Matterhorn to Mont Blanc in one week.
A border crossed at 3,480 metres in spring and summer, and a last evening on Lake Geneva for your group alone.
First, what the journey has to do for the company. Then where it goes.
The question is not which mountains to show a team.
It is how to give them two great mountains in one week, with nothing to carry, and a last evening that belongs to them alone.
This is an incentive journey that puts the Matterhorn and Mont Blanc in the same week, and crosses from one to the other over the top of the mountains rather than around them.
Two nights in Zermatt, two in Chamonix, one by Lake Geneva. You fly in and out of Geneva, and the luggage travels on its own on every moving day.
Four aims. Each lands on a moment of the programme.
The last evening is a private dinner for the group at the Hôtel Ermitage on Lake Geneva: champagne on arrival, French fine dining and paired wines.
An evening that belonged to the group alone.
In spring and summer: over Testa Grigia by cable car, lunch in Italy, and through the Mont Blanc Tunnel into France by evening.
The day the group crossed a border at 3,480 metres.
The whole group photographed in front of the Matterhorn on the Gornergrat, at 3,089 metres.
The group photograph in front of the Matterhorn.
Luggage goes ahead on every moving day, and the two biggest mountain days start from a hotel the group already knows.
Big days, with no suitcases in between.
Why these two mountains, why over the top, and why so few hotels.
The Matterhorn and Mont Blanc are the mountains most people see when they think of the Alps. This week has both.
The usual way from Zermatt to Chamonix is a long drive round the mountains. In spring and summer this journey goes over them, by cable car into Italy.
Two nights in Zermatt, two in Chamonix, one by Lake Geneva. The group only moves when it has to.
Four days, two mountains, one lake
Face to face on the Gornergrat
Into Italy over Testa Grigia
The Aiguille du Midi at 3,842 m
The evening is yours alone
The last night is in Évian, not Geneva. The private dinner is held at the hotel the group sleeps in, so nobody travels after the evening, and Geneva Airport is about an hour away.
Not a list of viewpoints, but a few moments that were designed.
The Gornergrat cog railway climbs to 3,089 metres, where the Matterhorn, the Monte Rosa peaks and the Gorner Glacier are all in view. This is where the whole group is photographed together.
Optional: NostalChic Class, a private 1961 vintage carriage on the Gornergrat railway for up to 30 guests, with a three-course lunch and wine at Riffelalp as an add-on.
Two nights in Zermatt, so the Gornergrat day starts from a hotel the group has already unpacked in.
The group leaves Switzerland by cable car, crosses into Italy over Testa Grigia at 3,480 metres, and comes down to Breuil-Cervinia for an Italian lunch. The cable car company carries the luggage. At 13:30 the private coach takes over, through the Mont Blanc Tunnel into France.
In autumn the Italian section is closed for maintenance, so the group goes down by train to Visp and west along the Rhône valley by coach, with lunch at a winery in the Valais. Both versions are planned, and the price covers both.
A long drive round the mountains is replaced by a cable car over them: three countries in one day.
The Aiguille du Midi cable car rises to 3,842 metres, directly facing Mont Blanc, where guests can stand in the glass box of Step into the Void. In the afternoon the red Montenvers rack railway climbs to the Mer de Glace.
Two nights in Chamonix: the Aiguille du Midi and the Mer de Glace each take most of a day, and both start here.
Reaching the ice cave means walking several hundred steps down and back up. Anyone who prefers can stay at the viewing terrace.
Seven days and five nights, airport to airport.
The bags go ahead by road, so the group sets off empty-handed. From Visp the carriage is theirs.
The group photograph is the one fixed moment of the day, so it comes first. The afternoon in the village is left free.
In spring and summer, lunch in Italy falls between the cable car and the 13:30 coach. In either season the group is in Chamonix by evening.
The highest point of the week, 3,842 metres, comes first. The afternoon is lower and slower, on the Mer de Glace.
This morning is a transfer anyway, so the optional strategy meeting on the train takes no time from the mountains.
Geneva Airport is an hour away, so the last morning is unhurried.
International flights are quoted separately, once your dates and group size are known. Hotels, schedules and seasonal operations are subject to final supplier confirmation.
With a whole group, the hard part is never the view. It is the details nobody notices until they go wrong.
Seats reserved to Visp, and a whole carriage from Visp into Zermatt.
A 50-seat luxury coach from Day 04 to Day 07, with tolls, tunnel fees and the driver’s meals, lodging and tips included.
The railways and cable cars are run by their local operators.
ZeL coordinates the whole journey from Kuala Lumpur, with a direct WhatsApp line during the trip.
Every group travels with an experienced, professional senior Tour Manager. For groups of more than 30 guests, or programmes with a higher budget, additional coordinators or tour leaders can be added as the programme requires.
Sent ahead on every moving day: by road on arrival, by the cable car company on the crossing, on the coach to Évian.
When the Italian cable car section is closed, Day 04 already has its version by train and coach. The price covers both.
The Gornergrat and the Aiguille du Midi are high viewpoints; what you see from the top depends on the day’s weather.
Local and Chinese dinners in turn: Valais and Alpine in Zermatt, two Chinese dinners in Chamonix, French to finish.
Two published prices, for groups of 30 and of 20. Any other size is quoted individually.
RM 19,800per person
twin share · land arrangements · international flights quoted separately
The full journey as described, with the private closing dinner.
RM 21,800per person
twin share · land arrangements · international flights quoted separately
The same journey, the same hotels, for a smaller group.
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twin share · land arrangements · international flights quoted separately
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Zermatt · 2 nights
Chamonix · 2 nights
Évian · 1 night
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This is a reference itinerary. The final arrangements may be adjusted to suit your actual departure date, flight schedule and local operating conditions.
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