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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 #980 on: July 19, 2015, 01:44:59 PM »
Anyone knows if/where there is a Shull in the summer in Klosters? (near Davos)
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Re: Switzerland Master Thread
« Reply #981 on: July 21, 2015, 07:35:27 AM »
Can you buy the Swiss Travel Pass at Basel Airport?

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Re: Switzerland Master Thread
« Reply #982 on: July 21, 2015, 07:40:10 AM »
Can you buy the Swiss Travel Pass at Basel Airport?
Yes

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Re: Switzerland Master Thread
« Reply #983 on: July 21, 2015, 08:48:55 AM »
What are the cell phone options for talk and data in Switzerland?
T-Mobile data works good enough  to use hangouts or magic jack?
Or thee are cheaper sim cards available locally ?
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Re: Switzerland Master Thread
« Reply #984 on: July 21, 2015, 09:04:51 AM »
What are the cell phone options for talk and data in Switzerland?
T-Mobile data works good enough  to use hangouts or magic jack?
Or thee are cheaper sim cards available locally ?
I think you can get a sim card for cheap in the airport.

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Re: Switzerland Master Thread
« Reply #985 on: July 21, 2015, 09:06:55 AM »
Or thee are cheaper sim cards available locally ?
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Re: Switzerland Master Thread
« Reply #986 on: July 22, 2015, 06:23:48 PM »
What's the best thing to do in Switzerland if I'll have one full day there? Arriving at Zurich early AM and leaving next day early AM.

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Re: Switzerland Master Thread
« Reply #987 on: July 22, 2015, 06:32:04 PM »
What's the best thing to do in Switzerland if I'll have one full day there? Arriving at Zurich early AM and leaving next day early AM.
Titlis in Engelberg then go back and sleep over in hotel near the airport

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Re: Switzerland Master Thread
« Reply #988 on: July 22, 2015, 06:32:25 PM »
Hello guys,

I am going to stop at ZRH airport for 1 day next year 3/25/2016, what hotel is near the airport that you have a nice view? how is the weather over there in the end of March? is there any good place for Asia food? Because i travel with my mother so i want to be fully prepare, let me know thanks a lot!

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Re: Switzerland Master Thread
« Reply #989 on: July 22, 2015, 06:44:59 PM »
Titlis in Engelberg then go back and sleep over in hotel near the airport
Thanks. This is better than doing the pilatus?

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Re: Switzerland Master Thread
« Reply #990 on: July 22, 2015, 07:26:17 PM »
Thanks. This is better than doing the pilatus?
If it is a nice weather IMO yes

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Re: Switzerland Master Thread
« Reply #991 on: July 22, 2015, 07:46:31 PM »


Hello guys,

I am going to stop at ZRH airport for 1 day next year 3/25/2016, what hotel is near the airport that you have a nice view? how is the weather over there in the end of March? is there any good place for Asia food? Because i travel with my mother so i want to be fully prepare, let me know thanks a lot!

No nice view hotels near the airport (Zurich is city) if you go up to the alps you could get a view.
Cold in the winter

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Re: Switzerland Master Thread
« Reply #992 on: July 22, 2015, 08:25:14 PM »
If it is a nice weather IMO yes
Any suggestions as to what to do there? Is there snow all year long? Can you get the view there like you can of the pilatus?

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Re: Switzerland Master Thread
« Reply #993 on: July 22, 2015, 08:34:03 PM »
Any suggestions as to what to do there? Is there snow all year long? Can you get the view there like you can of the pilatus?
snow all year round. View is slightly better from Pilatus. Check out the WIKI there should be links to them

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Re: Switzerland Master Thread
« Reply #994 on: July 23, 2015, 11:37:59 AM »
witch is the best spg hotel in zurich

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Re: Switzerland Master Thread
« Reply #995 on: July 23, 2015, 03:54:52 PM »
witch is the best spg hotel in zurich
There is obliviously no answer that fits all. It depends on the location you want, price, view etc.

You can check on spg.com or any travel website like kayak, priceline etc. for pictures and reviews.

(I also highly recommend you should double check your spelling and definitions before posting... )

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Re: Switzerland Master Thread
« Reply #996 on: July 23, 2015, 07:29:48 PM »
witch is the best spg hotel in zurich

This isnt SPG but stay at the Park Hyatt. You'll thank me.
If you have an early AM flight stay at the radisson blu in the airport

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Re: Switzerland Master Thread
« Reply #997 on: July 23, 2015, 07:55:00 PM »
A flight TLV-ZRH-FCO connection, do i need to recheck the bags? Or can I check directly  TLV-FCO.

Ive been to ZRH many times but never on a connection, is it a PITA to connect in ZRH?

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Re: Switzerland Master Thread
« Reply #998 on: July 27, 2015, 12:56:02 AM »
I am going next week to Zurich on points should I stay  davos for 2 days with  spg or in Lucerne with Marriott points ?

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Re: Switzerland Master Thread
« Reply #999 on: July 27, 2015, 11:57:55 PM »
Is the area near the airport safe? If I were to stay within a mile of the airport is it walkable?
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