08/07/2026
Postcards from Switzerland. 🇨đź‡
Cliff notes of our Itinerary below, if you’re interested.
The Alps are amazing — highly recommend saving up and taking a trip, especially if you have kids, since the playgrounds there are incredible. Kids under 6 travel free on all Swiss public transport. We got the Swiss Half Fare Card in addition to the Jungfrau Travel Pass (though you could skip the Jungfrau pass if you’re not planning multiple mountain excursions in a single day). I’d actually consider doing this in reverse — Lucerne first, then the Alps — since the Alps are truly breathtaking and make for a better note to end on. We were fueled by coop grocery stores most of the time.
Day 1 (First full day that did not include air travel)
Wengen gondola up Männlichen - Royal Hike and Spielplatz Männlichen (Cow Playground). Marble Run around Wengen
Day 2
Lauterbrunnen - Staubbach Falls
Murren - Allmendhubel Alpen Playground (Flower Playground)
Day 3
Pfingstegg Tobogan Ride
Grindelwald First / Lake Bachalpsee Hike
Alpenspielplatz Playground
Day 4
Mannlichen - Liselotte Trail - (good hike for the kids pick up a booklet at the gondola stations and it’s an interactive/play trail where you get a letter stamp at different stations on the way - kids get a little prize when they turn it in) the end of the trail is the Holenstein Treetop Path Playground
Grindelwald gondola up to Eigeletscher to Kliene Scheidegg train back to Wegen
Day 5
Lucerne
Day 6
Lucerne - Mt. Pilatus Golden Round Trip - Did the reverse trip started on the bus to the gondola up to Pilatus Toboggan / Dragon Glider - then take the gondola up to Pilatus Klum - Longest Cogwheel Back down then a boat ride back to Lucerne
Day 7
Zurich - SprĂĽngli Cafe
Lindt Chocolate Factory
Arboretum ZĂĽrich - swimming in the lake
Pretty Patty
