Decision
The Best Mount Pilatus Tour for Your Trip
Ticket, group or private: the cost, the time on top, and who guides you.
Mount Pilatus Guides
These are the long reads for the choices you make before you book Mount Pilatus. Which way up suits your trip? How do you fit Lucerne into the same day? Can you go on your own with a rail pass, should you pick Rigi instead, and what is there for children? When you are ready to choose, compare every tour on Mount Pilatus Tours.
Not sure how to go up? Start with the best Mount Pilatus tour for your trip. Holding a rail pass? Start with Mount Pilatus without a tour. The blog answers single questions in fewer words.
Itinerary
Lucerne and Mount Pilatus in One Day
Two hour-by-hour plans for the city and the mountain, and the autumn version.
On your own
Mount Pilatus Without a Tour: Fares, Trains and Passes
The railway's own fares, the cogwheel seat, the bus and boat, and your pass.
Comparison
Mount Pilatus vs Rigi: Which Mountain to Choose
Height, fares, passes, winter and children, and whether you can do both.
Families
Mount Pilatus with Kids: Fares, Pushchairs and Play
Child fares, pushchairs, the toboggan and rope parks, dragons and sledging.
The guided days from the city are on Mount Pilatus tour from Lucerne and Mount Pilatus tour from Zurich. The days with your own guide are on Mount Pilatus private tour.