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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 #1200 on: January 31, 2016, 01:44:08 PM »
Where in Zurich can I drop my luggage for the Fast Baggage? I'm staying overnight in Zurich and then going up to the Alps.
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Re: Switzerland Master Thread
« Reply #1201 on: February 01, 2016, 07:21:48 AM »
Where in Zurich can I drop my luggage for the Fast Baggage? I'm staying overnight in Zurich and then going up to the Alps.
Bump. Anyone have any information?
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Re: Switzerland Master Thread
« Reply #1202 on: February 01, 2016, 07:23:22 AM »
Bump. Anyone have any information?

Go downstairs right next to where they sell train tickets, there's the baggage service.

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Re: Switzerland Master Thread
« Reply #1203 on: February 01, 2016, 07:34:28 AM »
I'm asking about drop off outside of the airport.
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Re: Switzerland Master Thread
« Reply #1204 on: February 01, 2016, 05:01:35 PM »
does it make sense to rent a house since the Yiddish hotel ask about $400 a night ?

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Re: Switzerland Master Thread
« Reply #1205 on: February 01, 2016, 05:12:38 PM »
does it make sense to rent a house since the Yiddish hotel ask about $400 a night ?

I was wondering the same, and a travel agent told me that for a short stay (3-4 nights) its more cost efficient to rent a house or stay in a non-kosher hotel, and use the kosher hotel for minyan, etc., if you're going for longer than that than you would be better off staying in a kosher hotel since food in switzerland is quite expensive...

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Re: Switzerland Master Thread
« Reply #1206 on: February 01, 2016, 05:13:44 PM »
does it make sense to rent a house since the Yiddish hotel ask about $400 a night ?
I don't mean to be too harsh, but why are your posts so vague?

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Re: Switzerland Master Thread
« Reply #1207 on: February 01, 2016, 05:14:10 PM »
does it make sense to rent a house since the Yiddish hotel ask about $400 a night ?

And you will buy food from Yidisher hotel? they will charge you.....
Meir Klein hotel charges CHF 270 a night, I could probably get you a Superior room with balcony, at the daily rate of a Standard room, because I made lately a lot of bookings with them.

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Re: Switzerland Master Thread
« Reply #1208 on: February 01, 2016, 05:39:48 PM »
what is the name of the hotel and how much is it in $ us

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Re: Switzerland Master Thread
« Reply #1209 on: February 01, 2016, 06:53:27 PM »
Nice photo from my summer trip 2015 in Switzerland.

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Re: Switzerland Master Thread
« Reply #1210 on: February 02, 2016, 05:48:49 AM »
what is the name of the hotel "Hotel Mirabeau"

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Re: Switzerland Master Thread
« Reply #1211 on: February 03, 2016, 10:09:26 AM »
Bump. Anyone have any information?
Option 1) Drop of your luggage by ANY train station and have them deliver it to any train station, just give it about 24 hours.
Option 2) Leave your luggage in the airport for about 7 francs a dayu.

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Re: Switzerland Master Thread
« Reply #1212 on: February 03, 2016, 10:10:48 AM »
does it make sense to rent a house since the Yiddish hotel ask about $400 a night ?
Of course it makes sense. I go every year and i usually rent an apartment

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Re: Switzerland Master Thread
« Reply #1213 on: February 03, 2016, 10:11:51 AM »
Of course it makes sense. I go every year and i usually rent an apartment

Which city do you go to?

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Re: Switzerland Master Thread
« Reply #1214 on: February 03, 2016, 10:14:26 AM »
Which city do you go to?
I was in Saas Fee, Zermett, Montana, St moritz, Wengen -my favorite, Lucern, Engelberg, and more... Last summer i was in Klosters and Davos.

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Re: Switzerland Master Thread
« Reply #1215 on: February 03, 2016, 10:28:33 AM »
Where did you rent in Wengen? I was planning to go this summer and looking for a place to rent! How much did you pay? Contact info?

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« Reply #1216 on: February 03, 2016, 10:43:34 AM »
Where did you rent in Wengen? I was planning to go this summer and looking for a place to rent! How much did you pay? Contact info?
I rented from a local agency (I have to look up the number), the price was about $300 a day for a 3 bdr 2 bath nice new big apartment with a balcony overlooking Jungfrau. Compared to the Kosher hotel which is $350 a day ($950 for Shabbos) For a small old room no major view etc. only pro is the food.

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Re: Switzerland Master Thread
« Reply #1217 on: February 03, 2016, 10:48:24 AM »
If you can find the contact info that would be great! Sounds like a great price, and I was anyways planning to bring my own food...

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Re: Switzerland Master Thread
« Reply #1218 on: February 03, 2016, 05:00:13 PM »
if I wont to go to Switzerland for a week what area should I cover I don't care about the food where should I stay ?

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Re: Switzerland Master Thread
« Reply #1219 on: February 03, 2016, 05:26:18 PM »
I rented from a local agency (I have to look up the number), the price was about $300 a day for a 3 bdr 2 bath nice new big apartment with a balcony overlooking Jungfrau. Compared to the Kosher hotel which is $350 a day ($950 for Shabbos) For a small old room no major view etc. only pro is the food.
Would the kosher hotel allow you to just eat there if not staying with them?

Do the supermarkets there carry kosher food?