Switzerland Money Saving Tips

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I have been in Switzerland for a little over a week now and a lot of people have the idea that Switzerland is very expensive.

Money Saving Tips Switzerland

Well let me break it to you it is very expensive but before you guys convince yourselves that. That’s a reason not to go to Switzerland for you. It is so incredibly beautiful here you have to go but I’m going to give you five good reasons, How to do Switzerland on the cheap?

#1 Travels by Trains

Take the trains but not just any train because they have fast trains and they cost a fortune. Try if you can to take the regional trains they have cheap rates. Sometimes you’d see S character written in front of it.  You can ask when you buy your ticket but they will often go a little bit slower but take you through the most beautiful scenery and they cost less money.

#2 How to drink water?

Drink the water out of the water fountain I don’t mean the guys who are peeing or the Lions were spitting and all that kind of stuff but they have regular like water features. Like it’s just a spigot that goes out and they have water draining into this huge concrete tub.

You can just fill up your water bottle it’s completely free and it’s completely safe. I’ve been doing it for this whole trip and I haven’t had any problems with it whatsoever.

#3 Best foods in Switzerland

Food in Switzerland is fine it’s just not great like in France or Italy. So don’t spend your money there most of the time. I felt a little ripped off except from their heavenly cheese fondue that was delicious. So what I’ve been doing is two things, i.e.

• I have either been going into the supermarket to buy a premade sell it with additional like cheese meats in small packages or even hard boiled eggs. This you can get for around five six maybe seven Swiss franc normally. If you sit down in a restaurant in Switzerland it will cost you even for normal but cheaper dishes. It will be around 15-17 Swiss franc and with the drinks. Then you have another four or five so it adds up pretty quickly. If you can save your money here you save a lot in a week.
• The other thing you can do is, you can order this soup apparently soups are big thing in Switzerland and almost every restaurant has a taco soup which is soup of the day. They’re usually made from scratch with vegetables and stuff is not watery and thin at all. It will actually fill you up and soups you can get for maybe seven or eight Swiss but eight or nine Swiss francs ready for.

#4 Selections of Switzerland’s Hotels

If you open your Google maps for the area you want to stay in and soon in it might show you a hotel small bed breakfast that hasn’t joined either hotels.com or kings.com or any of those big companies. This is what i did when I found my accommodation here in. She is on Google map; you’ll find their phone number and most of the time a link to the website where you can contact them through email.

Since these places are more local places, you have a good chance of saving a few bucks and additionally you get to stay in a more local environment which is collision plus.

#5 How to buy tickets for viewpoints?

The peaks in Switzerland and the views from there are spectacular. So please make an effort to get up there at least 21 viewpoint on the very top. Somewhere that being said the lifts are very pricey. We paid 12 Swiss francs for one single ride ticket at some vacation point.

So that would have been 24-25 Swiss francs for a return ticket but the great thing is you don’t have to buy a return ticket. So to spare your legs a little bit and takes the lift up and then walks the way down. Most places maybe except for the really high peaks and they have these hiking trails that go down. This also gives you more time to fully enjoy the view as you walk down this way. You can enjoy the view longer and only pay half the price.

These are five best tips on how to do Switzerland on the cheap. Please leave a comment below if you have additional info for other travelers. On how to save money in Switzerland so, everyone can go and enjoy these gorgeous helps.