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      <description><![CDATA[Geneva is a flexible family city, not a theme park. It works very well from 5 to 12, more modestly with a toddler. What makes sense at each age, published children's prices, pushchair logistics, rainy-day fallbacks, and the trap of the closed Natural History Museum.]]></description>
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      <title>Swiss francs, cards, tipping, tax refunds: money in Geneva without nasty surprises</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[In Geneva, cards work almost everywhere, euros sometimes, and that is where you lose money without noticing. Should you withdraw francs, how do you avoid conversion at the terminal, what is tipping really worth in Switzerland, and how do you get the VAT back on a watch?]]></description>
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      <title>How much does a trip to Geneva cost? Real budget by profile, and how to pay less</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Geneva is expensive, that is a fact. But it gives part of the bill back: free transport for hotel guests, free museums, drinking water everywhere, the lake for two francs. The prices we found, four typical budgets, what inflates the bill and the savings that work.]]></description>
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      <title>Geneva Watch Days, GPHG, Time to Watches: Geneva&apos;s other watchmaking events</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Watches and Wonders is not Geneva's only watchmaking event. A fair in a villa the same week, a festival in town after the summer, a competition that rewards the best watches of the year. What each one opens to the public, what stays by invitation, and when to come.]]></description>
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      <title>The Patek Philippe Museum in Geneva: opening hours, prices and what you will see</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[It is neither a shop nor a manufacture, but one of the finest watch museums in the world, for ten francs. What you really see in its two collections, when to go with such narrow opening hours, and the three things that surprise visitors.]]></description>
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      <title>Free things to do in Geneva: museums, views, the lake, parks and events</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Geneva passes for the most expensive city in Europe, yet it is one of the most generous with free things: museums, the lake, parks, the Old Town, transport for hotel guests. What is really free, the false bargains, and the rare tickets that are worth their price.]]></description>
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      <title>Geneva in winter: ice rinks, hot baths, markets and skiing an hour away</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Geneva's winter has its rituals: the sauna facing the lake, fondue after a cold dip, the Bastions ice rink, the Christmas market and the Escalade. It also has its enemy, the fog, which hides Mont Blanc for days on end. What is worth the trip, month by month.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[In Geneva, people swim in the lake, right in the city. Six very different places, from the Pâquis jetty to the large Genève-Plage complex, and a question the brochures dodge: water quality, which the canton checks every three to four weeks, not every day.]]></description>
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      <title>Visiting the UN and the Palais des Nations in Geneva: booking, ID, prices</title>
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      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mathieu Jaquet]]></dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[You do not visit the UN on a whim: the Palais des Nations only opens for booked guided tours, often full weeks in advance. The date that changes everything, the documents required, what you really see, and the half day of International Geneva around it.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Every December, Geneva celebrates a night in 1602 when it drove back the troops of Savoy. A costumed procession through the Old Town, a popular race, and a chocolate marmite smashed as a family. The 2026 dates, what is free, when to come, and what the legend embellishes.]]></description>
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      <title>Geneva in three days: the full itinerary, with a day trip and the fair in April</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Two days are enough for Geneva's main sights; the third goes to watchmaking or a day trip. The day-by-day itinerary, the April version with Watches and Wonders, walking distances, the closures that wreck a programme and what to drop first.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[One day is enough to see the heart of Geneva, not to see everything. The walking route from Cornavin to the Old Town, hour by hour, the real time for each stop, and the rule that saves the day: a single big detour, chosen according to the day of the week.]]></description>
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      <title>Day trips from Geneva: Lausanne, Montreux, Gruyères, Annecy, Chamonix, what fits into one day</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Nine one-day destinations from Geneva, and one rule: one main destination, one indoor visit, one walk. Beyond that, the trip becomes a string of connections. What is easy, what is underestimated, and what organised excursions are worth.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Annemasse is twenty minutes from Geneva, yet a badly prepared day costs an hour in traffic and a ticket for the wrong zone. The Léman Express line by line, car versus train, documents and what customs lets through.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Chamonix is an hour and a half from Geneva airport on paper, and more than three hours on a winter Saturday. Coach, shuttle, transfer, train or car: what each option really costs, the trap of evening arrivals, and how to make a success of a day at the Aiguille du Midi.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Lausanne is the easiest day trip from Geneva: a direct train almost every fifteen minutes. What costs you is buying at the wrong time and forgetting that Lausanne is a city on a slope. Real journey times, prices, the boat and a one-day programme.]]></description>
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      <title>St Pierre Cathedral in Geneva: towers, archaeological site, tickets and view</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[St Pierre is three different visits sold separately: a plain Protestant church, towers for the view, and excavations that tell the story of the city before Calvin. Which one to choose, what each costs for whom, when to climb, and what the photos do not show.]]></description>
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      <title>Geneva&apos;s museums: which are worth the detour, which are free, which one is closed</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Geneva has several major free or pay-what-you-wish museums, a world-class watch museum, and one museum all the guides still recommend even though it is closed. Which to choose depending on your time, what you see there, and the Tuesday trap.]]></description>
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      <title>Fondue in Geneva and Geneva specialities: where to eat it, at what price, and what is local</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Fondue is not from Geneva, but Geneva serves it well, and not necessarily at a high price. Three ways to eat it depending on what you are after, prices found in 2026, and the canton's two real specialities that visitors miss.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Geneva is not expensive everywhere: it is expensive by the lake and near the big hotels. Prices found in 2026 by type of cuisine, the districts where residents eat, and what turns a 35-franc meal into a 60-franc bill.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[A room in Annemasse or Archamps often costs half as much as in Geneva. But between breakfast, cross-border tickets and the last train, the saving melts away fast. Which town to choose for your stay, and how to do the full calculation.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Geneva fits into a weekend as long as you do not try to do everything. Day one on foot, between the harbour and the Old Town; day two devoted to a single outlying area. The hour-by-hour itinerary, with real walking times, the opening hours that catch people out, and variants for rain, winter and the watch fair.]]></description>
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      <title>Boat trips on Lake Geneva from Geneva: Mouettes, CGN, cruises and stopovers</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Three very different products hide behind "boat in Geneva": the harbour Mouette, public transport at tram prices; CGN, which takes you to Nyon, Yvoire or Lausanne, beautiful but slow; and private trips. Which to choose, how much time to allow and which stopovers are worth the crossing.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[CERN is free, forty minutes by tram from the centre, and fascinating for anyone with a little scientific curiosity. But the LHC tunnel cannot be visited, even less so during the major technical stop that runs until 2028. What you really see, how to book and how to plan the half day.]]></description>
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      <title>Geneva City Pass, Geneva Transport Card, tpg tickets: which pass should you get for Geneva?</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[In Geneva, many visitors pay for a pass they did not need: their hotel was already giving them free transport. The free accommodation card, the Geneva City Pass and its two price columns, tpg tickets, and the calculation that tells you which one to choose for your stay.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Geneva's hill takes fifty minutes to walk round outdoors, or half a day if you go inside everywhere. The six-stop route, the cathedral's 2026 opening hours and prices, what is worth the ticket and what disappoints, and the order that saves you climbing the hill twice.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Geneva is easy to reach from anywhere, but not in the same way: the train wins from Paris and Lyon, the plane only from a big, distant city, the car as long as you do not try to park in the centre. The door-to-door comparison, with 2026 prices, the vignette, the border and customs.]]></description>
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      <title>When to go to Geneva: seasons, weather, events and prices, month by month</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[There is no single right month for Geneva, there is the right month for what you are coming to do. The lake in summer, watches in April, Noël au Quai and the Escalade in December, peace and quiet in November. The month-by-month calendar of what opens, closes and pushes prices up, without the weather averages our sources do not publish.]]></description>
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      <title>From Geneva Airport to the city centre: train, bus, taxi and free ticket</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Geneva Airport is four kilometres from the centre, and the train takes seven minutes. The rest needs a little attention: which ticket, which bus for which district, what a taxi really costs, and that famous free ticket that may have disappeared.]]></description>
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      <title>Skiing from Geneva: the resorts you can reach in a day, journeys and lift passes</title>
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      <description><![CDATA["Skiing an hour from Geneva" is one of the most oversold promises in the region. The resorts you can really reach in a day, realistic journey times, the bus to Chamonix, the Magic Pass, equipment hire, and the days when you are better off staying in town.]]></description>
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