February 5th, 2010 
Sheila Simkin We made excellent use out of our Swiss Rail Passes purchased from Rail Europe that included unlimited travel on the Swiss Travel System including trains, buses and boats. Choose either a Consecutive Day or Flexi Pass. We opted for the Consecutive pass available for 4, 8, 15, 22 days or 1 month of consecutive travel. The Flexipass is available for 3, 4, 5 or 6 days of consecutive or non-consecutive travel within a 1 month period. So simple to use. Validate and jump on and off the excellent Swiss system on the way to wherever you choose. It also came in very handy when we rushed onto a train one day heading in the wrong direction. Fortunately, you are never talking long distances in small Switzerland. Got off at the next stop and took a train going in the right direction. (Swiss saver flexipass)
You wouldn’t believe the miles we probably covered with our 15-day Swiss passes maximizing every last cent just in the Kandersteg Area. Headed south to Brig, north with hikes that began in Frutigen, post buses to Adelboden, trains from Lenk to Lake Thun and Interlaken, steamer boats that ply the lakes of Thun and Brienz, Reichenbach Falls, and that doesn’t include the coming and going from Zurich Airport.
The Swiss PostBus carries over 110 million passengers each year and if the train doesn’t go there, the PostBus does. The yellow buses with its famous three-tone horn went up roads to little towns, that made me cringe… positive the bus was going to fall over the mountain any second. The bus stops along the road are easy to find with schedule times on them….View image. Don’t be like me. Learn to actually read the schedules because they don’t run as frequently on weekends and/or certain times of the year. However, they do travel all routes (with a few exceptions) throughout the year.
Switzerland is so easy to get around, even a cave man (or woman) could do it… Let’s qualify that remark with…as long as they actually read the bus and train schedules…
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