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[ymfb]

Is it worthwhile to buy Swiss Vignettes in advance of travelling ?

And is this THE place to buy them online https://shop.swissrailways.com/vignette.html?affiliateid=203&language=en&currency=GBP

TIA

 

[Wapping]

They are easy to buy when you arrive, though if you buy it before you'll have it already. That's the place to get it from.

PS Don't forget to moan at every opportunity, to anyone that will listen, that it's a bloody rip-off or bods'll think you are not a real biker. Though bods will think that anyway as:

1. You are worrying about vignettes

2. You are using motorways, instead of hooning awesome twisties and rutted goat tracks

You can counter 2 by wild camping and only taking one pair of pants. There is nothing you can do about 1.

 

[gerarddwatts]

or here..

https://www.tolltickets.com/country/swiss/vignette.aspx?lang=en-GB

 

[ymfb]

As a pretend biker, I'm riding to Misano for wsbk, not poncing around the alps, which i did last year

 

[Rasher]

If I know I am using Swiss motorways before departing I buy up front, if not sure I will buy on arrival, as stated they are not hard to find, except for that one time where I altered route and spent about 2 hours on the Motorway without a ticket, but then buying one for two hours use would suck, as would getting caught.

 

[mcinlb]

I prebuy from "tolltickets" and then post it for sale on here when I'm done with it

p.s. never stick it to the screen, clear selotape

 

[ymfb]

I prebuy from "tolltickets" and then post it for sale on here when I'm done with it

p.s. never stick it to the screen, clear selotape

I bought two on here last year and didn't need them, but this time I will and its early in the year so there are not going to be two for sale between now and departure.

 

[Neil W]

Enough places to buy them near the borders, just don't be tempted to skip buying them , a couple of mates got caught two years ago and got fines (they reckon it was 200 swiss francs each and they had to then buy the vignette).

As for sticking them on with clear tape , in 2014 we were in Switzerland and on the border they didn't look at out passports but checked that the Vignette was correctly displayed ie stuck on the screen, same last year we were in and out of Switzerland about 10 times and at the border they never bothered with passports but did check the Vignettes

 

[ymfb]

I had not considered risking going without, I had thought about the sellotape

 

[Redboots]

As a pretend biker, I'm riding to Misano for wsbk, not poncing around the alps, which i did last year

Why go through Switzerland
France > Italy

 

[cookie]

Last time I bought one at the border, they half peeled the backing off so I had to stick it on properly.
Not properly applying the vignette carries the same fine as not having one.

 

[ymfb]

Why go through Switzerland
France > Italy

I wa thinking of going one way and back the other, via Switzerland is shorter (I think) and Im not sure I done that part of the route.

 

[kennyc]

I always buy them at the border, although I have bought one before in a post office a 100 miles in from the border last year as a dare a mate and I drove through Switzerland without using motorways so no need for a vignette, to be honest it was a real ball ache! there were numerous places where we had to take long detours rather than risk the shorter motorway sections and we ended up on the motorway at Basle in order to leave the country, now that itch is scratched I shall go back to buying a Vignette in future

 

[Parchman]

A friend has a villa in Sarnarno, about an hour west of Ancona. When we go for some impromptu restoration, we often go via Belgium, Germany A4/A3/A7, Austria and straight across the Brennero to Italy. You can use motorway almost all the way or include bits of interest like the Fernpass and old Brennero road down to Trento.
We normally have a pause at Frankfurt. But it is slightly off the direct route.

You could use the A61, turning right at Kerpen. Most of the A61 is two lane and the Hgv overtaking Verboten sections are unfortunately rather too infrequent, but it is an attractive run.
Near Mannheim the option of staying on the A61 to Hockenheim, the A6 to Heilbronn which would include passing - or not - Speyer and Sinnsheim and on to the A7 at Kreuz Feuchwangen.
The alternative is to go down to Karlsruhe then Stuttgart and collect the A8, which would take you to the A7, down to Austria.


As Switzerland is a signitory of the Schengen Agreement, there are lots of unattended border crossings - but probably not where an Autobahn is involved. One of my normal bimble routes is from Pontarlier through the corner of Swiss Jura to Winkle, to squeeze between the Aeroport and Basle, cross the Rhine and take the A5 north.
No checking - or even people - for the last few years.

 

[Redboots]

I wa thinking of going one way and back the other, via Switzerland is shorter (I think) and Im not sure I done that part of the route.

Not much in it: /Calais-Misano

Just assuming Calais as a start point...

 

[Pablo1]

In comparison to other toll charging countries, e.g. Italy. The swiss vignette system is acyually good value and much less of a ballache, no getting off to pay at booths etc.