local Swiss travel agent recommendation?

I don't know about B&B's, but traveling on Swiss trains is as easy as walking up to the ticket window and asking them to put you on the next train connection to where you want to go, and a credit card. If you have a Swiss Pass, you just ask them to print you out the connections on a slip of paper, then get on the appropriate trains. In general, by mandate, every station in Switzerland has at least one train running in each direction once an hour.
You can easily look at the schedules at www.sbb.ch.

I'm the type who would do it myself and encourage you that it's not particularly hard. How soon is the trip?

If you give the train schedules a try and still want more help, you could consider a paid consultation here, however these consultants don't make any bookings, only suggestions. The first place we will usually turn for hotel options is Rick's Switzerland guidebook.

A travel agent in south Seattle with whom we've worked a lot is http://elizabethholmes.com/. They possibly could book everything, with a fee for their services. Like most travel agents, they book hotels that offer them commissions, but bringing their own experience to the recommendations.

BTW - There's not a place called Grundwald in Switzerland...that I can find anyway. Maybe you mean Grindelwald or Gimmelwald. In both cases you're heading for the Berner Oberland with marvelous alpine vistas. It's not really difficult at all. Usually you just lay out your questions here on this forum. Starting point, ending point, your destinations you want to see along the way and helpful people will chime in with suggestions. The advice you get will probably be from people who've actually "been there, done that" instead of travel agents who probably have NOT been there and will steer you to destinations where they make commissions.

Jeanne,

As Laura mentioned, this is not really that difficult to figure out. If you'd rather have a travel agent do the work, that's certainly an option but as Tim mentioned the T.A. may not have any personal experience and will just book you in places which pay commission.

Here's some options you might consider.....

• Given your location you could make the short drive to RS headquarters in Edmonds and have a consultation with a travel advisor. After the consultation, have a chat with the Rail Pass person to see which Swiss Passes might help save you some money in Switzerland. While there you can also use the guidebook Library to check out good hotel / B&B options in each of the locations you're visiting.
• Use the experience of the people on the forum to work out the details of your trip. Once you have a plan in place, you can purchase advance tickets at www.sbb.ch, or as someone else suggested just buy tickets locally as you need them. It would help if you could clarify the location "Grundwald".

Jeanne, with the exception of a few tourist-orientated trains (like the Glacier Express) you cannot book trains in Switzerland. Even for the ones you can book, there are other trains on the same route. As Sam says, every route and every station has at least one train per hour per direction. It is a turn-up-and-go service.

There is NO discount for buying tickets in advance. Tickets are valid on any train on the day. Just turn up at the station, and go to the ticket machine or manned ticket desk with your cash or credit card. Trying to buy tickets in advance from a different country will be more confusing.
Train times and prices are on the Swiss Federal Railways site: www.sbb.ch
Just enter xxx to yyy, plus date and time. But please spell place names correctly or it will not work.

P.S.: I don't think I have seen a Travel Agent in Switzerland selling train tickets. Travel Agents in Switzerland mostly sell travel to other countries for people living here. There are fewer of them than there used to be as so many people book via the internet.

Most B&B's are unlikely to pay a travel agent a commission, so you'd have to pay them the fee yourself. Instead, just e-mail the places you are interested in, and cut out the middleman/woman. If you need advice about which places to stay in, ask here to get recommendations, and also check Tripadvisor, Booking dot com, and Hotels dot com.