PRESTIGE CLASS on Switzerland’s newest Luxury Train! – GoldenPass Express

It's finally time to take a ride on-board Switzerland's newest luxury train: the GoldenPass Express! I'll be riding in Prestige Class, the highest level of comfort on this new train, which is just perfect for viewing the mountainous scenery.

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Journey Details:
Origin: Montreux
Destination: Interlaken Ost
Company: Montreux Oberland Bernois (MOB)
Train: MOB Ge4/4 + GoldenPass Express, and SBB 528 'Stadler FLIRT'
Accommodation: Prestige Class Recliner (S1+)
Distance: 116 kilometres / 72 miles
Price: 128.00 CHF (£113.10 / €128.30 / $139.30)
Time: 3 hours 15 minutes, arrived one minute early

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[margaretdb]

This made me cry.
I made this trip in 1999 with my late sister.
Next year I am making the trip again in her memory and obviously will do the trip again in the new train.
To see the train going through Gstaad which she loved and into Interlaken where we based ourselves for a week while travelling around Switzerland just made my day.
Thanks

[wthitsdtc]

Really excellent work overall. The beautiful journey, the careful diction, the quality of footage, and last but not least, the appropriate pronunciation and correct spelling in closed caption, all make me a subscriber! I thoroughly enjoyed your presentation. Thanks!🎉🎉🎉

[vulc]

Mob is a great name for a company you trust your life and safety to!

[cxplore]

As a swiss person I don't need the Prestige class. It looks nice, but I respect these for tourists, who visited Switzerland for the first time.

[bindatek]

Comparing it to the normal service trains, it has very little EXTRA for the money. Any train in Switzerland is clean, punctual and well run. The views from ANY train is spectacular - so why go for the snob value? It costs dear!!

[b.k.]

I rode the Golden Pass recently - twice! - once to Zweisimmen and then a second time only to Montbovon where I changed to the train for Gruyeres, a much more scenic option than the 'normal' route via Palézieux and only 10 minutes longer.

I think you missed a trick however by not getting, or featuring, a train using the Belle Époque carriages. A step back in time to the, pardon the pun, Golden Age of train travel (if today isn't classified as a new golden age as well), the carriages are absolutely stunning and while not matching the new trainsets in comfort make up for it in spades with character. The Prestige class on the new trains is totally overpriced, especially considering you can't even [currently] ride them all the way to Interlaken.

The Belle Époque carriages also have the distinction that second class is utterly indistinguishable from first class. I had to check that I hadn't wandered into the wrong section by mistake because I could not tell the difference. Maybe there is a different meal service or something, I don't know, but the interior was exactly the same. Save loads by buying a second class on the Belle Époque and riding in the equivalent of first!

The trains are also back to running on a hourly schedule. Purchasing e a point-to-point ticket, such as one might if using the half-fare pass, allows the freedom to hop off the train at any station and then grab another one when it comes through.

I would contend that the Rochers-de-Naye railway, also leaving/arrving Montreux, is more spectacular than the Golden Pass. Being a cog railway it reaches high altitudes very quickly: 45 minutes after leaving Montreux you are at 2000 metres with stunning views over the Bernese Alps to the Eiger and Jungfrau. A must-do if in the area.

[wynja]

beautiful journey! Seems the alps have a bit of a problem deciding if it was summer or winter, it looked so surreal at times!

[Crystalhertz]

You have to try out the Lucerne Interlaken Express. I found it one of the most underrated cogwheel railways.

[RBMusicCH]

Very nice video.
Montreux is my home for almost 30 years but I've never taken the MOB. I always see it in the morning when I commute to work but I always go towards Lausanne via CFF.
One day I'll try it 😎

[DannyYatom]

The view of the Swiss Alps appears to be from a different world altogether --- mesmerizingly beautiful. Moreover, the train built by Stadler AG is indeed superb.

[osirisdatz]

12 CHF. for that breakfast is not expensive ….

[pmaitrasm]

BLS sounds like the short form of a pejorative term that might aptly describe their uncooperative attitude.

[FilFee]

The seats are made by BorCAD in the Czech Republic and are the same ones as on the Rocky Mountaineer.

[jgodfrey]

Great vid! 2nd class doesn't seem too shabby, either.. Ever discover why your fancy EMU was loco hauled...?

[PaulSmith-plfo]

Switzerland was my first foreign holiday with my parents and brothers, and remains my favourite country. I didn't understand your spoiler (without alert!) that we wouldn't make it to Interlaken Ost, as we obviously did!

[pianistegolfeur]

Bonne vidéo, , bien commentée, mais, d'une façon générale, il est difficile de trouver des défauts à l'une quelconque des compagnies de trains suisses.

[anthonywarrener]

Thank you for this great video. The Prestige Class seating is truly superb. What a shame that the BLS are finding fault with the MOB gauge changing bogies, and one can but hope the issues will quickly be resolved.

[samuelbuehler]

A review of the spectacular BLS line (Bern -) Neuchâtel - La Chaux-de-Fonds would be cool for several reasons: The great views, the MIKA trains also run on that line, the unique stop with direction change at Chambrelien, the line will get replaced with a more direct line mostly through tunnels (unsurprisingly called "Ligne direct"). Possibly the journey can be connected with the Le Locle-Les Brenets line that will be replaced by a guided bus or the CJ line to Glovelier (with the perfect timetable synchronisation at Le Noirmont thanks to a long stop of the branch to Glovelier at Saignelégier).

[andrewpepper]

Switzerland has some wonderful scenery on it's railways. Well worth paying extra for the luxury on board.

[geassrailfantitan]

So from what I've read starting on June 11 it seemed BLS finally allowed the GPX train to use their route thus eliminating the need for the transfer