I will be staying in Zurich for 2 weeks starting from 10th May. My company is providing me with accomodation (incl breakfast), for lunch and dinner how much it will cost me per day. I am a vegetarian. Pl let me know the apprx figure. This will help to know how much CHF (cash) I need to carry, as I dont want to use my cards.
Depends if you are going to eat a sandwich and yoghurt on a park bench or dine every day at the Baur au Lac. Basically you can spend as much or as little as you like.
I shop for my lunch at Coop and a sandwich, yoghurt and a salad sets me back less than about CHF15.
I guess that would depend on where you go to eat. If you go to Hilti's which is a fab vegetarian restaurant (but a bit pricey) you would need around CHF 20-30 per meal. On the other hand if you go to the Migros/Manor or Coop restaurants you can get a vegetarian meal for as little as CHF 10-15.
Fr. 35.00 per day for 2 meals in restaurants/take-aways/supermarkets is slim but doable (obviously excluding the "burger options"). There's a large supermarket chain called "Migros" and the larger stores in town have a "Gourmessa" section, takeaway food (also hot) at very reasonable prices
CHF700 would be safer. You might want to splash out on fondue or Raclette once or twice. And don't forget drinks are quite expensive in restaurants (CHF4-8) and a bottle of cola from the supermarket is about CHF1.20.
Hmmm, as Sandgrounder has said, it depends on what one eats. But 1000 for 2 weeks after breakfast is covered . He has said he is a vegetarian. Which means he can't eat caviar and foi d' gras and such other perverted stuff...So I really doubt if someone can spend 1000 in 2 weeks on vegetarian food.
But of course, in a country where bathing frequency varies from thrice-a-day to once-a-week, anything is possible
OOps, JLP had added those costs, I thought he was only asking about food. Yes, if you include shopping, costs can vary from 300 CHF to 3 Million depending on shopping habits
Ok guys. I wont be doing any major shopping. Hotel to office everyday is walkable distance. so that leaves food, airport transit and I might goto Luzern in the weekend. So maybe 750 CHF. I will have my credit/debit cards with me, but I dont want to use them.
I'd say HollidayG's estimates are about right for middle-of-the-road, nice-but-not-fancy restaurants. 35CHF a day for lunch and dinner is doable (especially if lunch is just a deli sandwich), but you'd have to watch it... and you'll probably be too busy with other things to be ferreting out nice, inexpensive restaurants with good vegetarian selections every night.
Bring too much money and you can always exchange what's left over at the airport - or better yet, just bring your bank card, a couple hundred francs to get started, and withdraw cash as you need it. There are cash machines all over town, and most (all?) of them work even on plain non-smart cards.