9 day Switzerland in May by car plus rail pass
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Hello Friends,
We are so excited to visit Switzerland in late May for 8 days. We’ve been looking forward to this vacay for months and would like your expert advise on the itinerary. We’re family of 4, 2 kids ages 15 and 10. I’ve reviewed so many posts on your forums and have incorporated your feedback from other posts into my travel plan.
We’ve a rental car to drive from cities to other cities and have bought 8 day swiss travel (family) card as well. Here’s our itinerary:
Day 0 – Landing in Geneva at night so will be getting to the hotel and sleep
Day 1 – Whole day in Geneva: Need some ideas on what places to visit so kids can enjoy too
Day 2 – Driving for Bern in the morning around 9 am and spend the whole day in Bern and drive to Beatenberg. We are staying in Beatenburg for 4 nights (10 mins drive from Interlaken).
Day 3 – Going to Zermatt from Interlaken. will park our car at Interlaken. Can you please suggest good parking lots (whole day), preferably free or cheap. We’ll be parking for atleast 4 days.
What else can we can visit with Zermatt?
Day 4 – Going to Jungfrau (bought the train tickets), we’ve booked for 10:15 am train, so at what time should we leave from Interlaken? We’ll be spending a couple of hours on the top of Europe and come back to go to wengen for a quick trail. From Wengen we’ll go to Grindelwald. What will be the best way to go from wengen to grindelwald? and coming back to interlaken.
Day 5 – Going to Lucerne and Mt. Pilatus. What will be the best way to do Lucerne and Mt. Pilatus from Interlaken? Is there anything else nearby that we could visit?
Day 6 – Driving from Beatenburg to Zurich. Travelling in town
Day 7- Rhine falls. Can you suggest other places nearby that we can visit on that day?
Day 8 – Tamina theme bath – ragaz. Can you suggest other places nearby that we can visit on that day?
Day 9 – Taking train from zurich to Chur. Can we use the railway pass? Is there any reservation needed?
Taking Bernina Express from Chur to Tirano. Already made the seat reservation. Bernina express starts at 8:32 so we are planning to reach Chur by 8:00 am, so for that we’ll take train from Zurich around 6:30 am. Do you think this schedule will be fine?
I would appreciate if you can provide feedback on the plan. Thank you so much.
HP
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