SWITZERLAND Readers's Tips - Some passes automatically give you first class.ut unless you need really big seats and want to pay double, you'll find second just fine.uggagestorage wise there's hardly a difference, and you should travel really light anyway, heaving suitcases up into the tall carriages and down the narrow gangways with nowhere to put them, and onto platforms and up the stairs and over cobblestones and such is a major pain.nything more than a legalsized (in the US carryon rollaway and a light backpack is too much, hard to carry, hard to fit in on trains and elsewhere a real dealbreaker. For trips during peak hour on weekends you can reserve seats on longer and major routes, other than that, the thing to do is to wait on the platforms in the sector (ABCD where your class is announced to come to a halt, get on board quickly (some trains stop for only a minute or so and walk along the insides of the carriages until you find seats.thers will walk in the opposite direction, and if you have big luggage, you'll be blocking traffic and it'll be awkward to get past each other.

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