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Black Forest and Rhine Falls Day Trip from Zurich
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Black Forest and Rhine Falls Day Trip from Zurich

By Gray Line Zurich
This is the ideal pick for nature lovers visiting Zurich. Swap Switzerland for Germany on this scenic day trip to the Black Forest and Rhine Falls. Avoid the hassle of figuring out public transport schedules, and travel with ease on a luxury coach. Highlights include a visit to the scenic town of Titisee-Neustadt to see how cuckoo clocks are made, and the impressive natural wonder of Rhine Falls.
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Ages 0-99, max of 60 per group
Duration: 7h
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German, English, Spanish
Highlights
  • Cross the border and see Germany’s Black Forest and Rhine Falls in a day
  • No need for public transport—travel comfortably in a luxury coach
  • Learn how cuckoo clocks are made in the town of Titisee-Neustadt
  • Choose to upgrade and add on a Lake Titisee boat ride (own expense)
  • Air-conditioned vehicle
  • Local guide
  • Visit to Drubba Watch Showroom
  • Entry/Admission - Rhine Falls
What's not included
  • Hotel pick-up and drop-off
  • Food & Drinks
  • Gratuities
  • Boat ride at Rhinefalls (optional)
Departure details
  • Zurich Central Bus Station Sihlquai, Ausstellungsstrasse, 8005 Zürich, Switzerland Bus Terminal Sihlquai is located 200 meters behind Zurich HB (central station). IMPORTANT: When using GPS - please type in ‘Limmatstrasse 4, 8005 Zürich’. You can find our Gray Line check-in booth right at the first parking lot.
Return details
  • Returns to original departure point
  • Not wheelchair accessible
  • Stroller accessible
  • Near public transportation
  • Infants must sit on laps
If you have questions about accessibility, we’d be happy to help. Just call the number below and reference the product code: 2460FOREST
  • Confirmation will be received at time of booking
  • A current valid PASSPORT is REQUIRED on the day of travel
  • Most travelers can participate
  • This experience requires a minimum number of travelers. If it’s canceled because the minimum isn’t met, you’ll be offered a different date/experience or a full refund
  • This tour/activity will have a maximum of 60 travelers
  • For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours in advance of the start date of the experience.
A note from Black Forest and Rhine Falls Day Trip from Zurich
  • Approved Health & Safety Concept COVID-19 under the "Clean & Safe" campaign supported by Switzerland Tourism. Requirements and measures can continuously be adjusted.
What you can expect during your visit
  • Paid stay-at-home policy for staff with symptoms
  • Regularly sanitized high-traffic areas
  • Guides required to regularly wash hands
  • Hand sanitizer available to travelers and staff
  • Face masks provided for travelers
  • Transportation vehicles regularly sanitized
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If you have questions about this tour or need help making your booking, we’d be happy to help. Just call the number below and reference the product code: 2460FOREST
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Itinerary
  • You'll start at
    Zurich Central Bus Station Sihlquai
    Ausstellungsstrasse, 8005 Zürich, Switzerland
    Bus Terminal Sihlquai is located 200 meters behind Zurich HB (central station). IMPORTANT: When using GPS - please type in ‘Limmatstrasse 4, 8005 Zürich’. You can find our Gray Line check-in booth right at the first parking lot.
    See address & details
  • 1
    Zurich
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    Pass by
    Schluchsee
  • 2
    Titisee-Neustadt
    Stop: 2 hours
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    Pass by
    Lenzkirch
  • 3
    Rhine Falls
    Stop: 50 minutes - Admission included
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    Pass by
    Sihlquai
  • You'll return to the starting point
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By: Gray Line Zurich
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jtcolon75
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Quick city tour
It was quick way to familiarize yourself with the city. 2 photo stops- not really necessary both stops on the water…
Chewbar
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Brilliant, well organised day
Tour ran smoothly from pick up through to drop off. Our guide, Kid, was great at entertaining the bus on the drive …
greciavaleriaq
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Tour to Titlis
Everything regarding the tour experience was pretty great, organization wise I will add more time to see around Luc…
857anujm
857anujm
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Not worth it
While the driver/ guide were good, I guess there is not emit enough to see in Zurich to make a tour worthwhile
azminadeem
azminadeem
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Fun day at the top
Had a wonderful time with my wife! It's a well organised program and the guide is very good too. Felt a bit short t…
471ronaldw
471ronaldw
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Jungfraujoch: Top of Europe
Tour guide Raymond was great! Multilingual and coordinated the trip so that everything ran smoothly, as it does inv…
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oreoor
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Happy to review
Never have had a better audio tour. Bus was clean and new. For the quality price was very fair. Bus driver was cour…
Laura G
Laura G
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A great day at the Top of Europe!
Our tour guide Kid made this trip so much fun! He made sure our group never missed a photo/video opportunity and t…
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Amazing
I loved the trip would do it again. There were a lot of directions so some people started to tune out tour guide. I…
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GlacierTitlis Trip - Recommended
It is a great experience to get to the top and enjoy the views. However, during our trip, it was foggy, and could n…
Zina T
Zina T
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A fabulous, exciting, wonderful site seeing tour
Fabulous places, really worth it to visit. Our guide Peter was quite knowledgeable and helpful, he did a great job…
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Horrible experience
Very bad experience, not good in the way they treated, even after paying extra cash( no tax) for joining them only…
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902suzettee
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Bus tour
Well organised and pleasant experience. Provides a good view of the city and main attractions. Can definitely recom…
654oksanay
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Trip to the Top of Europe
tour guide Kid is great. His goal is to ensure well being of his group and make sure his group gets the most out o…
Chris P
Chris P
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Amazing views, lots of travel
I personally greatly enjoyed this trip. The views all along the way were stunning. From the Swiss countryside alon…
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Soung-Phoenix
Phoenix, AZ172 contributions
It was a good experience
Oct 2022
Overall, good tour to take. For Black Forest, we thought we would be walking in the Forest, but it was a tour of a town in Black Forest. So, that was slightly different than our expectation. But the German city was beautiful and it was the worth the visit. And we can see the Black Forest from the city. Tour gave you enough time to sit down and have a coffee or desert in many of outside cafés to enjoy the view and weather. One warning, some spots don’t accept credit cards. We waste ~15-20 min trying to get the cash from ATM, which kind of ruined our experience. The 2nd stop, Rhine Fall, was amazing!! Take the boat tour (~15 min). Our driver took closer to the fall (everyone got wet a bit), which was great!!! They however, need to start this little early. All the shops in the waterfall areas were closed, so just walking around the area is all we could do.
Written October 13, 2022
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Gretchen S
11 contributions
Fun day of scenery
May 2023
We enjoyed the scenic tour. We stopped at a sweet little town in the Black Forest for an authentic German lunch & great souvenir shopping. It is a fair amount of walking from the bus to the village. Some steep inclines. The cuckoo clock demonstration was ho-hum really, rushed. The Rhine Falls is something to behold! So powerful! We did not do the boat ride; we walked all the way around the falls to some overlooks that are very close to the falls. Beautiful pictures. Again, not entirely handicapped accessible, a fair bit of walking.
Written May 12, 2023
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shyamalherath
Doha, Qatar1 contribution
Germany and Rhine Falls in few hours
Jun 2017 • Friends
We left Zurich around 12.30 and reached Black forest after few hours. Black forest village and the lake was really nice. Then we reached Rhine Falls, where we spent around half an hour.
Over all the places were valuable. But the tour guide we had was bit rude. She was hurrying everyone to go back to bus like a school teacher. We had very limited time to enjoy Rhine Falls. Basically the satisfaction of this tour depends on what you expect from it... my suggestion, if you are searching for an adventurous interesting tour...this is not the tour you need.. but if your purpose is just to cover Germany and Rhine Falls in few hours this tour is good.
Written October 19, 2017
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Chase M
18 contributions
Outstanding, don’t miss this tour!
Traveled from the United States to Switzerland for the first time. Planned this particular tour in Zürich ahead of time. This tour took us to Germany to view the cuckoo clock manufacturing facility, and then to the Rhein Falls in the Black Forrest. Suzanne was our guide, and Armando our bus driver. The time allotted for the trip was perfect, and we stayed right on schedule with ample time to view the areas we visited. Suzanne was an amazing guide with lots of information all along the way. Each piece of information was very interesting and applicable. This was the best tour I have ever been on. We visited a cuckoo clock manufacturing facility, and the details given by the crafters was very impressive. Of course we ended up buying a cuckoo clock and having it shipped home. Afterword we went to the Rhein Falls which were absolutely stunning and we had plenty of time to view everything we wanted and have lunch. I would highly recommend tours with the gray line, and I will tell my friends to check them out if they come to Switzerland. I would give 10 stars.
Written May 18, 2023
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Jennifer Q
6 contributions
Awesome tour
May 2023
Ramon our tour guide was great. Really interacted with tourists to make sure they all got their pictures taking . We had some of the group who didn't listen to him or have consideration of others. But Ramon made the tour great even with that. Great views
Written May 9, 2023
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Robert S
16 contributions
Black Forest rum
May 2022 • Friends
Great experience and was as advertised. The coach was really nice, clean. Beautiful drive up into the black Forrest of Germany. We were in Titisee for maybe 2 hours, just enough time for lunch and a walk thru town. We elected to pay 8 franc for the boat ride at Rhine falls and really enjoyed ourselves. If your looking for a casual excursion this is a good one
Written May 25, 2022
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Yi-Jiun C
1 contribution
Terrible Day Trip...Ruined My Vacation
Sep 2018 • Family
The trip is advertised as a trip to the black forest and the Rhine falls. The black forest part of it is a glorified tourist trap. The tour guide continuously advertised multiple shops where they most likely receive kickbacks. Watch shops, restaurants, cuckoo clock makers, leather goods, LUGGAGE. The majority of the trip is spent shopping in this scam disguised as a black forest excursion. The ability to walk in the forest? Laughable. They give the option to walk out of the town and into the forest, but that's completely unfeasible with no tour guide guidance. She literally said "does anyone want to go in a picnic and eat with the squirrels? I didn't think so." and completely glossed over it. The tour was maybe 6 and a half hours-ish. 2 of those hours were spent in that town and 45 minutes on the Rhine. The rest was spent driving. Waste of money and more importantly vacation time.
Written September 20, 2018
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Melissa B
3 contributions
Total rip off
This tour, at best, is a comfy, overpriced ride to two tourist attractions- only one of them worth going to. The “tour guide” tells you nothing about what you’re passing and only spends a couple sentences on the actual destinations. If you need a nap to recover from jetlag, this tour is for you. The first part of the tour takes you tp a glorified outdoor tourist mall where the tour guide spends 10mins talking about the shops and what they sell (nothing local and every brand that can be find where ever you’re visiting from), with a view of the Black Forest. She said, in passing before we got off the bus, “oh and if you want to go into the forest, ask me and I’ll show you where to go”. So you pay about $80 for a ride to a self guided tour. While at the Black Forest Tourist Sinkhole, you “learn” about cuckoo clocks...by hearing a sales pitch in a store and literally see nothing about how theyre made or the history. After that, you go back on the bus to nearly 2 hours of silence to Rheinfall where you’re charged more for the boat ride on the bus than advertised at the actual place (maybe they include their own tip?). You’re rushed onto the boat after being instructed not tp stop for the restroom or photos, told to mention their names if you want souvenirs so they can get a credit for it, and then taken on another tour without information. I still don’t understand why they call the falls the “highlight” of the tour when it is not even included in the price. Total tourist scam.
Written August 16, 2018
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Chris M
1 contribution
Blatant excuse to exploit tourists, and at worst an outright scam.
Aug 2018 • Couples
I purchased the "Black Forest, Lake Titisee & Rhine Falls Excursion" by Gray Line Zurich, given by Meier tours under contract. We completed the trip yesterday, and I'm extremely disappointed. The tour was a best, a blatant excuse to exploit tourists, and at worst an outright scam.

First, the tour guide added very few facts to offer, talking ~5 minutes at a time at the very beginning and before each stop. The vast majority of the time was spend in silence.

Next, the tour doesn't actually go to the black forest. You drive past it, and stop near a lake in Titisee at what can best be described as an outdoor mall. The tour guide made a comment how she could offer directions on how we could walk, alone out to the edge of the forest. One of the very few facts the tour guide did mention was that the black forest was so named because of how dense it is, something we naturally had hoped to see, and the reason we took a guided tour was to show that to us. My wife is seven months pregnant so there is no way we are going for a long walk alone into the forest.

What the tour guide did spend a significant amount of time talking about was the goods available at Drubba shopping. Watches, jewelry, clocks, etc. It was clear there was some sort of agreement between this retail company and the trip as she provided us a "history of Cuckoo Clocks" facts sheet which was 1/3rd a sales pitch for this company, as well as a VAT tax exemption card good if we spend enough money at this company, then walked the entire group to one of their shops for a long sales pitch on the clocks they were selling. We had hoped that the Cuckoo Clock portion of the tour would at least be held somewhere the clocks were manufactured. Instead it was just a souvenir store selling overpriced trinkets and the same clocks available in a dozen other stores within a quarter mile and all manufactured somewhere else.

Next we went to the Rhine Falls. This is the only actually interesting thing we saw on the trip. Alas here this goes from abusing tourists to outright scam. The boat trip to the falls isn't included in the price of the trip, but is described as "the highlight of the tour" during the tour guide's heavy sales pitch for us to purchase the boat trip from her for 8 CHF. I purchased this trip through Expedia who explicitly calls out bringing spending cash in Euros, not CHF. Annoying, but she took 8 Euros instead, which just made it a bit more expensive. Then we took a 15 minute boat trip, which is arguably the worst option, as a ferry across the water for 3 CHF would let you walk much closer to the falls, and the 30 minute tour for 20 CHF lets you get off in the middle of the falls. But worst of all, the published price at the walk up kiosk for the exact 15 minute tour we took was 7 CHF. 1 CHF might not be a huge price difference, but I don't usually anticipate to spend all of this money on a tour for the opportunity to pay an additional premium. And of course once the boat ride ended, the tour guide directed us towards the souvenir stand with a recommendation to say that she sent us.

Overall, the only thing this trip offers is an uncomfortable bus ride to one tourist trap and one actual attraction. Rhine Falls can be reached by a direct train from Zurich Central for significantly less than this trip. I wish I had taken just that.

Expedia and Gray Line should be embarrassed for selling this tour, and Meier tours who actually gives it under contract with Gray Line should re-evaluate what value they think they actually provide. I will be asking Expedia for a refund.
Written August 16, 2018
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Ankit Khurana
New Delhi, India53 contributions
Waste of money
We have booked this trip. It was good experience but guide was not attentive while doing his job. Due to that we were not able to completely experience rhine falls. He was in hurry and we were having our infant with us but he was not cooperative. He almost ruined our trip because he took boat to rhine falls without us. Anyhow we able to manage it. But it’s waste of money for us

I would say please check same trip with another company who are having good and responsible guide
Written May 23, 2018
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