{"id":960,"date":"2022-07-27T00:49:27","date_gmt":"2022-07-26T15:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dxlontheroad.com\/english\/?p=960"},"modified":"2022-07-27T00:50:13","modified_gmt":"2022-07-26T15:50:13","slug":"discover-in-switzerland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dxlontheroad.com\/english\/2022\/07\/27\/discover-in-switzerland\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Discover card accepted in Switzerland? (2022 version)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We spent nine days in Switzerland this summer, so here&#8217;s some first-hand information on the acceptance of Discover credit card there. \u00a0Well tested!<\/p>\n<h4>Zurich Airport<\/h4>\n<p>It&#8217;s very likely that you will go through the big Migros in Zurich airport, especially before you leave Switzerland. \u00a0At the casher, it appears that Discover won&#8217;t be accepted, since there&#8217;s no sticker along with Visa and other payment methods. \u00a0However, I have tried my Discover card, and it did work! \u00a0Like most people, the first time I was in that Migros, I didn&#8217;t try Discover, because it&#8217;s simply not listed as an acceptable form of payment. \u00a0I don&#8217;t know why I tried when I visited there for the second time, but I am glad that I did.<\/p>\n<h4>Train ticket machine<\/h4>\n<p>In Kleine Scheidegg, I tried purchasing tickets from the ticket machine. \u00a0Discover worked!<\/p>\n<p>In Riffelberg (Zermatt), I bought train ticket from the window using Discover.<\/p>\n<h4>Restaurant<\/h4>\n<p>I have only tried Discover in Zermatt. \u00a0Although the waitress didn&#8217;t know about Discover card, it certainly worked.<\/p>\n<h4>Hotel<\/h4>\n<p>In Zermatt, we stayed one night in\u00a0Hotel Walliserhof Zermatt. \u00a0It is booked with VISA card through Booking.com. \u00a0But during the check out, I could pay by Discover.<\/p>\n<h4><strong style=\"font-size: 1rem\"><span class=\"OSrXXb\">Spr\u00fcngli shop in Bern<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n<div>\n<div class=\"rllt__details\">\n<div role=\"heading\">Discover didn&#8217;t work there! \u00a0They don&#8217;t even accept euro.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div role=\"heading\"><\/div>\n<div role=\"heading\"><\/div>\n<div role=\"heading\"><\/div>\n<div role=\"heading\">X &lt;&lt;dxlontheroad<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We spent nine days in Switzerland this summer, so here&#8217;s some first-hand information on the acceptance of Discover credit card there. \u00a0Well tested! Zurich Airport It&#8217;s very likely that you will go through the big Migros in Zurich airport, especially before you leave Switzerland. \u00a0At the casher, it appears that Discover won&#8217;t be accepted, since &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dxlontheroad.com\/english\/2022\/07\/27\/discover-in-switzerland\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Is Discover card accepted in Switzerland? (2022 version)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[73],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dxlontheroad.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dxlontheroad.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dxlontheroad.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxlontheroad.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxlontheroad.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=960"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dxlontheroad.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":963,"href":"https:\/\/dxlontheroad.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960\/revisions\/963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dxlontheroad.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxlontheroad.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxlontheroad.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}