Thursday Chur Switzerland

Today we would be heading to Chur, Switzerland on the 10 o’clock train so plenty of time for a good breakfast as lunch would be taken on the run. For some reason DB decided to change all our seat reservations last night, so Geoff had to ensure we all knew our new ones. On the train we all found our seats and the rest of the carriage soon filled up with well behaved young people.
We had to change trains at Basel for the second part of our journey, we were now traveling with Swiss Rail and could use our Swiss rail pass, this would give us unlimited travel on trains, buses and ferries as well as some cable cars and funicular railways while in Switzerland, what’s more it was all First class.It even gave free access to museums etc. We had to share the upper floor of a first class coach with another group part of the way. At Chur there was a van waiting to take our bags up to the hotel while we had a short walk into the old town to the Hotel Freieck, a very comfortable 3 star hotel where we would be staying for the next four nights. I was most impressed with our shower with a pebble base.

 

Geoff our tour leader guided us up from the station to the old town and saw us all safely booked into our rooms.

Once settled in we went for a quick look round and decided that we would eat in one of the more modern restaurants that we had passed as we walked up from the station, this was our first experience of Swiss food and drink prices. Most nights a meal for two with two small glasses of wine would come out at over 100 Swiss Francs. A standard glass of wine, which is only 80% the size of a UK small glass was 8 to 10 francs.

Switzerland 2026 Leaving home and traveling to Frankfurt

This is a blog of our holiday to Switzerland for two weeks with Ffestiniog Travel. The blog contains several hundred photographs so be warned.

Our travel this time was slightly different, insomuch as we had a taxi to take us to Norwich As we had to catch the coach at 10:00 and the car was in the garage for an MOT and service.

We arrived at the bus station in good time and the coach made very good time into London arriving early. The underground was quite quiet and we were soon ready to book into the Kings Cross Premier Inn. That evening we met my granddaughter and her partner for a meal at Altonapoli  Italian Restaurant, before turning in for the night. This was probably the noisiest Premier Inn that we have ever stayed at, so not the best night's sleep. This was the view from our window, refrigeration units and rubbish bins for the kitchen.

 

 

Wednesday morning we met Geoff, our tour leader at St Pancras Station, And it wasn't long before we were boarding our train to brussels. Unfortunately our train was running late and we were very worried about making our connection at Brussels. But Geoff had a word with the train hostess who contacted Brussels and arranged for our train to come in on a different platform and our outgoing train to Frankfurt to be on the adjoining line, so we just had to cross the platform from one to the other.

 

 

At Frankfurt our hotel was very close to the station, so only a very short walk which was good. They had their own Chinese restaurant where we all ate that night with a limited, help your self buffet.