Montreux
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Pros
- Unless you have to actually stay in Vevey, I would recommend going to Montreux. It's maybe 15 minutes from Vevey by train or bus. (My favorite sight in Vevey was the fork in the lake.) Montreux has the castle, which is worth a visit, and...
- Montreux would do a good job for most of those things.
- Montreux is good: beautiful lakeside promenade, easy summit access (cogwheel train) and convenient Paris-Milan connections.
- On the other side of Lake Geneva is a town called Montreux, one of the most beautiful places I've been
- We did go to Montreaux for 2 days and it was lovely, quite different for sure.
Cons
- If you want to try the French side, I'd say Lausanne over Montreux. There's just more to see in Lausanne which makes it a better base in my opinion.
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Unless you have to actually stay in Vevey, I would recommend going to Montreux. It's maybe 15 minutes from Vevey by train or bus. (My favorite sight in Vevey was the fork in the lake.) Montreux has the castle, which is worth a visit, and a bigger train station.
Montreux would do a good job for most of those things.
Montreux is good: beautiful lakeside promenade, easy summit access (cogwheel train) and convenient Paris-Milan connections.
On the other side of Lake Geneva is a town called Montreux, one of the most beautiful places I've been
If you want to try the French side, I'd say Lausanne over Montreux. There's just more to see in Lausanne which makes it a better base in my opinion.
We did go to Montreaux for 2 days and it was lovely, quite different for sure.
With a car from Zurich, I’d loop through Lucerne, Lauterbrunnen, Interlaken and Zermatt, then back via Montreux for stunning mountains and postcard villages.
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