[Anonymous]

6 July 2019 at 20:23:35 #822692

Can someone provide their best experience for travelling via train from Lugano to Zermatt? Looks like the best way is to go Lugano-Locarno-Domodossola-Brig-Zermatt and is about a 4 hr 45 min. Ride?

Thanks all!

Brad

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[rockoyster]

Reply 1 of 4 • 6 July 2019 at 21:38:13 #917077

Hi Manning and Welcome to MySwissAlps,

This thread might help – http://www.myswissalps.com/fo rum/topic/lugano-to-zermatt-2.

[User]

Reply 2 of 4 • 6 July 2019 at 23:16:02 #917078

There are essentially three ways to travel Lugano – Zermatt:

1) Lugano – Milano Centrale – Brig/Visp – Zermatt (All inter-city trains except for the last leg up to Zermatt)

2) via Locarno as you have already noted. If this is coming up as the quickest then you are well off, as it is the famous Centovalli route, scenic (for valleys and gorges more than mountains)

3) Lugano – Göschenen – Andermatt – Brig – Zermatt. This is the link to part of the so called ‘Glacier Express’ route (actually the Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn (MGB) railway). From Andermatt westwards you would see only one of the four ‘spectacular’ sections of the GE route

[User]

Reply 3 of 4 • 7 July 2019 at 4:27:00 #917079

Thanks you 1960Man, glad to know I was on the right path. Some of the travel planning is a little more challenging than I thought when wanting to keep to a specific itinerary

Cheers!

[User]

Reply 4 of 4 • 7 July 2019 at 10:04:43 #917080

Hello Maning99,

To figure out detailed traveling times and connections for your trip use the timetable below. Make sure you read how it works, it’s a fabulous tool for planning. All the connections you find via the timetable are do-able.
– http://www.myswissalps.com/ti metable

Happy journey and get back to us anytime for further input.

Best,
Steph

Also see:
– http://www.myswissalps.com/lu gano
– http://www.myswissalps.com/ze rmatt