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Switzerland is a destination for lovers of impeccability in everything. The best ski resorts of the Alps, 
impeccable service in high-class hotels and an excellent "excursion" in ancient cities and castles. 
Someone Switzerland may seem boring, someone - too expensive, but someone will find there the most 
charming castles in the world, and the other - the best routes of the Alps. And everyone will be right 
in their own way. 

So it is not surprising that the ski resorts in Switzerland are divided into two categories: for billionaires and millionaires. Let this be a clear exaggeration, but there is a bit of truth in it: the prestige factor is the main tourist trump card implying tangible financial costs. However, the direction has a lot of other advantages: licked tracks for every taste, the best mountain hotels in the world and a whole mass of historical sights, mostly castles. Of the minuses, it is possible to distinguish all the same high cost ... however, as you know, it is impossible to forbid living beautifully!
I don’t want to save money in this country - although prices are a bit shocked,
and on one street in Montreux I counted three shops selling gold-plated garden vanes. See Chillon
Castle from the hotel balcony, dine at the rotating restaurant on the top of Schilthorn, have fun at the February Monster Concert in Lucerne (where there is no hint of the melancholicity of the Venetian carnival, and the climate is better!) ...

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