Looking for some advice on how to spend the last full day and night in Switzerland.
We'll be staying in Wengen at the tail end of an Italy-Switzerland trip, and our flight leaves Zurich around 1 PM. That's a longer and earlier trip than we are willing to do the day of our flight, so we're considering which closer-to-Zurich location we'd like to stay our last night in. The main options I'm considering are:
- Travel from Wengen to Lucerne in the morning, spend afternoon/evening in Lucerne, stay overnight in Lucerne, travel to Zurich airport the following morning
- Travel from Wengen to Lucerne in the morning, store bags at Lucerne station, spend afternoon/evening in Lucerne, travel to Zurich after dinner and stay near the airport overnight.
- Travel directly from Wengen to Zurich in the morning, spend day in Zurich, spend night in Zurich
- Leave bags at our Wengen hotel after checkout, spend morning/lunch in Jungfrau region, travel directly to Zurich in afternoon, dinner/spend night in Zurich
I'm open to other ideas as well. If we could magically teleport between places, we would choose to spend time in Lucerne or Jungfrau over Zurich, but not sure if the hassle of either an hour long train connection pre-international flight, or fighting with lockers and a later night train, are worth maybe 8-10 hours in Lucerne. Also, while I would love to add a night to Lucerne to make this an easier decision, we're unwilling to give up a day elsewhere and cannot extend - its either one or nothing.
While plan A is to do these transfers by train, a one day, one-way economy car rental Interlaken to Zurich Airport isn't THAT much more expensive than train tickets for 2 + luggage storage and would cut 1-1.5 hours of travel time off between the Interlaken/Lucerne and Lucerne/Zurich legs. Would you consider doing this to squeeze a little more time into the second option, or is that going to be more trouble than its worth?