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Four days of empty itinerary - what to do??

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After between being in Mürren I’ll have four empty days in September before needing to be in Krinau. What would you do with that time??

I’ll have young kids with me if that makes a difference. And goal is to see the prettiest places! Easy hikes are great. Or maybe harder hike me or hubby will do while other one stays with kids. Or something the little kids would have fun doing.

Trip already: I’ll have already done flight into Geneva, stay a couple nights in Vevey (seeing Montreux), a week in Murren with day trips to the nearby things of that area close to Murren. FOUR DAYS OF EMPTY SPACE, then Krinau for three nights then flight out of Zurich.

Ideas:
Plan A: Go from Murren to Lucern (sleep there). Gotthard Panorama Express to Lugano area (sleep there). Bernina Express to St Moritz area (sleep there). Go to Krinau. Worried this plan is too much travel time too much train time and not enough of enjoying the places we are in? Cool that we see the most iconic train scenes though.

Plan B: Go from Murren to Bern to explore for the day then sleep in Saulcy (random farm stay over there my kids seem like they would love) for two nights. See Basel, see Lucerne (sleep there). End in Krinau. Also worried maybe I’m going to too many areas. Not sure.

Plan C: Anything you tell me I should do 😂

Plan D: I could skip Krinau and open up 6-7 open days instead if that’s better for plans! (only had Krinau in the plans because the airbnb looked great and got me kinda close to Zurich for departure flight)

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Plan A is too much travel time and not enough active time seeing and doing. Plan B strikes me as the same with too many one night stays. While the scenic trains offer terrific scenery, I think young kids would get bored. Better to have shorter day-trip outings from a base.

I suggest you make it easy on yourselves and spend the 4 nights in Luzern. It is quite beautiful and there is a lot to do. Mountains where you can ride to the top, cruise on the lake, a fabulous transportation museum.

Alternately, if you skip Krinau, go to Pontresina for 3 or 4 nights then end in Luzern for the balance of nights before departure.

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@maureen

Here’s the Airbnb in that random area https://abnb.me/e/7sMKqQsxFHb

But she says it’s a couple minute easy walk to the bus/train spot. So hopefully that’d be fine!

Maybe I should cancel that and stay somewhere else. Although we do love the idea of being surrounded with beautiful nature! Your feedback is helpful. I definitely don’t want to be too GO GO GO haha but it’s also hard to decide which things to see or not see! 🤔

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If you’re ok with the fact that you might have slightly less convenient public transport to Krinau, it does look like a lovely little Airbnb and definitely not typical Switzerland pricing! I’m sure the kids would enjoy the creek.

I think doing something on Lake Luzern beforehand would be great. You can do a scenic train ride from Murren (Interlaken) to Luzern without having to go into the hassle of the eastern routes with little kids. From Luzern you can also do day trips to places like Bern or Appenzell (Ebenalp, Seealpsee, etc) if you’d like.

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