5 Days In Lucerne And Did You Know ....?
Ever since our friends moved to Lucerne, we’ve been toying with the idea of spending an extended time in Switzerland. It’s unbelievably beautiful there and a great travel destination throughout the year. There’s just one thing holding us back: Switzerland is so extremely expensive, and honestly, we just can’t afford it. If you’re a resident, you’re eligible for the half tax, which gives you 50% off tickets on trains, gondolas, funiculars, cogwheel trains and many other things as well. As a tourist you have to pay full price or you can buy the Half Tax, which is 120 Franken per person. Either way, doing anything in Switzerland ain’t cheap and we won’t even discuss the cost of eating out or having a glass of wine.
The Swiss can handle the prices, since they have a Swiss income, but for tourists accustomed to prices in Spain or even South East Asia, it's a shock and will make you second-guess doing anything. On our first visit to Lucerne, we paid 148 CHF to go on the Stanserhorn Cabrio Gondola which was awesome, but spending that much money almost ruined the experience.
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Wow Juergen!! What a lovely post! I totally forgot that you were visiting Switzerland! I hope you had a great time! I started to work on a Lucerne post myself but I will just drop it for now after seeing your beautiful photography!
There is room for more than one Lucerne post .....! Looking forward to yours. Thank you for your kind words.
Ok, ok :) Will try to post it next week or the week after! My pleasure Juergen! I really enjoyed it :)
After watching your pic i don't need to go Switzerland !
It will safe you a lot of money, hehe! But you should see it for yourself on day.
Wow! Switzerland looks like an even more decorated version of Germany - I've never been long enough to really notice, just for skiing, but this makes my photographers mind inspired :D
It's so picturesque, I wish we could go there for an extended time.
It's so picturesque,
I wish we could go there for
An extended time.
- for91days
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So beautiful! I love Lucerne. It's such a lovely place. Shame that things are so expensive though. It really can ruin the experience as you say. Lovely photos 😍
The experience was just great but you just have to get over that sick feeling of spending too much :)
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Really nice pictures! You have a great eye for interesting details.
One thing for next time is to take tour with the steam boats over the lake. You can visit the "Rütli" where the grounding fathers of Switzerland swore the first oath or see the "Tellsplatte" where Willhelm Tell jumped to freedom from a boat during the storm (says the legend).
But yes I know. It's quite costly (even for Swiss people).
We're doing Rütli next time. As long as our friends continue to live there ;)