for geepee
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Actually I have never found the beer in Wengen to be that bad - certainly in Lauterbrunnen that would buy you two "humpen" (and remember swiss small beers cost around 3/4 of the price of a large one). Of course if you do not want to be social and drink in your room then go to the Co-op where a tin of Weissbier (I know, weissbier in tins.......) is usually comfortably under a £1.
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