13 days Zurich & Lauterbrunnen in December

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    7 April 2016 at 6:57:19 #808834

    Arno, Annika, Slowpoke thanks for the earlier advice and help. Here are my plans which I think I would like to do during my stay in Switzerland. Is it ok with my planning? Or do you have any other advice? Thank you.

    15 Dec 2016 – (Thursday) (Day 1)

    Zurich – Transfer – Lauterbrunnen. (Our Swiss Pass 8 days starts today and end on 22 Dec midnight)

    I need help in buying the SIM card while in Switzerland. I does it work with 1G, 3G and 12G. I go to the website that MySwissAlps.com but don’t really understand. As 3 in my group would like to have 12G. I hope somehere can explain to me.

    16 Dec 2016 (Friday) (Day 2)

    Top of the World Jungfraujoch with of 25% discount using the Swiss Pass

    Starts at 8:00 am from Lauterbrunnen

    Lauterbrunnen – Kleine Scheidegg – Junfraujoch – RETURN

    17 Dec 2016 – (Saturday) (Day 8)

    Lauterbrunnen – Interlaken (Paragliding)

    Interlaken – Paragliding. Hope the weather is good to do paragliding

    Swiss Food and Culture Tour – Interlaken

    18 Dec 2016 – (Sunday) (Day 9)

    Starts at 8:00 am Glacier Express Train Ride (Partial Ride)

    Lauterbrunnen – Interlaken – SPIEZ – Brig (Glacier Express) – Chur – RETURN

    Its ok the Return trip will at night.

    19 Dec 2016 – (Monday) (Day 10)

    Starts : 8:00 am

    1 Day Beginner Ski Package or Lauterbrunnen to Schilthorn via Stechelberg by bus or maybe cable car

    20 Dec 2016 – (Tuesday) (Day 11)

    Starts at 8:00 am from Lauterbrunnen to Zurich

    Free & Easy for 1st Day at Zurich

    21 Dec 2016 – (Wednesday) (Day 7)

    Mount Rigi Winter Day Trip from Zurich

    (Should we joined Tour or we can go ourselves) Please advise

    22 Dec 2016 – (Thursday) (Day 12)

    I would like to go for Black Forest and Rhine Falls Day Trip from Zurich.

    Again should we follow tour or go on our own? Need advice

    23 Dec 2016 – (Friday) (Day 13) – (Our Swiss Pass expired on 22 Dec Midnight). What tickets should we buy for our last stay in Zurich if we need to buy? I am thinking of joining a One day to Switzerland Countryside or maybe do some shopping at Zurich. Any suggestion?

    Day Tour by Viator (C)

    24 Dec 2016 – (Saturday) (Day 14)

    Zurich Airport Departure

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    Arno
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    7 April 2016 at 7:23:52 #850408

    Hi Leila,

    Do you stay for the 10 days you listed or for 13 days as indicated in the thread title? All SIM card details are on myswissalps.com/ simcard. Please let us know what’s not clear for you. 3G refers to the connection speed, but I don’t know what you mean by 12G.

    The pass you need is the Swiss Travel Pass: myswissalps.com/ swisstravelpass. Swiss Pass is something different.

    You can do excursions on your own, but if you like a tour that’s fine of course. However, if you will only book guided tours a rail pass may not make sense as you’ll be paying for transportation twice. A guided tour does make sense if you’d like to combine the Rhine Fall and Black Forest in one day as that’s hard to do on your own by train. I will insert some tour links in your post so you can have a look.

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    7 April 2016 at 8:44:25 #850409

    Hi Arno

    Sorry, my mistake typo error. Actually, we are from London and our next destination is Switzerland. For the 12G I saw that at the simly simcard website. You can choose 1G, 3G, 12G +€54. I dont quite understand.

    Regards

    Arno
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    7 April 2016 at 9:21:51 #850410

    Hi Leila,

    I understand now. You’re referring to “Gb” (the amount of data you can use), not “G” (the connection speed). For me, 1 Gb was plenty. I didn’t even use half of it in more than two weeks. So why not buy a 1 Gb card, as you can add more data online should you need it. That’s better than buying too much to begin with. Please see http://www.simlystore.com/en/ buy-prepaid-sim-card/switzerland-prepaid-data-sim-card.html.

    Of course you can buy more than 1 Gb if your group thinks they will actually use that much data, e.g. if they will use one phone as a hotspot for the others.

    Does this answer your question?

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