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Gruyères Countryside Day Trip from Geneva: Chocolate Factory Visit and Scenic Stroll
4.3
109 Ratings
Geneva
Indulge in a day trip from Geneva to Gruyères, where you can visit a chocolate factory, learn about Swiss culinary traditions, and explore the picturesque countryside and medieval village.
Indulge in a day trip from Geneva to Gruyères, where you can visit a chocolate factory, learn about Swiss culinary traditions, and explore the picturesque countryside and medieval village.
Duration:
9 hours
Cancellation:
24 hours
Highlights
- KeyTours S.A. - Meet your guide at Keytours Office
- Lake Geneva - Enjoy the view on the Lake during the road trip
- Maison Cailler - Succumb to the swiss flavors. The perfect excursion for the greedy! Start your excursion with chocolate softness visiting a famous factory. Discover the secrets of making Swiss Chocolate and enjoy tasting as…
- KeyTours S.A. - Meet your guide at Keytours Office
- Lake Geneva - Enjoy the view on the Lake during the road trip
- Maison Cailler - Succumb to the swiss flavors. The perfect excursion for the greedy! Start your excursion with chocolate softness visiting a famous factory. Discover the secrets of making Swiss Chocolate and enjoy tasting as much as you like and can. Then on your way to Gruyères, enjoy Swiss countryside taking a great big breath of fresh air. Be charmed by the real Switzerland, its green fields, its cows and Mountains.
- La Maison du Gruyere - Discover the secret of the cheese making
- Gruyeres Castle - spend some free time in Gruyères strolling the middle age village. At the foot of the pre-Alps, you will be enchanted by the charm and picturesque architecture, the town has given its name to the area and to its delicious cheese. Come and explore a little town that’s been unaffected by the passage of time.
- HR Giger Museum - take advantage of your free time falling in the univers of Giger and the famous movie “Alien”
- Gruyere Traditions - Stroll into the charming street of the medieval village of Gruyères and step into the Swiss traditions
What's Included
- Free time for lunch in medieval Gruyères
- Bottled water provided
- Chocolate Factory visit with tasting
- Gruyère Cheese Museum exploration
- Driver guide assistance
- Round-trip transport in air-conditioned coach
- Free time for lunch in medieval Gruyères
- Bottled water provided
- Chocolate Factory visit with tasting
- Gruyère Cheese Museum exploration
- Driver guide assistance
- Round-trip transport in air-conditioned coach
What's Not Included
- Food and drinks, unless specified
- panoramic train
- Food and drinks, unless specified
- panoramic train
Additional Information
Merge your fascination for chocolate with your enthusiasm for the countryside with this day excursion to Gruyères, starting from Geneva. Journey in comfort by a touring coach to the scenic Gruyères countryside, where a chocolate establishment awaits. Experience the unexpected at Maison Cailler and become acquainted with the manufacturing techniques of…
Merge your fascination for chocolate with your enthusiasm for the countryside with this day excursion to Gruyères, starting from Geneva. Journey in comfort by a touring coach to the scenic Gruyères countryside, where a chocolate establishment awaits. Experience the unexpected at Maison Cailler and become acquainted with the manufacturing techniques of this Swiss delicacy. Get an in-depth insights about Swiss culinary customs and relish a delectable chocolate tasting session!
During the afternoon, explore the mythical Gruyères medieval village and absorb the exquisite vistas of Switzerland, including the majestic Swiss Alps.
Location
KeyTours S.A.
Francois Bonivard
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
4.3
(109 Ratings)
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Zinniajoyce_t
Sep 18, 2024
Dean was wonderful and... - Dean was wonderful and knowledgeable!
Gorgeous views, nice train ride and great cheese and chocolates! Delicious! We enjoyed this tour very much! Merci Beaucoup!
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Bronniejames
Sep 16, 2024
Lots of fun, we had a great time! - We had the best time on this tour!
Dine was our guide, and he was so happy and helpful and lovely!
Make sure you do the Gold option with the fondue lunch and train though, otherwise you get stuck on the bus for a longer time.
Was so worth it!
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Fernando_a
Jul 24, 2024
Gruyeres cheese and mountain view - We had a great time. It was a small group and Din our tour guide/driver kept us informed and entertained. We got to sample the Gruyeres cheese that is made there along with a very delicious fondue. So much to see and the weather was perfect, not too hot. I would recommend this trip to everyone.
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Z4319deerinb
Jul 24, 2024
Worth the money - Roger, our tour guide, was wonderful! He informed us all of the 2.5 hour journey to the first site and between each of the three stops. Each stop had wonderful tours and were fascinating. Of course the views were something to behold. Roger made sure we all had what we needed. He really was great at his job.
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Travel424499
Jul 17, 2024
Fantastic! - Loved the entire tour, our guide was fantastic and went out of his way to make sure everyone had a great time and we were on time to each destination!
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Brad_b
Jul 15, 2024
Awesome - Great experience with plenty of chocolate tasting and fun to see how cheese and chocolate are made…….
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Lavinja8
Jul 10, 2024
Gruyeres with museum visit - The Giger Museum is highly recommended, but is not for children under 14 years I find. It has images that are not adult.
The Château Gruyeres is beautiful and you can download a free audio guide via app and learn exciting details about the castle with musical accompaniment. Also has a special offer for children in french/german
Gruyeres is a beautiful place but fully designed for tourists.
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Tiffany_b
Jun 24, 2024
Highly recommend this tour. - This tour was well organized and provided sufficient time to explore the charming shops and historic sights. The tour guide was informative and entertaining. Gruyere was beautiful!
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Jennifer_p
Jul 12, 2024
Wasn't Great - This tour was good, but not great. The chocolate tour was the highlight of the trip! If that's what you're interested in, I highly recommend finding a different tour that focuses on the chocolate tour - or going there on your own. We really enjoyed it and there was a lot of chocolate to taste at the end of the tour. The cheese tour itself was fine, but they handed you your cheese at the beginning of the tour, which we held until the end expecting a guided tasting of the 3 cheeses after the tour. BUT - there was nothing. After the tour ended there was no place to go to taste the cheese and no guidance on what to look for when tasting cheese. There was no education on what makes a good cheese or not. And the cheese got warm during the tour. We did enjoy our free time in Gruyeres.
BUT probably the worst part of the trip was the lack of information for the trip overall. it was advertised as a 9 hour tour, so we made dinner reservations based on that. The tour was over 10 hours and we had to change our reservation. We also declined the train upgrade only to find out that if you don't take the train, you ride the bus all the way to Montreux before returning to Geneva. We thought the scenic ride back to Geneva would be exactly that (from Gruyeres back to Geneva). We did NOT expect to go out of our way to make the trip longer. It was a waste of time.
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Tim_o
Jul 6, 2024
Tour Guide Flop - Of the six tours that we booked this one was beyond disappointing. We had a driver and tour guide, and how is it possible that there were no introductions of who are tour guide was until one hour and 55 minutes later when we got to our first destination. Getting off of the bus you could barely hear what the tour guide was telling us and then it was like a freefall, knowing that we had to be back to the bus at a certain time. The advertisement of a chocolate factory was beyond disappointing, as we have visited chocolate factories in many different countries and this just seem to be a upsell on chocolate with very little information, education. As for the cheese portion of the tour, this was beyond disappointing. Two go in lineup and be given an audio recording to be placed around your neck and then to self guide yourself through a very limited aspect of cheesemaking felt well a disappointment. It was a sentiment that was shared with over 50% of those people on the tour to go to the city of Gruyere and only have a rushed 1 hour seemed like the tour guide had no sense of timing.
For somebody who lived in Switzerland and had returned with family, this tour was one that I would highly not recommend for anyone who is truly seeking to have a five star experience NOT WORTH THE MONEY. And the crazy part about it was, we had purchased the gold package which included lunch only to have the tour guide say that if you wanted to purchase lunch, it would actually be cheaper than through the actual tour company. Seriously this was not something those that paid for the package wanted to hear. Say away from this tour and the tour company.
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