From: justforpostings on
On 23 juil, 13:34, shanky <shankard...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
>
> Thanks for all the help and suggestions. The trip was great. I had a
> wonderful time in switzerland. I did not have enough time to visit
> zermat but I was able to visit Jungfrau, Titlis and Pilatus mountains.
> Also I drove from lucerne to interlaken taking the route: lucerne-
> andermatt-airolo-ulritchen-interlaken. The drive through the st
> gothard tunnel was amazing, i have never driven through such a long
> tunnel ever before and really loved the drive.
> I bought the choclates from teuscher and hanold chocalateirs ( very
> good ones).

Glad to hear you had time for visiting
Teuscher and Honold and liked their
chocolate ..... next time try to stop
[also] at nearby Paradeplatz for Sprüngli

> I just have a couple of questions:
> 1) regarding visiting zermatt- Is it close from any city in italy?

The nearest resort ist Beuil-Cervinia
from where skiers can acces Zermatt
skiing area and also reach Zermatt
(and the way back). You might get
an idea at
http://bergbahnen.zermatt.ch/e/web-cam/zermatt4.html
choosing the respective cams and map

Otherwise no place in Italy within less
than a half day driving I could imagine
staying for a vacation. Domodossola
sure is at 100km ... but viamichelin
estimate is 2 hours (car to Täsch, train
from there to Zermatt). From Aosta
estimate is almost 3 hours ....
Sure: nearby Brig is on some main
railway link from NW-Italy to Germany
and France (Milano-Geneva-Paris or
Milano-Brig-Basle-Germany ...) so
might be just a detour for such a train
trip

> 2) Regarding car rental: I rented one at hertz and had to shell out
> almost 350 sf( around 250$) for the one day rental. Is this the normal
> rates for rental in all of europe or is this the case only in
> switzerland?

Renting a car for a day definitely is
expensive in Switzerland and many
European countries. Depends what
type of car you had, but probably
you could have found a better price
with some other company.

> Thanks again for all the great suggestions and tips.

Any comments on Airolo - Ulrichen -
[Grimsel pass road I assume] to
Interlaken by car ?



From: shanky on
The car I rented was a category O Hertz ( mercedes A class) since it
was the only car available with gps in their rental location . I had
the gps navigator to help with directions so I am not exactly
remembering whether I took grimsel pass road or not to drive from
ulrichen to interlaken but after driving a few miles, we were on the
main highway(not the mountain roads) for most time.
Also regarding the choclates, I never liked dark choclates like
godiva before but the swiss choclates( still don't like the alcohol
filled truffles) I tried were very very good.

Thanks again;
Shanky

From: Jesper Lauridsen on
On 2007-07-25, shanky <shankardasm(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> The car I rented was a category O Hertz ( mercedes A class) since it
> was the only car available with gps in their rental location .

I recently rented an E-class for a long weekend in Germany, for less than
what you paid for your A-class. So that price isn't something you'll
find everywhere in Europe.