I left my iPad in a coffee shop & someone came out to the sidewalk to give it to me! Don't miss the cable car and the National Maritime Museum, you can get discounts for the cable car if you have an Oyster card, the museum is free and it is unforgettable.
Basel EuroAirport. Journey time to Zermatt is shorter by 20 minutes than from Zurich, but the train station is not in the airport, so you need to transfer by bus or taxi. The bus from the airport to the main train station, Basel SBB, leaves every 10 minutes, and takes 20 minutes.
Zermatt is a municipality in the district of Visp in the German-speaking section of the canton of Valais in Switzerland. It has a population of about 5,800 inhabitants. The town lies at the upper end of Mattertal at an elevation of 1,620 m (5,310 ft), at the foot of Switzerland's highest peaks.