13 days Zurich & Lauterbrunnen in December

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

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.

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

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 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?