12 nights in Switzerland itinerary in August
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Hello everyone, I love your web site, its been so much fun exploring everywhere, there’s no route or activity you guys don’t have an answer for! Thanks so much for all the time you put into helping us all. I’m having a great time planning our trip to Switzerland in August/September this year using your site.It has taken me months to get this far. So I now just need a bit of reassurance I am on the right track.
Our itinerary is rather full as I am trying to get every train trip and scenic journey included in my time in Switzerland! I’m of the theory: do it once, do it right. We’ll probably never be back, it’s a long way from New Zealand, so we need to do it all! So here we go
Aug 28: Arrive in Zurich at 6.30am and train to Lucerne. Stay 3 nights. Hopefully if we are not too jetlagged hop on the Pilatus Gold Round Trip today. But we have 3 days so can afford to wait for a cloudless day.
Aug 29: Boat to Vitznau and cogwheel to Rigi Kulm and do the hiking I’ve checked out on this website, cable car to Arth Goldau and walk to Brunnen and the Swiss Army Knife factory, via cable car at Urmiberg. Train back to Luzern.
Aug 30: Train to Mt Titlis
Aug 31: Gotthard Panorama Train to Locarno. Stay 1 night
September 1: Train to Zermatt. Stay 1 night
Sept 2: Train to Murren. Stay 5 nights. This is the only hotel already booked
Sept 3: Jungfraujoch all 4 days and activities mix/match as weather and mood and further investigation dictates
Sept 4: Lauterbrunnen Valley
Sept 5: Schilthorn
Sept 6: Schynige Platte
Sept 7: Train to Vevey on the Golden Pass train. Stay 2 nights
Sept 9: Train to Geneva airport and fly away
Now my questions are.
1. What do you all think? I’ll be going home for a holiday!….but remember: do it once , do it right!
2. Locarno to Zermatt. As you can see we are not going on the Glacier Express. I’m feeling a tad distraught about this, as it is the most recommended of train trips. But I just can’t see how it fits. So I wondered if instead of training from Locarno to Zermatt via Domodossola, we went via Andermatt and joined the Glacier Express there, or have we missed the best bits by that stage. Or does it make it too long a day. We only have 1 night in Zermatt, so ideally want to arrive midday to start exploring that afternoon and again the next morning before we leave late for Murren. Or have we covered ample sufficiency of train vistas with what we are already doing?
3. Train passes….groan, I hear you say! I am thinking the Swiss Pass is the one for us?
Thank you very much for taking the time to read this and hopefully comment on my main dilemma, the lack of GE trip.
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