It’s after March 21st, so all fast trains to Lugano require bike reservations at CHF 2 per train, found in your SBB app. You will receive a confirmation showing where the bike’s reserved spot is on the train.
My reservation was in wagon 2, which is first class. In fact, the first 5 carriages were first class or had a restaurant so I had to walk through quite a few carriages before reaching second class. Be warned and prepared.
I had a difficult time finding out how to make a bike reservation on the app but ultimately, I had to remove a check next to my name in the listings of bike day passes and reservations. After that, it worked like a charm.
A bike day pass costs CHF 15 so you need to figure CHF 19 for your bike transportation expenses.
Top tip: I have an e-bike and always take bungee cords to help secure my bike.
Also, I had clicked on an incorrect day pass which the conductor and I tried to have reimbursed but it wouldn’t work on the app. After a few minutes at the Lugano train station desk, I got the money refunded without any difficulties.
Quick heads-up to everybody:
Lidl is selling one-day tickets at 59 a piece until coming Saturday. No half-fare ticket needed. They’re valid on the entire GA-network. The tickets are non-refundable and need to be used by April 16.
Of course. Don’t get this kind of offer just by buying stuff instore. Nope. Got to have a mobile for all the real goodies. I’m being discriminated against for not having one.
Don’t worry about it. They would track you all the way to Timbuktu on that Ticket via the app. And which Aldi, Migros or Coop you stopped in on the way
Not sure about that. Don’t have any of those apps on husband’s mobile, but the Lidl one is specific to the store we use regularly. And can’t use it here in the UK either when we’re over.
Most of those store loyalty schemes are not transferable between countries, they may have the same store names but they’re run as totally separate entities.
There is Aldi Nord and Aldi Sud for example which each cover different parts of Europe.
You can. I’ve used mine in the UK, France, Italy, even Greece. There’s a Settings option which allows you to modify the country and language as well as changing your ‘local’ store.
So you can get local Lidl Plus offers, even those needing you to activate a coupon, and the points are all counted wherever you are.
That’s just because the two different German Aldis are completely separate companies. Most other supermarket brands including Lidl stock the same product lines, albeit with minor variations like pack size and design (e.g. one wine we’ve bought for years which is in screw-capped bottles in CH, cored ones in France) and sometimes quite different pricing between different countries.
The things they stock in the UK in Lidl are really quite different from the things they have here and their middle aisle offers are totally different. They cater to the local market.
Standard things like pasta, ketchup etc will be the same but their cheese selection for example will be very different.
The differences between Lidl France and Lidl Switzerland will be less obvious than they are between the UK and Switzerland.
Yes, of course there are huge differences between special products, that’s why I was also pointing out that the app allows you to change country to get the local offers and specials.
Obviously, because of Swiss laws and customer preferences, Swiss supermarkets are going to stock Swiss yogurts and cheeses, and certain fruit rather than foreign replacements.
Ok so on that date they had some offers which were the same but that is not always the case. I know from the craft group I’m in that there are very often offers for things in the UK which are never offered here.
For regular food items which are country specific they’re not going to be the same as they cater to the local market and as you rightly say there are also local laws in place.
Start by clicking the “plus” button, three dots, at bottom right, then whatever language the options are written in, mine’s Parametres, Pays et Langue.
I don’t really go there often enough to make full use of the app, I usually only go to Lidl for certain specific things. There isn’t one convenient for me so it’s a bit of an effort to go there.
I never bothered with the petty differences on long distance discounts. Usually it makes not much difference since you take long ride once a quarter or so. However yeah, similar weird +10 chf happens on short commutes between canton borders, just depend which side/route you take. Switzerland is like cheese, every canton is a different (money/tax) hole, there’s no reasonable pattern
