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As a sole proprietor with a capacity of one tour per day, I can be fully booked far in advance.

Mount Titlis and Lucerne tour from Zurich

Our day tour from Zurich starts shortly after 7 a.m. We travel to Engelberg, which requires just one change of trains in Lucerne. From there, we start the ascent to Mount Titlis with two different gondolas, the Titlis Xpress and the famous Titlis Rotair, the first revolving gondola. They will bring us to the summit at 3020 meters above sea level.

As this is a private tour, and as we will have plenty of time, you can stay up to four hours on the Mountain peak. Enjoy this once-in-a-lifetime experience without a rush and be able to do all the offered activities:

- Take the Titlis Ice Flyer chairlift and fly over glacier crevasses (weather permitting)

- do a thrilling walk over the Titlis Cliff Walk, the highest suspension bridge in Europe (weather permitting)

- head into the Titlis glacier cave, located ten meters below the surface of the glacier

- Snow tubing at the Titlis glacier park (seasonal from May to August and depending on the snow conditions)

- Trübsee adventure (for children, seasonal from June to mid-October and weather permitting)

All the mentioned activities are optional; it's your choice if you want to participate.

An outside platform with snow all year round invites you to play in the snow, build a snowman, or to start a snowball fight.

For your lunch (not included), there is an à la carte restaurant serving delicious regional and international specialties and a self-service restaurant for a quick meal.

In the afternoon, we return on the same route. In Lucerne, we can do a stop, visit the Landmark Chapel Bridge (Kapellbrücke) and walk through the city before returning to Zurich.

If you like, you can have your dinner in Lucerne before we return to Zurich (not included in the tour price).

Inclusions

- All required train tickets in first class for you and the guide

- Mt. Titlis aerial cableway tickets for you and the guide (price includes entry fees)

- Mt. Titlis Ice Flyer tickets

- Mt. Titlis special offer: reserve one alternative tour date free of charge, choose a few days before departure the day with the best weather

- Meeting at any centrally located Hotels, Apartment, or Airbnb

- Return to any centrally located Hotel, Apartment, or Airbnb after the tour

- Fee for the private guide, who will stay at your disposal throughout the tour

- Car-free tour by train, mountain railway, and aerial cable car as per the tour description

- Photography by the guide (with your own camera or smartphone)

- A booklet with comprehensive information about Switzerland (one per party, for groups of four persons or larger are two printed copies included)

- Use of a mobile hotspot with unlimited data (Speed: 4G)

What is not included in the tour price?

- Your meals and drinks

- Any personal expenses

- Optional activities

- Travel insurance (participation at your own risk)

This itinerary is only an example. The schedule can vary due to various factors such as the season, the day of the week, construction work, service, and schedule changes.

The exact departure and return time depends on the pick-up/drop-off location.

Customization possibilities:

You can spontaneously extend or shorten the visit to the Mt. Titlis peak (Last gondola down at 5 p.m.)

You can spontaneously shorten, extend, or skip the visit to the Trübsee intermediate station (Last gondola down at 5 p.m.)

You can spontaneously add time to visit the village of Engelberg

You can spontaneously shorten, extend, or skip the visit to Lucerne (Latest possible departure time from Lucerne at 10 p.m.)

Please regard that your lunch is not included in the tour price.

During lunch hours:

à la carte restaurant at the Mt. Titlis peak +

This restaurant serves various specialties of Switzerland and international dishes.

Vegetarian, vegan and halal dishes are available.

Click here to see the website and menu

Click here to read the restaurants' reviews on TripAdvisor

self-service restaurant at the Mt. Titlis peak

This restaurant serves a range of hot and cold dishes, including comfort food and local dishes.

Vegetarian options are available.

Click here to see the website and menu

Click here to read the restaurants' reviews on TripAdvisor

Outside of regular lunch hours:

We can have a late lunch/early dinner in Lucerne, where there is a large variety of restaurants.

Quick lunch:

There are convenience shops and sandwich outlets along our travel route, where you can grab a bite.

International food options:

Spice Bistro Engelberg (at the base station of the Mt. Titlis aerial cable car)

(online menu not available)

Click here to read the restaurants' reviews on TripAdvisor

* This option may not be available at all times, especially during low season (i.e. April, November, and early December). If you want to eat at this restaurant, please let me know at the time of booking, so that I can check availability for our tour date.

+ For restaurants marked with a plus (+), reservations are recommended. I'm happy to reserve a table for you.

Disclaimer

Restaurant menus, prices, and options are subject to change.

The restaurant menus are hosted as a PDF file on the restaurants' websites.

The activity level is moderate: frequent changes of trains (the changes are easy but require some walking and steps to get in and out of the trains), a walk through Zermatt at your discretion, a walk at the Gornergrat at your discretion

I can meet you at any centrally located hotel in Zurich.

Click here to see a map of the pick-up area

If you're staying outside of the pick-up area, I can meet you at the central train station of Zurich.

Weather forecast

Once a reliable weather forecast is available (usually one to three days before departure), I will send you a link to the forecast.

If there is bad weather forecasted, I will include my recommendations for our tour day.

I use the weather forecasts provided by the Federal Office of Meteorology and SRF (Swiss Radio and Television).

With the links below, you can check the weather forecast at any time by yourself. The forecasts are available for the next five days.

Operability

This tour can run in any weather condition except during a storm. During a storm, aerial cableways have to halt operations for safety reasons. If there is a storm with gale-force winds in the forecast, I need to cancel the tour. On rare occasions, there may be a cancellation due to landslides, avalanches, and other natural forces or the risk thereof. I will fully refund the deposit in this case.

Your options in case of bad weather (tour specific)

- We can do the tour as planned despite the weather.

- I also have a few full-day train tours. For example, the Glacier Express route on local trains tour. These tours are ideal on rainy days as we are for most of the day inside and not exposed to the weather, and as on rainy days the views are usually better at lower altitudes. Further, this tour has a lower tour price as it doesn't require any expensive mountain railway tickets.

- If not having perfect weather is a dealbreaker, you can cancel by forfeiting the deposit.