advice itinerary Switzerland

Hi Nestor. Everyone here will have an opinion, but best advice is to get the Rick Steves Switzerland book and decide for yourself based on what you like. Enjoy your trip!

Give us a little more information, this site normally answers specific questions. Will you be flying into Geneva or Zurich? Or will you be driving in from France, Germany or Italy? By the way, welcome to the board! Another way you can get info is to go to the top of this page and find the search box in the upper right hand corner. Eliminate the word "search" and type in, "driving a car in Switzerland" or something like that, and you should find answers to similar questions and responses from the past. Give us posters specific towns, villages names and surely someone has stayed there or near there and knows about sleeping facilities.

Thanks Jim for the advice. I will be flying into Zurich and renting a car there, I'd like to know what are the best places to visit in Switzerland if I'm going to be there for 4 days?

In regards to driving, I will defer to Jim in Bern, Switz. Now.....if you aren't set on driving, most/some/many of us would probably suggest use of train and stop in Luzern(approx. 60 min.) spend at least one full day considering you have 4 days. Consider Mt. Rigi or my favorite, Mt. Pilatus , the golden version( you get on boat and travel on Lake) then a cogwheel train up the mountain, ride a gondola down. Following day head towards Interlaken/Lauterbrunnen area. Here you have a lot of choices. This area can be reached by car as well. Many choices, Wengen, Murren, etc. Consider a trip to Schilthorn or To the Top of Europe(Jungfrau). The use of trains here can get pricey, which leads to what type of "train pass" to purchase.Many of the prime choices of Hotels may already be reserved; you'll need to act quickly. Good Luck!

Boy, that's coming up fast, Nestor!!!! It sounds like this may be your first trip to Switzerland? What caused you to pick Switzerland? What sort of things would you like to do and see in your very short trip? Does the 25th involve you landing from somewhere, or are you arriving train from France or Germany? Is the 30th a fly day or train day? If you are flying in on the 25th, that day is to find your feet and get over jetlag, and if the 30th is a flight home that day is another goner. That leaves 4 days as I count them. Can I respectfully suggest to ditch the car and concentrate on one or at most two places, easily reached by train. All areas that most tourists go to in Switzerland are easy to get to by train, and they are cheaper than British ones. The remotest areas are reachable by Postbus, and the most vertical ones by funiculars and cable cars and gondolas. If you are going up to the mountains many of the villages are off-limits to cars and you will need to park up and take the train or cable car into the village. The suggestion to get guidebooks and digest them - quickly - is a most excellent one. I suggest getting on the stick. Bern, Basel, Zurich, Lausanne, Geneva, Lugano are all significant cities of very different styles. There are mountain areas, lakes areas, villages areas. Without knowing anything about the two of you it is virtually impossible to suggest where you should go. If you don't want to read books, at least look at the videos and see what's on offer. Please come back with specific questions and we do all we can to help guide you in the right direction for the two of you. The clothes you need will depend on what you want to do and where you want to do it.