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Walkers on a meadow path descending towards a village, spruce and green slopes around them

Journeys

Four routes we have already walked

Not packages off a shelf — these are routes we have walked ourselves, written down so you have something to react to. Every one of them is a starting point: we rebuild it around you.

Green alpine meadow rising to a wall of snow-covered peaks

6 – 7 nights

May – October

The first week

Two bases, one move, and the country's best introduction.

For a first trip, and built around the mistake most first trips make: moving too often. Two bases in a week means you unpack twice and spend the rest of the time looking at Switzerland instead of at a suitcase.

Where you sleep

Lucerne · Mürren

What is in it

  • Cogwheel up the Rigi, the ridge walk to Rigi Staffel, and the lake boat home from Vitznau instead of the train.
  • The rack railway to the Jungfraujoch, down the far side to Stechelberg, and the cable car up to Mürren — a circuit, not a return trip.
  • Piz Gloria on the Schilthorn, early, before the coaches come up from Interlaken.
  • Two nights in a village with no through road, which is a different place after the day-trippers leave.
Build this one around us
Terraced vineyards dropping to a wide lake with mountains beyond

8 – 9 nights

May – October

Four languages, nine nights

German, French and Italian Switzerland, by train.

The route we travelled ourselves in the summer of 2025. It crosses the country twice and changes language twice, and it is the trip that makes people understand how much is packed into somewhere this small.

Where you sleep

Lucerne · Lausanne · Lugano

What is in it

  • Lucerne and the lake mountains to open, while the jet lag wears off.
  • West to Lausanne, with the Lavaux vineyard terraces dropping into the water and almost none of the wine leaving the country.
  • South through the Alps to Lugano — Italian-speaking, palm-lined, and nothing like the three days before it.
  • Monte Brè for the sunset and the lake boats for the villages.
Build this one around us
A red train curving along the shore of a pale glacial lake, seen from a window

6 – 7 nights

December – April

The Epic Pass week

Your Whistler pass already covers the lift ticket.

Whistler Blackcomb is a Vail mountain, so a great many skiers in this city are already holding a pass that works in Switzerland. That changes the arithmetic of a Swiss ski week completely — the expensive part is bought.

Where you sleep

Andermatt or Crans-Montana

What is in it

  • Andermatt-Sedrun-Disentis and Crans-Montana are Vail-owned: unlimited on the Epic Pass, five days each on Epic Local.
  • Verbier's 4 Vallées comes in as a partner resort — over 400 km of piste across four valleys.
  • Andermatt sits on the Glacier Express line, so a rail leg attaches to the ski week without a detour.
  • We plan the ground: which flights, which village, which transfers, and what to book when. The lift access is yours already.
Build this one around us
A still lake at sunset reflecting cloud and dark autumn ridges

4 – 6 nights

Late September – October

Larch gold in the Engadin

October, when the valley turns and the crowds have gone.

The Engadin is famous for its winter and quietly better in autumn. For two or three weeks the larch forests turn gold, the light goes long, and the valley holds its sun while the rest of the Alps sit under cloud.

Where you sleep

St. Moritz

What is in it

  • The highest, driest, brightest valley in Switzerland — the reliable-weather bet when the forecast elsewhere is grey.
  • Lake reflections at first light, which is the reason photographers come this fortnight and not another.
  • Shoulder season, so the rooms are better and the valley is quieter. We would rather send you in October than in July.
  • The Bernina line runs south from here to the Italian border without a single cog railway.
Build this one around us

Tailor made

Or none of the above.

Most trips we plan are not on this page. Someone has three days either side of a conference in Zurich, or a family with one walker and one who would rather sit by a lake, or a fortnight and no fixed idea at all.

Tell us the shape of it — dates, who is coming, and what you want to come home having done. We will send back a route and an honest estimate of what it will cost, and you can argue with both. That part is free and there is no obligation at the end of it.

Tell us about your trip

01

A trip planned for two

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

02

A plan for a group

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

03

A second pair of eyes

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

04

Schengen visa advice

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

Schengen visas

The paperwork, done properly

If you are travelling from Canada on a passport that needs a Schengen visa, the paperwork is the part that causes the most worry and gets the least help. The application wants a day-by-day itinerary, proof of where you are staying each night, medical insurance covering at least €30,000 including repatriation, and bank statements that match the trip you have described — filing questions rather than travel ones, and where applications usually come apart. Most of it is what we write anyway: the itinerary and the accommodation record fall out of the planning. What we add is the rest of the file, a read-through before you go in, and a straight answer about anything that looks thin. You book your own appointment and attend it — biometrics are taken in person at VFS Global or TLScontact, and nobody can do that for you. The decision belongs to the consulate and we will not pretend otherwise; what we can affect is whether your file gives them a reason to hesitate.

The process

Four steps, and you can stop after any of them

  1. 01

    A conversation

    Twenty minutes, no cost. Dates, rough budget, who is travelling, and what you want to come home having done.

  2. 02

    A draft route

    We come back with a routing and an honest estimate of what it will cost you. Not a brochure — a plan you can argue with.

  3. 03

    Revisions

    Almost every trip changes shape here. This is the part where it becomes yours rather than ours.

  4. 04

    The plan, in your hands

    You get it in writing: the days, the times, the addresses, what to book and in what order. You do the booking, which keeps you in control of your own money — and we stay reachable while you are away.

The first step costs nothing.

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