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Itinerary make sense or too ambitious?

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Hello, my husband and I are doing a short stay in Northern Italy and Switzerland. Right now we are flying into Zurich on Sunday, and then planning to travel to Lake Como (Bellagio) for S, M, T nights. On Wednesday, my thought was then to travel to Berner Oberland - stay over one night (Murren, perhaps), spend most of Thursday hiking, and then head to Lucerne for the remainder of our stay (Friday, Saturday - depart out of Zurich Sunday afternoon).

Does this seem like a good plan? Our Bellagio stay is pretty set in stone, the rest is flexible. I don't mind some scenic travel, but obviously would prefer to be enjoying our location and don't want to end up regretting too much travel time or anything like that. We're in our early 30s, if that matters.

Alternative plan - taking the Bernina Express route from Italy and staying over in Pontresina, or Berguen, etc and then to Lucerne.

Thoughts welcome!

Posted by
1450 posts

It looks fine as-is, but I have a feeling once you see the Oberland region you will want to extend your stay there.

Posted by
33846 posts

It is a pretty easy decision.

Do you want to experience plenty of high Alps vistas and experiences all around you, or do you prefer to visit a city in the lowlands with perhaps a boat trip (on a very scenic lake) and perhaps ride to individual mountain tops without the 360⁰ views or the ability to do much hiking?

If it is the first, put more weight and time on Mürren and less on Luzern; if the latter stick with only one night at Mürren and load up on Luzern.

Posted by
28085 posts

Expecting to hike in the Berner Oberland with just one night in the area is extremely risky. Even in mid-summer the weather is unreliable.

Posted by
2778 posts

Why are you flying into Zurich again f your first stop is Lake Como. If you haven't purchased your flights yet, fly into Milan and out of Zurich.

I think you should allocate much more time to the Berner Oberland than to your other destinations.

Posted by
1530 posts

I agree with the other posters. Once you see the BO you won't want to leave!

Posted by
11778 posts

Skip Lucerne and stay in the BO. It is magical. We love the BO and only tolerate Lucerne when we finally got around to visiting it last year. Lucerne also struck us as more expensive.

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Thank you everyone! It does seem to make sense to extend our BO stay and do a shorter visit to Luzern. Appreciate the input!

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