10 Tourist Mistakes to Avoid in INTERLAKEN, SWITZERLAND | What to know before visiting Interlaken

hey guys welcome back to the traveling swiss if you are new here my name is alexis and i am american and my name is louis and i am swiss and together we make videos from both of our point of view all about traveling and living in switzerland so if that sounds interesting to you click that subscribe button and make sure to stick around in this video we're going to go to the region that so many of you love to visit in switzerland and that is the interlocking for good reason we have videos all over this region but today we're going to give you our top 10 tourist mistakes to avoid there are a lot of amazing things to do and see in the interlaken region and a lot of them come at a really high price tag so these tips will range from ways that you can make sure you're not just wasting money and making sure you're not wasting time too so we're going to go through the top 10 based on our experience and based on what we've heard from all of you guys starting with that we're going to go right into number one so for the number one is not planning accordingly with the travel passes that are available for the region in the intellectual region i really recommend using some of the travel passes that are created there are three travel passes we've made a video about it actually to help you decide depending on your itinerary you'll have a pass that will fit better than the other really not planning on this will make you lose money and so this is something to get really that pass to you if you want to maximize your time that you spend in gondolas mountain trains this is a beautiful part of the region and so planning with this pass is good the biggest mistake that we see a lot of you guys making is buying the swiss travel pass particularly if you'd like to visit the young faryak you cannot get there with a swiss travel pass okay so number two is not checking the weather forecast and particularly the webcams in advance so after tip number one you know which travel pass is gonna make the most sense for your trip and let's say you're going to the jungfrau you're really excited the weather looks amazing in the valley of interlaken and you take that train up and you're hit with a wall of fog so you cannot trust the weather in the valleys to determine what the weather looks like up on the top of the mountains great news there is all of these different mountains in the region have webcams so the fierce the young fry all those different mountains have a webcam at the top make sure to check them a lot of those travel passes you buy are valid for three days which is great because you can juggle your itinerary around a little bit so i'll put the links in the description they're really really important because it's such a shame if you have that day planned and you go up and you are met with a cloud yeah and i think you have different peaks and different places that will have different very different actually whether because you have mountains in between and clouds might be stuck in one valley and not the other so i think being adaptative and not being stuck to one thing in one day will be good and also these travel passes allow you to do so so really try to keep it open uh having your ideas in mind but keep it open based on the weather another mistake to avoid when you are in interlaken intellectual means between two lakes and it's to disregard the lake activities we have two beautiful lakes the lake brienne's lakeview and the lake tune and this is really a nice day that you can plan on uh boats you have some old boats uh especially under on the summer it's beautiful when you have sun the color is amazing of the deliberations so disregarding the boat tours and the enjoying the the lakes is something to avoid i would really recommend it also diversifying from the mountains a day on the lakes is nice make sure to at least think about these possibilities and having these boat tours you have with the burner oberlon pass for example all the boats that are included and also if you have swiss travel pass actually this is also included so this can be a nice activity the boat to go on the labrie ants is my favorite you can go to isilva that is a very cute little village and brienne's is also a nice uh little city so that's something to think about also when you plan your trip to interlaken okay so moving into the taurus mistake number four to avoid and that is confusing interlock invest in interlock and post so interlaken has two train stations east and west the main one is interlocking that is the main train station that is the one that's more central to everything the village so hotels things like that but make sure you check it because they are not particularly close together it's a quick bus ride but it's a 20 minute walk so if you show up at one and your train or whatever leaves from the other one you're a little bit far away interlocking west the west station is where the boats go to lake tune and also the east station is where they go to lake brandt so there are some notable differences likely you'll be leaving out of interlaken oas but there are some things that leave out of the other station so if you confuse them you might just miss your transportation yes so just i think for all the passes that you'll have for the mountains everything leaves from intellect and aust so the east part that goes to kindergarten so this is the main one but if you take a boat to lake tune this is on the interlaken west so the fifth taurus mistake to avoid is similar also in the region and this is for grindelwald i have done this personally myself and that is confusing the grindelwald station the train station with grindelwald terminal so this one's a little bit trickier than interlaken because there are definitely things that leave out of both of these they're both really important all of the trains and things like that will come into the grindelwald station so that is right in the middle of the village on the main strip that's where all the hotels are everything like that i would say maybe about a five minute drive away fifteen twenty minute walk is grindelwald terminal grindelwald terminal or where the gondolas go up to the mendyshen where the iger express will take you up to the young froyok so you'll likely be using both of these louie did a morning hike at medley and asked me to pick him up at grindelwald tournament while i showed up at the train station where are you i was waiting for him quite a while uh when we say at the beginning of the video that these are mistakes that we've made we've really made them ourselves so this one we have made them ourselves so this one is important because there are definitely things that leave out of both of them so if you have a particular time in your itinerary make sure you're going to the right station here just to note that the train that comes from interlaken that goes to grindelwald's main station green development station is the last station but the train will also stop every time in the terminal so if you want to take your gondola to the main nation or to the iger express from interlaken the train will stop there and then you'll be in that terminal so this is the train will stop on in both stations so our six top mistakes that you could make and that you should avoid when planning a trip to interlaken is actually thinking that interlaken is worth spending a full day and this is not the case interlaken is an excellent base for everything in the region but in terms of actual village city it's actually a little bit underwhelming in my opinion i much prefer going to tun and brienne's that are much kind of more cute as a as cities you can i think spend some some time on your back from your activities in interlaken but really planning on visiting interlaken is not worth your time you better off just go to the nature or to other cities than really spending some time in interlaken so mistake number seven to avoid is a little bit unfortunate and a bummer that has been happening more recently but that is not keeping your wits about you especially in train stations switzerland is heralded as being very very safe to travel to and that is true but i think a good rule of thumb when you're traveling is don't spend more time in train stations than you need to and when you are there just make sure you're a little bit more aware of your surroundings than you are day-to-day normally unfortunately i've been getting a lot of reports of people and interlocking getting pickpocketed and a lot of you have been messaging me or leaving comments and it's really sad to hear it so the taurus scam that i've been seeing the most people report happening is a group of people in the train stations will offer to help you with your luggage and then something will go missing a bag or something like that so if that happens just say no thank you and and do it yourself because it is a common scam that's happening most people are good-natured but there are people that look to take advantage of taurus in any situation that being said don't enter switzerland or interlaken thinking it's really unsafe we have left things in the jungfrau that have gotten returned to us switzerland over and also yeah it's really really safe but if you are a group of tourists there are always people looking to exploit that so really simple just be aware of your surroundings and you're going to be totally fine the eighth mistake not to make when you are planning your trip to interlaken and the interlaken region especially when you are planning on going skiing or doing some luge in the region in the winter is to have interlaken as a base because you will have to always take a train to the ski resorts to then have to take a gondola to do all these activities this is a little bit annoying and also the the views from the villages of grindelwald wengen murren or even lauterbrunnen is really nice when it's snowy and it's much more convenient so if you are going there with the purpose of going skiing or are really doing these activities on a daily basis have your hotel accommodation in kendall vallarta or vegan so the ninth mistake to avoid and if you've watched a few of our videos you've maybe seen this theme come up a lot and that is eating out for all of your meals including lunch interlaken is a great region to picnic in because so many of those activities that you're going to be doing are in the mountains but once you're up in the mountains you can't really get picnic stuff so you need to plan for that when you're in interlaken or on any of those valley cities exactly so go to amiga or a cup those are the supermarkets or any of those kind of local shops and pick up what you need and bring it up into the mountain with you because once you are up in the mountains there will be restaurants but there will no longer be those stores to offer you that option to picnic so plan for it before you go on your hikes or whatever you're doing and then you could save yourself quite a bit of money eating in those often overpriced restaurants up in the mountains and last but not least is planning on having all the gondolas mountain trains and these activities open all year long which is not the case unfortunately so for example the hardcore funicula is only open from april to i think october so if you are coming earlier later this is not something that is open and it's a little bit uh sad but this is still something to uh to make sure that you go to these websites and know exactly when the closures are the main mission also closes on shoulder month the tremble back filler this this is more of an activity closes after november i think and reopens only in the spring or early summer you have a lot of these things that will close because there's less tourists all because of the the snow and the conditions that don't allow it to make it appropriate in terms of safety so make sure you check all your activities on websites to make sure that this is open when you come otherwise you'll still have a lot of things that can be done i think the top of europe is always open all year long but always check the schedules and you will be fine okay guys so if you made it to the end of the video thank you so much for watching if you find this content helpful you can consider supporting us by buying us a virtual coffee at that link here let us know if you like these tourist mistake types of videos i made one i think almost a year and a half ago at this point and this is the second one so if there are other places then we can make this a series that you'd like to see tourist mistakes let us know what you'd like to see in the comments and we'll look into making those but as always thank you guys so much for your support we really appreciate it we love making videos for you guys but we'll see you in the next one bye guys bye hey guys thanks for watching thanks for watching if you want to see more videos like this please make sure to like and 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Length: 12min 27sec (747 seconds)

Published: Fri Sep 09 2022