Switzerland with kids

A lit cave system with waterfalls inside, above Lake Thun. Twenty-five dollars and a good wet-day answer.

A hundred relocated historic farm buildings across an alpine site, with animals and craftspeople working. Thirty-nine dollars.

A forest high-ropes course with graded routes, thirty-nine dollars. The affordable adventure here.

The highest railway station in Europe, with an ice palace and a snow field at the top. A hundred and thirty-five dollars, and read the altitude note first.

Fifteen minutes from Grindelwald to the Eiger glacier, straight up the north face. Ninety-three dollars and far quicker than the train.

A cable car to a walkway bolted around a cliff face, forty-four dollars. Cheaper than Jungfraujoch and arguably the better view.

Ten minutes up to a viewing platform over both lakes, twenty-three dollars. The cheapest mountain in the country.

A wooden 1893 train up to an alpine garden. Eighty-four dollars, and slow in the way that is the point.

A walkway through a gorge the glacier cut, with a net spanning it you can lie on. Twenty-six dollars.

Unlimited boats on both lakes for the day, fifty-one dollars. Turquoise water and paddle steamers.

Trains, aircraft, a planetarium and a chocolate section, all hands-on. Forty-six dollars and the best children's museum in Switzerland.

A rotating cable car to a glacier at 3,000 metres, with an ice cave and a suspension bridge. A hundred and forty-one dollars.

The gentlest of the three, reached by cogwheel train and boat, with meadows rather than glacier at the top.

The only cable car in the world with an open upper deck — you ride on the roof. A hundred and one dollars.

The covered bridge, the lion monument and the lake, guided, seventy-six dollars from Zurich. Useful if you are not staying here.

The world's steepest cogwheel railway up, cable car down, with a lake steamer at the start. The classic Lucerne day.

A nine-metre chocolate fountain, the story of cocoa, and a tasting at every stop. Twenty-one dollars and the easiest win in the country.

Every World Cup shirt and the actual trophy, with a playable games floor downstairs. Thirty-two dollars.

A working chocolate factory you watch from a walkway, with a make-your-own bar. Twenty dollars, an hour east.

Thirty minutes out to the rock in the middle of the falls, twelve dollars, if you are going under your own steam.

Two hours through the guild houses and churches, forty-two dollars. Zurich is small and this covers most of it.

Twenty-seven dollars, and the cheapest way to see the lake shore and the hills without walking up them.

The widest waterfall in Europe, forty minutes north, with a lift down to a platform in the spray. Fifty-four dollars guided.

A boat on the lake and a cable car above it on one half-day, seventy-one dollars.

A castle built on a rock in the lake, with dungeons Byron wrote about. Nineteen dollars and the best-value castle in the country.

Torches, medals and interactive events on the lakeshore at Lausanne. Twenty-five dollars and genuinely well made.

An eighteenth-century château on the lake with a kitchen garden and a children's trail. Sixteen dollars.

A cable car to a glacier with a suspension bridge between two peaks and a summer toboggan run. A hundred and ten dollars.

A cogwheel train from Montreux to 2,000 metres, with a marmot park at the top. Ninety dollars.

The oldest Swiss chocolate brand, with a tasting room at the end you are left alone in. Twenty-one dollars.

Thirty-two dollars round the lake front, the old town and the UN quarter.

Over the border into France for a canal town on a very clear lake. Sixty dollars, and cheaper than anything on the Swiss side.

A car-free village under the most recognisable mountain in the world. A long day from Geneva — better as an overnight.