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Hi Everyone ,

Happy to be part of this forum . Moved recently to Zurich with my husband and child (3 yrs old ).

Planning for a trip in this Easter holidays to some country(4 days) . Suggest me some country and also some best packages I can take up .

Thanks in advance .

Regards

Naveena Kumaran

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H Naveena!

Welcome to the forum.

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Welcome to Switzerland. You almost had me with your opening post but then I read the title and despaired

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Hi,

Welcome to the forum. Instead of a package I'd suggest plan your trip.

4 days is an ample time to go anywhere and Zurich being in the centre, it helps

Plan-1

1. Day 1: You can rent a car in Zurich and drive up to Milan (3.5hours). Start early and enjoy the rest of the day roaming around Duomo etc. Book a hotel in advance for the night.

2. Day 2: Check out and drive to Venice. Another 3 hours and enjoy the city. Spend the night there.

3. Day 3: Drive up to Florence and Pisa. Spend the day and night.

4. Day 4: Drive back to Venice (takes around 3hours from Pisa) and from there back to Zurich (5 hours).

Plan-2

1. Day-1: Travel to Innsbrucke, on a train reservation. 4 hours. Start early and spend the day at the Swarovski Museum.

2. Day-2: Go to top of Innsbrucke and explore the rest of the city. Evening take a train to Vienna (4hours). Recharge your batteries.

3. Day-3: Explore the city of Vienna.

4. Day-4: Make a halt at Salzburg, (2.5hrs from Vienna) the birthplace of Mozart. Explore the city. Take a late evening train back to Zurich via Innsbruck.

Plan-3

1. Day-1: Travel to Munich. Start early. Explore the city and spend the day drinking beer and tasting the local food.

2. Day-2: Travel to Nuremberg. Explore the city.

3. Day-3: Travel to Prague. Go nuts.

4. Day-4: Return

The key is ensuring you have all your itinerary clear in your head and your reservations done well in advance. A baby might need additional care and some modifications but this is basically a rough idea.

Have a nice long holiday weekend.

PS: the prices might be a tad higher everywhere. Try AirBnB.

PS: Double Check everything.

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Wow !! Thank you so much for spending your time and posting me gr8 ideas . Thanks a lot .

Regards

Naveena

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Welcome to Switzerland's airline (Swiss). You can fly with them somewhere

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Welcome!

Just a littke remark: either you say "Switzerland" or "Swiss Confederation"... in case you are naming this country.

Otherwise, like the previous poster suggested, maybe you also just started to work for Swiss, the airline?

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Hi and welcome to the forum.

You can also spend a day or two in the Italian part of Switzerland (Lugano and Ascona are quite nice) and do a day trip to Milan.

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Maybe the filter that censors swear words could be adapted to correct "New to Swiss" into "New to Switzerland" automatically?

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Or some intelligent algorithm that corrects misuse of "Swiss" into "Switzerland"

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Welcome. You'll love Sweden - especially it's fondue and chocolate and beautiful scenery.

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This is great, but not so easy there...She wants to go at Easter.

I suggest a simpler route: fly to Venice, enjoy, rent a car just outside the city, go on a day trip to Verona and Lake Garda (1 hour and 15 minutes drive), come back to Venice, enjoy, fly back to Zurich. No stress, no Gotthard, no wasting time.

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The Schwarzwald (Black Forest) would be a very pleasant 3 or 4 day trip. Presuming you have a car, you can meander up to Freiburg and spend one or two nights there, then one or two nights in Baden-Baden. Plenty of pleasant drives and little villages here and there to divert you.

For a more detailed itinerary, I find Tripadvisor a pretty good source of information these days.

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Welcome to Switzerland. I’m surprised at all these people suggesting trips outside of the country. As you’ve just arrived why not do some exploring here?

http://www.myswitzerland.com/en-ch/home.html

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Thanks to all for it valuable suggestions . Will definitely try out something you guys suggested .

By the way I meant I am new to Switzerland

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Hello and welcome to CH

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I agree with this. Have you been to Luzerne or Rapperswil? Or how about the Rigi Bahn, that's pretty cool. My three year old loved it.

All of the above are very close to Zurich and reachable by train.

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Down at Rapperswil is Knie’s Kinderzoo which should appeal to your 3 year old.

http://www.knieskinderzoo.ch/zoocute/homepage/

You could even consider taking one of the ferries down the river from Zurich to Rapperswil, another adventure for a 3 year old.

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All right cappie..you caught me! I forgot to take in to account the traffic conditions... my bad.

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Hi Naveena and welcome to CH.

You might consider using an alias in case this is your real name...

And see lovely CH first before you venture far.