France · Switzerland
Road Trip Retreat: Swiss Alps
One hotel. Four nights. The Alps on your doorstep.
28 June – 4 July 2027 · 7 days / 6 nights · From £1,079pp twin share · Self-guided
The Furka, the Grimsel and the Susten on your doorstep — and every day of it driven your way.
A different kind of trip. You arrive, you unpack once, and for four nights the Alps come to you. Andermatt sits at the meeting point of six of the great Swiss passes — which means the driving is on your doorstep rather than in your schedule. And on this trip, the schedule is yours entirely.
A night in Colmar on the way out, then over the Susten Pass into Andermatt — arriving over a mountain rather than through a tunnel, which sets the tone. From there, the road book is a menu: the Three Pass Loop — Furka, Grimsel and Susten in one glorious circuit — the cobbled Tremola down the old Gotthard road, the Oberalp east to the source of the Rhine, the Klausen out to Glarus, or south into Ticino for lunch by the lake. Every route mapped, timed and loaded into your road book. Which ones you drive, in what order, with whom, is up to you. A night in Colmar breaks the journey home.
This is not a rally, and it’s not a tour. There’s no convoy, no briefing at eight, no day you’re obliged to get in the car. We put you in the right town with the right roads, the right hotel and the right routes — and hand you the week. Drive every pass on the menu, or do the Loop once and spend three days at the spa. Link up with other Road Trip Co cars staying the same week, or keep the roads to yourselves. Both are the right answer.
Group Road Trip
From £1,079pp
Per person, two sharing
Solo from £1,769 per car with your own room throughout
Deposit £500 per car · balance due 22 March 2027
No minimum numbers — your trip is confirmed the moment you book
Self-guided
✓ Return Eurotunnel crossing for your car
✓ Six nights with breakfast — four at the Andermatt base with spa
✓ Printed road book with QR-code routes for every drive
✓ No minimum numbers — the trip runs from the moment you book
Why This Trip
Why Late June
Every road is open.
The passes around Andermatt come back in sequence each summer and the Susten is always last. By late June, every route in the road book has weeks of margin — no earlier date can promise that.
Ahead of the crowds.
The Furka and the Grimsel get properly busy from mid-July. Late June is the window where everything is open and nothing is full.
You unpack once.
Four nights in the same room. No packing at seven, no check-in at six, no living out of a boot.
Your week, your way.
No group to keep up with and no schedule to keep to. One of you drives, one of you swims; today the Furka, tomorrow nothing at all.
Price Includes
What’s Included
✓ Return Eurotunnel crossing for your car
✓ Six nights accommodation with breakfast — four at the Andermatt base with spa
✓ The full route menu: printed road book with QR-code routes for every drive
✓ WhatsApp group to link up with other Road Trip Co cars travelling the same week
✓ No minimum numbers — the trip runs from the moment you book
✗ Dinners — evenings are yours; optional group dinners and a Three Pass Loop mountain lunch can be added at booking
✗ Lunches
✗ Experiences — the glacier grotto, mountain railways and Gotthard museum are bookable add-ons or pay-on-the-day
✗ Fuel
✗ Swiss motorway vignette — you buy the e-vignette for your own car before travel; the briefing shows you how
✗ Any low-emission-zone passes for your own car (e.g. French Crit’Air)
✗ Travel insurance (required), European vehicle cover (required), European breakdown cover (required)
✗ Drinks
Day by Day
The Itinerary
Day 1 · Mon 28 Jun
Folkestone → Colmar
Your crossing booked, your hotel waiting. East across France — around 350 miles, all motorway — to Colmar’s old town, with its canals and its restaurants; the road book has our favourites marked.
Day 2 · Tue 29 Jun
Colmar → Andermatt, over the Susten
South through Basel and Luzern, then up through Meiringen and over the Susten Pass at 2,224 metres into Andermatt. Around five hours, and the last one is the point. Check in, unpack — you’re here for four nights.
Days 3–5
The menu
Three clear days, seven routes in the road book, no order and no obligation:
The Three Pass Loop
Furka (2,429m), Grimsel, Susten in one circuit. Eighty miles, four to five hours, the best single day’s driving in Switzerland. The Rhône Glacier ice grotto sits mid-loop if you want it.
The Tremola
The cobbled old Gotthard road, twenty minutes from the hotel and unlike anything else in the Alps, with the museum inside the mountain at the top.
The Oberalp
East to Sedrun and the source of the Rhine.
The Klausen
The quiet pass, the best surface of the lot, out to Glarus and back.
The Nufenen
2,478 metres, the high one, looping back over the Gotthard.
Ticino for lunch
South into Italian-speaking Switzerland: Bellinzona’s castles or the lake at Lugano.
Nothing at all
The spa, the village, the mountain railway, a book. Also on the menu.
Evenings
Yours
Andermatt eats well, and optional group dinners can be added if you’d like company — details at booking.
Day 6 · Sat 3 Jul
Andermatt → Colmar
Out over the Furka or the Oberalp for one last pass, then north to Colmar for the final night.
Day 7 · Sun 4 Jul
Colmar → home
North to Calais and the tunnel. Home by evening, rested — which is not how road trips usually end.
The Route
Drive it before you decide.
Tap the days to see each leg, the stops, and the overnight towns.
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