Hello & thank you in advance for any help.
We are a family of 4 (teen/adult kids). We will spend the first week and a half of our trip visiting Christmas markets and castles in Munich & Vienna. We have one week we would like to spend in Switzerland. 12/27 we would leave Vienna and this is where I'm stuck.
Things we would like:
We will be there over New Years so we'd like something nice to do.
Watch factory tour
Chocolate tour
Scenic train ride - Bernina, Glacier or I've heard of Jungfraugoch as well
No snow sports probably but we love to explore. We love history, churches, museums, checking out shops in the city. We are pretty open. I've been to Interlaken before in the summer but the rest of my family has never been to Europe.
So my main questions are - do we fly or take a train and to where? I was thinking of flying to Zurich and then taking day trips but would we would spend a lot of time commuting? Should we do a couple of days in a couple of different cities? And the scenic train - we are open to taking one whole day to do this if it's the best way to do a scenic train tour. I know Glacier is a long day - then we would have to take another train to get to the next city. Bernina would only work if we did a long round trip or if we spent one night in Tirano - is that redundant to take it back then? Or should we finish with that train and fly home from somewhere near there? Not sure if that is time or cost-efficient. I just would like the make the most of our week in Switzerland and not feel too packed in or rushed.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. We tried getting help from a travel agent but she just wanted to book us on group tours which is not really our vibe.