Easy-to-moderate walking with some ascents / descents, and occasional longer days.
The season for this holiday is:
01 September 2020 - 11 October 2020
01 June 2021 - 27 June 2021
28 June 2021 - 14 August 2021
15 August 2021 - 11 October 2021
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
| °C | 2 | 4 | 8 | 13 | 17 | 20 | 23 | 21 | 18 | 13 | 7 | 3 |
| mm | 68 | 66 | 68 | 94 | 119 | 150 | 140 | 157 | 101 | 66 | 80 | 66 |
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6 nights: 01 September 2020 - 11 October 2020, 01 June 2021 - 27 June 2021, 28 June 2021 - 14 August 2021 & 15 August 2021 - 11 October 2021
Start any day (except Friday & Saturday from 1-27 Jun & 14 Aug-11 Oct) | End by latest date(s) shown above
| Starting | Price | Single room |
|---|---|---|
| 1 - 13 Sep 2020 | £1260 | £165 |
| 14 Sep - 5 Oct 2020 | £1195 | £160 |
| 1 Jun - 13 Sep 2021 | £1260 | £165 |
| 14 Sep - 5 Oct 2021 | £1195 | £160 |
| 3rd & 4th person discount | £0 | |
| Single traveller supplement | £0 |
Includes accommodation, meals and services integral to the holiday as described, plus walking notes and maps, but no travel from the UK, nor any connecting travel from the airport unless stated below.
Included travel: A Swiss Half-Fare Card is included providing you with half price tickets for trains, bus and boat journeys and up to 50% reduction on private railways and cable cars.
If you would prefer to drive from the UK, please contact us for self-drive prices.
Book your flights through us and we'll find the best route and times to suit you. Please contact us to find out more about our flight booking service. We can also book connecting travel - see below.
6 nights: 01 September 2020 - 11 October 2020, 01 June 2021 - 27 June 2021, 28 June 2021 - 14 August 2021 & 15 August 2021 - 11 October 2021
Start any day (except Friday & Saturday from 1-27 Jun & 14 Aug-11 Oct) | End by latest date(s) shown above
| Starting | Price | Single room |
|---|---|---|
| 1 - 13 Sep 2020 | £1620 | £165 |
| 14 Sep - 5 Oct 2020 | £1545 | £160 |
| 1 Jun - 13 Sep 2021 | £1620 | £165 |
| 14 Sep - 5 Oct 2021 | £1545 | £160 |
| 3rd & 4th person discount | £0 | |
| Single traveller supplement | £0 |
Includes all elements in the 'walk price', plus standard-class travel by Eurostar from London St Pancras or Ebbsfleet International to Lille or Paris, with onward travel as described below.
Included travel from the UK: UK-Paris (Eurostar), Paris–Lucerne (TGV/regional rail & bus or boat), approx duration 9h plus 0h10 walk to the hotel. Home, Weggis–Paris (TGV/regional rail & bus or boat), Paris-UK (Eurostar), approx 10h30 plus 0h10 walk from the hotel.
> More about 'by rail' prices
> The 'rail experience': what to expect
A Swiss Card is included, providing you with half price tickets for trains, bus and boat journeys and up to 50% reduction on private railways and cable cars.
If you book your holiday less than 6 months in advance of your travel date, seats may no longer be available at the tariffs on which our prices are based, but we may be able to offer you seats on the same services at a supplement.
Room upgrades (£ per person per night)
| Hotel Wilden Mann, Lucerne | ||
|---|---|---|
| Superior: 01 Sep - 11 Oct 2020 | £22 | |
| Superior: 01 Jun - 11 Oct 2021 | £22 |
| Hotel Nidwaldnerhof, Beckenried | ||
|---|---|---|
| Lake view & balcony: 01 Sep - 11 Oct 2020 | £32 | |
| Lake view & balcony: 01 Jun - 11 Oct 2021 | £32 |
| Hotel Central am See, Weggis | ||
|---|---|---|
| Superior with lake view & balcony: 01 Sep - 11 Oct 2020 | £32 | |
| Superior with lake view & balcony: 01 Jun - 11 Oct 2021 | £32 |
Extra nights (£ per person per night) in a double or single room
| Hotel Wilden Mann, Lucerne (B&B) | Double room | Single room |
|---|---|---|
| 01 Sep - 11 Oct 2020 | £152 | £184 |
| 01 Jun - 11 Oct 2021 | £152 | £184 |
Travelling from the UK
| Outward route | Airline |
|---|---|
| Aberdeen - Zurich (via Frankfurt) | Lufthansa |
| Aberdeen - Zurich (via Paris) | Air France |
| Outward route | Airline |
|---|---|
| Birmingham - Zurich | Swiss |
| Outward route | Airline |
|---|---|
| Bristol - Zurich (via Amsterdam Schiphol) | KLM |
| Outward route | Airline |
|---|---|
| Edinburgh - Zurich | Swiss |
| Outward route | Airline |
|---|---|
| Leeds Bradford - Zurich (via Amsterdam Schiphol) | KLM |
| Outward route | Airline |
|---|---|
| London City - Zurich | British Airways, Swiss |
| Outward route | Airline |
|---|---|
| Heathrow - Zurich | British Airways, Swiss |
| Outward route | Airline |
|---|---|
| Manchester - Zurich | Swiss |
| Manchester - Zurich (via Frankfurt) | Lufthansa |
| Manchester - Zurich (via Munich) | Lufthansa |
| Outward route | Airline |
|---|---|
| Newcastle - Zurich (via Amsterdam Schiphol) | KLM |
| Newcastle - Zurich (via Paris CDG) | Air France |
| Outward route | Airline |
|---|---|
| Norwich - Zurich (via Amsterdam Schiphol) | KLM |
This list of flight options should be used as a guide only, and you should check each airline’s website for current routes, frequency and schedules. Not all flights operate daily, and may not run for the entire season. You should also heed the latest flight arrival time and earliest flight departure time stated in the connecting travel section, as it may not be possible to arrange connecting travel outside these times. Please do not book your flights until we have confirmed your accommodation to you. Alternatively, our expert reservations team will be happy to offer advice and to make flight bookings for you. We charge £35 per person for our flight booking service (£60 for India and Nepal). Your flights are then covered by our package-booking conditions, which give you greater protection in the event of delay or cancellation, as well as providing ATOL cover.
| Outward route | Price per person |
Latest flight arrival time |
|---|---|---|
| rail Zürich airport to Lucerne (1h10), walk to hotel (0h10) | £16 | 1800 |
| Homeward route | Price per person |
Earliest flight departure time |
|---|---|---|
| walk to Weggis quay (0h05), boat Weggis to Lucerne (0h40), walk from quay to station (0h05), rail Lucerne to Zürich airport (1h) | £0 | 1430 |
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Wonderful, prizewinning cafe/patisserie/ice cream parlour further along the lake from the Weggis hotel - Cafe Dolman.
All of the travel arrangements were excellent and really added to our enjoyment of the holiday, from the boat trips on Lake Luzern to the cable cars and cog railway.
The walks were beautiful and often spectacular. We lost one day due to low cloud but this was more than made up by the next day walking along the ‘Rigi’.
As we had had not been with Inntravel before we chose easy walks but next time we will increase the difficulty.
Overall a great way to experience the beauty of Switzerland, all thanks to Inntravel.
This trip is ideal for the the low key walker who wants to see the most spectacular scenic views. Everywhere you look whether it be the mist clearing from the mountainside, or the serene Lake Lucerne, reveals a most stunning lanscape. The Swiss transport worked like a dream.
Wonderful, prizewinning cafe/patisserie/ice cream parlour further along the lake from the Weggis hotel - Cafe Dolman.
All of the travel arrangements were excellent and really added to our enjoyment of the holiday, from the boat trips on Lake Luzern to the cable cars and cog railway.
The walks were beautiful and often spectacular. We lost one day due to low cloud but this was more than made up by the next day walking along the ‘Rigi’.
As we had had not been with Inntravel before we chose easy walks but next time we will increase the difficulty.
Overall a great way to experience the beauty of Switzerland, all thanks to Inntravel.
This trip is ideal for the the low key walker who wants to see the most spectacular scenic views. Everywhere you look whether it be the mist clearing from the mountainside, or the serene Lake Lucerne, reveals a most stunning lanscape. The Swiss transport worked like a dream.
Most enjoyable holiday with beautiful scenery. Well worth adding our extra day in Lucerne.
This was a very fun holiday in inspiring scenery, with the cable cars and cog railway enabling great walking in spectacular locations without having had to be athletes to reach them. The accommodation and luggage transfers all delivered on their promise. An exemplary standard of customary service was provided throughout. Excellent value for money on everything included in the holiday, and if you're careful where you buy other meals and refreshments, there is no need to feel taken advantage of. The lakeside room upgrade in Niedwaldnerhof hotel was to a superb room, and the same upgrade in Central Am See was well worth it too. The room in the Edelweiss was great anyway. By comparison, the Wilden Mann room was small, but hardly an issue in a wonderful setting. The travel arrangements and luggage transfers were invaluable. I feel the quality of service people were providing was because we'd come through Inntravel, ie we felt throughout like valued repeat customers whereas we stayed in 4 different places for a maximum of two nights each - thank you for this.
An excellent trip, hard to fault apart from the half board at Hotel Central am See which was very disappointing (we suggest this should be bed and breakfast). Seamless transport, excellent walks and a great combination of city, lakes and mountains. Superb views and wild flowers too (early July 2019). Hotels Nidwaldnerhof and Eidelweiss significantly exceeded expectations. Thank you.
This was our first experience with Inn Travel and we are already looking at a cycling holiday next year. It was easy to book and when the holiday pack arrived everything was in it. The travel directions and hotels were all very good and easy to find and the waliking notes were so accurate I never really looked at the map. All the paths are well sign posted and easy to follow with a wide variety of landscapes to experience. I found all the people we came into contact with to be very helpful and nearly all spoke excellent English. We would definitely consider doing Switzerland again in the future.
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.
My husband and I had such a spectacular holiday with Inntravel on the self-guided Lake Lucerne walk. We were initially concerned that the beds in most of the hotels were described as Austrian singles and so communicated that we wanted doubles instead. The Inntravel staff were very understanding and even offered to upgrade one room for us. As it turned out the beds were extremely comfortable and simply had 2 single duvets. Every aspect of the holiday was so well thought out, the standard of the hotels was excellent, the food was delicious, and the walking was perfectly planned. Thank you to all the staff for such a well organised holiday.
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.
Thank you for writing a review. We are delighted that you enjoyed your time in Lake Lucerne but are sorry to hear that Alsace was not so successful.
We have received a number of comments about some of the towns and villages in Alsace being particularly quiet in June this year and we are greatly surprised by this; it is usually a pleasantly lively and bustling area throughout the entire Summer season.
With regards to the bikes, please do contact us during your holiday in future if there is a similar problem and we will do our utmost to resolve it. The cycle hire company we work with in Alsace is very quick to respond and usually receives great feedback. We are sure that they would have provided replacement, smaller-sized bikes for you, if they had known that you were struggling with their size.
The whole holiday was an exciting and enjoyable adventure.
Sort out the dining arrangements at Edelweiss and Central
We're sorry you didn't enjoy all of the meals on this itinerary, as they are often highly praised. We will be providing further information in our notes in future.
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!