Need suggestions: 4/5 nights rail trip Switzerland

Hi:

We are planning to travel to switzerland during 1st week of June 2016. We are interested to see the following:

Rhine Falls, Mt Titlis, Jungfraujoch, Schilthorn, Geneva

We can stay for 4 or 5 nights depending upon the itinerary. I am bit confused about the base and way to cover all these areas. We will be coming from Nice, France and will move towards InnsBurck. Please let me know whether I am missing something or need to change any plan. Please help.

Thanks

Hi amitkakali!

The towns and attractions you're interested in are quite far apart, so your itinerary will involve a lot of traveling and changes of base towns and hotels. If you're fine with that, an itinerary could look like this:

• get to Geneva from France. Spend some time there and move over to Interlaken or a nearby town in the Jungfrau region, using the Golden Pass line;
• visit the Jungfraujoch and Schilthorn from Interlaken;
• travel to either Lucerne or Zurich and visit the Titlis (closer to Lucerne) and Rhine Falls (closer to Zurich) from this base;
• travel to Austria.

If you feel this is too much, you'd better skip some of the things on your wishlist and focus on the immediate surrounding of one or two base towns instead.

Which rail pass is best, depends on your finalized travel scheme. Here's how to tell which pass to pick. If you indeed plan to travel quite a lot, a 4 or 8 day Swiss Travel Pass will probably be the best option.

Hi Annika:

Thanks a lot for your wonderful advice. based on your suggestion, we are planning for the following. Please let me know whether this is fine.

30th May - Reach Geneva, sepnd some time and move to Interlaken (shall we stay at Interlaken or Jungfaru area?) Please give your suggestion

31st May - Visit Jungfraujoch

1st June - Visit Schilthorn and move to Lucerne

2nd June - Visit Titlis

3rd June - Visit Rhine falls and move to Austria Innsburck

Hi amitkakali,

Your travel scheme looks fine to me. My only tip would be to add some back-up plans in case weather is bad, like museums, city visits or scenic train/boat rides. They're mentioned at our several destination pages, like www.myswissalps.com/in terlaken, www.myswissalps.com/ju ngfrauregion and www.myswissalps.com/lu cerne.

Whether you should stay in Interlaken or a nearby town is a matter of personal preference. Interlaken is located centrally, which is very convenient. If you prefer a smaller and more scenic village, you could consider Wilderswil, Lauterbrunnen, Mürren of Wengen instead.

Thanks Annika. Please can you suggest me the best pass for this itinerary?

I would say the 4-day Swiss Travel Pass that Annika mentioned in her first post makes sense. Use it for the first 4 days, then get a regional ticket and a single ticket to Innsbruck on the last day. However, you may want to compare this, price wise, to the Swiss Half Fare Card. Annika gave you that link as well.