Services related to your trip to Europe.

Want to book a train and hotel for your trip to Europe and insure your trip? What about checking in your luggage, exchanging money and buying practical travel accessories? We can help you with all this and much more for your trip to Europe.

When booking.

What you should do and think about in good time for your trip to Europe.

  1. Seat reservations in trains and dining cars.

    To make your train journey in Switzerland and Europe as comfortable as possible, you can reserve your seat before your journey begins. When travelling to some countries, a reservation is obligatory or automatically included in the ticket price.

  2. Train and hotel.

    It couldn’t be easier! Book your train ticket and hotel together online for your next city break by rail.

  3. Group tickets for trips to neighbouring countries.

    Groups of ten or more benefit from attractive group rates on journeys to neighbouring countries.

  4. Train travel to Europe.

    You can enjoy more climate-friendly train travel to these European countries.

  5. Interrail.

    Travel across Europe with Interrail and discover up to 33 countries by train in a more climate-friendly way.

  6. Across Europe by night train.

    Your destination is just a night’s sleep away. Travel across Europe by night train and do your bit for the climate too. Live life the adventurous way.

Before you set off.

It will soon be time to set off. Time to make the last few preparations.

  1. Travel insurance.

    Thanks to the various cover packages for travelling by train, bus and boat, you and your family are fully insured.

  2. Swiss Bankers: prepaid credit cards for travel and everyday expenses.

    Pay securely and conveniently with the Travel or Life Digital prepaid Mastercard. No linked account, full control of costs, usable and accepted worldwide.

  3. To Europe by bike.

    Take your bike with you on your trip through Europe: SBB and its neighbouring railways allow the self-service loading of bicycles on cross-border trains.

  4. Luggage to foreign countries.

    Everything you need to know about shipping your luggage from Switzerland to abroad and from abroad to Switzerland.

  5. Flight luggage.

    Are you flying to/from Zurich or Geneva? Then travel to the airport and back home with peace of mind by train. We’ll transport your luggage for you.

  6. ‘SWISS Air Rail’ – take the train to the airport.

    Your boarding pass is also your train ticket: book your flight ticket with SWISS and travel by train to Geneva Airport and Zurich Airport.

Last-minute at the station.

Forgotten something? You can find practical travel-related products and services in every major SBB Travel Centre and – thanks to longer opening hours – even just before departure.

  1. Currency exchange at SBB Change.

    Get your foreign currency for over 100 different countries – directly online with convenient home delivery or at your SBB Travel Centre.

  2. SBB Shop – everything you need for a great journey.

    Travel adapter, power bank or passport holder: you can obtain practical travel accessories from any major SBB Travel Centre.
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  3. ZIM@SBB app: low-cost internet worldwide.

    Discover the limitless freedom of the internet worldwide with the ZIM@SBB app and innovative eSIM technology.

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