How can we go to Interlaken, Switzerland from Rome, Italy? By Air or by train?

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conley39

Rome to Interlaken takes 7 hr 13 minutes to 13 hr 22 minutes by train depending on the specific connections. There are several options each day. The fastest option is the 6:30 am train which requires changes in Milan and Spiez arriving at the Interlaken Ost (West) station at 2:28 pm. The route with the fewest train changes is to take the night train from Rome at 7:56 pm and change trains in Spiez at 5:44 am arriving at the Interlaken Ost (West) station at 6:18 am. With this option, you could sleep on the train overnight and save on a hotel for the night. You can check specific schedules and prices at the Italian train site: http://www.ferroviedellostato.it/cms/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=c79686605528a110VgnVCM1000003f16f90aRCRD or the Swiss train website: http://www.sbb.ch/en/index.htm

To get to Interlaken, by air, you could fly into either Zurich (2.5 hr away) or Geneva (3 hr away) and then take the train the rest of the way. A couple of good resources for finding budget flights in Europe are: http://www.whichbudget.com/en/ and https://www.skyscanner.net/ . EasyJet flies from Rome Ciampino airport to Geneva and My Air and Baboo fly from Rome Fiumicino airport to Geneva. Air Berlin has flights from Rome to Zurich from Fiumicino.

There are several hotel sites that are good. The one I use most often outside the Netherlands is venere.com: http://www.venere.com/home/ . I've also had good results using the Expedia site in combination with flights on the occassions when I've used it. Venere lists over 50 hotels in Interlaken with about half of them bookable on-line and phine information for the rest.

The Interlaken website is a good starting for information on things to do and excursions to take from there: http://www.interlaken.ch/index.php?L=3&id=53 . When it's best to go depends on your interests. If you're in to skiing, then winter is good. It's a nice place to be any time of year though.

tony

by train from rome about 10 hours, the best season is spring

ricosi64

Well the easiest (and fastest) way of course by air, there are 4 flights daily from Rome-Fiumicino (aka Rome aeroporto da Vinci) to Zurich Airport, fare is from about 120 Euro's (Return - flight) with Swiss (www.swiss.ch). From Zurich Airport to Interlaken there are many trains daily, look at www.sbb.ch.

Don't think about the train unless you are a hardcore traveller or you are anxiuos of flying. Italians train system is a pain, time (of departure and arrival) is relative, and there are frequently strikes of the staff.

The same is for airitalia, don't think about flying with them at least untill they found a solution to rescue (or destroy) the company.

Kate

There are LOTS of tour operators who run bus tours directly from Florence. I studied abroad in Florence and I did one of these tours. (It was great. There were 75 people on the bus and they sold us bottles of wine.)

I would google around and research tours from Florence. It takes 90 minutes to get from Rome to Florence on the Eurostar.

Interlaken is FABULOUS. I stayed at the Funny Farm. It's a hostel, but there are private rooms, too. There's a really nice, relaxing lounge and bar, and the people there are so nice.

Go canyon jumping in Interlaken -- it's like bungee jumping with a rope instead of a bungee (you free-fall, then swing out through a canyon like Tarzan). Interlaken is the one place in the world where this activity is offered. (Scariest thing I have EVER done.)

Alessia

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