Readers’ favourite family adventures in Europe

Readers shared family travel tips from across Europe, covering everything from alpine sledging to island ferries. One family returning from a ski trip took the Bernina Express, left their luggage at Bergün, rode back to Preda and rented traditional wooden sledges to toboggan the tree-lined run; what began as a gentle descent turned into a fast, Mario Kart–like couple of hours and ended back in Bergün about 5 miles later.

In the Swiss Alps, family-friendly services and activities make mountain days easy. Trains to Interlaken include playground carriages, cable cars reach big playgrounds such as Allmendhubel (some gondolas even have karaoke machines), and Wengen offers marble runs and rentable “fondue backpacks”; many short walks feature stops to blow the alpine horn or milk a model cow, with waymarked routes for all abilities and fewer crowds than coastal resorts.

Switzerland, Swiss Alps

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