Swiss Alps Signature Rail

Arrive at Geneva or Zurich airports, then rail to Täsch and the shuttle train into the car-free village and transfer privately to your base. Time today to walk to the Kirchbrücke for your first clear look at the Matterhorn.

• Private transfer via Geneva or Zurich airports
• Walk to the Kirchbrücke for your first clear look at the Matterhorn
• Time to settle in before dinner

The Gornergrat cogwheel railway to 3,089 metres for the ridge view across the Gorner glacier, with a walk down a section of the trail in summer.

• Gornergrat railway
• Glacier panorama
• Walking section back towards Riffelberg (summer)

Cable cars up to Europe's highest cable car station at 3,883 metres, with the glacier palace and, in winter, year-round skiing.

• Matterhorn Glacier Paradise
• Glacier palace ice sculptures
• Optional summer or winter skiing

Board the Glacier Express for about eight hours through the Oberalp Pass and over the Landwasser Viaduct, with lunch served at your seat. On arrival, walk the lake path and look up to the Engadine peaks.

• Board the Glacier Express for about eight hours through the Oberalp Pass and over the Landwasser Viaduct, with lunch served at your seat
• Walk the lake path and look up to the Engadine peaks
• Timings reconfirmed locally the day before

A leg of the Bernina railway over the pass to Alp Grüm or Tirano in Italy, one of the steepest adhesion railways in the world and a UNESCO site.

• Bernina line panoramic leg
• Ospizio Bernina and Lago Bianco
• Optional lunch in Tirano, Italy

Sgraffito-decorated houses at Guarda or Sils, the lakes of the upper Engadine, and the Segantini Museum in town.

• Engadine village architecture
• Upper Engadine lakes walk
• Segantini Museum

Take the train from St. Moritz via Chur and Zurich to Lucerne, about four hours. On arrival, cross the Chapel Bridge and walk the lakefront before dinner.

• Take the train from St. Moritz via Chur and Zurich to Lucerne, about four hours
• Cross the Chapel Bridge and walk the lakefront before dinner
• Timings reconfirmed locally the day before

The classic golden round trip: boat across the lake, the world's steepest cogwheel railway up Pilatus in summer, and cable cars back down to Kriens.

• Lake steamer to Alpnachstad
• Pilatus cogwheel railway (May-November)
• Cable car descent to Kriens

An early lakeside walk before the train onwards. Private transfer to Zurich airport in good time for your onward flight.

• An early lakeside walk before the train onwards
• Late check-out arranged where the hotel allows it
• Private departure transfer