It's an amazing place with super helpful hosts. If you are looking for an apartment to stay in Lutry look no further.
1. Great location, everything is super close:
- The beautiful old town of Lutry is within 3 min walk. There are great restaurants, bars (I recommend Le Non-Stop with tasty burgers and beer, or La Terrace for a romantic dinner by the lake);
- A big supermarket (Coop) and a farmers market with fresh produce (5 min walk);
- The lake is within 5 min walking distance, a perfect place for a morning run, an afternoon stroll, or for a little picnic on the pier;
- The bus stops to different locations are within 2-3 min walk. Our host recommended an app called 'tl live' to monitor changes in the schedule. That helped with planning a lot, since there were a few delays due to construction/heavy traffic in the morning;
- Train station is within 3 min walk, but you have to plan your trips, as the train to, for example, Lausanne, leaves every 30 minutes (the bus leaves every 5-10 minutes or so). The app for monitoring/buying train tickets is called 'SBB mobile'.
2. Great apartment that exceeded our expectations:
- Super clean, new furniture and appliances, great interior with lots of light and space;
- Spacious bedrooms, living room, bathroom, and an enormous balcony that runs along the whole apartment (from the pictures I thought that we might be sharing a balcony with someone, that's how big it looked, but nope, it was all ours);
- The most gorgeous view from everywhere you are: it's so nice to wake up to the amazing view of the lake and the mountains, and then have breakfast on the big open balcony with a cup of coffee;
- The hosts provided every little thing imaginable: two sets of towels, toilet paper, shampoo, trash bags, paper towels, clothes hangers, you name it! There are also lots of dishes and kitchen appliances: cups, glasses, plates, pots, pans, a teapot, a coffee maker, and even a toaster: you have everything to cook your own meals. There's even a corkscrew, cheese grater, and a colander! Very thoughtful;
- The hosts also thought of little things like olive oil, balsamic vinegar, salt, pepper, and sugar.
3. Great hosts (above & beyond):
- Pierre-Antoine replied to every single message very fast and had answers to every little question we had;
- He suggested us the best train to take from Zurich (money & time wise), recommended the super saver ticket options, and even picked us up from the train station in Lutry (it was before they installed the fancy new lock, so I'm not sure you need to meet with hosts any longer now);
- Just to let you know the scope of how awesome and thoughtful the host is: he saw when we changed trains via the train app that shows where the train is in real time and told us to sit on the left side of the train and look left after the tunnel. It was the most amazing, breathtaking view to the whole lake and the mountains;
- He provided us with complimentary Nespresso cups (I'm an avid coffee drinker, but I didn't even get through half of the coffee that he gifted us) and he also gave us a bottle of delicious local wine;
- We also got the free bus/train pass for the local area (you can travel free to nearby places like Lausanne, Pully, Cully, Bussigny, etc.), and you can visit some museums for free and have some discounts for bars, souvenir shops, cinemas, etc. That will probably provided from other hosts in Switzerland as well, but that was still very nice!
I was trying to think of some negative points during our stay, and the only thing I could come up with is that the trash sorting was confusing (we come from the country with no laws on that, so we have no idea on how to sort it). The host did explain what to put where and provided the bins for each trash type, but we still got confused sometimes (jeez, is this wrapper recyclable plastic? Which bin should it go to?). So maybe some visual aid with examples for the foreigners like us could be helpful.
Other than that, 10/10!