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If you have no interest in visiting Geneva, it would be best to stay at an airport hotel, for the following reasons:

- trains to Visp, where you will connect to the train for Zermatt, actually leave from the airport train station (at :09 past the hour, every hour, final destination Brig), not the main city station. Pick a good seat on the right side of the train for the best views
- hotels at the airport have a much better price/quality ratio than the dismal tourist traps by the main station
- the area by the main station has become quite unpleasant at night; Geneva at night in winter is forgettable
- all the airport hotels run free shuttles to the airport
- the airport train station is directly connected to the airport - 3 minutes walk

In order of decreasing price/luxury, the airport hotels are:

- Mövenpick

- Crowne Plaza

- NH (a bit further than the others)

- Holiday Inn Express

- Ibis


The last two are quite basic, while the Crowne Plaza and especially the Mövenpick are full-service 'real' hotels.

BTW, the airport is named 'Cointrin'


[This message has been edited by monahos (edited Jan 26, 2004).]