What this site is
theswisstravelpass.com is published by The Swiss Travel Pass - US, an independent publisher, and not the issuer of the pass it is named after. It is a buying guide, not a review blog and not an official channel. Every page exists to answer one purchasing question: what the pass costs, what it covers, which version suits a given trip, and whether the numbers work out in your favour.
We do not issue passes, take payment for them, or have any say in what they cost or include. If you need help with an order you have already placed, contact the seller you bought from.
How we make money
Through affiliate links. When you buy a pass after following a link from this site, we receive a commission from the seller. The price you pay is the same either way — there is no markup, no early booking discount, and no code that changes it.
This is worth being blunt about: we are paid when you buy, which is a reason to be sceptical of anyone telling you a product is worth it. So the calculator on the home page is built to tell you when the pass does not pay off, and it names what beats it when it doesn't. The home page opens by saying the pass is the wrong buy if you are staying put in one region, and one mountain page says outright that the pass is the wrong card there. The full disclosure is here.
How the prices are kept straight
Two currencies are in play and they are kept apart. Swiss fares are in francs, because francs are what you hand over at the counter. Pass prices are in US dollars and euros, because that is what the seller charges at checkout. Neither is restated in the other currency for the sake of looking tidy.
There is one conversion on the site, and it is the one the arithmetic cannot avoid: weighing a trip priced in francs against a pass priced in dollars. Where that happens, the rate and the day it was taken are printed next to the result — CHF 1 = $1.2483 / €1.0648, mid market on 23 August 2026 — so you can see how old it is and redo it yourself. A converted figure looks exactly as authoritative as a quoted one and goes stale without anyone noticing, which is why it carries its date.
Every page here is generated from a single row of one spreadsheet, and a page can only say what its row holds. That is a deliberate constraint rather than a convenience: it is what stops a figure being filled in from what a travel page usually says. Where a row has no figure, the page says nothing rather than estimating.
What we get wrong
Fares go up, mountains close for maintenance, summer and winter timetables differ, and a mountain railway can change what it charges mid season. A guide like this is always slightly behind the world. Before a trip that depends on a particular railway running or a particular fare holding, check the operator's own site — and tell us if you find something out of date here.
The pass runs from 3 days at $313 (€270) to 15 days at $615 (€507). Whether any of them is a good deal for your trip depends entirely on where you are going, which is what the calculator is for.