SUMMER FUN 2021 - CHRISTINA FRYER WWW.NEWINZURICH.COM

Summer Fun 2021

Things to do in and around Zurich
    during the Summer 2021
     www.NewInZurich.com
       Christina Fryer

Inspiration & Ideas for Summer In
       Zurich & Switzerland

  •   Ideas on things to do & places to visit in Zurich
  •   Half day trips & day trips
  •   Suggestions on places to go on where to stay
  •   You can find a variety of Guides on NewInZurich and
      you can search on keywords for locations etc
  •   Further Resources:
       - MySwitzerland
       - Tourism Offices for Region you’re interested in
  •   Online resources:

  www.NewInZurich.com
  www.Zuerich.com
  www.myswitzerland.com
  www.Facebook.comNewInZurich

Summer 2021

•   Summer 2021– still uncertainty regarding Covid but
    events ARE being planned in Zurich & Switzerland
•   Always double check before making a trip
•   New options opening up in Zurich as time progresses
•   Everybody can have 5 FREE Covid Test kits per month
•   More Information on Covid test, test centres &
    vaccinations on the website
•   Also don’t forget to ensure you’re vaccinated against
    TICKS – see article online
•   More online resources and Guides on:
    www.NewInZurich.com
•   www.Zuerich.com
•    MySwitzerland.com

Check Our Guides

• Terrace Restaurant Guide
• Rooftop Bar / Restaurant Guide
• Burgers Guide
• Café Guide
• Ice Cream Guide
• Dessert Guide
• Healthy Restaurant Guide
• Indian Restaurant Guide & Lots More
Guides will be continually updated
All available on www.NewInZurich.com

Outdoor Activities

- Search on www.NewInZurich.com for ideas
Plus look out for:
- Hiking Trails
- Mountain Biking Trails
- Treasure Hunts / Scavenger Hunts
- White River Rafting
- Via Ferrata (many destinations offer this)
- Travel destinations
- By location eg Ticino, Montreux, Vaud, Gstasd
- We have over 1,000 articles on places to see in
    & around Zurich and more articles every week
- Consider a Topcard etc, Graubunden
     if planning to ski later this year

Zurich -
    A Perfect Base to Explore

•    Biggest City in Switzerland
•    Busiest airport
•    Busiest train station
•    More connections
•    Easy to explore whole of Switzerland
•    Heart of Europe
•    Easy to explore Europe (when we’re allowed)
•    Surrounded by lakes & mountains

Getting Around on Public
            Transport

•   You may want to invest in a Halbtax (or GA )
•   If you don’t have a car you can use Mobility.ch
•   to hire a car
•   Good Deals: Tageskarte – Day Tickets
•   9 Uhr Tickets & “Sparbillet”
•   Kids Cards Juniorkarten & Enkelkarten chf 30 p.a
•   Kindertageskarte CHF 19 for under 16s
    travelling throughout CH
•   Kids Zurich Ferienpass 6 – 16 yrs – CHF 25
•   For Visitors: ZurichCard & longer stay options
•   Bikes: Zueri Rollt & bikes to rent
•   Boats – Lake Zurich & Limmat

ZVV Ferienpass for Children

•   Best Bargain ever for kids!!! Costs just CHF 25
•   Valid 5 weeks – start date of 10th or 17th July
•   Children ages 6 - 16
•   Free 2nd class travel on trams, trains, buses,
    boats in Zurich
•   Free entry to over 130 Badis / Swimming pools
•   Free entry to 44 museums
•   Free entry Zurich Zoo
•   Various other free offers!
•   Can be purchased at all SBB Ticket offices

                ZVV Ferienpass

More for Kids in Zurich

•   Tram Museum in Zurich
•   WOW Museum in Zurich
•   Skate Parks in Zurich
•   Transport Museum in Luzern
•   Technorama, Winterthur
•   TechnoSpark – Coding Camp for kids
•   Theatre Camps – Simply Theatre
•   Sports & football – Intersoccer camps
•   Planetenweg – Uetliberg
•   Wildnis Park Langnau Am Albis

Zurich For Young Children

•    Zurich Zoo
•    Knie Kinderzoo Rapperswil
•    Connyland – adventure park & sea lions won
     best Swiss leisure park award 2020)
•    Mühlerama in Tiefenbrunnen
•    Dinosaur museum in Aathal
•    Parks in Zurich city
•    Park im Gruene
•    Childrens playgrounds eg China Gardens
•    Trampolino

For Kids Ouside Zurich

•   Skate Park in Transport Museum in Luzern
•   Technorama, Winterthur
•   Chocolate Factories – Maestrani, Cailler,
•   Alprose & Läderach (Guide on
    NewInZurich.com)
•   Churwalden Tobbogan run
•   Climbing in Braunwald
•   Glacier walks – Aletschglacier
•   (see list of glaciers on another slide)
•   Ballenberg Swiss Outdoor Museum
•   Kinderhotels – for hotels aimed at kids
•   White water rafting in Ticino & Flims
•   Lenzburg Castle
•   Goldau Tier Park – Animal Park

Around Zurich For Families

•   Zurich Badis
•   Badis –Zollikon, Zurich Badis
•   Alpamare (currently closed)- Pfaffikon
•   Milandia Outdoor “nature” pool, Climbing wall,
•   Tennis
•   Urban Surf
•   Pedalo & Boat hire on Lake Zurich
•   Badis round the Greifensee
•   BBQ & skating, Biking at Greifensee
•   Lake Zurich Boat Cruises eg
•   Street Food Festivals – not confirmed yet
•   BBQ grills on many hiking trails etc

Things to do For All in Zurich
 •   City Tour – Zurich Tourism
 •   Boat Tour – Limmat & Lake
 •   Uetliberg - walks / hikes
 •   Urania Observatory
 •   Climb Grossmunster Tower
 •   Frauenmünster Chagallfenster
 •   Botanic Gardens
 •   Beyer Watch Museum
 •   Kunsthaus (free on Wednesdays)
 •   Swiss National Museum
 •   Freitag Building & Frau Gerolds Garten

Just a couple of hours to spare...
  •   Trip to Burkliplatz Market
  •   Boat Lake Zurich
  •   Visit to China Gardens
  •   Botanical Gardens
  •   Dolder Walks or guided Tour of Zurich
  •   Go surfing at Urban Surf
  •   Cafe Schober, Felix, Honold, Sprunglis, Bebek,
  •   Hotel Sonne, Restaurant die Waid, Fischers
      Fritz
  •   Sushi, Hiltl, Bebek, Tibits, Fischers Fritz
  •   Spas – Zurich Thermalbad, Holmes Place,
      Hammam Seefeld
  •   Swim in the lake – list of all Badis on
      NewInZurich
  •   Trip to Greifensee
  •   Trip to Juckerfarm

Bars & Restaurants
 with Terraces or Views

See Guide on NewInZurich for more
• Romantik Hotel Sonne, Küsnacht
• Frohe Aussicht, Zumikon (Grillabends)
• Restaurant Bauschaenzli – flower arch
• Hotel Zuerichberg & Restaurant die Waid
• Die Terrasse, Munsterhöfli, Storchen
• Hotel Feusiberg, Restaurant Luegeten
   Pfäffikon
• Frascati, Zeughauskellner,
• Landgasthof Halbinsel Au

Zurich Summer Events

•   Openair Cinemas (various)
•   Allianz Zurichhorn Openair 15th Jul - 15th Aug
•   Iron Man Zurich will take place in Thun
•   1st August Swiss National Day
•   Zurich Theater Spektakel 19th Aug – 15th Sept
•   Seeuebüerquerung: Zurich cancelled
•   Greifensee Seeüberquerung 17th July
•   Street Parade 14th August
•   Limmatschwimmen – 21st August
•   Athletics Weltklasse Event 8th & 9th Sept
•   “Slow Up” Meilen to Rapperswil 26th Sept
•   Knabenschiessen September 11th – 13th Sept
•   More events will be coming up and will be
    covered in NewInZurich’s Weekly Newsletter
    – simply subscribe to receive.

Summer Music Festivals
       Check To See What Is On
•     Zurich Open Air 25th -28th July
•     Blue Balls Festival Lucerne 23rd – 31st July
•     Montreux Jazz Festival 2nd – 21st July 2021
•     Moon & Stars, Locarno 15th -25th July 2021
•     Classical Luzern Festival 10th Aug – 12th Sept 21

    Hopefully for next year:

    Blues’n’Jazz Festival, Rapperswil
    Salzburger Festival
    Bregenzer Festspiele
    Arena di Verona
    Gurten Openair Bern
    Openair St Gallen

Half Day Trips Outside Zurich

•    Winterthur
•    Rheinfalls (Fireworks event 31st July)
•    Stein am Rhein
•    Rapperswil
•    Juckerfarm
•    St Gallen
•    Einsiedeln - monastery
•    Rhododendron & plants – Selegermoor Park
•    Factory Outlets – Alpenrhein, Fashionfish

Day Trips Outside Zurich
    Lucerne and Solothurn

Day Trips Outside
                           Zurich

•   Berne - Solothurn - Luzern - Zug
•   Swiss Miniature Village in Melide Ticino
•   Ballenburg Swiss Open-Air Museum
•   Lake Geneva . Montreux Riviera . Chateau Chillon
•   Gruyere – castle, cheese, chocolate
•   Underground Saltmine at Bex
•   Mountain trips - Säntis / Rigi / Pilatus / Titlis
•   Hergiswil Glass factory & Stanserhorn
•   Ticino – Bellinzona, Lugano, Ascona, Locarno
    Valle Verzasca
•   Road Trips Along the Swiss Passes
•   In Ticno visit the «Swings»
•   Interlaken, Meiringen, Lauterbrunnen,
•   Grindelwald

Ticino –A Swiss Taste of Italy

Large Lakes Make Perfect
Day Trips Outside Zurich

•   Lake Walensee
•   Lake Lucerne
•   Lake Geneva
•   Lake Konstanz
•   Lake Thun
•   Bienersee
•   Lake Maggiore
•   Lake Lugano
•   Lake Neuchatel
•   Untersee
•   Lake Zug

Small Lakes make Perfect
  Day Trips Outside Zurich

Small Lakes
• Lake Obersee
  near Näfels
• Greifensee
• Türlersee
• Katzensee
• Klöntalersee
• Oeschinen
  Lake
• Lake St Moritz
• Caumasee
• Crestasee

Where To See Snow In Summer
In Switzerland – Visit A Glacier

•   Glacier 3000 (between Gstaad & Les Diablerets
•   Jungfraujoch Glacier
•   Glacier 3000 - Bernese Oberland
•   Hohsaas Panorama - Valais, S. Switzerland
•   Gornergrat Zermatt
•   Aletsch Arena, Riederalp – Valais
•   Morteratsch - Engadin, Southeast Switzerland
•   Trift Suspension Bridge With View of the Glacier

Check Our Online
         Excursion Ideas
• Valle Verzasca
• Jungfraujoch
• Pilatus
• GrindelwaldFirst
• Monte Generosa
• Baden
• Bern
• And more … also some hotel reviews
All available on www.NewInZurich.com

(Daytrips Over the Border
        When Or If Open)

•    Konstanz, Shopping (duty free), Sealife,
     Thermal Baths and lake Konstanz boat trips
•    Island of Mainau, tulips & roses
•    Meersburg – German riviera
•    Strasbourg, Mulhouse, Colmar
•    Pfahlbauten in Unteruhldingen
•    Monkey Mountain
•    Schloss Neuschwanstein
•    Porsche Museum Stuttgart
•    Europapark
•    Italian market in Domodossola – Sat 8 - 3
    NB. be careful of fakes at the markets!!

Walking & Hiking

•   Panoramaweg
   (Rehalp – Zumikon - Pfannenstiel - Meilen)
• Dolder Walks
• Walensee
• Obersee
• Hirzli
• Hiking in Switzerland
• Chestnut Walk Hikes in Ticino
• Don’t forget to get vaccinated against ticks!
See article on www.NewInZurich.com
Useful Apps: Switzerland Mobility & Peak
Finder
N.B.: Join REGA – in case of emergencies

Interesting Hotels & Accommodation

  •   Schlaf Im Stroh – Sleep in straw
  •   Sleep in a jail in Lucerne
  •   Sleep in Cassanova’s Hotel Krone in
      Solothurn
  •   White Pods
  •   Hire a Mountain Hut
  •   Camping
  •   Wild Camping (allowed in certain places
      only)
  •   Interesting Hotels – GuardaVal, Chetzeron
  •   Swiss Historic Hotels
  •    Casa Rustica hotels Ticino
  •   Kinderhotels

Impressive Rail Journeys
•   Glacier Express
•   Bernina Express
•   Belle Epoque Train
•   Brienzer Rothorn
•   The Schilthorn
•   The Centovalli
•   The Schynigeplatte
•   The Jungfau
•   Churchill Red Arrow

Further Information

•   Tourist Information – Zurich Hauptbahnhof
•   Zueritipp weekly newspaper
    www.zueritipp.ch
•   Zurich tourist board www.Zuerich.com
•   Zurich Restaurant Guidebook – “Zürich Geht
    Aus”
•   My Switzerland -
    www.myswitzerland.com/en
•   www.NewInZurich.com
•   www.Facebook.com/NewInZurich - for daily,
    weekly info

    Subscribe to NewInZurich.com for Weekly
          “What’s On” guide to Zurich

Most of All – Enjoy!!!

Have a Great Summer whatever you do!
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