My girlfriend and I are going to be spending 4 nights in switzerland 25 june-28 june this year and were wondering which places/cities are the cheapest from you're experiences. We would like to bas ourselves in Lucerne around that area. Any help would be great
Cheapest place to stay in Switzerland
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I think you need to get a guidebook. Also, do some of your own research, checking on cheap hotels or B&B's in Lucerne.
Lucerne is not the cheapest city to stay in but a LOT depends on WHERE you are willing to stay in that city in my own experience.
You can certainly look for recommendations on Trip Advisor; you can compare prices using Venere.com, etc.
Be aware that even one-star hotels in Switzerland tend to be immaculate and reasonable.
You can also search this site:
www.rooms.ch
I don't know Lucerne, but there are some very nice hostels in Switzerland you could look into. The one I'm familiar with is Riviera Lodge, right on Lac Leman, in Vevey (just as an example).
It would help to have
1) and idea of your budget
2) if you're willing to share a dorm room in a hostel
No place in Switz is cheap - but if you search you can find lower prices.
I think Lucerne is pretty expensive. I think because its main purpose is for tourism/resort, that tends to jack up prices versus any place that has a life of its own. I was surprised at how expensive hotels were in Lucerne.
IN general, smaller towns will be cheaper, ones that have no interests in them.
Interlaken IME has the cheapest accommodations in Switzerland - of all the many places I have been - and many appeal to younger travelers. Interlaken is a great base for the fantastic Jungfrau Region. Grindelwald, up in the Alps from Interlaken, also has some really cheap digs - like the Nature Friends House, where hikers of all ages stay in hostel-like accommodations.
I can get a proper private hotel room in Interlaken for about 40 Swiss francs, including an all-you-can-eat breakfast buffet - you will rarely find anything so cheap in the rest of Switzerland.
So the Interlaken area is IMO both the literal and figurative highpoint of Switzerland - glacier-girdled peaks, toylike mountain trains, hiking trails for all abilities, etc.