I stayed near Escaldes-Engordany and withdrew cash from a Credit Andorrà ATM outside a small grocery store. It worked perfectly, and there was foot tr...

I brought an Amex and a Visa. In Zurich and Geneva, some hotels and higher-end restaurants accepted Amex, but most grocery stores and transit machines...

Just used the metro in Lausanne and the buses in Lucerne - all ticket machines accepted Visa and Mastercard. I even bought my day pass using Apple Pay...

I had no problem using my debit card to pay at City Hostel Geneva and Luzern Backpackers, but one smaller guesthouse in Appenzell asked for cash only,...

In Basel, I stuck to UBS and Credit Suisse ATMs. Neither charged me extra, and I got the interbank rate with my Revolut card. Daily limit was about 80...

Mine was taken by a UBS ATM in Zurich’s old town, and I panicked at first. I called the number on the ATM, and they told me to visit the branch it’s a...

I landed at Geneva and compared both. The airport exchange counter gave me about 0.88 CHF per USD, while my ATM withdrawal from a Credit Suisse machin...

I just spent 2.5 weeks bouncing between Lucerne, Zermatt, and Geneva. I wasn’t luxury-traveling, but not slumming either - nice 3-star hotels, rail pa...

In Zurich, I had no problem using my Visa in taxis - they all had working SumUp or iZettle card readers. But in smaller towns like Grindelwald, most d...