Luxury holidays in Switzerland
Watch glaciers pass your panoramic train window, with a lakeside terrace waiting at the next stop. Choose your mountain views, and we reserve your seats and hotels along the line.
It comes off your final price, and is refunded in full if you don't go ahead.
Italy
4 days · 3 nights
Milan
A short stay based in one Milan hotel. Your first evening is a private walk past Sforza Castle to the Duomo, the next day brings The Last Supper and an aperitivo tour of the canal district, and the third is a day out to Lake Como and across the Swiss border to Lugano.
Switzerland is the easiest way into the high mountains. Panoramic trains do the climbing, your bags can travel ahead by rail, and a lakeside terrace is never far away. It is a country of quiet competence, where the scenery is the event and everything else works.
Zermatt sits beneath the Matterhorn and has no cars, and the Jungfrau region above Interlaken has the Eiger's north face and a railway up to the Jungfraujoch. Lucerne has its covered bridge and lake steamers, and the shore of Lake Geneva brings the terraced Lavaux vineyards and the castle at Montreux. Zurich and Bern add old towns, galleries and good restaurants between mountain stays.
Hands-on and outdoor days, arranged around your trip.
Work with a master chocolatier in a Zurich chocolate boutique and learn the techniques behind Switzerland's finest pralines.
Raft the River Simme with experienced guides, an easy drive from Interlaken and the Bernese Oberland.
Climb Mount Pilatus above Lake Lucerne with an alpine guide, with wide views over the lake and the Alps.
Zermatt suits Matterhorn views, and Lucerne suits lake days with easy mountain trips.
A covered wooden bridge over the river, an old town of painted houses and Mount Pilatus and Rigi above the lake.
Two lakes and the Eiger, Mönch and Jungfrau above them, with mountain railways climbing to the glaciers.
Terraced Lavaux vineyards above the lake, with Bern's arcaded old town on the way west from Zurich.
Panoramic train seats and Zermatt hotels book early, so we reserve them as soon as you choose your dates.
Snow in the mountains, ideal for skiing and winter trains.
Clear winter days in the Alps, cold in the cities.
Late snow up high, damp and cool in the valleys.
Spring in the lowlands, some mountain railways closed.
Blossom by the lakes, high passes start to open.
Long days and alpine meadows in flower.
Every mountain railway and pass open, warm by the lakes.
Warm days and Swiss National Day on the 1st.
Clear skies, the grape harvest in Lavaux.
Autumn colour in the valleys, first snow up high.
Grey and quiet between seasons.
Christmas markets in Zurich and Lucerne, snow in the Alps.
Zurich suits the eastern Alps and Lucerne, and Geneva suits the lake and Zermatt.
The Bernina line runs down to Tirano within reach of Lake Como, and Geneva borders France.
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