Due to the fact that we only had one day to explore in Lucerne, we wanted to be on the 8am funicular so that we would arrive in Lauterbrunnen in time to catch the early train to Lucerne. We had a quick breakfast at the hotel and then made our way to the funicular station only to find out that their credit card machine was not working. They would only accept Swiss Francs (which we did not have enough of to cover the cost of the tickets). Since there is no other way to get to Lauterbrunnen (other than the hike we did yesterday), we needed to be on that funicular. The man at the ticket kiosk told us that the only ATM machine in town was at the Schilthorn station all the way across the village of Murren. With only 15 minutes before the funicular was scheduled to leave, Jim took off running through the village of Murren to get to the ATM. Luckily he made it back to the funicular station with about 1 minute to spare!
We arrived in Lucerne by midday and walked from the train station to our hotel - The Hotel des Balances. When I made this hotel reservation, I decided to splurge a bit and reserved the junior suite. It was an amazing corner room overlooking the river and the famous Lucerne covered bridge.
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| Our hotel in Lucerne |
We had the whole afternoon to enjoy Lucerne so we set out on foot to check out the sights. We saw the Church of St. Leodegar, the Lion Monument, and the old city wall and towers. We wrapped up our day with a boat ride on Lake Luzern and then dinner along the river before capping it all off with drinks on our hotel balcony.
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The Church of St. Leodegar
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The church grounds
 | | The Lion Monument |
 | | The view of Lucerne from one of the city towers |
 | The old city wall and tower
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On the boat ride on Lake Luzern
The view from our hotel balcony
More views from our hotel room
The end of another awesome day in Switzerland!
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