Days
Destination
Switzerland Family
Davos
overview
As your family climbs via cable car up to the summit of Mt. Rinerhorn—staring down at grassy mountain fields and immortal rock outcroppings—it’s easy to see exactly what makes Davos so magical. Above you, the peaks of impossibly tall Alpine pinnacles stretch into the distance. Below, a lush valley of adventure spreads before you, waiting for all of you to experience it. From your conveniently central four-star hotel in Davos, you can enjoy whatever strikes your and your loved ones’ fancy, be it sailing or swimming on the lake, gondola rides to hypnotic waterfalls, tobogganing down mountainsides, or family picnics in spots taken right out of the pages of “Heidi.” Enjoy brandishing skewers at a family fondue dinner. Hike through emerald cow pastures past larch-roofed chalets and color-splashed fields of irises. Visit artisanal chocolate shops in Davos. Thanks to the efficient genius of Swiss public transportation, you have easy access to the entire region with a single pass (which we provide)—so there are virtually no logistical obstacles between your family and a great time together.
Dinner is typically a lavish four-course affair. Expect to sample exquisitely presented dishes such as cheese roulade with a zucchini and wild mushroom sauce, or red mullet served with olive ravioli. A delicious home-baked strudel tops off the meal.
When you’re not walking, your centrally located hotel is ideally situated to enjoy Davos, Europe’s highest-altitude city and one of its oldest mountain resorts, with geranium-decked streets and tempting outdoor cafés. Additional activities within walking distance of the hotel include sailing and windsurfing on Lake Davos (15-minute walk from the hotel) and a varied program of musical events throughout the summer.
includes
- Buffet breakfast and dinner daily (lunches and beverages are not included)
- All accommodations (with private bathrooms) while on tour
- Local transfers as noted in the itinerary
- Detailed route notes and maps
- Davos Card for unlimited travel on most cable cars, gondolas, funiculars, local rail, and buses
- Basic travel insurance coverage
- The exclusive ease of a mobile-phone rental with our Cellhire partnership. Receive preferred calling rates, free phone rental, and complimentary shipping of mobile phones.
- The unbeatable and cumulative experience of the CW Staff
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Length
8 days, 7 nights
Activity Level
Easy to moderate; 4-7 miles daily
Meet and Depart
Davos Dorf train station, Davos, Switzerland
Itinerary and Accommodations
Day 1
Davos Dorf
Arrival in Davos
We meet you at the station and transfer you (approximately 5 minutes) to the Hotel Meierhof, where you will stay for the week. This 19th-century hotel is the perfect base camp for a week of deluxe mountain exploring. Check out its handcarved pine grandfather clock in the lobby, wood-paneled dining room with piano, cozy library, indoor swimming pool, sauna, and epic views of Mt. Schiahorn. Settle in, enjoy the first of many delicious dinners in its Italian-themed restaurant (you can also get dinner sent up to your room at no added cost), and get ready for the weeklong adventure that lies ahead.
Hotel Meierhof Davos
Davos Dorf, Switzerland
This 19th-century hotel is situated in the heart of Davos Dorf within easy access to all local events and attractions. The fully renovated rooms are spacious and modern, with traditional furniture, light wood and colors, and balconies. In addition to two gourmet restaurants, a bar, a terrace for breakfast, there is also an indoor swimming pool, wellness area, and gym. Davos Dorf and Davos Platz are two adjacent towns connected by a bustling main street of stylish shops, restaurants, chocolate shops, and banks—the combination is a pleasant Alpine community also with interesting old buildings, secret parks, and hidden squares.
Day 2
Davos Dorf
Dischma valley; 7km/4mi/2hr or 13km/8mi/3.5hr
This morning, from the tranquil hamlet of Durrboden, framed by the mighty snowcapped Scalettahorn (3,086 meters or 10,125 feet) and Schwarzhorn (3,146 meters or 10,322 feet), a rocky trail winds through scarlet daphne to charming Teufi by the river—the perfect locale for spotting long-horned Alpine ibexes or sleek marmots. Lunch can be enjoyed on the terrace of the village restaurant. You return along a trail through pine forest, alive with the chatter of wood pigeon, with increasingly panoramic views over Davos, nestled under the massive Weissfluh.
Optional Activities:
Enjoy the meltingly magical cheese fondue at the Restaurant Teufi.
Hit the miniature links at one of Davos’s minigolf courses.
Hotel Meierhof Davos
Davos Dorf, Switzerland
This 19th-century hotel is situated in the heart of Davos Dorf within easy access to all local events and attractions. The fully renovated rooms are spacious and modern, with traditional furniture, light wood and colors, and balconies. In addition to two gourmet restaurants, a bar, a terrace for breakfast, there is also an indoor swimming pool, wellness area, and gym. Davos Dorf and Davos Platz are two adjacent towns connected by a bustling main street of stylish shops, restaurants, chocolate shops, and banks—the combination is a pleasant Alpine community also with interesting old buildings, secret parks, and hidden squares.
Day 3
Davos Dorf
Clavadeler Alp; 8km/5mi/2hr or 15km/10mi/4.5hr
After a hearty buffet breakfast, you embark on a wooded trail, bright with angelica and mountain scabious, that leads to Mt. Jakobshorn and breathtaking views over Davos shadowed by the snowy Graubunden peaks.
Continuing onward, with Lake Davos’s shimmering blue waters below, you reach today’s ideal lunch spot, Jakobshorn Gasthaus. After your meal, you descend to Clavadel, perhaps stopping off to taste the spicy mountain cheese before joining the riverside trail back to Davos.
Optional Activities:
Take the Jakobshorn cable car up to Ischalp and then walk abour 45 minutes to visit the Clavadeler Alp Cheese Dairy, where you can sample their legendary spicy cheese.
Enjoy a soak at the Klosters Lido pool aquapark, a large network of outdoor heated pools with a spa, a diving area, a waterslide, and breathtaking mountain views in every direction.
Hotel Meierhof Davos
Davos Dorf, Switzerland
This 19th-century hotel is situated in the heart of Davos Dorf within easy access to all local events and attractions. The fully renovated rooms are spacious and modern, with traditional furniture, light wood and colors, and balconies. In addition to two gourmet restaurants, a bar, a terrace for breakfast, there is also an indoor swimming pool, wellness area, and gym. Davos Dorf and Davos Platz are two adjacent towns connected by a bustling main street of stylish shops, restaurants, chocolate shops, and banks—the combination is a pleasant Alpine community also with interesting old buildings, secret parks, and hidden squares.
Day 4
Davos Dorf
The serene Sertig valley; 7km/4mi/2.5hr or 17km/11mi/4.5hr
This morning’s walk begins from Mt. Rinerhorn cable car. You descend in and out of pine forest to pretty Sertig hamlet, lost in a sea of meadows dotted with perennial cornflowers. It’s then on to the dramatic waterfall under Gross Alp—a clash of jagged limestone peaks and white-water cascades. Finally, a wooded path follows the meandering River Sertig to Frauenkirch for a short bus ride to Davos.
Optional Activities:
Younger families will love the Mt. Rinerhorn petting zoo with its miniature goats, baby pigs, and friendly llamas.
From the Hotel Walserhuus in Sertig, you can take a carriage ride beside pine forests and clear mountain streams to spectacular waterfalls.
Hotel Meierhof Davos
Davos Dorf, Switzerland
This 19th-century hotel is situated in the heart of Davos Dorf within easy access to all local events and attractions. The fully renovated rooms are spacious and modern, with traditional furniture, light wood and colors, and balconies. In addition to two gourmet restaurants, a bar, a terrace for breakfast, there is also an indoor swimming pool, wellness area, and gym. Davos Dorf and Davos Platz are two adjacent towns connected by a bustling main street of stylish shops, restaurants, chocolate shops, and banks—the combination is a pleasant Alpine community also with interesting old buildings, secret parks, and hidden squares.
Day 5
Davos Dorf
Classic Alps walk; 11km/7mi/3hr or 18km/11mi/5.5hr
Today’s route begins at the Alpinium at Schatzalp, home to hundreds of rare Alpine blooms. Winding past larch-roofed mountain chalets and high meadows dotted with Alpine cows grazing, you reach Stafelalp. With commanding views over the Mittaghorn and Jakobshorn, this is a great picnic spot. At your leisure, you descend through a narrow valley, alive to the crashing River Chummer to Glaris, returning to Davos by bus.
Optional Activities:
Toast marshmallows around a campfire at a picnic spot in Schatzalp (there is firewood available).
Brave the mountain on the Schatzalp summer toboggan run—it’s 500 meters long!
Hotel Meierhof Davos
Davos Dorf, Switzerland
This 19th-century hotel is situated in the heart of Davos Dorf within easy access to all local events and attractions. The fully renovated rooms are spacious and modern, with traditional furniture, light wood and colors, and balconies. In addition to two gourmet restaurants, a bar, a terrace for breakfast, there is also an indoor swimming pool, wellness area, and gym. Davos Dorf and Davos Platz are two adjacent towns connected by a bustling main street of stylish shops, restaurants, chocolate shops, and banks—the combination is a pleasant Alpine community also with interesting old buildings, secret parks, and hidden squares.
Day 6
Davos Dorf
Walser villages; 10km/6mi/3hr or 18km/11mi/5hr
A mountain path lined with irises and yellow vetchling leads over sparkling mountain streams to Hauder Alp, where the cheery farmer sells you fresh milk by the glass this morning! You continue onward with panoramas over snowcapped Bodmen Alp, then descend to delightful Monstein, with its two inns and rough-hewn log-cabin-style houses. After lunch, you dip into oak forest, with lapwings and kittiwakes flitting through the dappled shade, to descend to Jenisberg for an exciting mountain railway ride (30 minutes) back to Davos.
Optional Activities:
Younger families will love exploring Switerzland’s folklore and myths at Madrisa Land, a mountainside theme park that plays on local legends about dwarves, Alpine ghosts, and forest imps, as well as featuring activities like milking goats and wood carving with a master sculptor.
Hotel Meierhof Davos
Davos Dorf, Switzerland
This 19th-century hotel is situated in the heart of Davos Dorf within easy access to all local events and attractions. The fully renovated rooms are spacious and modern, with traditional furniture, light wood and colors, and balconies. In addition to two gourmet restaurants, a bar, a terrace for breakfast, there is also an indoor swimming pool, wellness area, and gym. Davos Dorf and Davos Platz are two adjacent towns connected by a bustling main street of stylish shops, restaurants, chocolate shops, and banks—the combination is a pleasant Alpine community also with interesting old buildings, secret parks, and hidden squares.
Day 7
Davos Dorf
Grand Panoramic Trail; 8km/5mi/2hr or 19km/12mi/6hr
What better way to end the week than with the aptly named Panoramaweg, or Grand Panoramic Trail? With Lake Davos shimmering below, you ascend to the tinkle of cowbells to tiny Lake Totalpsee. Soon, Klosters frames the horizon as you climb to Gotschnagrat for the most panoramic lunch yet. Returning to the hotel, you make your way through edelweiss and gentian and may spot marmots playing on limestone boulders as you descend to Davos for a final five-course gala dinner.
Optional Activities:
Enjoy the backcountry near Schafbergbahn Gargellen on a “geocaching” expedition, in which you use a provided GPS device and information to explore the woods of “Smuggler Land.”
See the mountains a whole new way by renting over-sized, freeriding scooters and taking them on 5+
Hotel Meierhof Davos
Davos Dorf, Switzerland
This 19th-century hotel is situated in the heart of Davos Dorf within easy access to all local events and attractions. The fully renovated rooms are spacious and modern, with traditional furniture, light wood and colors, and balconies. In addition to two gourmet restaurants, a bar, a terrace for breakfast, there is also an indoor swimming pool, wellness area, and gym. Davos Dorf and Davos Platz are two adjacent towns connected by a bustling main street of stylish shops, restaurants, chocolate shops, and banks—the combination is a pleasant Alpine community also with interesting old buildings, secret parks, and hidden squares.