Lauterbrunnen Switzerland
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Park in the Lauterbrunnen Multi-Storey Railway Station Car Park and get the 15/20 min train up the mountain to Wengen. Lots of hotels depending on budget, but Caprice and Regina are not even 50 metres from Wengen Train Station. No cars allowed in Wengen, so you can only enter the town via train. If you like quirky hotels / isolation, then stay on the train and go to Kleine Schiedegg (another 25 mins from Wengen) and stay at Hotel Bellevue Des Alpes
Vinocasino said:
Park in the Lauterbrunnen Multi-Storey Railway Station Car Park and get the 15/20 min train up the mountain to Wengen. Lots of hotels depending on budget, but Caprice and Regina are not even 50 metres from Wengen Train Station. No cars allowed in Wengen, so you can only enter the town via train. If you like quirky hotels / isolation, then stay on the train and go to Kleine Schiedegg (another 25 mins from Wengen) and stay at Hotel Bellevue Des Alpes
This, we did similar with Zermatt. Park the car, take the train up, enjoy the tranquility 
Last time I was there (2014) there was a great exhibition at the Schilthorn (above Murren).
It was all about the making of OHMS.
We stayed in Grindelwald and explored the area on the trains.
Also did some skiing on the Jungfraujoch Glacier in late May.
It was all about the making of OHMS.
We stayed in Grindelwald and explored the area on the trains.
Also did some skiing on the Jungfraujoch Glacier in late May.
Edited by F1NDW on Thursday 2nd May 16:35
I`ve been around this area a few times so hope I can offer some insights. Lauterbrunnen/Wengen is a great shout, as is Kleine Scheidegg if you want to get amongst the mountains, which I would recommend experiencing. There`s two ways to attack it as trains connect you, as mentioned previously, from Lauterbrunnen (with large car park) up through Wengen to Kleine Scheidegg and down to Grindelwald on the other side, or vice-versa, depending on where you`d like to drive to.
If you drive to Lauterbrunnen town, (where the Airtime Cafe does nice coffee & meat pies, a novelty in Switzerland), it is a nice scenic continuation on through the valley, as the cliffs rise as high as the valley is wide in places, with waterfalls and the occasional basejumper launcing themselves into the cleft. This would be the perfect appearance to prompt a gondola trip up to the Schilthorn, that of OHMSS fame. Schilthorn vis Murren has its own gondola station (outdoor parking) down in the valley, or you can get there from another gondola in Lauterbrunnen village that takes you up to a train, then across to Murren, and on to Schilthorn. Murren is a cute little village and worth a stroll around.
Wengen is a nice little mountain village, stayed there a couple of times for the ski-race and it`s fun, but the stand-out for me is the Nordwand or north face of the Eiger, which you get an amazing view of from the Grindelwald side, but can`t really see from Wengen. At Scheidegg you have the previously recommended Bellevue Des Alpes hotel at around 2000m, right under the Eiger. Not much else though, a bar/restaurant, a convenience store (assuming they are open of course, I`ve only ever been in the winter) and a train station.
From Scheidegg you can catch another train up to Jungfraujoch, or Top of Europe as it is known. The train stops for a few minutes and you can get out and look through windows from inside the Nordwand.
Side story. On one work trip up there, there was a workman with what is normally a locked steel hatch that opens out onto the face, and I was able to convince him to let me slide out with the harness and take a look, just wow!
Alternatively, down at Grindelwald (1000m), sitting on a hotel balcony at sunset suitably equipped and watching the light and shadow do its thing on the imposing Eiger is quite mesmerising! Eiger Mountain and Soul Resort, terrible name, very nice hotel. The car park is a bit tight to get in and out of from memory, but there is a large municipal carpark just a couple of hundred metres down the road.
In all these places there are plenty of accommodations, with a variety of prices, but rarely are they bad. Booking.com should be a decent help once you decide where you are going.
Have a great trip, resurrection of thread with photos expected afterwards!
If you drive to Lauterbrunnen town, (where the Airtime Cafe does nice coffee & meat pies, a novelty in Switzerland), it is a nice scenic continuation on through the valley, as the cliffs rise as high as the valley is wide in places, with waterfalls and the occasional basejumper launcing themselves into the cleft. This would be the perfect appearance to prompt a gondola trip up to the Schilthorn, that of OHMSS fame. Schilthorn vis Murren has its own gondola station (outdoor parking) down in the valley, or you can get there from another gondola in Lauterbrunnen village that takes you up to a train, then across to Murren, and on to Schilthorn. Murren is a cute little village and worth a stroll around.
Wengen is a nice little mountain village, stayed there a couple of times for the ski-race and it`s fun, but the stand-out for me is the Nordwand or north face of the Eiger, which you get an amazing view of from the Grindelwald side, but can`t really see from Wengen. At Scheidegg you have the previously recommended Bellevue Des Alpes hotel at around 2000m, right under the Eiger. Not much else though, a bar/restaurant, a convenience store (assuming they are open of course, I`ve only ever been in the winter) and a train station.
From Scheidegg you can catch another train up to Jungfraujoch, or Top of Europe as it is known. The train stops for a few minutes and you can get out and look through windows from inside the Nordwand.
Side story. On one work trip up there, there was a workman with what is normally a locked steel hatch that opens out onto the face, and I was able to convince him to let me slide out with the harness and take a look, just wow!
Alternatively, down at Grindelwald (1000m), sitting on a hotel balcony at sunset suitably equipped and watching the light and shadow do its thing on the imposing Eiger is quite mesmerising! Eiger Mountain and Soul Resort, terrible name, very nice hotel. The car park is a bit tight to get in and out of from memory, but there is a large municipal carpark just a couple of hundred metres down the road.
In all these places there are plenty of accommodations, with a variety of prices, but rarely are they bad. Booking.com should be a decent help once you decide where you are going.
Have a great trip, resurrection of thread with photos expected afterwards!
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