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Switzerland Jungfraujoch and Matterhorn Tour Package - 5 Nights

BEST FORFirst-timers who want the big twoTRIP PACETwo summit days, three easy onesHOTELS3-star, central in both basesSIGNATUREJungfraujoch and Gornergrat
6D/5N3Nights inInterlaken2Nights inZermatt2Summit days3,454m and 3,089m1Hotel movesJust the one0Rail passes to buyCard included

Overview

A 5-night Switzerland mountain tour package from India built around the two summit railways people actually come for - the Jungfrau Railway to 3,454m and the Gornergrat Bahn to 3,089 m, facing the Matterhorn - with three nights in Interlaken and two in Zermatt. Zurich, Grindelwald, Lauterbrunnen and Geneva are built into the travelling days. May to October gives the clearest summit mornings; both railways run in winter too, and winter tickets are cheaper. From ₹1,54,999 per person, two adults in a double room - land package, international flights excluded. Tell us your dates, and we will build the quote around them.

Key features of this package

5 Nights / 6 Days

Two bases, one move

Jungfraujoch 3,454m

Top of Europe, included

Gornergrat 3,089m

Facing the Matterhorn

Half Fare Card

Included, and it is why this works

Runs All Year Both railways work in winter

Both railways work in winter

GST Included

The price is the price
Day by day

Mid-range itinerary

Explore your journey day by day, with every stay, transfer and experience clearly planned.

Limmat veiw from roof

Arrival: The rail station sits directly under Zurich Airport arrivals. Ten minutes to the main station, bags into a locker - one ticket carries you through to Interlaken with this stop built into it.

Evening: Check in for three nights. The Hohematte park in the middle of Interlaken gives you the Jungfrau framed between two hotels, which is the view you will recognise from every brochure.

Late morning: Lindenhof, the flat terrace above the old town, then the Niederdorf lanes down to the Limmat. Free, and it is the whole of Zurich's old quarter in about two hours.

Afternoon: Bags collected, then about two hours to Interlaken along Lake Thun. Sit on the right after Spiez - the lake is on that side and so is the first proper view of the Bernese Alps.

STAYInterlaken
MEALSNone
RAILAbout 2 hrs 10 min
ENTRYAll free today
Sphinx observation terrace at Jungfraujoch

Early morning: Interlaken Ost to Grindelwald, then up to Kleine Scheidegg and on to the Jungfraujoch. About two hours each way, and the whole climb is included.

The tunnel: The last stretch runs inside the Eiger itself, cut between 1896 and 1912 by men working with hand drills and dynamite. It still ends at the highest railway station in Europe.

At the top: The Sphinx terrace at 3,571m, the Ice Palace carved into the glacier, and the Aletsch - the longest glacier in the Alps - running away below you for twenty-three kilometres.

On the way down: Break at Grindelwald. The village sits under the Eiger north face and is worth an hour on foot before the last leg back to Interlaken.

STAYInterlaken
MEALSBreakfast
SUMMIT3,454m
CLIMBIncluded
Staubbach Falls

Morning: Twenty minutes from Interlaken Ost into the Lauterbrunnen valley, a trench with vertical rock walls on both sides and seventy-two waterfalls coming off them.

Staubbach Falls: Just under 300 metres in a single drop, straight behind the village. A footpath takes you into the rock behind the water, and none of it costs anything.

Afternoon: The valley floor walk towards Trummelbach, flat the whole way with the Jungfrau closing the end of the valley. Then back to Interlaken whenever you like.

If you want more: Harder Kulm's funicular, the Trummelbach glacier falls inside the mountain, and a Lake Brienz cruise are all on the add-on list with their prices. This day is deliberately left free and cheap, because the two summit days either side of it are not.

STAYInterlaken
MEALSBreakfast
RAIL20 min each way
ENTRYAll free today

Evening: Yours. Zermatt is expensive to eat in; the places a street back from the Bahnhofstrasse charge noticeably less than the ones on it.

Morning: Interlaken to Zermatt, about two hours and ten minutes with a change at Visp. The only hotel move of the trip, and the valley narrows the whole way in.

Zermatt: No petrol cars are allowed in the village, so it runs on electric buggies and feet. Check in, then walk up the Bahnhofstrasse to where the street ends and the Matterhorn starts.

Afternoon: The Kirchbrucke, the small bridge over the Matter Vispa, is where the standard photograph of the mountain is taken from. Two minutes from the main street and free.

STAYZermatt
MEALSBreakfast
RAILAbout 2 hrs 10 min
VILLAGECar-free

Why this route works

The Half Fare Card is what makes this price possible

Jungfraujoch at full fare is CHF 261.20 and Gornergrat is CHF 132 - the two most expensive tickets most visitors ever buy in Switzerland. A Swiss Travel Pass only takes 25 per cent off the top section of the Jungfrau climb. The Half Fare Card takes 50 per cent off both, and off every train in between. It costs CHF 150 and saves about CHF 200 on this route, which is why it is inside the package rather than something you find out about later.

Two summits, two completely different mountains

Jungfraujoch puts you inside the Alps - a tunnel through the Eiger, a glacier plateau, ice caves, and the longest glacier in the Alps below the terrace. Gornergrat puts you opposite them - an open ridge with the Matterhorn straight ahead and twenty-nine four-thousanders around it. One is about being in the mountains, the other about looking at them. Packages that do only one of them are selling you half the country.

Two hotels, and the other cities come free

Zurich is a half-day on the arrival morning with your bags in a station locker. Grindelwald and Lauterbrunnen are short runs from the Interlaken base. Geneva is a stop on the way to your flight home. None of them needs a hotel night, because a Swiss ticket is valid all day and lets you break the journey - so you unpack twice in six days and still see six places.

Inclusions & exclusions

Compare what is included and excluded side by side.

  • 5 nights in central 3-star double rooms - 3 in Interlaken, 2 in Zermatt
  • Daily breakfast at the hotel, all five mornings
  • Jungfraujoch return from Interlaken Ost - the full climb via Grindelwald and Kleine Scheidegg to 3,454m
  • International flights - this package is quoted Zurich Airport in, Geneva Airport out
  • All lunches and all dinners, on every day of the trip - these are your own to choose and pay for
  • A hotel night in Zurich, Grindelwald or Geneva - all three are seen on travelling days with your bags in a station locker, which is a large part of why this price is what it is

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Three reasons, and none of them is a cut corner. First, the rail product: a Half Fare Card at CHF 150 halves both summit tickets, whereas a Swiss Travel Pass only takes 25 per cent off the top of the Jungfrau climb - that difference alone is about CHF 135 per person. Second, we do not pay for hotel nights in Zurich, Grindelwald or Geneva; you see all three on days you are travelling anyway, with your bags in a station locker. Third, only two nights in Zermatt, which has the dearest beds in Switzerland. What you are not getting is a tour manager, a coach, or five-star rooms.

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