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• Anonymous

  Bulgaria
  10

  Geneva, let me visit you again

  Transportation and museums are for free for the tourists. Walking down the river is pleasant and romantic. I like the "restaurant" close to the lighthouse, ordering fondue. The other tipical dish is reclette, if you are a cheese person. If not, do not worry, there are enough American, Italian, Japanese etc restaurants. I went also to a farmer market. Botanic garden is very beautiful. Maybe I couldn't find river junction beautiful enough. May be it was too cold and cloudy, that's why. The service is strange. The people do not really like to speak English. Many restaurants were without translation in the menu.Next time I will definitely visit the mountain.

• Anonymous

  Switzerland
  8.0

  Geneva, a beautiful city and a beautiful experience

  Great and beautiful city, living here for some years now. Very clean city, but expensive city. Good and attractive sites and location for tourists. Excellent transportation system, with most hotels giving you free public transport ticket for the entire duration of your stay, no matter how long or short. Beautiful and variety country based restaurants serving both english and continental dishes. Home for the best chocolates in the world and of the UN and more than 200 other international organisations. Great lakes. Geneva is generally a very beautiful city to visit especially during summer.

• Stuart

  United Kingdom
  8.0

  Lovely city in great surroundings

  Like several Swiss cities, Geneva is in a fabulous position on a big lake and between the mountains. Public transport within the city is superb, helped for all visitors by the free passes handed out by all hotels, hostels and campsites, and even by the free ticket available in the baggage reclaim at the airport. Great views over the city and lake, Mont Blanc and the Jura mountains are available if you take the number 8 bus to Veyrier Douane and then the Mont Saleve cable car. There are also plenty of opportunities to promenade along the lake shore and the river bank.

• Anonymous

  United Arab Emirates
  8.0

  Great little stopover

  Geneva was nice and picturesque. Sadly it was so foggy the whole time we didn't get to see the lake at all. But we still had a good walk along it. We ate at Ma Cousine which is just on Bourg Du Four right in the centre and at 15chf for half a chicken salad and provencale potatoes an absolute steal and delicious. We were there on a Sunday so everything was closed but the market and fair at Plainplaisance was great to walk around as well as the main centre.

• Anonymous

  United Kingdom
  6.0

  Doesn't take long to explore

  We spent one night and day in Geneva and found this was a perfect amount of time to see and experience the city. It is super expensive and personally, I wouldn't recommend spending longer than necessary here when you can visit other cities with more to offer, at half the price. We managed to see The Old Town, Lakeside, United Nations and CERN, all in about three hours - Geneva is quite small! We ate at Hotel Armures in the Old Town, amazing fondue and not too expensive! Can't really speak for the bars as we were there on a Sunday night and most bars were closed. Hotels provide you with a travel card which covers tram, bus, train (which gets you to the airport) and the little yellow boats you see on the lake, makes things easy!

• George

  United Kingdom
  10

  Great City, expensive but worth it.

  Holy Cow and Au Petit Chalet were lovely places for reasonably priced food, especially in a city where the cost of living is so high. Getting round Geneva is very easy thanks to the excellent public transport system, which is free for tourists. Also very easy to walk around the centre. I would avoid the area on the left bank, away from the river up towards Rue De Lausanne, it wasn't the nicest area, didn't feel very safe. Best to stick to the right bank and around Gare Cornavin towards Plainpalais.