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Im off on holiday to Grindalwald in June.  flying out to Geneva.  What is the best and cheapest way of getting to Grinlewald form Geneva?  Transfers cost a fortune!

Thanks

I would second Ben's recommendation of a Swiss Card.

http://www.swisspasses.com/

may be is a slightly cheaper source - £106 at present.

Do get the card in the UK as it can take 20 minutes queuing at the Geneva Airport station.

There are trains every half hour from the airport to Bern with connections to Interlaken Ost and then Grindlewald.

http://fahrplan.sbb.ch/bin/query.exe/en?

gives access to the SBB timetable in English.

You can be on the train within 30 minutes of landing at the Airport. 

I would second Ben's recommendation of a Swiss Card. 50% off a trip to the Jungfraujoch saves over £50 and the 50% savings on buses and cable cars mount up.

http://www.swisspasses.com/

may be is a slightly cheaper source - £106 at present.

Do get the card in the UK as it can take 20 minutes queuing at the Geneva Airport station booking office.

There are trains every half hour from the airport to Bern with connections to Interlaken Ost and then Grindelwald.

http://fahrplan.sbb.ch/bin/query.exe/en?

gives access to the SBB timetable in English.

You can be on the train within 30 minutes of landing at the Airport. 

Without looking im preatty sure the swiss card only gives the 50% discount to Klein Schedgg and not on the expensive section from K.S to the Jungfraujoch.

I done the tour of the Jungfrau last year at the beginning of July last year and many of the walks in the area such as the Faulhornweg weren,t open until the 1st week of July.

Actually im going again this July to do a selection of walks.I will be using the swiss card again.Managed to get a flight with aer lingus to Zurich for £19.98.

The Swiss Card does give 50% off the Jungfraujoch trip.

Apologies for the double post above. 

You can actually get these railcards tailored to your needs; so many days, days free travel, days half travel, first class travel at second prices etc. Every Swiss tourist office sells them but you can get them in advance.

Although I usually have my car and have driven all over the Oberland on our last trip I didn't use the car from when we arrived in Grind. until we left the following week. Their transport system is brilliant. By the way, the passes also apply on the lake steamers. Very relaxing.

I used the Swiss Card as well on my last summer visit and found it well worth while. Getting the train out of Geneva Airport is great as you don't even go outside. Look carefully at the timetables as you can probably do the journey with only one change. The rail newtwork in Switzerland is wonderful.

Edited to say one change to get to Interlaken. Then another train to Gridlewald.

Unfortunately if you look on the Jungfrau bahn website as linked by Ben above it does state 50% discount on general J.Bahn network with the swiss card but to receive a discount (of 25%) on the route from Kleinn Scheidgg up to Jungfrau you have to buy the more expensive Swiss pass.

I received an e-mail from Grindelwald tourist office yesterday confirming this and also that there is a depressing amount of snow still on the First area (5 ft deep still).They are hoping the snow will be clear by late June early July on the Faulhornweg and Eiger trail routes.Lets hope so!!