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Swiss Christmas Break
Number of days: 8 Days
Departs from: Zurich
Tour departures: 21 December
Tour ends: Zurich
Avg distance travelled / day: 0km
Murren - image courtesy of Laurice Malone
Tour Overview
Imagine staying in a delightful old wooden chalet style hotel in the beautiful Bernese Oberland. Experience special train rides through the magnificent mountains and lakes to Montreux, Luzern and medieval Bern. All around you jagged mountains soar to impossible heights whilst you relax and enjoy real Swiss hospitality, bubbling cheese fondues, snow covered peaks and much, much more!
Unlike all our other Christmas tours this is not an escorted tour. It doesn’t need to be. It has been specifically designed with individual flexibility in mind and includes travel on the incredibly reliable and comprehensive Swiss Rail system.
We offer you the choice of staying in either of two superb hotels - the Hotel Alpenblick in the village of Wilderswil or the Hotel Oberland in the village of Lauterbrunnen.
Tour Highlights
- Celebrate Christmas over 7 nights in your choice of hotel in the heart of the magnificent Bernese Oberland
- Excellent touring programme using the wonderful Swiss rail system – come and go as you wish
- Versatility - you can start and end this tour from any point within Switzerland or any border point
- Ride in the Brunig Panoramic Express beside Lake Brienz, past Meiringen to lovely Luzern
- Visit the Christmas Markets in the cobbled stone squares of medieval Berne
- Travel through the soaring snow covered Alps on the Salon Blue and Crystal Panoramic express trains past Gstaad and Château-d’Oex to Montreux on Lake Geneva
- See Interlaken and Lake Thun
- Enjoy superb access to Switzerland’s greatest Alpine trains and cable car rides
- Daily buffet breakfasts and 4-course dinners are included
Tour Inclusions
- Round trip train transfers between any point in Switzerland and Wilderswil or Lauterbrunnen stations
- No optional excursions lists or hidden, later charged extras
- 7 nights accommodation with private facilities in your choice of hotel
- Buffet breakfast daily including hot and cold selections
- 4-course evening dinners
- Christmas Eve dinner, Christmas Day Lunch (Alpenblick), Christmas Day Dinner (Oberland)
- Train excursions to Luzern, medieval Bern and to Lake Geneva/Montreux Region on the Salon Bleu/Crystal Panoramic Express train
- Discount pass for further train travel and mountain excursions
Itinerary Outline
- Day 1: To your Swiss Christmas Hotel
- Day 2: At your Swiss Christmas Hotel
- Day 3: At your Swiss Christmas Hotel
- Day 4: At your Swiss Christmas Hotel
- Day 5: At your Swiss Christmas Hotel
- Day 6: At your Swiss Christmas Hotel
- Day 7: At your Swiss Christmas Hotel
- Day 8: Tour ends
