About
How I work.
I am Marie. I plan private journeys through Switzerland from Lucerne and from Samedan in the Engadin, in German, French and English — and for one party at a time, I travel with them.
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Who you are writing to
One person plans the journeys, one person travels with you, and one person answers the enquiries. That is the constraint, and it is also the point: nothing you tell me is handed down a desk.
I came to Switzerland from Germany more than ten years ago, and I have lived here since, between Lucerne and Samedan in the Engadin. I did not grow up with this country; I had to discover it myself, which is why I still notice what a visitor notices. My partner was born here and knows it inside out, and that knowledge is in every route I build.
Before this I worked in five-star hotels and then in management in luxury retail. What stayed with me from both is the same thing: the pleasure of looking after people properly, in person, and getting the most out of every day with them. I travel a great deal myself, and I would rather spend a day with you than behind a desk.
I work from two offices: Lucerne, in the centre of the country, and Samedan in the Engadin, a few kilometres from St. Moritz. Neither is a shop front; everything starts with an enquiry.
MarieLucerne and Samedan · German, French and English on the road.
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The two services
- Travelling with you
- I come with you for the whole journey — driving, translating, opening doors, rebuilding the day when the weather turns. One party at a time, three to eight days. 2026 fully booked · Taking 2027
- Planning your trip
- I design the route and book every part of it — hotels, rail, transfers, tables — costed in francs before you commit. You travel independently, with a number to call. Taking 2026 and 2027
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How a journey is built
It starts with your dates and a sentence about what you are picturing. I come back within a working day with questions — how much moving around you want, whether the point is the mountains or the food, whether anyone dislikes cable cars — because those answers shape a route more than the budget does.
Then you get an outline: where you would stay, how you would move between bases, what each part costs in francs, and what I would change if the weather turns. It costs nothing and it is yours to keep. Say yes, and I build and book it.
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The Lexikon, my planning tool
Every route I propose is drawn from a reference work I built: 884 entries — summits, trains and lifts, passes, hotels, huts, castles, thermal baths, wine regions — each with its figures and its source, 834 of them placed on the map.
I publish it in full so you can see what I plan from and point at what you want. Open any entry and ask me to plan around it, and its name arrives in the enquiry form already filled in.
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Fees, in one line
Travelling with you is CHF 1 500 a day, minimum three days. Planning is from CHF 1 500, and the first outline is free. Hotels pay me 10–15%; it is not added to your bill. What it costs, in full
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Sources and corrections
Every figure in the Lexikon is traced to a named source and linked from its entry. Where I could not verify a figure, the field is left empty rather than guessed. Checking my own text against those sources turned up twelve claims that were wrong; they are corrected and kept here.
- The Rapperswil–Hurden footbridge was described as Europe’s longest wooden footbridge. It is Switzerland’s longest, at 841 m.
- The Swiss Air Force Museum was placed in Emmen. The Flieger-Flab-Museum is in Dübendorf.
- The Flüela Pass was described as ploughed through winter. It closes every winter.
- The Umbrail was called the highest paved pass wholly within Switzerland. It sits on the Italian border; the Nufenen at 2 478 m is the wholly Swiss one.
- Kriens was given the Pilatus cogwheel railway. That starts at Alpnachstad, across the lake.
- Wädenswil was given a cable car to the Etzel ridge. There is none.
- The Sanetsch tunnel was described as unlit. It has automatic light sensors.
- Appenzeller and Glarner Schabziger were treated as AOP cheeses. Neither is on Switzerland’s AOP register.
- The Chocolate Train was described as a rail journey to Gruyères. Only the Montreux–Montbovon leg is rail.
- Twelve national hiking routes were assumed. Switzerland has six.
- The Bex–Villars–Bretaye railway was placed in Valais. It is in Vaud.
- The Geneva Motor Show was listed as running. It was cancelled permanently in 2024.
Eleven town elevations were out by more than fifteen metres and have been corrected. Two disputed figures are recorded as disputed: the Grand Combin at 4 314 m against 4 309 m in older lists, and the Gotthard Pass at 2 106 m where one source gives 2 091 m. The 2025 Michelin guide lists 145 starred restaurants in Switzerland; thirty-five are here, each with the guide year it was sourced for.
Write to me.
Tell me when you are coming and what you are picturing. You will have a reply within one working day, and the first outline costs nothing.
- Reply within one working day
- Marie, Lucerne and the Engadin
- First outline free, fees stated
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