Trips · Switzerland & France

Switzerland – France · Geneva & Lyon

📍 Switzerland & France 🗓 7 days / 6 nights 🔖 Code R1
  1. Geneva
  2. Bern
  3. Lake Neuchâtel
  4. Gruyères
  5. Montreux
  6. Lausanne
  7. Annecy
  8. Lyon
  9. Grenoble

Seven days between Switzerland and France — Geneva and Bern, the walled town of Gruyères, Montreux and Lausanne, Annecy the ‘Venice of the Alps’, Lyon and Grenoble.

Highlights

  • Geneva and its lake
  • Bern, ‘the city of fountains’
  • The tiny walled town of Gruyères, home of the cheese that bears its name
  • Montreux and Lausanne, on Lake Geneva
  • Annecy, ‘the Venice of the Alps’
  • Lyon, where the Rhône meets the Saône
  • Grenoble, among the French Alps

Itinerary

Day 1

Athens – Geneva, a first tour

We meet at the airport and fly with AEGEAN to Geneva. On arrival, a tour of the city, taking in the Jet d'Eau fountain and the flower clock.

Day 2

Geneva – Bern – Lake Neuchâtel

A morning departure for Switzerland's romantic capital, Bern, ‘the city of fountains’, set in a bend of the river Aare. We return by way of Lake Neuchâtel.

🍽 Breakfast

Day 3

Gruyères – Montreux – Lausanne

The tiny, picturesque walled town of Gruyères awaits, home of the cow's-milk cheese that bears its name. We continue to cosmopolitan Montreux and to Lausanne.

🍽 Breakfast

Day 4

Geneva – Annecy – Lyon

A morning departure for Annecy, known as ‘the Venice of the Alps’, with its canals and lake. We continue to Lyon.

🍽 Breakfast

Day 5

Lyon, a guided tour

A tour of Lyon, set where the Rhône meets the Saône — France's gastronomic capital and a UNESCO World Heritage site.

🍽 Breakfast

Day 6

Lyon – Grenoble – Lyon

A morning departure for Grenoble. Ringed by the peaks of the French Alps, the city hosted the 1968 Winter Olympics.

🍽 Breakfast

Day 7

Lyon – Athens

Breakfast and a free day, until the transfer to the airport and the return flight.

🍽 Breakfast

Included

  • Flights Athens – Geneva & Lyon – Athens with AEGEAN
  • One checked bag up to 23 kg and one carry-on up to 8 kg
  • Airport taxes and fuel surcharges
  • Six nights in selected 4* hotels
  • Buffet breakfast daily
  • Transfers, tours and guided visits as listed in the programme
  • Tour leader / escort from our agency
  • Public liability insurance & travel insurance

Not included

  • Supplement from Thessaloniki: €150, and from other cities: €220 with AEGEAN, subject to availability
  • Entrance fees to museums, monuments and other sights
  • Gratuities, porterage
  • Anything not expressly listed in the programme

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