9 Days London, Paris & Switzerland Package – Eurostar, Mt Titlis, Lake Lucerne & Rhine Falls

Big cities and high mountains rarely sit in the same holiday, but this 9 Days London, Paris and Switzerland tour joins them by train: two nights in London, the Eurostar to Paris, then a Swiss Travel Pass for the lakes and peaks of central Switzerland. You travel at your own pace, with your hotels, trains and main sightseeing booked in advance. It is planned and supported by IMAD Travel, an IATA-certified travel agency in Hyderabad serving travellers from across India since 2011. We can arrange this same route, or a similar one, as a custom package for your couple, family or group, on your own dates and with your choice of hotels. Just quote the tour code IMAD-EU-12698 when you contact us.

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Who this tour suits

Honeymooners, families and friends who like freedom more than a fixed group schedule. There is no Tour Director and no coach: you move by train, follow your own timing each day, and still have the important pieces arranged for you, from the London Eye ticket to the Titlis cable car. It suits travellers who are comfortable finding their way at a station, or who want to learn, with our team briefing you before you leave.

Why go

The first full day starts on the top deck of a red London bus. Your hop-on hop-off pass covers three routes that pass almost everything you have seen in films: Buckingham Palace, the Houses of Parliament and Big Ben, Westminster Abbey, the Tower of London and Piccadilly Circus. A one-way Thames cruise shows the city from the river, and a slow turn on the London Eye shows it from above. In the evening, the lights of Leicester Square and the West End theatres make it easy to see why London never seems to sleep.

Next morning the Eurostar carries you under the English Channel and, a little over two hours later, into Paris. Walk along the Seine, sit at a café on the Champs-Élysées, and the next day see the city properly: a coach tour of the great boulevards and monuments, the ride up to the 2nd level of the Eiffel Tower for a view that reaches across the rooftops to Montmartre, and an hour on the Seine past Notre-Dame and the Louvre. The evening is yours for the bistros of the Latin Quarter, or for the Mona Lisa if you add the Louvre.

A fast train takes you east to Basel and into Switzerland, and from here your Swiss Travel Pass opens the country’s trains, buses and lake boats. Lucerne is your base for three nights: a medieval old town on a turquoise lake, the covered wooden Chapel Bridge with its painted panels, and the moving Lion Monument carved into the rock in memory of Swiss soldiers. One day goes up to Mt Titlis above Engelberg, where the Rotair cable car turns slowly as it climbs to the glacier, the ice cave glows blue, and the Titlis Cliff Walk hangs over a drop of 500 metres. In the afternoon, a Lake Lucerne cruise returns you to town between steep green shores. Another day takes you to the Stanserhorn, where the CabriO cable car has an open upper deck, so you ride to the summit with nothing between you and the Alps.

Your last stop is Zurich, Switzerland’s largest city, on its lake. From here a short train ride brings you to Rhine Falls at Schaffhausen, the most powerful waterfall in Europe, where the whole width of the Rhine thunders over the rocks in a cloud of spray. Travellers who want more mountains can add the optional day to Jungfraujoch, at 3,454 metres the highest railway station in Europe, or to Grindelwald First for its cliff walk and mountain carts.

Don’t miss

The London skyline from the top of the London Eye. Paris from the Eiffel Tower. The glacier on Mt Titlis. The open deck of the CabriO on the Stanserhorn. The spray of Rhine Falls.

Why go now

May to September is the best time for this route, with long days in London and Paris and the Swiss lakes and mountain lifts at their best; some mountain lifts close for maintenance in spring and autumn. December brings Christmas markets and snow on Titlis. Summer and school holidays fill hotels and trains early, so plan two to three months ahead.

Good to know

This is a price on request tour: we quote for your dates, hotel category and group size. You need two visas: a UK visa for London and a Schengen visa for France and Switzerland, and our visa team can guide you with both. You travel with your own luggage on the trains, so pack light; trains in Switzerland have space for bags. Switzerland uses the Swiss franc, France the euro and London the pound. Indian and vegetarian food is easy to find in London, Paris, Lucerne and Zurich.

More of Europe: see all our London tour packages, Paris tour packages and Switzerland tour packages, the longer 13 days London, Paris, Switzerland and Italy tour by train or the 12 days escorted tour of Italy, Switzerland, Paris and London.

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