A walking holiday around Lake Lucerne

We have traveled with Inntravel in the past and have never been disappointed. Switzerland is an expensive country, yet you managed to find comfortable, affordable three star hotels for your guests. The Lucerne holiday provided wonderful variety among its walks, modes of transport, and accommodations. One of the reasons we enjoy self-guided walking is that is provides chance encounters that make slow travel so appealing. Cows joined us for our lunch breaks, we took joy in reading the botanical descriptions of the wildflowers at the top of Rigi, and we met a lady practicing an alphorn who stopped to chat and let us have a try at it! We know it is a lot of work for you to make the trips appear effortless and we thank you for everything you do behind the scenes for the benefit of your guests.

Overall we loved the Walking Lake Lucerne hiking holiday, and would not hesitate doing another similar holiday.

However, our experience with the Alsace Cycling holiday was not so good, primarily due to being provided with inappropriate bicycles. Also, Bergheim was too quiet a town, with not one restaurant open on the second day of our stay there. We would probably not recommend this holiday unless these issues were addressed.

All arrangements and communications with Inntravel were excellent, and we would be more than happy to use them again in the future.

The whole holiday was an exciting and enjoyable adventure.

Sort out the dining arrangements at Edelweiss and Central

Inntravel provide a consistently high standard of holidays. Excellent! We will book again.

This was one of the best self-guided walking holidays we have done. The scenery was simply stunning; mountains and lakes providing an endless variety of breathtaking views. We felt at times like visitors from a bygone age - one week and no road transport, only trains, boats and cable cars. Hubby is not a super-enthusiastic hiker, so the shorter routes, plus a visit to the Swiss Transport Museum with its steam engines and model railway, went down well with him.

This holiday is a wonderful introduction to Switzerland. We had the double pleasure of Lake Lucerne and the Alps accessed from some wonderful hotels. We had some excellent rooms and wonderful food at the hotels, which is always a good basis for a holiday. The walks in the hills were the highlight for me; so peaceful with spectacular views and only the sound of the cow bells for company. Transport to the hills is also something special - how do they manage to run railways and cable cars up those hills? My overall view - a very impressive and well thought out holiday trip.

We requested room upgrades where offered and were very pleased with our rooms. We loved Hotel Steigenberger and upgraded to a lakefront room which was wonderful. We loved the walks, the varied accommodation and food. We loved it all and would thoroughly recommend both walks to others.

INNTRAVEL NOTE:These customers combined our walk Shores of Lake Constance (Upgrade Option with Steigenberger Inselhotel) with Around Lake Lucerne

The scenery was glorious and the hikes enjoyable.  We stumbled across a farmer training his dog to round up the cows, which was fun to watch.  All of the inns/hotels were nice and the food was very good. 

We had a wonderful holiday around Lake Lucerne. Lucerne itself was delightful and we enjoyed the walk there, which initially at least took us away from the crowds. The scenery around the lake was wonderful, and we particulary enjoyed the lakeside dining. The walks were good, although we had to abandon the walk on Rigi given the bad weather, with fabulous scenery everywhere we looked. We have always organised our own holidays independently before, but wondered why we bothered after the success of this trip, with all the smaller details of transfers etc arranged on our behalf by Inntravel.

Our group’s highlight were the Kandersteg walks. They were challenging and offered great scenery. Overall, we found the Inntravel organisation and supporting notes and travel arrangements to be first-class and for anyone considering walking holidays in Switzerland we would recommend Inntravel.

The highlight was the Michelin mountain meal.  I am unsure if the Hotel (Edelweiss) would like to do it again for others or I would mention it for public use. What do you think? Any publicity is good publicity?  A close second were the Swiss lifts down from Rigi. I was scared of heights but not any more!  I was so captured by the view and experience - and the Swiss reputation for reliability - that I considered going back up to do it all again! Hotel Niderwald upgraded me to a lake-view room and I loved sitting on the patio and looking at the lake, birds, and ferries. The bed in Hotel Beccaris was the most comfortable I have ever slept in. A marvel. It really was luxe!

We loved our holiday. Every turn provided a wonderful view that we never tired of. The walking was most enjoyable and while sometimes not easy, it is certainly within reach of most reasonably fit people - if you walk a little every day and have done some bushwalking - you should have no problem. We enjoyed the surprise of each night's accommodation and the meals provided far exceeded our expectations and were a highlight. The various modes of transport also added greatly to this holiday. The boat rides on Lake Lucerne were stunning. We are already considering another walking holiday next year!

The walking in this area is amazing. Inntravel's clever use of many different types of transport worked so well to enable great walking with fewer of the steep ascents and descents. We enjoyed staying at all the hotels, but our least favourite was the second Edelweiss Hotel, where the waiter was rather dictatorial & told us dinner was a surprise. There is no drinks menu so you have no idea of prices. The owner/chef brought out 2 of the courses and described them - they were very good. Breakfast was less varied. Our favourite hotels were the 2 which we upgraded to lakeside rooms - the Nidwaldnerhof & the Central am See. Worth the upgrade price as we felt we had the best rooms in both hotels - overlooking the lake with great balcony or terrace - views to die for in each and excellent dinners. The boat trip, and mountain railway were real treats and we thoroughly enjoyed the whole holiday. Just 1 small negative (not Inntravel's fault) but wine is so expensive in Switzerland, & given you had to pay for water too, drinking wine wasn't worth the expense to us - so we drank beer. As a lot of the food is quite hearty, beer went fine with it. We will certainly do more Inntravel holidays - the combination of self guided with all the hassle taken out is just perfect for us.

We were very happy with the course notes and maps, the accommodation, and the transfers. We had some great meals in the places in which we stayed. The track notes were generally so accurate that we did not often need to refer to the maps. We didn't take the large-scale maps supplied on the walks but instead made A4 colour photocopies of the areas through which we were going to walk. These were much easier to handle, especially in bad weather. We had quite a lot of rain. I also scanned the A4 copies and stored them on a Samsung tablet, so I could enlarge sections if necessary. The areas which we walked through were amazing! We suffered from sensory overload!

INNTRAVEL NOTE: These customers enjoyed two walking holidays: Lake Lucerne and A Walk in the Black Forest with Freiburg

Due to our busy lives, we had Inntravel book the entire trip including add on days in the beginning of the hike and after the hike. They were superb and often reminded me via email if I had made airline reservations or made a decision. They essentially took care of EVERY detail and therefore, I was completely able to RELAX on this trip. The hikes were just arranged perfectly with many options of taking either a longer route or a shorter route. Having these options made it flexible for some party members. Initially, I was worried if my 2 teenage twin boys will be full, but all our meals were beyond excellent and in fact, we all gained weight! The entire trip was well thought out with Mt. Titlis in Engelberg in the middle of the hike and then spending the last 2 days walking down and enjoying another type of accomodations which was on the lake. I could not be more pleased with this Lucerne Holiday. I highly recommend this Lucerne Holiday for all ages as it is flexible enough for all ages to consider. And above all, the combination of trains, cable cars, trams and boats made this trip more interesting! 

A wonderfully varied holiday with magnificent scenery. It was great to arrive at comfortable and characterful hotels at the end of a walking day. The walks were challenging enough to make them interesting and great exercise without being arduous. When the weather forecast was for a very warm afternoon it was good to set off on a day walk around 9am.

Lovely walking holiday with just the right level of gentle walking and relaxing - a few physical challenges but plenty of helpful information provided so that we could pace our day.  Wonderful service in hotels and outstanding dinners at 3 of them (Nidwaldnerhof, Edelweiss (Rigi), Central Am See).

We felt the holiday was very well constucted and we stayed in some beautiful hotels. The meals included were excellent. The walking was really lovely and just the right amount for us. It gave us enough time to appreciate the wonderful locations.

I think Inntravel should include notes on what to do if the luggage does not appear, when transferred by the Swiss Transport System. Surely we are not not the first? We were quite unclear whose responsibility the luggage transfer was and who we had to contact. I realise we could have contacted an emergency number in the UK on a Sunday afternon, but I don't think that would have helped much. We were on the ground and in a position to pursue the matter. There appears to be no tracking system for the luggage. If it were not for the help of Hotel Central, combined with our proactive persistence, we would have had problems with our journey the next day and definitely no luggage that night. We had 4 hours of worry. I think the hotel sending the luggage should be responsible for actually seeing that it actually goes on the train or boat.

We had to pay for tap water at Hotel Paxmontana, Hotel Edelweiss in Rigi Staffelhohe and Hotel Central in Weggis. This somehow seems wrong. The info mentioned we would have to pay in Hotel Central only.

We love being in the mountains, with that 'away from it all' feeling, so this holiday was perfect for us. We enjoyed the walking and the amazing views and the whole journey was so varied and well put together - thank you Inntravel. Best Slow moment: seeing the early morning sun shining on the distant snowy peaks from Edelweiss Rigi was magical - the air was so clear.

This was our 4th holiday through Inntravel and we have loved all of them, but this one was spectacular! The scenery, the hotels, the food, the variety of transportation all made this an amazing holiday that we thoroughly enjoyed! We loved the challenging hikes and the breathtaking views around every corner! Well done! Thank you for putting together the best vacations we have ever taken!

We had a great holiday and will certainly be recommending it to our friends. Good hotels, excellent transport facilities in Switzerland, good walking and great views.