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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 #2140 on: February 10, 2019, 03:18:26 AM »
They sent an email ad.
Nowadays they work with nice hotels in area, and if you book through them it's not so expensive.
This is also mentioned in the ad.

I would phone Arosa & Davos directly and ask them how much do the meals cost, without sleeping in their hotels.
Then you'll be able decide according to your Budget.

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Re: Switzerland Master Thread
« Reply #2141 on: March 11, 2019, 04:54:41 AM »
Hello,
Am traveling to Israel after pesach, will be in zurich for 12 hours on monday may 6- family with 6 kids ages 21- 4 yrs.  arriving zurich 11 AM, depart 11 PM.
our goal is to see the alps- if there is time for any activity, then great.
What is best way to get to alps and back? train or driver?
titlis or pilatus?
« Last Edit: March 11, 2019, 05:21:19 AM by Hi its me »

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Re: Switzerland Master Thread
« Reply #2142 on: March 13, 2019, 04:22:56 PM »
Hi,

We are looking to go to either Davos or St. Moritz for the summer with a child. Not sure if we should do an apartment or a hotel.

Does anyone have any experience renting an apartment in Davos or St. Moritz?

Is there enough kosher food for sale in Davos to get by or do you need to get things in Zurich? Anything at all in St. Moritz you can buy?

Is there a Mikvah in either town, or only in Zurich?

Lastly, anyone have any experience with the Kempinski kosher program in St. Moritz?

Thanks very much for any suggestions or info.

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Re: Switzerland Master Thread
« Reply #2143 on: March 13, 2019, 06:20:55 PM »
I would phone Arosa & Davos directly and ask them how much do the meals cost, without sleeping in their hotels.
Then you'll be able decide according to your Budget.
Hi, anyone with experience in the Cresta Davos Kosher Hotel? doesn't look appealing on TripAdviser but these are old reviews and photos. wonder if there are any changes.
Also, how is the food?

Thanks!

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Re: Switzerland Master Thread
« Reply #2144 on: March 14, 2019, 07:04:04 PM »
Hi, anyone with experience in the Cresta Davos Kosher Hotel? doesn't look appealing on TripAdviser but these are old reviews and photos. wonder if there are any changes.
Also, how is the food?

Thanks!
We were there this past summer & would highly recommend. (My brother was just there a couple of weeks ago and was also very satisfied)

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Re: Switzerland Master Thread
« Reply #2145 on: March 14, 2019, 08:34:05 PM »
We were there this past summer & would highly recommend. (My brother was just there a couple of weeks ago and was also very satisfied)

Thanks. How are the scenic views there? Any particular room with spectacular alps view? Also, what style food? Heimish or more like Israeli style?
Thanks a lot!

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Re: Switzerland Master Thread
« Reply #2146 on: March 14, 2019, 09:49:52 PM »
Thanks. How are the scenic views there? Any particular room with spectacular alps view? Also, what style food? Heimish or more like Israeli style?
Thanks a lot!
I didn't stay there, but I passed by. It seemed like it was in the lower part of town. I don't think there is any major views from that hotel. But I may be wrong.

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Re: Switzerland Master Thread
« Reply #2147 on: March 14, 2019, 09:52:31 PM »
Thanks. How are the scenic views there? Any particular room with spectacular alps view? Also, what style food? Heimish or more like Israeli style?
Thanks a lot!
The views vary by room but I had a pretty nice view from my porch (upgraded room)
The food was delicious & heimish. I would say more on American standards

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Re: Switzerland Master Thread
« Reply #2148 on: March 14, 2019, 10:19:51 PM »
Hi,

I was in Switzerland (St. Moritz and Arosa) last August, and although beautiful, I was disappointed that there wasn't any snow on top of the mountains.

I was wondering what would be the best time to visit when the climate is warm and sunny, and the mountains are snow-capped?

Thank You!

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Re: Switzerland Master Thread
« Reply #2149 on: March 17, 2019, 02:29:41 AM »
Hello,
posted this last week but didn't get any replies, am I doing something wrong?
AM traveling from NY to TLV after pesach (may 6) and have 12 hour stop in Zurich, arrive 11 AM depart 11 PM.
family of 8.
would love to see the alps.
best way to get there (in terms of price and timing): trains, driver, or rent a car from airport?
Titlis or Pilatus?
thanks for your help

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Re: Switzerland Master Thread
« Reply #2150 on: March 17, 2019, 09:20:07 AM »


Hello,
posted this last week but didn't get any replies, am I doing something wrong?
AM traveling from NY to TLV after pesach (may 6) and have 12 hour stop in Zurich, arrive 11 AM depart 11 PM.
family of 8.
would love to see the alps.
best way to get there (in terms of price and timing): trains, driver, or rent a car from airport?
Titlis or Pilatus?
thanks for your help

You can read my TR here for some ideas. With a family of 8 I would assume that you should rent a car as the trains were expensive. Pilatus is expensive (~$100 pp) but very nice views. I haven't been to Titlis.

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Re: Switzerland Master Thread
« Reply #2151 on: March 27, 2019, 05:55:20 PM »
Landing in zhr at 8am on a weekday. Any way to make a shachris minyan with taking trains?

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Re: Switzerland Master Thread
« Reply #2152 on: March 27, 2019, 06:02:18 PM »
hi anybody know of a good kosher hotel in the swiss alps thats opened april time?

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Re: Switzerland Master Thread
« Reply #2153 on: March 27, 2019, 08:30:22 PM »
Landing in zhr at 8am on a weekday. Any way to make a shachris minyan with taking trains?
They usually have a minyan at 9 or so, in Erikastrasse Shul, maybe later. There are minyanim much later if it is bein hazmanim, too. The direct train is only about a 13 minutes ride, iirc. It comes every 20 or 30 minutes.

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« Reply #2154 on: March 27, 2019, 08:45:12 PM »
They usually have a minyan at 9 or so, in Erikastrasse Shul, maybe later.
thanks! whats the best way to get from train station to there and is there a place to buy breakfast near there?

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Re: Switzerland Master Thread
« Reply #2155 on: March 27, 2019, 09:43:21 PM »
thanks! whats the best way to get from train station to there and is there a place to buy breakfast near there?
its a 3 min walk from the train station and Koshercity is right across the street.

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Re: Switzerland Master Thread
« Reply #2156 on: March 27, 2019, 09:58:35 PM »
its a 3 min walk from the train station and Koshercity is right across the street.
oh i see
so take train to main station and transfer to a different train or take the "s2" direct from airport

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« Reply #2157 on: March 27, 2019, 10:53:59 PM »
oh i see
so take train to main station and transfer to a different train or take the "s2" direct from airport
Obviously not having to transfer is better depending on the timing.

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Re: Switzerland Master Thread
« Reply #2158 on: March 28, 2019, 03:46:26 PM »
oh i see
so take train to main station and transfer to a different train or take the "s2" direct from airport

From the airport you take the train to Bahnhof Wiedikon - 24 min. from Bahnhof Wiedikon ist a 6 min walk

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Re: Switzerland Master Thread
« Reply #2159 on: March 28, 2019, 03:55:29 PM »
Landing in zhr at 8am on a weekday. Any way to make a shachris minyan with taking trains?

044 461 07 53  You should ask Mr. Kernberg.  He knows the times of minyan in Switzerland.