We recently returned from the "Switzerland: Europe's Crown Jewel" tour. While the tour was very good, overall, one problem area was the visit to the Ice Palace and the Ice Bar at the Jungfraujoch. The floor is ice and is quite slippery when you’re wearing regular shoes.
We were a group of 26 people in the age group 60+ to about 80 and falls in this age group can be quite serious.
There’s a solution to this problem, if Tauck will address it. In the sport of Curling, team members are on ice and are quite active in launching the stone and in sweeping. They must have something that gives them better traction on the ice, while not marking the ice as crampons would.
Turns out, they do. There are special “curling grippers” that you can slip on your shoes to provide traction on ice. Here’s one place that sells them, but I found many others, all at about the same price (around $18).
https://www.hugecurlingsavings.us/products/hexa-curling-grippers-1
It may be that Tauck does not want to provide these slip-ons for their customers. But if you are going on this tour, you might want to spring for these slip-ons. It will make a big difference in your enjoyment of the Ice Palace.
I think Tauck should warn people who sign up for this tour about the danger of the Ice Palace and the Ice Bar (how slippery and difficult it is to walk there) and suggest that they bring something like these curling grippers for safety.
