A Vancouver travel company whose founder spent years representing Swiss tourism in Iran — and who still deals directly with Switzerland Tourism and the regional boards, canton by canton. We plan the days so the ones you remember are the ones worth remembering.
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Most itineraries are written for someone who does not exist — an average traveller with average interests and no opinions. Ours are written after a conversation, for the people actually going.
That means fewer stops, more time in each, and a route that follows the light and the season rather than the map. It also means we will tell you when the trip you are imagining is not the trip that place can give you.
Where we go
Bernese Oberland · SwitzerlandUp the rack railway to the Jungfraujoch, then out to Mürren — a village with no through road, on a shelf above the Lauterbrunnen waterfalls. Piz Gloria on the Schilthorn is the turn most itineraries miss.
May – October · winter sports December – March
Central SwitzerlandThe easiest first stop in the country: a medieval town on the water with two mountains either side of it. Cogwheel up the Rigi, a walk along the ridge, and the boat back across the lake instead of the train.
Year-round · best April – October
Ticino · SwitzerlandItalian-speaking, palm-lined, and on the far side of the Alps from everything above — which is exactly why it surprises people. Monte Brè for the sunset, and the lake boats for the day.
April – October
Vaud · SwitzerlandFrench-speaking Switzerland, where the Lavaux vineyards are terraced right down to the shore and almost none of the wine ever leaves the country. Montreux and Chillon are along the same water.
April – October · harvest in September
How it works
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Or four, or a family. Pace, budget and interests set the shape, and you get the route day by day — where to sleep, which train, what to see in which light.
Two travellers and up · planned, not packaged
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Clubs, families travelling together, colleagues. One route that works for everybody, with the places that take a group of that size already checked.
Eight travellers and up
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You have already planned it, or half-booked it. We read it through and tell you what we would change — the connection that is too tight, the valley that is the wrong side of the mountain.
For travellers who plan their own
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If your passport needs one, the application asks for exactly what we already write: a day-by-day itinerary and proof of where you are staying. We help you put the file together and read it over before you go in — the decision is always the consulate's.
Advice only · you attend in person
What we hold to
We tailor each journey to the traveller in front of us, not to a package that happens to be selling.
Real encounters with the landscape, culture and hospitality of a place — not a staged version of it.
Care in the planning and in the small hours: the transfer that is already waiting, the room that faces the right way.
We are happy to leave the paved road. Some of the best days of a trip are the ones with no fixed schedule.
Travel that leaves a place able to carry the next visitor: local operators, smaller groups, fewer flights.
We take no commission from any hotel or operator, so the plan is built around you rather than around whoever pays us. If we are the wrong fit, we say that too.
Next step
No deposit and no obligation at this stage — just a conversation about dates, pace and what you actually want out of the trip.
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