Itenerary Help For Summer Trip to Switzerland/Italy/France ...

You have to figure that out first. You say your hotel budget is $200 or less a night. Is that per room or total? If total, that will be very challenging in most of the cities on your list. If you spent more nights in a city, you could look into apartments. ... It would have been much easier to book open jaw into Zurich and out of Paris to save a whole day lost getting back to Zurich. But unless you booked changeable tickets (probably not) that is water under the bridge. ...