I researched on Google before planning my Switzerland tour but got information in bits and pieces .. which partially helped me … However I could not find complete guide for an Indian to plan Swiss trip …So I thought of writing a complete guide for self planning trip to Switzerland from India which shall help you for What to do, Where to get best buy, Must visit places, What to get with you, Where & How to save money, Which hotels to stay, What to eat and drink, Which excursions are Value for money … What to wear … How to keep in touch with your loved once from Switzerland … Language … Train, Boat and Bus travel tips, Timetables, Smart phone Apps to help you, Homework before reaching there, Where to book from, Which is best cab service to goto Mumbai airport …. wow so lonnng list … and so on …. 🙂
All things from the hotel selection I made, Swiss travel pass, Food, Travel, Switzerland VISA, I have written in depth for you.
Keep reading and feel free to call me or ask any question and I shall be happy to help you 🙂
To my experience … Switzerland tour is a must for a nature lover and worth visiting once in your lifetime.
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My Switzerland Tour Planning Series includes the following posts …
- Schengen VISA requirements
- Switzerland Tour plan for 8 days (Pan for Switzerland tour 2 days Lucerene, 3 days Interlaken, 1 day Zermatt, 1 day St. Mortiz, 1 day Zurich)
- Switzerland tour budget for 8 days
- Things to buy at Switzerland
- Souvenirs, chocolates, watches and wine ….
- Hotels where I stayed
- Hotels typical breakfast
- Tips for buying from my experience
- Travel to Mumbai and reaching Zurich
- Window shopping
- Lucerne city
- Lucerne, mount Rigi
- Lucerne, mount Titlis
- Golden pass – Lucerne to Interlaken (scenic train)
- Golden Pass – Interlaken to Montreux
- Montreux to Interlaken via Visp, Spiez
- Chateau de Chillon, Montreux
- Montreaux to Vevey
- Top of Europe, Jungfrau (explains the round trip to the top of Europe including the waterfalls on the way back)
- Interlaken to Zermatt
- Zermatt
- Gornergrat – Zermatt Matterhorn
- Glacier Express (scenic train)
- Money saving during swiss tour
- Things to carry for 8 days travel, Packing the bags (cloths, food, medicines, electronics)
- Itinerary to Switzerland as planned by me
- Selecting tour operator for my Switzerland tour
- Independent travel versus package tour
And the melodious Music that I heard at Zermatt I will never forget …. I have added music video on Zermatt page do listen to it 🙂
Further I have also written in details about …..
- Airline selection
- Hotel selection and prices
- Travel to Mumbai airport (KK travels or Sandies .. I did not select since I got cheaper option than them, I selected Car Ozone lowest cost and special taxi for me)
- What to buy and where to buy (in lowest prices) at Switzerland (Chocolates and souvenirs)
- Swiss travel pass and system (train, scenic trains, boat, bus travel)
- Food for an Indian, how to manage in lower costs (Indian hotels and food prices) (ready to cook food from India)
- Managing communication to India at no cost (Matrix sim card – absolutely NO, since it did not work at all ! no calls could be made from India and after I came back they charged 450 Rs for a non working card, as well as their support service said that i shall have informed them immediately after finding non-working card ! now how can I know that people has called me and they are not able to contact me ? and unfortunately I also did not call anyone, however they have charged 45 Rs for some international SMS to me !!!)
- Travel guidance, use GPS navigation
- What to wear in Summer season (July-Aug)
- What to see at Interlaken / Zermatt / Montrex and Vevey
Sample of Swiss Pass —
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Do suggest me if you wish to get more information and I shall be happy to add the same to this series 🙂
I am sure this travel guide series for Switzerland will help the honeymoon travelers more, since most of them like to travel as a couple and not in a group tour 🙂
Cheers !
switzerland is a very Beautiful country and there are lots of nature, beautiful places for wander and more thank you for sharing us.
Honeymoon Tour Packages
Hi Amit, visited your website, but honestly I could not find it interesting due to the fact that it does not indicate by prices for the packages as well as details, which are shown on all major sites like makemytrip, this is extremly important to take initial assessment for interaction with the travel company in my opinion.
rgds, mahesh
awesome guide !! really helpful in planning our own trip. .
one thing I want to ask. . we are going for 5 days. . and the golden pass is like for 4 days.
how should we manage on the 5th day? any idea?
There is person from MySwissAlps.com website who is very much updated in terms of information on Swiss pass or any other query that you have, please goto facebook and connect to them.. I had asked number of questions to them and got answers quickly and accurately. Suggest this contact will be great help to you
Rgds,
Mahesh
Hi,
Thanks for posting such a detailed plan. Appreciate it.
I just have few queries. I am planning to visit during first week of June for 8 days
1. Where did you buy your swiss pass from? And how many days in advance?
2. Any advice on sim cards?
Thanks
Karen
1. I bought Swiss pass from Pune through travel agent (refer to names in my blog post)
2. I bought Matrix Sim card which did not work when I reached Switzerland & had bad experience with their suport ! Finally I used WiFi to call home … which was available in public buses, hotels, public spots
Hi
Thanks!
Hi Again,
Is it necessary that the bank balance should be shown in the salary account only for visa application?
I have a separate savings account where I normally maintain balance while i donot keep any balance in Salary account. Is it okay to show both and do we need to give a justification?
Thanks,
If you have gone before to Europe, UK or USA then is it bit easy to get VISA, if not then better to show as much balance/salary account to avoid VISA rejection. Don’t worry you get all the papers back from them 🙂 I also thought of this thing, but then travel agent explained me the necessity & it went through smoothly 🙂 So my suggestion submit all bank account details. Cheers !!
hi,
thanks
Hi Again,
I just wanted some more info as below:
1. do we need to have any vaccination record for entry in Switzerland?
2. Do we need to endorse the currency on passport?
Thanks in advance
As per my knowledge.. No vaccination needed
Also no need to endorse currency…
Thanks a lot
Hi,
I read the below info in your trip report:
At Zurich airport for my departure, after security check I saw the tax return indicator, I went to the customs to ask for tax return, when I showed him the bills that I got, he said only bills do not work but you need to get the tax return form filled and stamped & duly signed by the shop keeper ! so I was unable to anything at that point of time, few other people also faced the same issue.
Lessons learnt :
You shall get the tax return forms duly filled in shop where you buy goods, which you can use for claim after you do security check-in for the departure.
What kind of goods are you referring to here?
Hi,
Plz Help me,
I want to go Switzerland but I have no any idea, how to go from Delhi and what is doing first time go to where is get visa, how many expensive and cry in indian money to convert swiss money plz tell me all about, i don’t know very must English talking any problem facing there i humble request plz help me……………….All things
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The information here is priceless. The description of thee tire process cannot be had anywhere.
Sorry, in my previous comment it should be ‘entire process’ instead of ‘thee tire process’
No mention in detail about Rhine fall except in itinerary
Where did u keep the luggage while doing Rhine fall ?
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I am going word by word of yur trip
Very nice
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dear mahesh,
Thanks for giving a huge information… and on that basis and preparation i visited switzerland and it was nice experience for our family…
I visited from 14th May 20017 to 23rd May 2017,
I was stayed at Sonne Hotel at Interlaken for 3 days , Hotel Ammbasador at Lucern for 3 days and Zurich at Hotel Du Theatre for 3 days all hotel was Very Good and near Station .
I had Swiss pass for 8 days and remaining 2 days from City tour Bus at Zurich.
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Hello,
Thanks for the nice article I found a lot of interesting information in this. I just want to know whether it is possible to purchase Swiss Travel pass from India and print it at home here before travelling to Switzerland and how to do it.
It’s possible to buy Swiss Pass from India… I bought it and got home delivery through agent, as I remember it was from TUI India
Hey very nice information!! It helped us a lot to plan our 10 days fantastic Switzerland trip ?
Thanks a lot for your efforts and guidance!!
You are most welcome…
Hi,
We too have planned for Switzerland in coming week i.e. 10th June 2018, Can you please suggest if we can buy the cable car/Gandola ride tickets after reaching Engelberg? Since it will be a peak season, will it be too crowdy or will we be able to get the tickets on spot without any much delay?
What will you suggest- getting the tickets purchased online or on the spot?
We too have planned for Switzerland in coming week i.e. 10th June 2018, Can you please suggest if we should buy the cable car/Gandola ride tickets after reaching Engelberg? Since it will be a peak season, will it be too crowdy or will we be able to get the tickets on spot without any much delay?
What will you suggest- getting the tickets purchased online or on the spot? And through which website we should buy the online tickets.
Don’t worry about crowd, it’s not like India. So not much waiting for tickets. About second question need to know if you have Swiss travel pass
Yes we are having Swiss pass with us.
Try swisstours.com.
I recently booked thr them
Thank you Mahesh. I followed your itinerary closely. It helped a lot. I couldn’t do Zermatt, but I took the Glacier Pass from Brig to St Moritz. We stayed in apartments and saved a lot on food