Rough Guides Snapshots Switzerland: Zurich by Rough Guides

Author:Rough Guides
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780241314982
Publisher: Rough Guides

“FLY RAIL BAGGAGE”

The Swiss have come up with one of the greatest, and simplest, ideas around for easing the stress of air travel. If you’re flying into Zürich or Geneva, you can send your bags direct from the check-in desk at your home airport through to one of thirty-odd train stations in Switzerland for collection at your convenience, thus eliminating the hassle of airport carousel reclaim and then lugging your bags around. Whoever you’re flying with, from any airport in the world, all you need to do is to fill out a special green customs label and attach one to each item of baggage. Each label costs the equivalent of US$22/Fr.22; they’re obtainable from Swiss Air Lines offices and Rail Europe outlets worldwide, as well as specialist tour operators. See http://bit.ly/2dzXIWY for full details.

If you choose a station near your arrival airport, your bags may be available for collection as little as two hours after touchdown. For stations further away reckon on proportionately longer (possibly next day): the website has details, including the opening hours of the baggage counter at your pick-up station.

There’s also a homeward-bound service – via which you can check in at a Swiss train station for your flight home. If you’re flying out of Zürich or Geneva with Swiss, Lufthansa or Austrian Airlines you can check your bags in ahead of time for Fr.22 per item at any of 35 Swiss train stations and, at the same time, pick a seat on your flight and receive a boarding card, thereby cutting out all hassle at the airport and letting you proceed directly to the departure gate. Your bags are transported independently and loaded onto your flight; the next time you see them is on the baggage-reclaim carousel in your home airport. Station staff will need to see a print-out of your flight e-ticket, as well as a train ticket or pass to prove that you’ll be travelling to the airport by train.

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