Access Roads to the Valais
By car
On the A9 motorway to Sierre or by the main road Evian-St.Gingolph..
The following alpine passes are open throughout the year:
Are open only in summer
- Alpine Pass of Grimsel
- Alpine Pass of Furka
- Alpine Pass of Nufenen
- Pass of Grand St-Bernard
Or through the railway tunnels on vehicle transporters
- Lötschbergtunnel
BLS (Kandersteg-Goppenstein), info: phone +41 (0)900 55 33
33 (CHF 1.50 min from the Swiss fixed-line network)
- Furkatunnel
(Realp-Oberwald), info: phone +41 (0)27 927 77 71
- Simplontunnel
(Iselle-Brig), info: phone +41 (0)900 300 300 (CHF 1.19 min from the Swiss fixed-line network)
By public transportation
Plan your trip here or call +41 (0)900 300 300 (CHF 1.19 min from the Swiss fixed-line network)
Rail traffic information
Switzerland: Direct lines from Basle, Bern, Geneva airport, Lausanne
and Zurich airport every 30 min.
From abroad: Direct lines from Freiburg, Köln, Wiesbaden,
Hamburg, Dortmund, Luxembourg, Brussels, Florence, Rome, Venezia-Milan, Strasbourg and Paris (TGV).
Connections with the entire European network.
Shortening of the travelling time by more than an hour thanks to the Lötschberg-Basis Tunnel.
Luggage
delivery to your room
By plane
Connecting flights from the international airports of Geneva-Cointrin
and Zurich-Kloten or Basle-Mulhouse and Bern.
Direct, charter, private flights from Sion
Airport (Info phone +41(0)27 329 06 00)
Charter and private flights, Air
Glaciers (Info phone +41(0)27 329 14 15)
Bookings through your travel agency.
Private railways or postal bus services link the Rhone Valley
to the Valais resorts.
Links
Railways
Swiss Railways
BLS AG
Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn
Gornergrat
Bahn
Glacier Express
TMR SA, Transports de Martigny et Régions
TPC SA, Transports publics du Chablais
Deutsche Bahn - timetable
TGV-Lyria
SMC, Sierre-Montana-Crans SA
Road traffic
PostBus
regional center
Car transport Lötschberg (BLS)
Car transport Furka
Touring Club Suisse (traffic situation)
Great St-Bernard tunnel
TMR SA, Transports de Martigny et Régions
TPC SA, Transports publics du Chablais
SMC, Sierre-Montana-Crans SA
LLB, Leuk-Leukerbad and District Community Transport
Air traffic
Swiss International Air Lines
Air Glaciers
Air Zermatt
Sion Airport
Groupe de Vol à Moteur Sion
Héli Alpes SA, Sion
Eagle Helicopter AG, Sion
Mountain transport
Valais
mountain transport installations
Ship transport
Navigation company CGN
