Going to Give Cruising a Try

kfnknfzk: Look forward to your review of this trip since we just came home from a similar itinerary on the new Viking expedition ship and saw the Ponant vessel at Milwaukee and Mackinac.

Sealord, why are you lumping the Swiss in with the Swedes?

Edit: I ask this as someone whose 2020 Switzerland Crown Jewels tour was delayed until 2021 so I was watching Switzerland fairly closely. They seemed to be handling covid pretty close to the rest of Europe.

I don’t understand the question. Anyway, the folks at Lake Como said, at least for Europeans or some portion, Switzerland didn’t shut down anything, and Italy was as tight as a drum. Apparently many Italians in the area work in Switzerland because the pay is much higher. The Swiss may have be preventing ‘tourists’ from visiting, but we were told they did not ‘lock down’ at all. The Italians would go across the border to have some fun. I don’t care to researc the details, but that is what we were told.

Throughout most of 2021, before our Sep tour, I was regularly checking Swiss government websites as to what their restrictions were, what their infection rates were, whether American tourists would be allowed in, etc. They did have masks requirements even when we went. They did have requirements about social distancing and crowd size. Were they as restricted Italy? Possibly not as I wasn't paying much attention to Italy since we weren't going there ( actually the tour did take us there briefly). I was checking France since that was our follow on tour and when we went Switzerland was more restrictive on quarantining if you were covid positive.

Based on my experience I don't see that Switzerland handled covid the same as Sweden.

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DOn't forget to tell us about the nice Swiss and Swedes you met on the tour.