Luggage transfer – Grindelwald to Wengen
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Removed userParticipant72625 posts10 June 2018 at 22:42:28 #816567
Is it possible to send luggage ahead to my next destination and not accompany it on the train?
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Removed userParticipant72625 posts10 June 2018 at 22:47:14 #887973
http://www.sbb.ch/en/station-services/services/lugg age.html
Removed userParticipant72625 posts10 June 2018 at 23:02:46 #887974So no option to send same day? We hoped to check out of hotel early take bags to station in Grindelwald and hike to Wengen to pick up at end of day
SlowpokeParticipant7567 posts11 June 2018 at 0:38:09 #887975<<“So no option to send same day? We hoped to check out of hotel early take bags to station in Grindelwald and hike to Wengen to pick up at end of day”>>
Take it over on the train or cable car, then do the hike (in either direction) and return to Wengen at the end of the hike. Times and distances would work, and there are various options for your personal time, as well. Watch out for cableways that stop running in the late afternoon.
Or, ask your hotel to find a taxi and pay them… a lot…to take it over for you.
Slowpoke
Removed userParticipant72625 posts11 June 2018 at 0:43:04 #887976Do you mean that we should return after the hike to Grindelwald?
SlowpokeParticipant7567 posts11 June 2018 at 0:49:56 #887977Look at a map and study the timetable. You can do it in any order, if your only plan for the day is the stated hike. There are several ways to get back and forth between those two towns.
map.search.ch/?pos=641800,163136&z=32
http://www.myswissalps.com/ti metable
When are you traveling? Thatwon’t work in November.
Slowpoke
Removed userParticipant72625 posts11 June 2018 at 1:20:13 #887978We will be there in July. We are trying not to back track. Our planned hikes will take us to the next destination (hotel). So you are suggesting that we travel with our bags and backtrack, yes?
SlowpokeParticipant7567 posts11 June 2018 at 1:53:15 #887979<<“Our planned hikes will take us to the next destination (hotel). So you are suggesting that we travel with our bags and backtrack, yes?”>
Yes- in this particular case.
Do some work with the map and the timetable. I’m guessing that your hike on that day will consume 7 to 8 hours.
That leaves time to schlepp the bags to Wengen, ride back on the cableways, and walk from GW to Wengen, with no concern for the exact time you arrive at Wengen.
You don’t have to back track. You can use different routes if you choose. July has a sunset at a time after 2100:
http://www.sunrise-and-sunset.com/en/sun/swit zerland/interlaken/201 8/july
By the way…you’ve planned some substantial elevation changes on that hike, unless you go by way of Zweilütschinen. Not recommended…no scenery.
Oh , yes. Ask your hotel and e-mail the tourist offices in Wengen and Grindelwald. They might have an answer.
Taxis can’t go to Wengen… it’s car free.
Grindewald and Lauterbrunnen are not.
Slowpoke
Removed userParticipant72625 posts11 June 2018 at 3:26:26 #887980you’re so kind going back-and-forth on this. I wasn’t exactly specific on our route. We actually were planning to go by way of mannlichen to Kleine Scheidegg- Eigergletscher- Alpiglen. We had planned to take the train from Alpiglen to Wengen. I guess we can take it from Alpiglen to Grindelwald then Wengen! Our next connection was to Murren. Planned to hike from Wengen to Lauterbrunnen- Grutschalp- Pletscenalp- Allmendhubel- Murren. It sure would be nice to not have to go all the way back to Wengen to get out bags.
Removed userParticipant72625 posts11 June 2018 at 9:56:52 #887981No. There’s no express luggage service.
Removed userParticipant72625 posts11 June 2018 at 11:27:21 #887982Yes, there were some changes to the luggage service. Have a look at this thread explaining it: https://www.myswissalp s.com/forum/topic/chan ges-to-the-sbb-luggage-transport-services
SlowpokeParticipant7567 posts11 June 2018 at 11:45:30 #887983At least at Lauterbrunnen, there are lockers.
I don’t have time at the momentto check each station, but there may also be “left-luggage” services at some or all of the area stations. you can find that out from the SBB website and links on the page Lucas provided might also get you there.
Slowpoke
SlowpokeParticipant7567 posts11 June 2018 at 14:13:25 #887984Lauterbrunnen has lockers- for some reason, they no longer specify how many or what size. Look under Equruipment and Mobility at the station.
The left luggage office at Lauterbrunnen is openSlowpoke 0700 to 1900m 7 days per week.
<<“We actually were planning to go by way of mannlichen to Kleine
Scheidegg- Eigergletscher- Alpiglen. We had planned to take the train
from Alpiglen to Wengen. I guess we can take it from Alpiglen to
Grindelwald then Wengen!”>>
Yes, you could..
Once at Grindelwald, you could go up and over on the cableways via Männlichen….if it is not too late in the day….or on the train via Zweilütschinen.
Just checked a random day in July. The LSB (Luftseilbahn) from Männlichen to Wengen (Station name is Wengiboden) has its last car down at 1730. The last train via Zweiluetschinen is at 2119 ( 1 hour trip) or a bus at 2219.
Last cograil from LB to Wengen is at 2330.
How had you planned to get from Grindelwald to Männlichen with that routing? It is a 1200 meter climb.
And, last, another option.
This is what I would do. I’d get up early and catch the cableways from GW to Wengen via Männlichen. Leave bags in Wengen. I’d then backtrack by the cable car from Wengen up to Männlichen. I’d take the walks that you planned, and return to Wengen as you planned.
If your bags are to big for the gondolas up from GW to Männlichen, then I’d take the substantially longer route via Zweilütschinen on the trains, get up to Wengen, dump my bags at the hotel or the left-luggage in the station ( 0700 until 1730, every day, no lockers), ride the cableway up to Männlichen, get a cup of coffee and then set out on your original plan.
I’d prefer to get the bags under control first. And, you’ll have plenty of time by that route; the cograil runs later than the cableways. Last train from Alpiglen to Wengen vie Kleien Scheidegg is at 1907; via GW, 1947.
Slowpoke
SlowpokeParticipant7567 posts11 June 2018 at 18:28:24 #887985B the way-
The inn/restaurant at Alpiglen is famous – or notorious – for vary good and very large Käseschnitte.
d.facebook.com/Baerghu usAlpiglen/?refsrc=http%3A%2F%2Fww w.google.com%2F&_rdr
And, the last part of the trail from Eigergltscher to Alpiglen is aroughly 400 meter drop on switchbacks. It made my knees hurt. Hope you are in better shape for downhill walking than I was.
Slowpoke
Removed userParticipant72625 posts13 June 2018 at 3:15:25 #887986Slowpoke- You are awesome! We will digest these suggestions… along with the Kaseschnitte… Our plans totally depended on the express transfer service! Many thanks!
SlowpokeParticipant7567 posts13 June 2018 at 9:15:08 #887987<<“We will digest these suggestions… along with the Kaseschnitte… Our
plans totally depended on the express transfer service! Many thanks!”>>
Bummer about the transfer service.
However, you have enough time on the day you suggested to take the longer options that I suggest.
But, it has a some major altitude changes, which I propose to handle with cableways on the upward sections. Were you originally planning to climb from GW to Männlichen? Or go by cableways? I’m not sure of your hiking skills.
For example, if you were instead planning to hike the Via Alpina section in that region, it goes from GW to KS then to Wengen.
http://www.schweizmobil.ch/en /hiking-in-switzerland/routes/rou te/etappe-01560.html
Lots of links on that page above
Height profile –
images2.schweizmobil.c h/files/wl_1.11.pdf
Slowpoke
Removed userParticipant72625 posts16 June 2018 at 21:36:56 #887988Thank you slow poke. Such great information. We had planned to take the gondola from Grund to Mannlichen, hike to the summit then to Kleinr Scheidegg, Eigergletscher, Alpiglen. Do you problems with altitude gain with this plan?
SlowpokeParticipant7567 posts17 June 2018 at 9:12:51 #887989<<“Thank you slow poke. Such great information. We had planned to take the
gondola from Grund to Mannlichen, hike to the summit then to Kleinr
Scheidegg, Eigergletscher, Alpiglen. Do you problems with altitude gain
with this plan?”>>
You’re welcome. No problem with altitudes.
Some people choose the short walk up from Kleine Scheidegg to Eigergletscher station; others take the train.
And, if your luggage will fit in the gondola cars that go up from GW Grund, you can take them up to Männlichen GGM , walk a short distance to Männlichen LWM, ride down to Wengen Wengiboden, stash your bags, ride back up to Männlichen ( your only backtrack) and carry out your hike as planned.
Slowpoke
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