Switzerland Guide
Lausanne and Lake Geneva
Vevey
Whereas brassy Montreux, a few kilometres down the road, has over the years freely embraced all that glisters – gold, paper or otherwise – its old-fashioned neighbour Vevey is more discriminating. Vevey quietly cleans its streets, tends its flowerbeds, makes sure it has enough, but not too many, hotels and then waits for visitors of a certain style to find the town for themselves, become enchanted, and stay. It's a hard place to quantify, neither prim, nor stuffy, nor sophisticated, nor especially graceful… yet it somehow manages to incorporate strands of all of them in an ambience of tasteful, restrained gentility.
Getting around
If you're shuttling between Vevey and Montreux, it's worth abandoning the trains in favour of the much more useful electric city bus #1 ( 
www.vmcv.ch ). This runs on a straight lakeside route from Vevey's funicular station (west of the centre), past Vevey train station, through La Tour-de-Peilz and Clarens into Montreux town centre, on through Territet (stopping outside the Château de Chillon), and terminating in Villeneuve. Buses run every ten minutes, and journey time between Vevey and Montreux is twenty minutes. Vevey and La Tour are in Zone 1; Montreux is in Zone 2; Chillon and Villeneuve are in Zone 3. A journey across two zones is Fr.3, across three is Fr.3.70, and a pass valid for 24 hours is Fr.7.
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