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04 Feb 16 - 05:10 AM (#3770503) Subject: BS: Travel to Switzerland - need advice From: Joe Offer We're taking a hiking vacation at Zermatt this summer, but we wanted to spend a week of unorganized time in Switzerland beforehand. We're flying into Zurich. I was thinking of getting an airbnb room in Zurich for a week, and making day trips from Zurich. I don't have any idea how long it takes to get to Bern and Basel and Luzern, but those are places that might interest us. Any suggestions on how to spend a nice 5 or 6 days in Switzerland? I guess I have a preference for areas where I can speak German. -Joe- |
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04 Feb 16 - 05:44 AM (#3770508) Subject: RE: BS: Travel to Switzerland - need advice From: Les in Chorlton We stayed in Intelaken and traveled most days via trains, ski lifts ans such like into the Bernese Oberland looking up at the Jungfrau, monch and Eiger. The walking can be as easy as you like but the views are staggering. The Bernese Oberland |
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04 Feb 16 - 08:17 AM (#3770521) Subject: RE: BS: Travel to Switzerland - need advice From: Bonzo3legs Swiss trains run with an efficiency lacking in the UK!! |
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04 Feb 16 - 08:24 AM (#3770523) Subject: RE: BS: Travel to Switzerland - need advice From: GUEST Are their trains clockwork wind up ? |
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04 Feb 16 - 08:37 AM (#3770525) Subject: RE: BS: Travel to Switzerland - need advice From: Les in Chorlton This should show images |
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04 Feb 16 - 08:39 AM (#3770527) Subject: RE: BS: Travel to Switzerland - need advice From: Les in Chorlton I think you have to click on images once the page is open. |
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04 Feb 16 - 09:26 AM (#3770537) Subject: RE: BS: Travel to Switzerland - need advice From: GUEST,Modette I attended a conference in Switzerland not too long ago and was based in Zurich. I decided to take a few days' leave and explore. It's a little over an hour by train to Bern and Basel and around 45min to Lucerne. SBB rail timetables |
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04 Feb 16 - 10:43 AM (#3770546) Subject: RE: BS: Travel to Switzerland - need advice From: Richard Bridge The "infallible" link from the airport to Zurich once VERY nearly made me, by its lateness, miss the express to the border near Liechtenstein for a completion meeting. Much panic resulting in my being in a 1st class compartment with a 3rd class ticket and a row with the guard. |
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04 Feb 16 - 11:33 AM (#3770559) Subject: RE: BS: Travel to Switzerland - need advice From: GUEST,leeneia The DH and I visited the extraordinary valley of Lauterbrunnen. Lots of visitors, but I didn't mind. If you get tired of nature, there's the Tinguely Museum in Basel: https://www.basel.com/en/museum-tinguely If you like yodeling, see if you can catch a family group called 'Oesch's die Dritten'. (The name means this is the third generation of the Oesch family who play Swiss traditional music.) I am a big fan of Melanie Oesch - see YouTube. As for the trains being always on time, I wonder whether the trains leave on time or if they just set the clocks on the platform to look right. The Swiss seemed more reserved and formal than other Europeans I have encountered. |
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04 Feb 16 - 11:43 AM (#3770563) Subject: RE: BS: Travel to Switzerland - need advice From: Bonzo3legs I remember catching a train at Zurich which had started somewhere very distant in France, and was exactly on time. |
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04 Feb 16 - 11:44 AM (#3770564) Subject: RE: BS: Travel to Switzerland - need advice From: olddude Can you find the guy that blows that big horn on the tv commercial to inform the village below to take their recola cough drop to stop it enough already |
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04 Feb 16 - 11:45 AM (#3770566) Subject: RE: BS: Travel to Switzerland - need advice From: Jack Campin The Iglu-Dorf on the Zugspitze (just over the border in Germany) is about as different as you can get. (I haven't been but I've thought about it). |
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04 Feb 16 - 02:20 PM (#3770593) Subject: RE: BS: Travel to Switzerland - need advice From: GUEST,Dave Switzerland has its own mains plug. A high end universal adaptor may fit in a Swiss socket, but otherwise you need a special Swiss one. |
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04 Feb 16 - 02:40 PM (#3770598) Subject: RE: BS: Travel to Switzerland - need advice From: Wolfgang Joe, train travel is the best choice in Switzerland. "I have a preference for areas where I can speak German". Then you should go to the French speaking part, they learn decent German at school, whereas in the Düütschschwyz.... To give you a rough idea: "Waar gohd Gompfi poschde?" is in German "Wer geht Marmelade einkaufen?" But they may be kinder to real foreigners than to people from the "large Kanton". Wolfgang (less than half serious; actually, they are very kind people) |
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04 Feb 16 - 02:44 PM (#3770599) Subject: RE: BS: Travel to Switzerland - need advice From: Steve Shaw "Switzerland has its own mains plug." Cor, that's not many though for such a big country... |
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05 Feb 16 - 06:31 AM (#3770712) Subject: RE: BS: Travel to Switzerland - need advice From: G-Force If you grab a hire car, the journey over the top from Zurich via Watwil (stop there for a coffee) to St. Gallen is a splendid drive. From there you can go up to Lake Constance, or over to Liechtenstein, or south into the wilds of wherever. I remember being impressed that even though there was lots of snow in the fields, there wasn't an iota of white stuff on the road. |
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05 Feb 16 - 08:33 AM (#3770736) Subject: RE: BS: Travel to Switzerland - need advice From: Les in Chorlton What ever you do - don't miss the Bernese Oberland - the most accessible and dramatic mountains. |
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05 Feb 16 - 07:27 PM (#3770872) Subject: RE: BS: Travel to Switzerland - need advice From: Joe Offer Wolfgang, I haven't heard from you in years, it seems. Good to see you here. I'm thinking of staying at an airbnb in Zurich. Sounds like the places we want to see are an easy train trip from Zurich. How much of a trip is it to Konstanz? Where's the Zeppelin museum? -Joe- |
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06 Feb 16 - 05:47 AM (#3770928) Subject: RE: BS: Travel to Switzerland - need advice From: Reinhard According to the online timetables, a train from Zürich to Konstanz takes about 70 min. The Zeppelin museum is in Friedrichshafen on the north side of the Bodensee. A ferry from Konstanz to Friedrichshafen takes an hour. |
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22 Jun 16 - 05:58 PM (#3797089) Subject: RE: BS: Travel to Switzerland - need advice From: Joe Offer Well, all the arrangements are made, and we leave on Saturday. We have Monday through Thursday next week in Zurich, Friday for the train to Zermatt, and Saturday to Saturday in Zermatt. Our time in Zermatt is a "botanical week," with flower hikes every day. Any other suggestions for our week in Zurich? I don't know that I can convince my wife that two hours each way to the Zeppelinmuseum is a good idea. Too bad, but it looks like there are so many great things to visit within an hour of Zurich. Is Liechtenstein worth a visit? -Joe- |
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23 Jun 16 - 08:19 AM (#3797206) Subject: RE: BS: Travel to Switzerland - need advice From: Charmion Wolfgang is back! Hurrah! |
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23 Jun 16 - 08:31 AM (#3797210) Subject: RE: BS: Travel to Switzerland - need advice From: Jim Carroll "need advice" Unless thing have radically changed, take plenty of money!! Jim Carroll |
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23 Jun 16 - 07:44 PM (#3797322) Subject: RE: BS: Travel to Switzerland - need advice From: keberoxu Almost time you were leaving, then. Go carefully and safely, but by all means go, and enjoy. |
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23 Jun 16 - 09:15 PM (#3797337) Subject: RE: BS: Travel to Switzerland - need advice From: Joe Offer Do they take plastic, Jim? ;-) |
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23 Jun 16 - 10:12 PM (#3797347) Subject: RE: BS: Travel to Switzerland - need advice From: michaelr The Jungfraujoch train is the highest in Europe. It takes you near the summit of the Jungfrau (maiden) who is protected by the Monch (monk) from the Eiger (ogre). Spectacular. |
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24 Jun 16 - 07:27 PM (#3797506) Subject: RE: BS: Travel to Switzerland - need advice From: beeliner Don't stop at a hotel that has red curtains in the windows - it's just what you think it is. |