Country Roads of Switzerland Reviews

We had a great time on this holiday trip. The pace was good and well organized. The scenic drive along the country roads is incredibly scenic with stunning views of the snowcapped Swiss Alps, romantic lakes, waterfalls, glaciers, vineyards, green pastures, old towns, and charming hillside villages. On the second day, we had truly a wonderful experience ...read more getting up to the summit of Mount Stanserhorn aboard an open top funicular cable car and the opportunity to take great photo shots of the wonderful mountain scenery. Among the stunningly snowcapped Swiss Alps, the iconic Matterhorn and the world famous Eiger Mountain offer spectacular views and lifetime experiences. Overall, this was a memorable holiday, complete with exciting train rides, cable cars, luxury cruise of Lake Geneva and spacious touring coach on our drive covering most of the major Swiss cities. We commenced our 14-day trip on 29/08 and had expected the weather to be cool and clear but sadly most of the days were hot and sunny.

I don't have the words to describe how wonderful this trip was every day brought a new highlight. Our tour guide (Matt) was every engaging and insightful. Only downside was it is VERY expensive more so than I expected but even that didn't spoil the experience nor beauty.

The Country Roads of Switzerland Tour was very comprehensive and well-paced with plenty of 2-3 night stays and offering free time. We enjoyed the train journeys and all the spectacular sights of Switzerland and touching on the Italian lakes. Switzerland is very expensive, especially with the low value of the Australian Dollar and the cost of all the ...read more optional excursions made the tour quite expensive but all the excursions added to the experience.

Thoroughly enjoyed this tour. Great bunch of Aussies, Americans and Malaysians. Our Insight tour director was amazing with a great cultural and knowledge base. Scenery was stunning and we were blessed with great weather. Be prepared for high cost of everything in Switzerland. Wonderful tour and all our trip was wonderful, organised by Hannah from Global ...read more journeys.

This was a very good tour of Switzerland. The pace was good, not too rushed and the tour guide Helen was excellent. The hotels were all very good and well positioned. All the places we stayed were interesting and the scenery was spectacular. One point to note though, Switzerland is quite expensive. Be prepared to pay about 50% more for food and drink ...read more than you would pay in Australia.

My only criticism of this tour would be the coach. There were a few seats which did not have the Insight Vacations signature Business Class legroom. I would suggest these few seats were barely Premium Economy so at 6 foot 2 inches I had a couple of slightly cramped days on the coach. I suspect they use a smaller coach on this tour due to the narrow and winding roads taken on the tour.

Otherwise Switzerland is a beautiful, safe and clean country, albeit a bit expensive.

We were aware of Switzerland's reputation for its scenery but it is awesome! The country is easy travelling with relaxed starts and free time allowing us to absorb the beauty of this country of lakes and mountains. Travelling by both coach and train added another dimension of the engineering marvel of the Swiss railways. Although we had a full complement ...read more of 40 people the Tour Director Matt did a great job. Friendly, organised and professional, his communications, advice and directions on times and options were clear and concise. The result - 40 people on the coach, on time, every time the entire trip. A remarkable achievement.

The scenery was amazing, just what you had seen on every postcard for Switzerland. Every where we went was splendid, green and clean and tranquil. Accommodation was excellent in quality and terrific in location.

August is a good month to travel in Switzerland. The weather was fine for most of the time although colder in the mountains. Maria Reisterer was an interesting and caring guide which, as a senior solo traveller, I really appreciated. The coach with our skilled driver was quite comfortable. I loved the itinerary with mostly two night stops in carefully ...read more chosen locations and three in Montreux. The scenery was magnificent with mountains, lakes and pretty picture postcard towns and villages. Thank you to Yvonne at Global Journeys for her help and organisation. Everything went smoothly as planned.

The tour content was perfect and exceeded our expectations, but the tour director was disappointing as he was ill-prepared and unfamiliar with several destinations. His poor organisation and vague instructions saw one family left behind on the excursion to Jungfrau and needing to find their own way back to the hotel. So, except for the choice of tour ...read more director, a perfect trip and a good case for leaving the payment of gratuities until the end of the tour.

We enjoyed our trip to Switzerland, but were disappointed with the number and cost of the optional extras. If we had done all of them on offer, it would have cost us another $2500 on top of the cost of the trip. Such excursions as the Jungfrau we were told that "everyone does this", therefore why not just include it in the itinerary, and not as an ...read more optional extra? If one didn't partake in these extras, you were left with time on your hands while the others went off - often not in places that had a lot to offer. We also got thoroughly sick of the Insight propaganda - every day there was some sort of Insight leaflet or branded product left on the bus seat, or promotional dvd played as we drove along. And every day we were being told about why Insight was such a good company to travel with. Given that everyone on the tour had travelled with Insight before, it was unnecessary information. The hotels were on the most part very good, and well located - the main exception being in Luzerne. The only other thing I'd say is that some of our contingent found it difficult to cope with the cobblestones and many, many stairs, both in the towns, and stairs in the hotels. But mainly because of the optional extras (and cost of), and I know they're optional, we would think long and hard about another Insight tour, particularly now that there are so many tour companies that include all these costs, plus tipping.

Vinchenzo our wonderful tour guide made the trip, beautiful scenery, good travelling companions. Another great Insight tour. Highly recommended. Yvonne from Global Journeys made the whole process very easy.

The majority of optional excursions should have been included in the tour. Who wants to spend a fortnight in Switzerland and not see the Matterhorn & Jungfrau? Also they were expensive so added a considerable amount on to the true cost of the trip. Martin was an excellent guide. Centrally located accommodation was good but would have been improved from ...read more a safety point of view if the rooms had a separate shower instead of over a narrow bath.

Enjoyed the tour very much - had beautiful weather - met some lovely people and Switzerland was like a Picture Postcard everywhere you turned.

Our first ever land tour. We have been on many cruises, but unfortunately could not see Switzerland on a ship. This tour gave us a fantastic snapshot of Switzerland and we could not have seen so many cities and places of interest in any other way with the time we had. It was extremely well organised, perhaps a little fast paced for us, not as much time ...read more to relax, but in saying that, without committing more time and more $$ we expected it to be like it was. Our guide was very disciplined and extremely knowledgeable, and we met many nice people on the tour, a number of whom we are still in contact.