We are booked for a RS Best of Switzerland tour and are wondering what we might do if we wanted to extend our trip by about 5 days. The tour ends in Bern and currently we'd fly back home out of Zurich.
Any suggestions?
Posted by
Seattle, WA
16273 posts
Would you want to see more of Switzerland, or visit somewhere else? France is closest, and Colmar would be my suggestion there. But one can always use more time in Switzerland—-we are going back in September for our 8th trip.
Posted by
Oakland
9 posts
We did this tour last year. We decided on France for our post-tour, 3 nights in Colmar and then onto Strasbourg for 2 more nights, looping back to Zurich. Both towns were charming and we enjoyed our time there.
In retrospect, I should have considered retuning to the Lauterbrunnen Valley at the end of the tour. The 2 nights in Murren were not enough and I’m not sure I’ll get back to Switzerland in the near future.
Posted by
CA, USA
1102 posts
We went to Strasbourg, easily reachable from the end of the tour. A delightful town and did a day trip to Colmar. Then ended with 2 days in Paris and flew out of CDG.
Posted by
Green Bay
20090 posts
One region that the B.o.S. tour skips is Graubunden. You could take a train Chur, then to Pontresina for a few days. Do a round trip to Tirano on the regional trains over the Bernina Pass.
Posted by
OP
Northern California
13 posts
Thanks!!
These comments really help! I have extended our trip by a few days and will work on planning some time in Colmar and perhaps Strasbourg.
Really looking forward to the BoS Murren trip. Beautiful valley! (Reminds me of Mayrhofen, Austria, which I've visited three times because of the beauty.)
Train travel looks very do-able.
Ricardo
Posted by
CA, USA
1102 posts
Train travel looks very do-able.
If you take the train to Colmar or Strasbourg you will likely go to Basel on a Swiss train and then change to a SNCF train. When we did it a few years ago it was a bit confusing. You arrive at the Swiss station and look around for the track listed on your next ticket but it isn't there! It turns out the SNCF station is 200 yards or so away and you have to go out onto the street to reach them (at least you did when we where there). Not hard to get to but we didn't see any signage at all pointing to where our track number was and the board showing train departures did not list the SNCF trains. We had to ask a policeman in the station where our next train was.