Wengen and Grindelwald

Wengen

Wengen offers a great combination of convenience and mountain living, and has the added advantage of being a completely car free village. The skiing is most often right outside your hotel door, and the whole of the Jungfrau-side of the region awaits your pleasure. At an altitude of 1,274m, Wengen is a perfect jump-off point for the skiing runs which almost always lead back to the village.

The region is rich in folklore, too. Costumes, customs, music and festivities are as genuine as the people themselves. Visitors can see a wide range of rural skills - such as mountain farming and cheesemaking - in the most natural scenic surroundings.

Grindelwald

Grindelwald is a wonderful "small city" option for your wedding and ski trip to Switerland. From here entry into the skiing system is easy, and everything but Mürren is reachable in minutes. There is a varied selection of accommodation and once you are snuggled in, there is varied and exciting night life. Grindelwald offers a good selection of ski runs without having to leave the village.

The mountain trains offer easy access to the skiing in nearby Wengen and Kl Scheidegg. The in-village skiing is served by cable cars and ski lifts that will open ski possibilities of varying degrees of difficulty, satisfying the needs of all your wedding guests. The Oberjoch at 2,486m is the highest skiable posint reached by lifts serving Grindelwald.

All this then makes your Grindelwald wed-n-ski holiday a good launching point from which to ski the Jungfrau Region. Grindelwald is situated at the foot of the three world famous mountains Eiger, Moench and Jungfrau, close to the Brienz and Thun lakes, in the Bernese Oberland region.

In no other region of central Europe glaciers are so easily accessible as they are here. They extend right down into the valley, and have earned Grindelwald world-wide renown as the "Glacier Village" offering a 300 km/ 180 miles network of hiking and mountain paths, embracing one of the most beautiful of all Alpine regions, climbing attractions such as rock and ice climbing courses, week-long tours, glacier hikes and pre-Alpine trekking.