Overview
Whether it is a leisurely walk or a more challenging hike you desire, Alpine Adventure Trails Tours, Inc. will present you with a guided travel tour of the highest quality. Alpine Adventure Trails Tours’ unique trips are structured around extended stays in charming mountain villages in Switzerland and Austria. Lodging in family inns, enjoying the renowned hospitality of the Swiss and Austrian innkeepers, day-hike the surrounding mountains and valleys. You don’t move from village to village each day, but instead relax in one village in a charming inn for six nights before moving to the second village of the trip. Extended stays in family inns allow you to experience the full depth of an area and truly embrace the Swiss and Austrian way of life. By the end of the week you will know the staff on a first name basis as they know you. You will truly feel this is your home away from home.
While most guests do both villages of the trips, a one village option is offered.
Not sure if the hiking is too much for you or not enough? Don’t worry. Alpine Adventure Trails offers two hikes each day from which you may choose a moderate hike or a more strenuous hike.
Making arrangements for special dietary requirements, meeting you at the Zurich or Munich airport upon your arrival, and helping with travel arrangements before and after your time with them are a few of the extra benefits you receive when hiking with Alpine Adventure Trails Tours.
Alpine Adventure Trails’ unique program provides hiking options for all abilities. Each day you have a choice of a moderate hike or a more strenuous hike. The group gathers for a brief meeting each evening after dinner when two hikes are presented for the following day. Guide One will describe in detail an easy to moderate hike that is limited in elevation gain and has a distance of six to nine miles. Those who choose Guide One will usually ride above the tree line by cable car or cog rail train and hike a moderate trail. Most hikes with Guide One are of variable length - designed so you can elect to do a portion of the hike or the entire hike – thanks to the extensive Swiss and Austrian transportation network of trains and cable cars. Hikes with Guide One will have little uphill - usually less than 1,200 vertical feet. Some hikes with Guide One have more elevation gain, but the “guide’s pace” used makes going uphill much easier than you would expect. If you walk three to four miles per day, three days a week for several weeks before the trip, you should find your hikes with Guide One thoroughly enjoyable.
Guide Two will provide details about a more challenging hike - seven to twelve miles in length, with elevation gains of approximately 2,500 to 3,500 feet. Hikes with Guide Two take you to areas that can only be reached by foot or helicopter. In all the years Alpine Adventure Trails Tours has led hikers in the Alps, no guest has ever said there was not enough hiking. The most common comment received is that their trip was the best hiking vacation they have ever had.
Lunch for both groups is usually in small inns or mountain huts and, when possible, Groups One and Two will eat together. After completing the day’s hike you return to the comforts of the inn for an evening of fine dining and a restful night sleeping in your private room with a private bath. The following day you awake to enjoy a bountiful buffet breakfast before starting the day’s new hike.
All details of your trip are personally handled by an owner/guide from the time you register for your adventure until you are escorted to the Zurich or Munich airport for the flight home. Alpine Adventure provides personal attention to details behind the scene so you can focus on enjoying the beauty of the Alps. They also understand individual exploration is very much a part of the Alps experience and stand ready to provide information and assistance before and during your trip. All two village tours have two free days (without organized hikes) to allow time to explore on your own (one village tours have a single free day). Switzerland and Austria have wonderful public transportation systems. Trains, buses, cable cars, and boats make it easy and convenient to travel and see areas not visited as a group. On all Switzerland trips each guest receives a Swiss Rail Pass that allows you unlimited travel on public transportation. On Austrian trips guests receive local travel cards that cover travel on local trains, buses and cable cars.
Alpine Adventure Trails Tours is proud to say 75% of last season’s guests had either hiked with them in the past or were referred by someone who had. Alpine attributes their continuing success to the individual service they provide guests as they explore the wonders of the Alps. Guests return to hike with Alpine Adventure Trails Tours and they feel comfortable referring them to their family and friends.
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Cancellation Policy
Cancellations must be received in writing to Alpine Adventure Trails Tours, Inc. A full refund, less a $75 cancellation fee per person, will be made for cancellations received up to 60 days before departure. Up to 33 days before departure a service charge of $250 per person will be retained. If a cancellation is received fewer than 33 days before departure, Alpine will refund up to 50% of tour cost, less any cable or telephone expenses, rail ticket expenses and hotel penalty. For all refunds a fee will be withheld from the refund equal to the amount charged by the credit card company to process your credit card for payment received by Alpine Adventure Trails Tours, Inc. for your tour and the credit card fee charged to return amounts to your credit card. There is no refund for unused tour portions.
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