wizkid

Hi,
I am new to this forum.This forums are very nice.WE are going to swiss in first week of november for 4 days.Can any one guide us what are the nice places to visit.We are landing in geneva and coming back from basel .We have already booked hotels in geneva,interlaken and zermatt.
we wanted to know which place is better in between zurich and lucern.And we want to know whether the cable cars in jungfru are open in november first week or not.
Thank you

kleeblatt

wizkid,

you may be a wiz at something, but you might want to reconsider your itinerary.

Four days is not a long time. You'll be VERY busy just getting to the locations you mentioned.

Are you travelling by train or car? Did you know that you NEED to take the train from Täsch to Zermatt?

You'll have no time for any other sights in your itinerary. Sorry.

bob_brown

I agree. This schedule is not realistic.
I am a little slow today. Jungfru?
Jungfraujoch maybe? If you go there and to Zermatt, you will not have time for a stop between Zurich and Luzern.

In fact, you will not have much time to stop, period.

P_M

Trying to do too much in a short time is a sad mistake made by many rookie travelers. I don't know where you are coming from, but if you are from North America, it is hardly justifiable to spend the time and money it takes to go to Europe for only 4 days. If you are coming from another part of Europe then I can see doing Switzerland for 4 days, but not with the plan you have outlined.

If all I had were 4 days, I would stay in one city and do day trips from there. There's no way I would stay in 3 different cities on a 4 day trip. You will see Switzerland, but mostly from a train window. If there's any way your plans can be altered, or your trip can be extended I would urge you to do so.

P_M

Let me re-state that. When I said stay in one city and do day trips, I didn't mean to do day trips to all of those places you mentioned. I would explore that area and do one or 2 short day trips.

nytraveler

wizkid -

You say you already have hotels in 3 different cities - none of them the city you are returning from - for a 4 days trips.

this means you will spend the entire tirp either in a car or on a train.

And now you're asking about adding Zurich or Lucerne to the trip?

Either we have misunderstood what you said or this will be the only trip to europe in which someone saw absolutely nothing.

As for the Jungfrau, yes the train, cable car etc do work all year. But he top is often above the clouds and if it is cloudy or rainy - as it often it in November - there is no point in going up since you will be lucky to see more than about 5 feet in front of you.

You either need to explain this trip more clearly - or else cut it back to 2 desinations - at most.

wizkid

Hi, Thanks for your suggestions, the most of the times we are thinking to travel is in the nights after 6 o clock, so we don't think we will loose some time in the day. we have already informed to the hotels that, we will do late check in. as you said if we need to cut our destinations which do you think we need to cut and which are the most important to visit. we have planned like one day for each city. we won't be clubbing all night or like that. we are just going to use only days. thanks again for your suggestions.Cheers.

blackduff

wizkid
Like the other posters, your plans are not going to please yourself when you try to see all of these places.

But, if you want to add one more town, try to visit Lucern into your agenda. You probably want to leave Interlaken heading towards Zermatt. I think that this would have to pass through Lucern, so maybe this is a good place to stop for the night.

I still think dropping Zermatt from your intinerary would be better. Head towards Interlaken and then to Lucern. You could easily travel to Basel from that city.

With your four days, I would only visit around the area on this lake. Visit Geneva a bit, then go to Lausanne, and also Montreuil (sp??). After visit Fribourg, and the other sites towards Basel.

Again, four days is very short.

Blackduff

wizkid

Hi,
We changed our plan to december.Now we want to stay 6 days in switzerland and 6 days in italy.(2 persons)we are coming from uk(near manchester).So we will be having a little bit more lugguage at that time.First we want to go italy.(because we are planning two places same time).Can you please tell us is there any lockers facility to keep our stuff in geneva,zermatt,lucern.. and in italy(rome,venice).Give us some travelling tips.
Thanks

kopp

Hello wizkid - re lockers in Lucerne and Zermatt: the train stations have lockers of several different sizes, ranging in price from 3-8 CHF for the day. The largest ones easily fit two 21-inchers plus extra room for coats or small duffel bags. I would assume Geneva would be the same.

kleeblatt

Hi Kopp:

I'm not sure that wizkid will make it to all his destinations. Here's wizkid's most recent post:

Author: wizkid ([email protected])
Date: 08/23/2006, 05:21 am
We are planning 12 days for switzerland and italy(december 23rd to jan 5).We are coming from Manchester.we are landing in venice on 22nd dec.we are coming back from basel.we want to stay in rome in chirstmas.Please tell me from where we can start and we can end our plan.we don't have much holidays to stay.
Thanks