Try the Crystal lakes website.

plingplong

don't know why it's taken me a week to notice this post!

What you are looking for is widely available but not in UK brochures, you'll have to DIY.
If helps if you speak one of French/ German/ Italian (in which case head for the relevant part) but it isn't really essential. Your main problem is that your timescale is still ski season so unless you wanting skiing you may be paying a premium in many mountain villages.

If you plan to fly check where you can get to. Easyjest to Geneva, Basel or Zurich or Swiss (LCY or MAN) to Basel are the cheapest routes although the Swiss MAN-BSL is too late to really get into the mountains. For Ticino (in the south) Milan flights might work better and for Graubunden, Ryanairs Stansted-Friedrichshafen service might be useful.

If you know nothing about Switzerland start at http://www.myswitzerland.com. The different regions are explained under destinations, the main mountain resort areas are Graubunden and Bernese Oberland (German speaking), Lake Geneva Region (french) or Ticino (Italian).

Any town/village making any attempt to attract visitors will have a website and the name is almost always in the format of www.placename.ch and somewhere on it will be an accomodation list.

Other sites worth a mooch through are http://www.bnb.ch and http://www.rooms.ch both for B&B's and small family run hotels or http://www.interhome.co.uk where there is a section on Swiss self catering.

To check whether you can reach a place from the airport use http://www.sbb.ch/en/index.htm , you can enter the airport name in English.

PS - if you know nothing about Switzerland and just fancy the mountains then consider Austria or Bavaria, both of which are cheaper!

Steve

Please don't tell people to come to Bavaria, we want to keep it to ourselves.

Judith

Are you behind the reason why there are virually no cheap flights to MUC? I'd spend a lot of my long weekends in Mittenwald if I could get there easier!

Just Stansted - Munich with Easyjet. For a short time there was a MUC-EMA flight with BMIbaby which suited me fine as my parents lived in Nottingham, but after a couple of years it stopped. I don't know what it is with Munich and cheap airlines. Ryanair do fly from STN to Friedrichshafen but that can get a bit complicated if you don't want to hire a car.

I know, the EMA service wasn't too bad but STN is too far. I supect BMI's long standing tie in with Lufthansa was behind them stopping their flights (which must have hit Lufthansas income). EZ Liverpool-Innsbruck is fine but they don't run in the summer when I want it!

Slightly off topic but Aer Lingus and Easyjet are starting flights down to Munich from Gatwick.

While also wanting to keep Bavaria a "secret" quite looking forward to our drive down end of May to Garmisch for a week in the convertible!

Nivsy

Great News Nivsy,

I've been waiting for this ever since DBA packed in. MIL lives in Sussex and it's reasonably easy to get to Munich from where I live.

Judith