Switzerland Booking hotels in advance for mid to late June

I know our favorite place in Murren is with Denise at Chart Fontana. We’ve currently booked the entire place for 3 nights in June and we reserved about 9 months ago. If there’s a particular place you want to stay then you’d better book it. If you don’t mind taking whatever is left over then maybe you can roll with the flow. But whatever’s left over may be a flea bag hotel or maybe the only place is a 5 star $$$$$ so just be aware.

Thanks Tim. Hope you have a great trip.

I went to booking.com, which is where I reserved my hotel for last July in Murren, and it says the following, when I put in June 14-17, 2 adults.

"Mürren is a top choice with fellow travelers on your selected dates (83% reserved).
Tip: Prices might be higher than usual for the dates you've selected."

The hotel I stayed in, Hotel Alpenblick, is sold out. The hotel Rick recommends, Eiger Guest House, is also sold out. According to the above stats, the city has about 17% vacancy as of today, but there are still 3 weeks until you get there, so that number will only decrease.

It depends on how comfortable you are with trekking from hotel to hotel and being turned away until you find suitable accommodations. To me, that sounds nightmarish - I want to know I have a room so I can worry about other things, and I want to be able to budget in advance by knowing exactly how much I will be spending for lodgings. But that's just me. :)

Being flexible based on weather is the best way to see Switzerland. I've never had any trouble in Switzerland (or anywhere) grabbing rooms only a few days in advance. Just have a list of preferred places ahead of time to sift through. There's always a good room available in my experience. Call the place directly as booking.com and those sites are not the final word on vacancies.

But if you have your heart set on a particular room or you know for sure you will be in a town on a specific day, then booking well in advance is the way to go.

Thanks Kelly and Thanks Eddie. Not sure how to process conflicting opinions. But thankful all the same.

Sorry but you cannot use a 3rd party hotel booking website (booking.com) to judge the busy times of an area. 3rd party booking websites only have rooms to rent which the properties themselves have agreed to rent via Booking.Com If a hotel has 40 rooms it may only allocate 10 of those rooms to rent on booking.com The other rooms may be rented directly with the hotel. And when a booking website says "You'd better book soon" that really irritates me because they're attempting to bully me into reserving NOW by attempting to make me believe the village is selling out.

There's not much risk of a fleabag hotel in Switzerland, but the financial risk would give me pause. On my current trip (Spain and France so far), I've three times had to pay considerably more than I wanted to for rooms bexause of a major futbol game, a bicycle race and a car rally. I knew there was something going on when I looked at my hotel options a few days in advance, but on those occasions it wasn't practical for me to change my next stop. If you're prepared to tweak your ttavel path, that will reduce your risk somewhat.

Thanks everyone for your thoughts. The Cost of waiting is a factor. I’m going to contact some of the hotels and pensions in the areas we’re planning to visit to see if they have rooms and how flexible they can be if we want to adjust our arrival a day or two earlier or later.