After spending a few sunny and fun-filled days in Luxembourg, we decide to head off to our next stop on our train tour of Europe. Next up: Switzerland, which from what we've heard is also a very expensive country to travel to. Thankfully our train tickets were $45 USD each and we found a great hotel for $142 for the night. Add in our treats from the grocery store for $20 USD and we're doing a great job keeping to a budget. We enjoy our train travels. It's 2.5 hours from Luxembourg to Zurich, but we have a stop over in Mulhouse, France where we stop for some wine and beer. Back on the train and we make it to Zurich. We stay at The Henry Hotel, which is an unmanned and contactless hotel. We drop our bags off and head out for some cheese fondue dinner. We found a lot of all you can eat fondue places and this one was $37 USD per person. It was absolutely delicious and filling. It's back to the hotel to sleep off our cheese and carb overload.
The next morning we give you a tour of our hotel room. It was a great stay. The only thing to consider with unmanned hotels is bag storage if you are going to explore after checkout, although train stations are usually good for that too. Which is where we are off too in the rainy weather to go explore some more. Stay tune to find out in the next vlog. To do this, hit that subscribe button
Time stamps: 0:00 - Luxembourg train station 0:31 - Intro 0:51 - boarding the train 2:09 - train tour 6:13 - layover at Mulhouse, France 7:50 - Zurich train station 8:20 - The Henry Hotel 9:56 - Fondue 11:55 - hotel tour 14:33- closing
Hi! We're Chris and Tracy and we love to #travel. Unfortunately, we both have full time jobs working in healthcare which require us to have a home base, instead of the digital nomad life that we envy. However, this lifestyle has allowed us to learn the ins and outs of planning #vacations. When we first met, we were very young and enjoyed some domestic travel. When we got married, we decided to go onto our first #international trip together. Let's just say, Tracy caught a bad case of the travel bug. So it was our mission to go everywhere!
We try to plan 3-4 "big" trips a year. In total, we have been to 64 countries together (Chris is at 75 total himself). The biggest thing that we have taken away from this is how to be savvy while traveling. At first, we took a lot of cruises because they were easy. However, we met some new friends on a cruise who told us to come visit them in Malaysia and that was our first trip that we planned all on our own. Let's say it was a great trip but we made a few mistakes, like severely overpaying for our taxi in Bali. However, we have used everything as a learning experience. We really love the logistics of planning trips and getting the best deals and experiences. And it would be selfish to keep this knowledge to ourselves!
We have lots of friends and family come to us for advice or helping planning. So why not expand our audience and help everyone out! Our motto in life is champagne taste on a beer budget, or more correctly, a 5 star hotel taste for a hostel price.
