The short answer is: no.
The long answer is as follows:
Again and again, tourists are caught on the direct IC / RE / S9 services to Schaffhausen using a ZVV 24h-Ticket All Zones or ZVV 9 o’clock Day Pass All Zones ticket. They are subject to paying a hefty surcharge.
→ Therefore, please kindly note, a ZVV 24h-Ticket All Zones or a ZVV 9 o’clock Day Pass All Zones is NOT valid to Schaffhausen on the IC / RE / S9 services!
It is true, when one is querying the SBB timetable for a trip to Schaffhausen, the SBB trip planner comes up with different travel options (routes). Nevertheless, be aware that it does not mean one ticket fits all; the ticket cannot be used interchangeably!
As a consequence, to reach Rhine falls using
- a ZVV 24h-Ticket All Zones or
- a ZVV 9 o’clock Day Pass All Zones ticket,
you must travel to ‘Schloss Laufen am Rheinfall’ using the direct S12 service from Zurich HB (service via Winterthur). The train station, ‘Schloss Laufen am Rheinfall’, where the S12 service stops, is on the south shore of the Rhine falls, while Schaffhausen (Neuhausen) is on the north shore. You can get from one side to the other using the ferry boats (to be paid extra), or by train (via Schaffhausen, an additional ticket is needed, though).
→ a ZVV 24h or 9 o’clock Day Pass are solely valid via Winterthur.
Here is the map where the ZVV 24h-Ticket All Zones or the ZVV 9 o’clock Day Pass All Zones
ticket is valid; it covers all zones up north including zone 116 (Schloss Laufen am Rheinfall), yet not beyond (Schaffhausen is not on the map since the pass is not valid to Schaffhausen):
https://www.zvv.ch/zvv-assets/abos-und-tickets/zonen/2021-2501-tarifzonen.pdf
If you want to travel to Schaffhausen on the direct IC / RE / S9 services, you either need
- a ‘Z-Pass OSTWIND-ZVV Day Pass 9 Zones’ or
- a ‘Z-Pass OSTWIND-ZVV Day Pass All Zones’.
Please seek advice from the SBB Travel Center at Zurich HB if you do not know what ticket to purchase, or ask us here in the SBB Community.
→ On the train, when your ticket is being checked, you cannot claim to be a tourist, and therefore you did not know; even as a tourist, you are subject to paying the difference / surcharge.
With this post, I would like to avoid that tourist run into this issue.
Please let us know if you have got further questions.
Kind regards,
Roland
