We are taking a river cruise ending in Basel. Plan to go to zermatt for sure. Any other places that are a must see? We will be using trains. 3 seniors
Hotel recommendations would also be great
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Forest Grove, OR
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What do you like to do? Have you read a guidebook? That is a great source of inspiration. Also take a look at this page https://www.ricksteves.com/watch-read-listen/read/articles on this very website and scroll down to see Rick’s many articles on Switzerland.
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Green Bay
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Is your flight home from Zurich? How many days do you have from the time you leave the cruise to your flight home?
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Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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We are on a river cruise ending in Basel in May. Afterwards we're spending 3 days in Colmar and then 2 days in Lucerne and 2 in Zurich before flying home. I can't speak from experience if any are worthy destinations, but Colmar and the Alsace has been on our list fire a long time.
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SE Pennsylvania
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The AT A GLANCE section here is a good place to start.
https://www.ricksteves.com/europe/switzerland
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newhall, ca, usa
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We have 1 week. Haven’t made our flight reservations yet. We like traditional and cultural. No big cities
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Green Bay
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2 nights in Zermatt, 3 nights in Muerren (or Gimmelwald if you want a real rural, quiet place) then 1 or 2 nights in Luzern. If your flight out of Zurich is after 10 am (most to North America are), you can get a direct train from Luzern to Zurich airport in just over 1 hour. I would not call Luzern a big city, but it is beautiful on a big beautiful lake