2023-11-21 09:04:43
Winter holiday train travel
Go on a ski holiday by train – offers and tips
Instead of torturing yourself in a packed car for hours in convoy traffic towards the Alps, you can let yourself be driven. There are more options on rail than you think. We present offers that bring winter vacationers to European ski resorts.
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Many Alpine ski areas can be reached by rail – sometimes directly, sometimes you have to take a bus from the train station to your winter sports resort. The bottom line is that this type of journey is probably a little more relaxed compared to the car you often use. In any case, it is more environmentally friendly in terms of emissions per capita.
Railway companies are increasingly catering to ski tourists and more and more areas are promoting travel by public transport and, for example, providing free local shuttle buses. But where in the mountains can you easily get to by train?
An overview is available from Deutsche Bahn (DB), for example. she has on their website under “Winterrail” Winter sports destinations in Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Italy are listed, which, according to railway information, have good train connections.
The Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB) offer night train rides in a package with ski passes and transfer from the train station to the accommodation through its subsidiary ÖBB Rail Tours. The offer called “In the night jet to the snow” There are twelve regions in Tyrol and Vorarlberg. According to the website, trips to St. Johann in Tirol from Düsseldorf or Hamburg, for example, start at 270 euros.
Switzerland offers discounts on ski passes
Switzerland is at the forefront when it comes to train travel options. In Engelberg, for example, a 40-minute train ride from Lucerne, it is only a few minutes’ walk from the train station to the Titlis valley station.
Tour operator TUI will be running the “Ski Express” again on several dates throughout the winter from December 22nd
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With the “ride&slide” offer Switzerland Tourism is trying to convince more tourists to travel by train and is usually offering a 30 percent discount on ski tickets in twelve areas and other discounts – such as Les Portes du Soleil or 4 Valleés. Catch: You have to buy the international train ticket through the Swiss provider railtour.
The Swedish company Snälltåget is running a night train from Malmö – including via Hamburg, Munich and Salzburg – to Innsbruck this winter from December 22nd. It stops at various train stations in Salzburger Land and Tyrol. In the “Seat” and “Berth” categories, ski bags have to be checked in separately – costs: the equivalent of around 50 euros.
Traveling with the “Ski Express”: The night train starts in Amsterdam and travels to Austria via various stations in Germany
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Tour operator TUI will be opening again for the first time on December 22nd and then on several dates over the winter the “Ski Express” drive – we start in Amsterdam. The night train then travels via Utrecht, Cologne, Bonn, Koblenz and Frankfurt to Austria, where it stops in Innsbruck, Ötztal, Zell am See and St. Anton, among others. You can buy tickets for the train individually, or you can book the arrival and departure in packages with a week’s hotel stay and ski passes.
Buy a ticket for the train and ski area at the train station
It doesn’t take long to get to the Alpine ski areas by train, especially from southern Germany. From Munich in particular, it is not far to Lenggries (Brauneck), Bayrischzell (Sudelfeld) or the Zugspitz ski area in Garmisch-Partenkirchen.
DB Regio offers a combination ticket for train and ski area with the name Garmisch ski ticket an. Die Bavarian Regional Railway (BRB) sells combination tickets to Lenggries, Bayrischzell and Tegernsee in the winter season.
“So I buy the ticket for the train and ski area in Munich, then take the train to the mountain. I no longer have to stand in line at the valley station to buy a ski pass – that’s something,” says Andreas König from the German Ski Association (DSV).
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An alternative on the street can be Ski bus Munich which offers day packages consisting of travel and ski passes to various Alpine resorts. There are such offers from the Stuttgart and Nuremberg areas, among others, says König.
If you want to know where you can get from Munich and other southern German cities by bus and train, this is it Map by ski tourer Michael Vitzthum recommended, which the German Alpine Club makes available on its website.
Tips for stowing skis on the train
Especially on longer long-distance train journeys, the question arises: what to do with the bulky ski and snowboard bags? In sleeper compartments on night trains, with a bit of luck the bag will fit under the bottom bunk – or you can hoist it right up onto the luggage rack.
The boards take up a lot of space in the over-seat compartments of open-plan carriages on long-distance trains. A spokeswoman for Deutsche Bahn names two alternatives:
· Between the seats: If the seat backs are facing each other in opposite directions, there is a space between the rows into which the boards can be pushed.
· Between the door and the seat: There is also space between the large area door and the rearmost row of seats. According to the railway, it is important to make sure that the door can close without any problems.
It is recommended that customers with winter sports equipment specifically reserve these seats using the graphical seat reservation on the railway website or in the Navigator app, said the railway spokeswoman.
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