allystum

Hi Everyone,

My husband and I are going on our honeymoon in late December and wanted some advice.

We are flying into Paris on December 12th and flying out of Munich on December 18th

We would like to spend 2 days in Paris, a day in Wine Country (Strasbourg Alsace), 2 days skiining in Switzerland (Gstaad or St Mortiz, etc), and then head to Munich the night before just for our flight out the next day.

Can anyone/everyone please tell me if this trip is doable and how it is best to get between the cities - trains, drive, distances, easiness, etc.
I am assuming Paris to Strasbourg there is a train- but what about Strasbourg to Gstaad, and then to Munich.

Any/All help is really appreciated!

Thanks!!!

bettyk

Like many who travel to Europe, you are trying to cram in too much in too little time. This is you honeymoon. All you will end up remembering is dashing from place to place with little remembered of the sites you actually did have time to see.

My recommendation is to split your time between Paris and the Alsace area and forget Switzerland. Strasbourg to Gstaad is almost 4 hours by train with 3 connections. Gstaad to Munich is over 8 hrs.

ira

Hi A,

It's not something I would do, nor recommend.

More than 1/2 your time will be spent traveling from place to place.

I urge you to rethink this.

Any one of your venues would be a good place for a good honeymoon.

ABCDEFG

It's a lot of travel time eating into your precious vacation.

You'll probably land in Paris in the early morning and you'll be exhausted. You'll have one night there and then depart the following day (if I'm reading this correctly) for S-A. Then you have a half day there, wake up and head to St. Moritz...which looks like a really really long trip...it just looks like way too much travel for such a short trip and these travel legs will be tough. I have done lots of multi-stage trips but always make sure to have one place where we stay at least a few days to allow us the feeling of "settling in".


If I was you I'd fly in and out of Switzerland (Geneva / Zurich) or Milan. You could get your "European city" fix, but will be much closer to the Alps where you could spend some quality time (it will be awesome there, very fun). I'd personally skip wine country as it's kind of a tough time of year and won't be as charming as in summer.

nytraveler

For your honeymoon pick one place and stay there. Otherwise you will simply have a very comprehensive and expensive tour of the train stations of europe.

Judy

Imagine flying from Europe to Boston, arriving jet-lagged, spending 2 nights, taking a train to NYC for 2 nights, then to DC for one night and finally getting to Atlanta to fly back to Europe. Way too much for 6 nights!

PalenQ

for great train info check out these fab IMO sites - www.seat61.com; www.budgeteuropetravel.com and www.ricksteves.com. A problem with winter driving can be winter - even though would be unusual for icy roads is always possible.

PalenQ

We would like to spend 2 days in Paris, a day in Wine Country (Strasbourg Alsace), 2 days skiining in Switzerland (Gstaad or St Mortiz, etc), and then head to Munich the night before just for our flight out the next day.>

In six days?

1-2 Paris
3- Colmar, France
4- Gstaad (St Moritz way way too far)
5- Gstaad
6- Munich

Train travel between those bases are just about 3 hours or so - a bit more to get to Munich.

bilboburgler

Gosh, you are trying to do a lot with wine and skiing I was trying to think how I would fit these in with your arrival and depature times. The easiest to move around be to avoid the "posh ££" resorts of Gstaad or St Mortiz and go some where a bit more normal. There is a great website http://www.j2ski.com/ski_resorts/Airports/Munich.html which might be helful and given that you are coming the week before Christmas it should be possible to pick up rooms at the last minute depending on snow.

That then only makes it Paris, Colmar and Munich