zermatt/saas fee

does anyone known how difficult it is to get from Zermatt to Saas Fee? would it make sense for us to take a day or two to ski saas fee? tx for your feedback!!!

It's not very far and fairly easy. You will need to take a train in Zermatt and than change to the bus that goes to Saas Fee. You can find train and bus details at http://www.sbb.ch. Takes about 1hr45 if you are prepared to waste all this time travelling when you could be skiing. Better to go to the Italian side which is included in the same ski pass and you don't need trains or busses tp get there.

thanks very much....same for verbier? would it be worth it to hop over there for a day and night, perhaps? we just want to see more while we are there...and although I see and hear that Zermatt/cervinia is pretty massive, just wondered if we should take the time to see other areas...tx again!

You are welcome No, it's not the same for Verbier. you need to change trains twice: first Zermatt - Visp, then Visp - Martigny and then Martigny - Le Chable, and take either a bus or a telepherique to Verbier from there. Not sure how long it will take. Could be well about 2.5 hours one way and you would probably need to stay the night. In this way you will avoid feeling bad when you need to head to the bus and everyone else will be heading for aprés-ski. You will decide for yourselves once you het to Zermatt whether it's worth swapping two days of skiing in Zermatt-Cervinia for a day of skiing in Verbier plus a night out. If you are planning to go this season I don't recommend it. Zermatt is more north-facing so conditions will be definitely better there. It has been spring snow in Verbier for last two weeks so you should probably save it for another time.

Have done it the other way round, Saas Fee to Zermatt return. Most of the TOs do a day trip, generally by mini-bus.

There is no way, however, that I would give up a days skiing in Zermatt to go to Saas Fee or Saas Grund.