Switzerland Luxury Honeymoon Tour Package

It is the top tier on the Glacier Express - an adults-only coach with a dedicated concierge, a welcome glass on boarding and a multi-course meal served at your table across the journey. It is the second-largest single cost in this package after hotels. Whether it is worth it depends on how you see the day: in standard class, the eight hours are a beautiful transfer; in Excellence Class, they are one of the days of the trip. If you would rather put that money into rooms, we will quote a standard first-class reservation instead, and you will see the difference.

We request one, and in Excellence Class most seats are by a window, but the rail operator controls seat assignments at booking, so we can't promise a specific seat. Booking early improves the odds considerably, which is one reason we hold this reservation before anything else in the itinerary.

Because Grindelwald is where the mountain actually starts. The Eiger Express gondola leaves from Grindelwald Terminal, which cuts roughly an hour off each leg of the Jungfraujoch day compared with starting in Interlaken. You also wake up with the Eiger North Face above the village rather than an hour's train ride away, and Grindelwald First is a gondola from the same village. Interlaken is a town between two lakes; Grindelwald is in the mountains.

Same mountain, genuinely different days. Gornergrat is a cog railway across the valley from the Matterhorn, so you get the classic profile with the Gorner Glacier and Monte Rosa alongside it. Glacier Paradise takes you up the other side to 3,883m, level with the peak and on permanent snow, with the ice cave below the station. Doing both on consecutive mornings is largely why I chose three Zermatt nights rather than two.

No. They request them with every booking and release them at each hotel's discretion, usually on arrival. Your quotation states the room category you are paying for and the confirmed property. If a hotel offers a paid upgrade at booking, we pass it on to you with the price rather than absorbing it quietly. Any agency that tells you a suite or a Matterhorn view is locked in months ahead is describing something they do not control.

For most people, no, but it is worth planning for. Jungfraujoch at 3,454m and Matterhorn Glacier Paradise at 3,883m are both high enough that some people feel light-headed or breathless for a while. Everything is reached by train or cable car with no exertion, the visits are short, and you return to 1,000-1,600m each night, which is what makes it manageable. If either of you has a heart or breathing condition, tell us at enquiry, and we will pace those two days differently or substitute a lower summit.

It is handled on the one leg where it matters. Bags are collected from your Grindelwald room on the morning of Day 5 and delivered to your Zermatt room, so you travel with a day bag through three train changes. Pack an overnight bag for that day, since your main luggage travels separately and may arrive after you do. On arrival in each village, the hotel's electric shuttle meets the train.

The free Grindelwald afternoon on Day 4 is the main buffer, and with three nights in both Grindelwald and Zermatt there is usually room to move an excursion to another day of your stay. If that is not possible, a comparable alternative is offered at no extra cost, and anything that still cannot run is refunded. The Glacier Express itself operates in almost all conditions.

Late June to mid-September. You need all four summit lifts on a full schedule, the Glacier Express on its summer timetable and settled weather for the high mornings. Early September is the quietest of the good months with the clearest air for Gornergrat. From late October, the picture changes a lot - several Grindelwald and Zermatt hotels close between seasons, and the Glacier Express moves to a reduced winter service, so we would build a different itinerary rather than a thinner version of this one.

Yes. The most common changes are dropping the St. Moritz nights and returning west after the Glacier Express, swapping the St. Moritz nights for a fourth in Zermatt, and adding a Zurich airport-side night when the return flight is early. Shortening below nine nights means cutting either a base or the Excellence Class leg, and we will tell you plainly which one costs you more. We re-quote every change before you confirm.