• 4 Dinner (D)
• 7 Breakfast (B)

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

• Geneva: What better way to start your journey than with a typical Swiss meal including cheese fondue?
• Zermatt: Enjoy dinner at a local restaurant in Zermatt with your fellow travellers and Travel Director.
• Lucerne: Toast to new friends and Swiss adventures during your dinner in a restaurant at the foot of Mount Stanserhorn.

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

Discover Geneva’s waterfront as you join your Travel Director to see the sky-high plume of the Jet d’Eau and the petal-bright Floral Clock in the Jardin Anglais. Elegant quays, sleek boats and views to Mont Blanc frame this refined city at the edge of Lake Geneva.

Gain a sense of Geneva’s character, from watchmaking heritage to humanitarian ideals, while hearing stories that connect the lake’s promenades with diplomatic halls and artisan workshops. It’s a concise, image-rich snapshot that orients you effortlessly for further exploration.

Stroll Montreux’s flower-lined quays on Lake Geneva and admire Belle Époque facades mirrored in the water. With your Travel Director, follow the lakeside promenade framed by palm trees and distant snow-capped peaks, a setting long favored by writers and musicians.

Hear how the microclimate nurtures nearby Lavaux vineyard terraces, a UNESCO site just along the shore. The walk highlights photo stops, local cafés and viewpoints that capture Montreux’s effortless Riviera mood.

Step inside Chillon Castle, the lake-lapped fortress that guarded the Savoy route for centuries. On this specially hosted tour with the castle’s Head of Collections, wander great halls, vaulted dungeons and frescoed chapels set above turquoise water.

Trace the lives of medieval nobles and prisoners alike, and see the column bearing Lord Byron’s inscription that helped make Chillon a Romantic legend. The setting, craftsmanship and scholarly insight bring the region’s power plays vividly to life.

Explore Zermatt’s narrow lanes with your Travel Director in a car-free alpine village of timbered chalets and flower-bright balconies. Glimpses of the Matterhorn appear between rooftops, while boutique windows and wood-smoke scents set a quintessential mountain scene.

Hear how mule tracks became pioneering railways and how mountaineering shaped the village. Learn where to find panoramic lookouts, trailheads and chocolate artisans, ensuring time in Zermatt blends high-alpine views with warm Valais hospitality.

Walk the elegant spa quarter to the shore of Lake St. Moritz, where sails skim glacial-green water and peaks ring the Engadin valley. Your Travel Director points out grand hotels, mineral springs and mountain reflections prized since the Belle Époque.

Learn how this chic resort evolved from alpine cure town to sporting capital, host of two Winter Olympics. The orientation reveals promenades, viewpoints and cafés that channel St. Moritz’s cool, high-altitude glamour.

Travel along the Glacier Express route on a comfortable, hydroelectric-powered regional train, rolling past stone-built hamlets, alpine meadows and lofty stone viaducts. Wide windows frame glaciers and river gorges in a showreel of Swiss mountain drama.

Hear how engineers carved these lines through wild terrain, linking valleys and cultures. This stretch emphasizes unhurried, window-side views of high Alps—a photographic feast that pairs engineering prowess with pristine landscapes.

Pause in Liechtenstein’s compact capital to explore tidy streets beneath Vaduz Castle, seat of the princely family on a wooded ridge. Cafés, galleries and postage-stamp boutiques introduce Europe’s microstate charm.

Learn how this alpine principality balanced tradition and modern finance, and pause for photos and reflection with the castle as your backdrop. It’s a concise encounter with a sovereign state ringed by year-round peaks.

Join a guided walk to Lucerne’s icons: the Lion Monument, the baroque Jesuit Church and the timbered Chapel Bridge with its painted roof panels. Lakeside vistas and medieval lanes complete a picture-perfect Swiss tableau.

Hear why Mark Twain praised the lion’s pathos and how the city thrived on trade and craftsmanship. The route blends river views with stories that anchor Lucerne’s beauty in its storied past.

Ascend Mount Stanserhorn by open-top CabriO cable car, its solar-powered system gliding above forests and farms to sweeping views over Lake Lucerne and the Alps. Step onto the panorama deck as cool mountain air lifts the senses.

Walk summit paths with a Stanserhorn ranger, learning about alpine flora, marmots and golden eagles. This experience supports Life on Land through education and stewardship—an uplifting blend of scenery and sustainability.

Sit down to a convivial first evening and meet your Travel Director over classic Swiss flavors. Tear crusty bread into a cauldron of silky cheese fondue, sharing stories as the aromas of Alpine dairy and white wine rise from the pot.

Learn how communal fondue reflects mountain life and winter traditions, then toast your journey with a local vintage. It’s a warm, flavorful welcome that sets the tone for discoveries ahead.

Gather in Zermatt for an evening of Valais specialities—from rosti to mountain cheeses and air-dried meats—served in a cozy restaurant of timber and stone. Glasses clink as conversation flows beneath the silhouette of nearby peaks.

Hear how high pastures, cellar-aging and careful curing shaped the region’s flavors. This relaxed night out celebrates alpine hospitality in a village made for lingering.

Conclude your Swiss journey with a celebratory dinner near the base of Stanserhorn, toasting new friends and raising a glass to mountain miles well traveled. Seasonal dishes spotlight lakes-and-Alps produce.

Savor local wines while you soak in the lakeside atmosphere and recall standout moments—glaciers, railways, castles and cable cars—shared in one of Europe’s most scenic countries.

Rise by cable car to Klein Matterhorn and the Matterhorn Glacier Paradise, where viewing platforms gaze over a sea of summits across Switzerland, Italy and France. At 3,883 meters, Europe’s highest cable car station reveals icefields, seracs and deep-blue crevasses.

Step into icy galleries, feel high-altitude air and watch ridgelines sharpen under intense light. Photographers and mountain-lovers will relish the scale and serenity.

This optional experience is at additional cost and bookable with your Travel Director on tour.

Cruise Lake Maggiore to the baroque jewel of Isola Bella, where terraces step up from the water to the sumptuous Palazzo Borromeo. Fountains play among citrus and stone, and white peacocks wander Italianate terraced gardens.

Explore frescoed salons and lake-view balconies, imagining centuries of noble life on the Borromean Islands. The combination of boat ride, architecture and horticulture makes this a refined lakeside interlude.

This optional experience is at additional cost and bookable with your Travel Director on tour.

Board the UNESCO-listed Rhaetian Railway over the Bernina Pass, where crimson trains climb past glaciers, larch forests and turquoise lakes. The line’s spiral tunnels and viaducts reveal changing perspectives at every curve.

Settle by the window for a masterclass in alpine engineering and scenic drama, from high pastures to Italian-speaking valleys. It’s a photogenic, slow-travel arc across climate zones in just a few hours.

This optional experience is at additional cost and bookable with your Travel Director on tour.

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