wow, Switzerland is expensive

[scooterscot]

Or so I thought. Just returned from a few days on a business trip. €1300 for a hotel (okay it was on the nice side). Eating out, jings €80-100 without a push, includes one beer. But then I learnt everyone is paid a decent amount and taxes are low.

So I'm wondering, is Switzerland just expensive to outsiders and normal to everyone that lives there?

[minestrone]

Someone, please, another 7 days.

[scooterscot]

Someone, please, another 7 days.

In paradise?

[MrMarkyMark]

So I'm wondering, is Switzerland just expensive to outsiders and normal to everyone that lives there?

Never found it expensive at all, or anywhere else I have been to in the world really.
Obviously all relative as to whether you command a good day rate.

[barrydidit]

Never found it expensive at all, or anywhere else I have been to in the world really.
Obviously all relative as to whether you command a good day rate.

Yeah but he's a Jock

[stek]

Or so I thought. Just returned from a few days on a business trip. €1300 for a hotel (okay it was on the nice side). Eating out, jings €80-100 without a push, includes one beer. But then I learnt everyone is paid a decent amount and taxes are low.

So I'm wondering, is Switzerland just expensive to outsiders and normal to everyone that lives there?

I have a photo somewhere of my Zurich £18 jacket potato, it was just that, a potato with a tiny blob of butter. Microwaved.

Tho to be fair, we were in Sargans in NE CH a week ago or so, prices reasonable though there's not a lot to do around there.

When we did Germany and Switzerland in the 2000's we thought the food was lovely especially in Hamburg and Berlin, now it seems it;s like mostly really dry Schweinfleisch everywhere, so much so I'm not keen on going again.

[MrMarkyMark]

Or so I thought. Just returned from a few days on a business trip. €1300 for a hotel (okay it was on the nice side).

Yeah but he's a Jock

Correct, you only have to look at how little he spent on a hotel for a "few" days. I suspect it wasn't quite as "nice" as he would like to think.

[scooterscot]

Found the food to be quite nice. Made a change from the Bavarian meat fest. Still ordered me a flamkuchen, very tasty it was to.

Two nights ago just outside Zurich. As I drove into the hotel the car keys were taken from me by the concierge. That never happens with the travel lodge

[eek]

Correct, you only have to look at how little he spent on a hotel for a "few" days. I suspect it wasn't quite as "nice" as he would like to think.

€1300 for a few days in a nice hotel?

Heck I pay more than that for the B&B I stay in in Florence - and I get a large discount for being a regular and paying cash....

[WTFH]

€1300 per night for the hotel, or for a few days in it? And is that the rack rate?