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Interlaken/Lauterbrunnen advice

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Hello All, I'm planning a trip with my wife to the Interlaken/Lauterbrunnen area. We'll probably go in early September, and visit Wengen, Murren, Gimmelwald, Grindelwald, the lakes, up a mountain or two. I've been to Switzerland before, but not this region. Any tips or advice you can offer would greatly be appreciated:

  1. What town did you stay in? Was it convenient to get around to other points of interest in the region?
  2. How many nights were you there? What did you do?
  3. How did you travel about?
  4. Where did you stay (hotels)? Recommendations?
  5. What time of year, and what was the weather like?
  6. Any youtube or websites you can recommend other than Steve's great sites?
  7. Did you travel to another country from there? If so, where and how?
  8. Any other advice you can provide?

Thank you so very much,

Alan

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Wow, these are very broad and basic questions. Buy Rick's book, and another as well. Watch Rick's videos. Fire up Youtube and just Google anywhere you're interested in, you'll get dozens of hits. You're hardly going to the dark side of the moon.

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Thanks Phred. We've done our research, and have hours and hours of vid and written intel. We really want to hear about peoples experiences in the region. Nothing like intel from the front lines.

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If you do any internet searches, you will want to get the exact spelling for the cities you are visiting, especially if you are using trains.

We stayed in the Lauterbrunnen Valley at a VRBO with kitchen. We loved it there and the proximity to the other towns. Only Grindelwald was a bit further. Some like to stay up in the mountains and enjoy Murren or Wengen.

We did all our travel in Switzerland by train (and gondola in BO).

Restaurants are expensive in Switzerland. We made great use of Coop grocery stores which are in every city (I can't remember if they were in Wengen) Great prices on wine and the store brand chocolate bars. Also, nice bakery for smaller towns.

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1&2) We stayed in Wengen for four nights. (Previously with the RS tour we stayed in Lauterbrunnen.).
3) For the Wengen trip, we stayed on that side of the valley, taking the train up to Kleine Scheidegg and hiking and also doing some hikes from Wengen. We were there during a Jungfrau Marathon which was a fun group to see.
5) September- cold a couple of days but perfect clear skies.
7) Our itinerary was multiple flights to reach Zurich & then immediately took trains to reach Interlaken & finally Lauterbrunnen & up to Wengen. Yes, a very long time of transportation but it was worth it waking up our first morning in Wengen with the stunning view! The entire itinerary was fly to Zurich & stay in Wengen, then trains to Stresa, Italy and other cities in Italy, flying home from Rome.

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