6 Nights 7 days with small kids and no itenary first time to Switzerland

........would like 3 to 4 star hotels in the range of chf200-250 a night

Is this amount for all of you for one night or per room?

I am thinking per room. why is it too low .. its offseason now isnt it? It could be extended to 300 in the real touristy locations.

SWiTZERLAND WITH CHILDREN

As public transport is rather expensive in Switzerland, study carefully the sites about Swiss Pass, Swiss Flexipass and Swiss half fare card: http://www.swisstravelsystem.ch/Tickets.16.0.html?&L=2#s_h_f_c

Check the Swiss Travel System Family Card
The Swiss Travel System Family Card is issued at no cost to parents who wish to take along their children under the age of 16 at no cost. Please note that at least one parent has to travel with the child/ren.

Some ideas:

historic steamboats on Lake Geneva:
http://www.cgn.ch/horaires/pdf/AffA2-ete-10.pdf
http://www.cgn.ch/eng/flotte

Swiss Vapeur Park Le Bouveret:
http://www.swissvapeur.ch/en/index.php

Signal de Bougy:
http://www.parc-aventure.ch/Signal-de-Bougy/
http://www.signaldebougy.ch/

Blonay-Chamby historic railway:
http://www.blonay-chamby.ch/index-en.php

Chillon castle:
http://www.chillon.ch/en/

Gruyeres castle, cheese diary and chocolate factory:
http://www.chateau-gruyeres.ch/e/multimedia/spectacle.html
http://www.la-gruyere.ch/en/navpage-ExcursionsFR-HistSitesFR-120085.html
http://www.lamaisondugruyere.ch/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=142&Itemid=56
http://www.lamaisondugruyere.ch/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=142&Itemid=56

Chatelard-Emosson (Mont Blanc area):
http://www.chatelard.net/english/pages/descr_e.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emosson
http://www.emosson.ch/PublicEN/default-en.htm

Zermatt-Gornergrat:
http://www.gornergrat.ch/home/index.php
http://www.klein-matterhorn.ch/photos/
http://www.zermatt.ch/en/index.cfm

Entirely walled city of Murten:
http://www.murtentourismus.ch/en/navpage-DestinationsFR-MurtenFR-99305.html
http://www.murtentourismus.ch/en/navpage_list-DestinationsFR-MurtenFR.html

Medieval city of Bern:
http://www.berninfo.com/en/page.cfm/Information
http://www.kleinbahn-gurten.ch/

Swiss Village Park Ballenberg:
http://ballenberg.ch/en/Welcome

Lugano and Swissminiatur:
http://www.lugano-tourism.ch/en/291/default.aspx
http://www.swissminiatur.ch/

Seewen in the Jura close to Basel:
http://www.bundesmuseen.ch/musikautomaten/index.html?lang=en

Rapperswil:
http://www.zuerichsee.ch/en/page.cfm/ExperiencesRZ/FamilyDRZ/1230
http://www.knieskinderzoo.ch/
http://www.zuerichsee.ch/en/page.cfm/SightsRZ
http://www.zuerich.com/en/page.cfm/region_zuerich/region_zuerich_x

Rhine Falls Adventure Park
http://www.rheinfall.ch/Attraktionen/Adventure-Park?lang=en-US

Furka steam train
http://www.furka-bergstrecke.ch/eng/train/timetable.php

You may have a look at
http://www.myswitzerland.com/en/interests/family.html
http://www.takethefamily.com/where/switzerland-family-holidays-and-breaks
http://www.eparenting.co.uk/family_holidays_europe/switzerland.shtml
http://www.reka.ch/en/rekaferien/Pages/default.aspx
http://littletravellers.com/destinations/areas/europe/family-holiday-switzerland/

Forget 4 star hotels and search by price:
http://hotels.myswitzerland.com/?language=en&bs=2
http://www.booking.com/
http://www.hrs.com/web3/init.do;jsessionid=C66E24ED3D04CEF7C33E364EC72F88B2.8-1?activity=initVisit&client=en_US__NEXT&cid=8-1
http://www.hotel.info/?lng=EN
http://www.accorhotels.com/gb/united-kingdom/index.shtml

#3 great job!!

Thanks thats a lot of information to get through and i will slowly but surely.

Any tips on itenary folks.. liek do we spend a night in geneva or go first to interlarken spend 3 night their and do day trips and work are way back down to geneva and fly out ?

how easy is it catching trains form one town to another?
i was thiking of spending 3 nights in interlarken and then 2 in laussane and 1 in geneva..but then we woudl miss the entire north of the country and also zermatt and bern.

Whats the weathe rliek in september is it snowing or raining? i hope not.
any advise is greta ..thanks

Open the links I sent you and your questions will be answered. Swiss trains run usually every 30 min from 6am until midnight.
Swiss weather in September:
temperatures between minus 10 and plus 25 degrees centigrade, according to the day and the place
It can snow down up to a limit somewhere between 1000 and 4000 metres. In some years and at some places, September can be extremely wet, in other years it can be extremely dry.

the swiss railway system is running on a takt system so you have every half hour a connection, and arriving in a larger city a connection to smaller places.
say your staying in interlaken for 3 nights you´re in one hour in bern and 2 hours in zürich. so it´s a bad weahter option or kind of nice day trip taking the sideline over the Brünig Pass to Luzern.
alternative for the stay in lausanne i suggest places like morges, vevey or villeneuve. they are smaller towns wich means normally cheaper. All three have medieval town strucktures, and you can take boattrips on the lake to lausanne, geneva, chateau chillon etc.
it´s not necessary to stay in geneva to catch the plane, the train connecting the citys is running to the airport.

weather forecast is difficult, bring a rainjacket, a fleece jacket and swimming trunks.

have fun