Private tours in Grindelwald, Switzerland

Private Grindelwald Tours

Grindelwald appears in 4 of our itineraries across Switzerland, ranging from 7–11 days. Every one is private, and every one can be reshaped around the time you want to spend here.

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From our itineraries

What a day in Grindelwald looks like.

Taken from the itineraries themselves — these are real days from trips we run, not a generic description of the city.

Day 3 · Swiss Alps

Jungfraujoch and the First View of the Aletsch

The Jungfrau Railway bores through the limestone of the Eiger and Mönch for seven kilometres before emerging above the cloud at 3,454 metres — a feat of engineering completed in 1912 that still takes approximately fifty minutes to absorb on the way up. The window stations in the Eigerwand (Eiger Wall) and Eismeer (Sea of Ice) open directly onto the north face of the Eiger, where the stone plunges 1,700 metres to the valley below. At the Jungfraujoch: the Sphinx Observatory at 3,571 metres (reachable by lift), the Ice Palace carved from the glacier, and the view south across the Aletsch Glacier — 23 kilometres long and 900 metres deep at its thickest, the largest glacier in the Alps and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Your private guide has been leading Jungfraujoch excursions for fifteen years and explains the geology of the Aletsch and the history of the railway. Descent to the valley for lunch. Afternoon walk in Grindelwald First — the high meadow plateau above the village, reached by gondola, with views of the Wetterhorn and the Schreckhorn.

Jungfraujoch railway — window stations inside the Eiger
Sphinx Observatory at 3,571 metres
Aletsch Glacier UNESCO World Heritage Site

Day 4 · Essence of Switzerland

Jungfraujoch: Top of Europe

The Jungfraujoch railway took sixteen years to build, was completed in 1912, and remains the highest railway station in Europe at 3,454 metres — a fact that requires stopping to consider, since the tunnel was bored through the Eiger and Mönch by hand between 1896 and 1912 with steam-powered drills. The journey up is part of the experience: the rack railway from Grindelwald or Kleine Scheidegg, the tunnel section where the train stops at the Eigerwand and Eismeer window stations to look out through holes in the Eiger's north face, and the emergence above the clouds into the Aletsch Glacier — the longest glacier in the Alps at 23 kilometres. At the summit: the Sphinx Observatory at 3,571 metres, the Snow Fun Park on the glacier, and a view on clear days that extends to the Black Forest in Germany and Mont Blanc in France. Your private guide explains the geology of the Aletsch and the engineering of the railway. Return to the valley for lunch and an afternoon walk in the Grindelwald First area or along the valley.

Jungfraujoch railway — the highest station in Europe
Eigerwand and Eismeer window stations inside the mountain
Aletsch Glacier from the summit — 23 kilometres of ice

Day 4 · Grand Tour of Switzerland

Into the Bernese Oberland

The drive south from Lucerne through the pre-Alps to the Bernese Oberland takes an hour. Interlaken between its two lakes, then the valley south to Grindelwald or Wengen, where the Eiger, Mönch, and Jungfrau are directly above. The Bernese Oberland became the centre of European mountain tourism in the late 18th century, when Goethe, Byron, and Shelley came to look at the glaciers, and the rack railways that followed in the 19th century made the summits accessible. The afternoon for orientation and acclimatisation: a gondola ride above the treeline, a walk in the high meadow of Grindelwald First, or the Harder Kulm funicular above Interlaken for the first wide view of the massif. The evening in the valley with the Eiger above.