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For a cheaper stay in the Zuerich area

I stayed in Zuerich last week and was very impressed with a hotel called Dihei in Duebendorf. The hotels within Zuerich were very expensive for the time I booked, but Duebendorf is within the Zuerich Card travel area and has trains every fifteen minutes until very late in the evening. Comfortable beds and a nice buffet breakfast. Note that as it's a local hotel it has Swiss power sockets only, so you'll need to get an adapter. (Swiss sockets are not the same as in most of the rest of continental Europe.)

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I was on a Rick Steves tour, so nothing too fancy. The 2 prong adapter fit in all the Swiss sockets.

Posted by
967 posts

I’m not an electrician so it would be interesting to hear from one but I keep reading that yes, the two prong adapters work but the third prong on the Swiss is for grounding especially in the older buildings.

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I have many European adapters which I have accumulated over the years and take a number on each trip. Most of my drives include France, Germany, Netherlands, Luxembourg and Switzerland, and as often as possible Italy and Austria.

I can promise you that a couple of months ago when I was in Oftringen, near Solothurn, in Switzerland, none of my pointy adapters worked. I had to borrow a multinational to Swiss chunky adapter before I could charge my phone or laptop.

I only say this as an example, having stayed in dozens of Swiss hotels over the years, that sometimes the only way out is to use a proper Swiss adapter. My special adapter which I bought many years ago at a Migros in Bern was still in the drawer at home.

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Yes, I did have a European adapter, but it simply wouldn't fit into the small hexagonal recess in the Swiss socket.