• 4 Dinner (D)
• 13 Breakfast (B)
• 1 Lunch (L)

• Lake Geneva: Visit Chillon Castle with the Head of Collections to discover the artefacts, treasures and history of the chateau.

• Hand sanitizer is freely available on board for you to use throughout the day.

Insight Vacations

• Business class coach with extended leg room
• Top-rated dining, from farm-to-table to local restaurants
• 4 & 5-star stays

Meet your Travel Director and fellow small-group travellers over dinner with wine at a local restaurant in Lucerne. The hosted meal offers an easy introduction to the people sharing your journey.

Lucerne’s lakeside setting and surrounding mountains give the evening a distinctly Swiss backdrop. With no more than 24 travellers in the group, there is time to settle into conversation and hear what draws others to the country’s cities, villages and Alpine landscapes.

Ride the open-top CabriO cable car to the summit of Mount Stanserhorn, feeling the mountain air as views open across Lake Lucerne and the surrounding Alps. Walk the summit paths and look for marmots and other native wildlife.

A Swiss ranger shares insights into the mountain’s plants, animals and fragile ecosystem. This MAKE TRAVEL MATTER® visit supports local conservation, adding a deeper understanding of the landscape to the panoramic ascent.

Cross the covered Chapel Bridge in Lucerne and pause at the Lion Monument during a hosted visit to two of the city’s defining sights. The timber bridge spans the Reuss, while the lion is carved into a quiet sandstone setting.

Originally built in the 14th century, the bridge reflects Lucerne’s medieval past. The monument commemorates Swiss Guards who died during the French Revolution, giving its resting lion a significance that contrasts with the lively streets nearby.

Explore Bern with your Travel Director, seeing the Cathedral of St. Vincent, the Federal Palace and the curious Ogre Fountain. The orientation introduces the Swiss capital through its civic landmarks and the character of its historic streets.

Bern’s Old Town is known for its sandstone buildings, arcaded walkways and fountains adorned with colourful figures. The Gothic cathedral and seat of Switzerland’s federal government reveal different chapters in a city whose medieval centre remains remarkably cohesive.

Walk the cobbled main street of Gruyères with your Travel Director and see its 13th-century castle overlooking the surrounding countryside. This orientation focuses on the fortified hilltop village and its distinctive medieval setting.

Stone facades, broad valley views and nearby Alpine meadows give Gruyères a character shaped by both farming and centuries of regional history. The castle’s position above the village makes clear why this small settlement became an important stronghold.

Visit a family-run winery overlooking Lake Geneva to taste local wines and enjoy a light farm-to-table dinner made with locally sourced produce. Meet the people behind the estate and learn how they are working to preserve it for future generations.

Vineyard slopes are a defining feature of this lakeshore. The family’s sustainable agricultural practices and efforts to reduce and reuse waste make this MAKE TRAVEL MATTER® experience a close look at responsible wine and food production.

Discover Montreux with your Travel Director on an orientation of this resort town beside Lake Geneva. Take in the lakeside promenade, where views stretch across the water towards the mountains.

Montreux’s position at the foot of the Alps has long drawn visitors to its waterfront. The orientation gives you a sense of the town’s elegant resort atmosphere and its relationship with the lake, making its setting as much a highlight as its streets.

Cruise Lake Geneva in first class, watching vineyard-covered slopes, lakeside villas and Alpine scenery unfold from the water. The journey offers a quieter, wider view of the shoreline than sightseeing from its towns and roads.

Known in French as Lac Léman, the lake has inspired writers and artists for generations, including figures associated with the Romantic movement. Its broad waters and mountain backdrop make the cruise a scenic experience in its own right.

Explore Geneva with your Travel Director, seeing the Jet d’Eau and Floral Clock alongside the historic centre and international quarter. The orientation connects the city’s lakeside landmarks with the institutions that give it a global role.

The fountain rises dramatically above Lake Geneva, while the clock’s planted face reflects a long Swiss association with watchmaking. Diplomatic buildings offer another perspective on Geneva as a centre for international organisations and dialogue.

Step inside Chillon Castle on a special tour that reveals its courtyards, halls and collection of historic objects. Set directly on Lake Geneva, the château invites you to explore rooms associated with the Dukes of Savoy and centuries of life at the water’s edge.

Its vaulted spaces and former prison helped inspire Lord Byron’s poem The Prisoner of Chillon. Insight from the castle’s collections brings the artefacts and stories behind this enduring landmark into sharper focus.

See Martigny’s Roman amphitheatre during an orientation of this historic Rhône Valley town. The surviving arena is a tangible reminder that the Alpine routes around Martigny were important long before modern mountain travel.

Known to the Romans as Forum Claudii Vallensium, Martigny developed near routes towards the Great St. Bernard Pass. Viewing the amphitheatre places the town’s present-day streets against a much older history of movement across the Alps.

Meet St. Bernard dogs at Barryland in Martigny and discover how the breed became associated with Alpine crossings and rescue work. The visit introduces the Barry Foundation’s efforts to protect, breed and promote these much-loved Swiss mountain dogs.

Their story is rooted in the Great St. Bernard Hospice, where the breeding tradition stretches back around 300 years. Learn about Barry, the legendary rescue dog whose name remains closely linked with the breed’s mountain reputation.

Explore Sion with your Travel Director, seeing the cathedral, Old Town Hall and the twin fortress-churches that crown the town. Their hilltop silhouettes are defining sights above the streets of this Rhône Valley centre.

Sion’s layered medieval setting reflects its long importance in the Valais region. The orientation brings together civic and religious landmarks, with the elevated fortifications providing a striking visual link between the old town and its surrounding valley.

Explore car-free Zermatt with your Travel Director, getting to know its chalet-lined streets beneath the surrounding peaks. Weather permitting, look for a view of the Matterhorn’s distinctive summit above the village.

Zermatt’s traffic-free character gives its mountain setting an unusually calm feel. An orientation helps you find your bearings in a resort shaped by Alpine travel, where timber buildings, narrow streets and high-altitude scenery sit close together.

Discover Lugano with your Travel Director in Switzerland’s Italian-speaking Ticino region. Explore the lakeside city’s setting and get a feel for its streets, where mountain views meet a distinctly southern Swiss atmosphere.

Lugano’s position beside its namesake lake gives it a different rhythm from the country’s higher Alpine resorts. The orientation highlights that regional contrast: Swiss surroundings shaped by Italian language and culture, with waterfront scenery close at hand.

Ride the historic Monte Brè funicular above Lugano, join your Travel Director for an easy walk to panoramic viewpoints and explore the artists’ village of Brè. Enjoy a lunch featuring Ticinese specialities, served with wine.

First opened in 1908, the funicular climbs to views across Lake Lugano and the surrounding peaks. Village lanes and regional flavours give this experience a cultural dimension as well as a mountain outlook.

Take in St. Moritz’s spa quarter and glacial lake in the high Engadine Valley. This resort overview introduces the mountain scenery and elegant townscape that have made St. Moritz a distinctive Swiss destination.

St. Moritz developed an international reputation for high-altitude leisure, set against the crisp air and peaks of the Grisons Alps. Its lakeside views and refined streets show how Alpine landscape and resort heritage sit side by side.

Explore the Engadine mountains with an included railways pass, using available cable cars, funiculars and chairlifts around St. Moritz at your own pace. The pass opens up high viewpoints without committing you to a single hosted route.

Mountain transport is part of the region’s Alpine character, linking the resort with landscapes above the valley floor. Service availability varies, but the pass gives you a flexible way to choose the mountain outlooks that interest you most.

Travel by regional train along the Glacier Express route through the Swiss Alps, crossing the Landwasser Viaduct and continuing towards the Oberalp Valley. Watch the terrain change through tunnels, across high bridges and between mountain slopes.

The journey follows part of a railway route celebrated for the engineering that carries trains through demanding Alpine country. Your regional train is powered by hydroelectricity; it follows the famous route rather than operating as the branded Glacier Express service.

Discover Lauterbrunnen’s Valley of Waterfalls on a village orientation and see Staubbach Falls spill from a sheer cliff above the valley. The waterfall drops nearly 300 metres, its spray shifting with the wind.

Lauterbrunnen’s name evokes the many springs and falls found in its surrounding landscape. Steep rock walls, meadows and falling water give this Bernese Oberland village a setting unlike the higher mountain resorts nearby.

Explore Grindelwald with your Travel Director and get to know this Bernese Oberland village beneath the Eiger’s north face. Its streets open onto views of the surrounding peaks and valleys.

Grindelwald’s identity has long been tied to its dramatic mountain setting and access to Alpine landscapes. A hosted orientation gives you a clearer sense of the village itself, rather than treating it solely as a departure point for mountain excursions.

Visit the Jobin Swiss Woodcarving Centre in Brienz to learn about the village’s long association with carved wood. Discover how a local craft became part of the Bernese Oberland’s cultural identity.

Brienz’s woodcarving tradition reaches back to the early 19th century. This visit gives context to the skill and history behind the craft, offering a closer look at a regional heritage that differs from Switzerland’s better-known mountain and lakeside sights.

Discover Zurich with your Travel Director, seeing Bahnhofstrasse, Grossmunster and Fraumunster alongside the River Limmat. The brief orientation brings together the city’s shopping boulevard, historic churches and waterside setting.

Grossmunster’s twin towers and Fraumunster’s heritage anchor Zurich’s old centre, while Bahnhofstrasse speaks to its modern commercial life. Seeing these landmarks together offers a compact introduction to the contrasts of Switzerland’s largest city.

Share a hosted dinner of Swiss classics with wine at a local restaurant in Zurich. Raise a glass with your travel companions and revisit favourite moments from the country’s lakes, towns and mountains.

Unlike a routine hotel meal, this restaurant gathering is a shared close to the small-group experience. Familiar regional flavours and conversation bring the journey together in a relaxed setting, with time to reflect on the places and people you have encountered.

Consider an excursion to Klein Matterhorn during your time in Zermatt for a higher-altitude perspective on the surrounding Alps. The itinerary suggests this mountain trip as a possible independent choice rather than an included group activity.

Known for its dramatic setting near the Matterhorn, the excursion offers a contrast with Zermatt’s chalet-lined village streets. This optional activity is at additional cost and bookable on tour; confirm transport, operating conditions and availability with your Travel Director.

Consider a train ride over the Bernina Pass while staying in St. Moritz. The suggested independent outing trades the resort streets for high Alpine railway scenery in the Engadine region.

The Bernina route is known for its mountain landscapes and the engineering required to cross them. This optional train journey is at additional cost and bookable on tour; ask your Travel Director about suitable services, fares and availability before making plans.

Consider travelling by mountain railway to Jungfraujoch from the Grindelwald area. The suggested independent excursion reaches the high-altitude destination known as the “Top of Europe,” with opportunities to visit the Ice Palace and Sphinx Observation Deck.

Its appeal lies in a close-up view of the Bernese Alps from a very different elevation than the village below. This optional excursion is at additional cost and bookable on tour; check routes, weather conditions and availability with your Travel Director.