After traveling, I'm in desperate need of a mens haircut.
Any thoughts? Simple head of hair requires skilled hands on a day of rest.
Anytime today!
Thanks folks!
Just moved to Basel and it's my first week.
There is a Coiffure in the Basel train station, open on Sundays:
http://www.sbb.ch/bahnhof-services/a...icoiffure.html
http://www.luedi4hair.ch/pages/basel.html
Please take this as information only, not necessarily a recommendation, as I have never been there. Probably best to call ahead.
There is coiffeur Lüdi in the railcity basel
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Thanks everyone! I am very thankful for this forum.
I walked in to Ludi at the train station without an appointment.
First Swiss haircut, wish me luck!
How much were you abused for?
I got a discount of 3 francs because I didn't need the wash.
61 francs later, I feel like shaving my head and saving thousands per year.
In the states, I get a cut every two weeks for $6.95 to $11.95 max plus tip.
Moving here is an adjustment....not that I'm complaining. Wrong forum. :-)
Take a look around most guys have short hair or shave here. Invest in some cutters or plan to visit germany regularly and you will save a motza
At least you saved 3Chf!
You paid for convenience. I normally pay 30 maximum, with my 5 er tip included. Normal day of the week that is though.
But except my local place outside of Detroit when I was a teenager(which I paid 12 a cut), I was normally spending 60 to 70 US dollars for a salon, also outside of Detroit. So, in fact, I pay half as much for a hair cut here, then I did in Detroit. Strange.
Any service provided outside normal hours, especially on a Sunday, will carry a 50%+ premium here and in many other countries too.
I think you will find that the prices at the hairdressers in the stations are always high & there is not a 50% surcharge for Sunday. All the restaurants I go to charge the same on a Sunday in the UK, Switzerland, Germany, Italy & France.
Actually FMF- not in Switzerland- in a way. Most restaurants here have a week day lunchtime menu- which is not available in the evenings nor at week-ends so the same dish, on week-day lunchtime menu, can indeed be around 50% more on a Sunday Same over the border in France nearby actually.
A la carte is always be the same, which I am sure you know Some restaurants do offer a deal on what has not sold & will be thrown away entitled 'menu de jour' so you do have a point, however often it's a smaller portion & not freshly prepared. I do not like food that has been pre cooked & kept warm so usually choose a la carte.
LOL maybe in Geneva (Edit- or Zurich...)
Very happy to say our local restaus, on both sides of the border- cook the day's menu fresh ready for lunch at 12.00- no-reheating around here- and when it's gone, it's gone. They publish the menus 1 week or more in advance, so all the food is bought fresh for that day- great.
The pre-cooked & kept warm food in ZH is more common & worse than I ever ate before coming to CH. So much for Swiss Quality. The only worse food I have since eaten was at Mr Woo all you can eat in London for £4.99
Wow, this thread got off topic quick! This thread is closed, solution found, expat happy if albeit a bit poorer for choosing such a service on a Sunday.
BTW, ask for Berivan at Ludi Coiffure. She was great.
Thanks again for all the replies.
Damn impressed, I saw the title and thought it should have been in the jokes section, I thought the only thing you can get on Sundays here was abused - for - well the list is long and distinguished!!
For the punters, this is the way it is meant to work on EF, problem -solution, got burnt for short notice, take it on the chin like a man with no navel gazing, close the thread.
Do they? I have golden locks down to my shoulders.
Word. Moment of silence. It's a Civil guard thing. Milk it.
Oh no's! Not another one!
Brothers in arms!