First time trip to Europe seeking advice
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We’re (wife and I), taking the Rhine river cruise which lands in Basel during the early morning hours of May 6. We plan on getting up early in hopes of beating the rush and starting our four days in Switzerland. I’ve done a ton of research and read many of the forums in trying to learn as much as I can but am very open to advice from “the experts” that travel these boards.
Since we will have been in Europe for about 12 days we should be pretty rested, (no jet lag) and plan on packing these days pretty full. We’ve taken advantage of the 30% Discount for the 4 Day first class Swiss Rail Pass.
May 6 – Disembark and travel to Luzern or the Bernese Overland area where we’ll get a hotel for two of the nights. (Originally, I was thinking the Interlaken area or Grindelwald as they would both be close to the Schilthorn and Jungfraujoch. But, with the Jungfraujoch guided tour not operating out of Interlaken in May it sounds like Luzern would make more sense. And, that would allow us to maybe see some of the sights around Luzern as well. Hopefully it would still be mid to late morning. Since that is still too early for a hotel check-in would most hotels agree to allow us to drop off our luggage? Is there a better idea?
We’ve narrowed our activities down to (not in any particular order but, for the sake of time would probably combine the hike with the Schilthorn:
Walking in the Lauterbrunnen valley – Lauterbrunnen to Stechelberg which, according to the website is about an hour an 45 minutes. Just before Stechelberg take the cable car to Murren and then the Schilthorn.
Take the guided tour from Luzern (Lucerne) have seen it both ways and am not sure which is proper) to Jungfraujoch. Would love to take the tour from Interlaken but the website shows it is booked or, only operates in April and October?
Take the guided tour from Lucerne to Titlis.
Take the Wilhelm Tell Express Route.
Once we complete our activities on May 8 we’d take the train to Zurich so we would be close to the Airport for the following morning at 10:25 AM.
Based on my research and use of the timetable it looks like one of these will have to be cut out. Any suggestions? Or, is there a way it would all work in?
My apologies for the long message. Open to any ideas / suggestions you might have including hotels in Luzern that might be near the train station. Many thanks in advance.
Mark
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