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| * * * VERY IMPORTANT --- LAKE GENEVA * * * * * FURTHER  LAST MINUTE 'CGN' CHANGESClick here for the latest known information |
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LAKE GENEVA Summer Timetable to be extended As a bonus PS Montreux will return to service commencing Monday 1st September Initially she will operate the 1055 sailing from Lausanne to Geneva.......... ..........releasing MPV Vevey to cover the three daily daytime sailings from Lausanne to the Upper Lake (currently being operted by mv Lausanne) Revised timetables for this period will be added to this website over the next few days | ||
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MPV Italie (Lake Geneva)  photo: Alain Vuistiner The motor paddle vessel departs Lausanne at the start of her return sailing 105 back to Geneva | ||
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MPV Italia (Lake Garda)  picture: Limone webcam Despite the NLM advising earlier in the season that they did not expect either of their two motor paddle vessels to be in service during 2025.......... MPV Italia was observed at Limone operating the 0845 (sailing 71) from Riva to Malcesine Do YOU know when she started or why (possibly covering a broken down motor vessel) ? Looking through the Limone webcam files suggests she could have started with the last round trip on the previous evening PLEASE ADVISE IF YOU KNOW ANYTHING FURTHER | ||
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PS Blümlisalp (Lake Thun)  photo: Leila Blythe The paddle steamer leaves Spiez on her daily sailing 15 from Thun to Interlaken overlooked by the unusual pyramid shaped Mount Niesen in the background | ||
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All five Paddle Steamers (Lake Luzern)  picture: Luzern webcam All five paddle steamers set off on the annual Parade from Luzern to the 'Fireworks display' at Brunnen Were YOU there and do you hasve a better photo to displasy on this website ? | ||
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PS Lötschberg (Lake Brienz)  photo: Ernst Mischler The paddle steamer is seen from mv Brienz between Iseltwald and Giessbach on her outward weekly evening sailing 69 from Interlaken to Brienz | ||
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PS Stadt Rapperswil (Lake Zurich)  photo: Alain Vuistiner The paddle steamer arrives at Küssnacht on the daily outward sailing 107 from Zurich to Rapperswil | ||
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MPV Italie (Lake Geneva) 
  photos: Robert Monch The motor paddle vessel approaches Yvoire towards the end of her daily outward leg on evening sailing 388 from Geneva to Yvoire then later on return to Geneva in the dark at the end of sailing 389 | ||
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PS Blümlisalp (Lake Thun)  photo: Ernst Mischler The paddle steamer approaches Hilterfingen on her outward sailing 15 from Thun to Interlaken | ||
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PS Neuchâtel (Lake Neuchâtel)  picture: Murten/Morat webcam Its "full astern" as the paddle steamer skows down to berth at Morat/Murten harbour at the end of her outward Lunch Cruise sailing 23 from Neuchâtel | ||
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MPV Italie (Lake Geneva) 
 photos: Robert Monch The motor paddle vessel calls at Coppet on the outward leg of her first Summer Evening Cruise sailing 388 from Geneva to Yvoire then later on return sailing 389 | ||
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PSs Stadt Rapperswil and Stadt Zürich (Lake Zurich)  photo: Daniel Eichenberger For the first time for many years both paddle steamers were in public service on the same day What make it even more remarkable, they were both at Rapperswil pier at the same time having arrived from Schmerikon (left) and Zurich (right) respectivelty | ||
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PS Gallia (Lake Luzern)  photo: Paul Scheuchzer The paddle steamers is spening the summer operating a new 'four-hour' inclusive daily special non-stop cruise from Luzern to the Upper Lake Compared to her four sisters, who over the holiday weekend each had loads of several hundred passengers, the maximium of just 50 passengers per day must feel like they are on a private yacht.......... ..........good luck to those who can afford the 'luxury' !!! | ||
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Advance Information for the proposed 2025 sailings on most of the the Swiss and Italian Lakes can be found by clicking here (further information - including the Italian lakes when available - will be added as and when advised to me !!) |
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BEWARE.......... ! already been planned they will be replaced by a motor vessel on specific dates (eg for private charters or special events or breakdowns) or there is a breakdown, etc | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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8th August 2025
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