Help with seat reservations for Switzerland and Europe.
Reserve a seat before the start of your journey to make your train journeys within Switzerland and to Europe as convenient as possible.
Seat reservation for Switzerland.
How do I reserve seats for 1 to 9 people in the SBB Mobile app?
You can currently only purchase tickets and seat reservations in separate steps in the SBB Mobile app. In future, you will be able to buy tickets and seat reservations in one single purchase process.
Here’s how it works:
- Open the SBB Mobile app.
- Select the timetable and search for the route, time and date of travel you would like.
- Tap on ‘Tickets from CHF xx.xx’.
- If you would like to reserve seats for more than one person, click on ‘Edit passengers’ (pencil symbol) and enter/select the other passengers.
- Scroll down and select ‘Seat reservation only’.
- Tap on ‘Purchase ticket for CHF xx.xx’ and complete your purchase.
How do I reserve seats for 1 to 9 people on SBB.ch?
Here’s how it works:
- Go to SBB.ch.
- Select your desired route, time and travel date in the timetable.
- Click on ‘Tickets from CHF xx.xx’.
- If you would like to make a reservation for more than one person, click on the pencil symbol and enter/select the additional passengers.
- Scroll down and select ‘Seat reservation only’.
- You can also choose which compartment you would like to travel in. To do so, click on the ‘Seat reservation’ button. This opens a dropdown menu with a list of the bookable compartments that are available. (‘No preference’ means you get a seat in a normal train coach. ‘Central gangway’ also means a normal train coach with an aisle along the middle.)
- Click on ‘Accept’ and complete the purchase.
Of course, you can also reserve seats at a public transport point of sale.