Zermatt

By Plane
Zermatt is about a 3 to 4 hour drive from the international airports of Zurich, Geneva, Basel and Milan. Two of the low cost airlines Easyjet and Flybe fly to Zurich and Genčve from various airports around the UK. Upon arriving at Zurich or Geneva Airport, you can then catch a train to Zermatt. To check the timeable for the Swiss Rail System click here.

By train
The railway has direct connections in Brig and Visp to the modern narrow gauge railway of the Matterhorn Gottard Railway, arriving about an hour and a half later though the romantic Nicolaital valley.

The new Lötschberg base tunnel from Frutigen (BE) to Raron (VS) significantly shortens the journey time to Zermatt by train.
- from Zurich approx. 3 h 16
- from Basel approx. 3 h 15
- from Bern approx. 2 h 08

Zermatt, depending on how you look at it, is the start of finish of the world-famous Glacier Express which runs from St. Moritz/Davos-Zermatt). The Glacier Express travels a beautiful route between the sights of the Graubünden holiday region, the sunny Valais region with its glacier landscape, and the beautiful regions of the South. It runs from St.Moritz to Zermatt and vice versa or from Piz Bernina to the Matterhorn.

The Glacier Express is a 7 1/2 hour railway journey across 291 bridges, through 91 tunnels and across the Oberalp Pass at 2’033 metres in altitude.

By car
Zermatt is car-free zone and private traffic is only allowed up to Täsch (5 km before Zermatt), and the road between Täsch and Zermatt is also closed to public transport.

Multi-storey car parks (2,900 places; 2,000 of which in the Matterhorn Terminal Täsch) and public car parks (900 places) are available in Täsch. Some of the multi-storey car parks also have outside parking spaces, and offer a taxi service to and from Zermatt.

The shuttle trains of the Matterhorn Gotthard Railway run between Täsch and Zermatt every 20 minutes.

Zermatt is on the Italian border of the canton of Valais in the west of Switzerland, at the end of the 30km long Nikolaital, which lies at the foot of the Matterhorn, one of the world’s most photographed mountains. For visitors all over the world, Zermatt epitomises the image of Switzerland: high-alpine, awe-inspiring, and original.

Almost a third of the 4000m mountains in the Alps are grouped around this world-famous health resort, which has been visited by mountaineers from all over the world since the first successful ascent of the Matterhorn in 1865. With 12 headwaters and 86 springs, 75% of its municipality are nature reserves which are of national and international importance.

Eating out
Few other ski resorts have such a variety of Hansel & Gretel chalet restaurants and bars. Ranging from Asian, European and international cuisine Zermatt will have somewhere for you to comfortably dine and replenish your energy with menus to suit all pockets. Visit zermatt.ch/en for a list of great meals out.

Nightlife
In Zermatt, the fun starts even before the lifts close. In addition to stopping on the way down for schnapps, Gluhwein (hot, spicy red wine) and so on, and assuming you can still make it down, from 4-6 you could stop at the Olympia Stubli on the way to town from the Sunnegga Paradise area. Coming down from Furi, Zum See, Blatten, Hennu Stall and Simi are also good after-ski watering holes. For real revellers to the slightly less hardcore, Zermatt has a bar, club for all interests.