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Kosher food list 2022

Zurich
HOTELS
-The Park Hyatt is fantastic and a 10 minute walk to shul.
Tram stop: Stockerstrasse

RESTAURANTS

Meat:

Florentin - Located inside he JCC https://florentin.rest/
Tram stop: Bahnhof Enge

Grill Cave

Food truck. Check website for opening hours. Burgers, sandwiches, hot dogs etc.
https://www.thegrillcave.co/


Milk/Parve:

Babi's Bagels (Bederstrasse corner Klopstockstrasse 8002 Zürich) Tram Stop "Waffenplatzstrasse"

Bakery:
Ma'Adan Bakery
Manessestrasse/Schimmelstrasse
Has delicious pastries and also sells sandwiches, salads, and some sushi.

Butcher:
Metzgerei Kol Tuv

Can preorder for pickup.
Can also deliver throughout Switzerland by post.
See website for details.

https://www.koltuv.ch/en

ATTRACTIONS
-Walk around the lake area
-Bahnhofstrasse window shopping
-Take a train to Lucerne and buy the golden ticket, included a boat ride on Lake Lucerne, cogwheel train and tram. Then take bus back to Lucerne
-When you arrive in Lucerne you can go to the tourist office to see a live view from Mount Pilatus (Or you can check online). If it's cloudy skip the cogwheel train and just take a nice boatride and explore the town, ancient bridges, and walk on top of the old city fortress walls.




Options in the Alps

Arosa: Metropol Hotel - quaint little old hotel. Not very fancy - it's like honeymooning in your grandmother's house (HT: Mrs. Moishebatchy). The food is very basic, but delicious. Mikva on premises. If skiing is your thing, the have an agreement with one of the ski places (Härtner) not to charge Metropol customers for ski rentals over Shabbos.


Need a meal on shabbes, please PM me (Chuchem). I live 15 minute walk from the hyatt, close to chabad. Zürich has no eiruv!

Major Attractions
“Please edit the wiki to add more attractions”

Central Switzerland
-Lucerne, Pilatus Offers: Cogwheel, Gondolas, Alpine Sliding, Mini Zip-line and fun area
-Titlis Offers: Gondolas, Snow Tubing, Trutti Bikes, Ice Museum, Row Boating
-Brunni Offers: Gondolas, Alpine Sliding, Stroll in Lake(!)

Jungfrau Region
-Jungfrau/jungfraujoch Click here for the Kosher hotel in Wengen / 360-degree panorama of Jungfraujoch-Top of Europe
-Grindelwald Offers: Gondolas, mega Zip-line, Trutti Bikes

Eastern Switzerland
-St. Moritz
Davos / Klosters
Arosa Click here for the Kosher Levins hotel

Southern Switzerland
-Zermatt - "Matterhorn"
-Saas-Fee Offers: Gondolas, Alpine Sliding, Mega Zip-line, Trotti Bikes, (Saas-Grund has Monster Trotteres) and on top of "Allalin" you can go Snow Tubing and Skiing even in the summer!
-Crans Montana You can email the Kosher hotel in Crans Montana Hotelmk@gmail.com  or call them at 0032485640498 or 003233011600


HalbTax Pass

A HalbTax pass (or Half Fare card) is a card designated for tourists and not for Swiss residents (officially...). The card gives you half price on all public transportation like buses, trains, trams, boats and also on "most" cable cars (attractions). There are basically 4 kinds.

1) An annual pass, the price is currently 175 francs. If i remember correctly it has a photo ID of the recipient, so double check before sharing it.
Click here for the annual pass

2) A 30 day pass, the price is currently 120 francs, it does not have a photo ID on it.
Click here or here for the 30 day pass

3) - Recommended for frequent traveling Swiss Travel Pass - you prepay a set amount per day and get unlimited for that day (plus "optional" for a fee, for 1 month including the days you chose, it is a HalbTax, even on the prepaid free days, it's only free for all transportation, on cable cars you only get half off). The price per day depends on how many days you prepay, for example if you prepay 8 days, the price per day will be about 53 francs, if you prepay 3 days the price per day will be about 73 francs. If you are 25 y/o or younger, you can get the Youth Pass which is cheaper - If you prepay 8 days  the price per day will be about 40 francs a day, if you prepay 3 days the price per day will be about 62 francs.
Click here (or here) for the prepaid pass

The card comes with a few days “you could chose your dates later”, officially when you want to use a certain day for the free day you should fill in on the pass that date, and when the first conductor comes he punches that day, but technically you can leave the date blank until the conductor comes, that way you have a chance if no conductor asks you for your card (happens quite often) you can save it for the next day :)

4) Swiss Transfer Ticket" This card costs 141 francs and is valid for 2 trips from and to the boarder or airport, for example you are traveling from the airport to Arosa and are not planning to go anywhere else or take any other transportation, with this card you will effectively pay 71 francs per way. This card is only valid for trips to and from the airport or boarder and no (long) stops allowed. Technically if you will travel one more day, the Swiss travel pass mentioned above will probably be cheaper.

Make sure to order your pass a few weeks before leaving, it takes about 1-3 weeks for the pass to arrive. But you can always buy it in the Airport, though you might have to wait in line and also if you want to buy the Youth pass (for 25 y/o or younger) they might ask you for proof...

There is also a family pass if you travel with a large family, I am not familiar with that.


Fast Baggage
There is a service via SBB, They deliver your luggage for you!! For example you are traveling from ZRH to Arosa, you don't want to be busy Shlepping around your luggage, You can check in your luggage in the airport and they (SBB) will deliver it to the train station in Arosa. This service is available "from and to" most train stations in Switzerland. You can ask about the Fast Baggage by any train station or read here or here

You can even buy a tag that you put on the luggage before checking in your luggage in any airport (i.e. JFK) and Rail Europe will take your luggage from the airplane in Switzerland and deliver it either to your hotel or to the train station in the city you're going to.  Read about Flight Luggage Here




PS. When doing research and getting to a website in German, just add /en (after .ch) to translate to English.
And Hey, Don't forget to write a TR ;)

Sample Itinerary for 9 hour stopover on Swiss flight from TLV to U.S. that lands at 810 and takes off around 5
Copied from @cholent:
Here it is: landed in zrh, crazy line for entering country but moved pretty quickly, about half an hour. Picked up sim in the airport. Rented car through Priceline from europecar. Drove to Titlis, stunning scenery along drive. Missed a turnoff because I couldn't get Waze to talk and I was trying to do some stuff online while we were driving, added half an hour to get there, but the stunning scenery made it worthwhile. Got there, parked, you pay at the entrance if you're going to park for more than an hour. Paid, took the cable car. Got off at there halfway station by mistake, gorgeous lake. Went back on and back up to the top. It was somewhat cloudy which was a pity. Suspension bridge was fun but no view because of the clouds. Took the ice flyer to the other peak, then went sledding down the hill, lots of fun. No tubing because there wasn't enough snow. We didn't have enough time for the ice cave because of the extra time driving there and we weren't sure where it was anyway. Made some new Israeli friends and took the cable car down with them. Got back to the airport, returning the car took less than five minutes, getting through the airport took a little longer so we didn't have time for showers at the lounge. It was amazing all around, I would definitely recommend

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Re: Switzerland Master Thread
« Reply #940 on: June 21, 2015, 04:40:19 PM »
Which kosher hotel is the closest to ZRH or GVA?

I want to stay in Switzerland with my family in August, but afaik most the kosher hotels are at least 2.5 to 3.5 hrs away.
The known Kosher hotels are;
Arosa = 2 hours from Zurich
Crans Montana = 3.5 hours from GVA
Wengen = 4 hours from Zurich or from Geneva
St Moritz = 5 hours from both.
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Re: Switzerland Master Thread
« Reply #941 on: June 21, 2015, 07:06:02 PM »
davos?

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Re: Switzerland Master Thread
« Reply #943 on: June 21, 2015, 07:17:45 PM »
The known Kosher hotels are;
Arosa = 2 hours from Zurich
Crans Montana = 3.5 hours from GVA
Wengen = 4 hours from Zurich or from Geneva
St Moritz = 5 hours from both.
To Crans Montana from GVA should be 2.5 from ZRH it's 3.5

The hotel is open in the summer July -August.
I was there in the winter and really enjoyed it.
The food is excellent there,I met the cook this week shaboss in Jerusalem he said he is leaving this week to prepare so maybe the hotel wil open this week already.
In the summer you won't have skiing snow tubing..... But there's a nice lake that was frozen in the winter and it's not far from Saas Fee which has lots of activities.
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Re: Switzerland Master Thread
« Reply #944 on: June 21, 2015, 07:18:25 PM »
No Kosher hotel there

In the summer Levin's son runs a kosher hotel there.

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Re: Switzerland Master Thread
« Reply #945 on: June 21, 2015, 07:23:36 PM »
In the summer Levin's son runs a kosher hotel there.
as far as i know (I am going this summer so i made some research) he provides food and can accommodate in apartments but no official hotel.

If you know otherwise then don't hesitate to post info about that hotel

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Re: Switzerland Master Thread
« Reply #946 on: June 22, 2015, 04:51:59 PM »
I am thinking of coming this weekend to Switzerland landing on Thursday leaving  on Monday what r the best kosher place to stay in the alphas with kosher food and what should i do i am coming with a 17 month baby ?

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« Reply #947 on: June 22, 2015, 05:02:13 PM »
I am thinking of coming this weekend to Switzerland landing on Thursday leaving  on Monday what r the best kosher place to stay in the alphas with kosher food and what should i do i am coming with a 17 month baby ?
Highly recommended although pricey http://en.tourplus.co.il/kosher-summer-vacation-2015-e-switzerland-2

When you decide where you are going i can try to help for attractions.

ETA you can check the WIKI for the other two Kosher hotels that are already open
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Re: Switzerland Master Thread
« Reply #948 on: June 22, 2015, 05:08:40 PM »
Highly recommended although pricey http://en.tourplus.co.il/kosher-summer-vacation-2015-e-switzerland-2

When you decide where you are going i can try to help for attractions.

how far is this from the airport ? and is the food and rooms nice ? I am only going to be there for 4 night since I have to be back in London for a wadding on Monday

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« Reply #949 on: June 22, 2015, 05:16:48 PM »
how far is this from the airport ? and is the food and rooms nice ? I am only going to be there for 4 night since I have to be back in London for a wadding on Monday
It is about 3 hours from ZRH or from GVA, rooms are... for a Kosher hotel decent. (the pictures on their site is absolutely fake or a decade old) that's IN the hotel, the outside is Gorgeous but the food is unbeatable. Really, it is insane awesome.

This picture is from the balcony

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Re: Switzerland Master Thread
« Reply #950 on: June 22, 2015, 05:22:38 PM »
wow its far .is Levine hotel also that far ? do you have more pictures  ? what is there to do out there ? is the train ride nice from the airport ?

do you have any pictures of the out side of the hotel .

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Re: Switzerland Master Thread
« Reply #951 on: June 22, 2015, 05:26:17 PM »
wow its far .is Levine hotel also that far ? do you have more pictures  ? what is there to do out there ? is the train ride nice from the airport ?

do you have any pictures of the out side of the hotel .
Levins hotel is 1.5-2 hours from ZRH, but old and shabby plus no major attractions close by. This is only 3 hours 8 minutes from ZRH and has the #1 rated view in Switzerland. you can read my TR which i cover when i was at this hotel what i did in the area (scroll down after Venice) http://forums.dansdeals.com/index.php?topic=46155.msg964500#msg964500

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Re: Switzerland Master Thread
« Reply #952 on: June 22, 2015, 06:43:02 PM »
anyone know of a good driver in Lucerne or zurich. Would like someone Jewish

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Re: Switzerland Master Thread
« Reply #953 on: June 22, 2015, 06:46:28 PM »
what are the tour plus prices?

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Re: Switzerland Master Thread
« Reply #954 on: June 22, 2015, 07:17:14 PM »
what are the tour plus prices?
Email them.
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Re: Switzerland Master Thread
« Reply #955 on: June 22, 2015, 07:20:37 PM »
Email them.
ok. i thought you knew since you referred to them as pricey
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Re: Switzerland Master Thread
« Reply #956 on: July 05, 2015, 12:43:00 PM »
it does appear that levin has a hotel in davos

www.levinarosa.com

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Re: Switzerland Master Thread
« Reply #957 on: July 05, 2015, 02:29:23 PM »
I am asking this for a friend who is going to Switzerland - if someone could help i would appreciate it. Does the Swiss Travel Pass recommended in the Switzerland wiki cover the golden round trip from Luzern/Pilatus?
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« Reply #958 on: July 05, 2015, 02:48:42 PM »
I am asking this for a friend who is going to Switzerland - if someone could help i would appreciate it. Does the Swiss Travel Pass recommended in the Switzerland wiki cover the golden round trip from Luzern/Pilatus?
Thanks
If it's public transportation - it's free.

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Re: Switzerland Master Thread
« Reply #959 on: July 05, 2015, 03:37:13 PM »
Is the boat ride public transportation?