About Access Geneva

What this site is

Eighteen sights, one page each, and eleven sections on how the city works: an airport a few minutes by train from the main station, trams and yellow water buses on one ticket, an old town on a hill above the point where the lake becomes the Rhône, an international quarter of flags and security gates, and France on almost every side.

Every page is written to answer the questions a visitor actually has: what this place is, what you see when you get there, how long to give it, what to combine it with, and where a well-known story is a claim rather than a fact.

It is not a listings site. There are no opening hours and no admission prices anywhere on it, because those change and the operator is the only source that is right on the day you travel.

How it is written

Each page is built from sources that are named at the foot of it, and the facts in it, such as dates, heights, distances and who built what and when, are checked against those sources before the page is built.

Where a story is a tradition or a boast rather than a fact, the page says so. The bench on the Treille is said to be the longest in the world; the Mère Royaume's pot of soup at the Escalade is a legend, and the page calls it one; the Jet d'Eau's height is given as the sources give it, because the plume is not a fixed object.

Access Geneva is written and maintained with the assistance of AI, edited and fact-checked before publication. Anything wrong is worth pointing out, and will be corrected.

The photographs

Every photograph comes from Wikimedia Commons and is credited on the page it appears on, with the photographer's name, the license and a link to the file.

They are chosen by looking at them: recent rather than archival, showing the place the page is about rather than something filed under its name, and captioned from what is actually in the frame. A search for Geneva on Commons returns a great deal that is not this city, from the lake's other shore to places of the same name elsewhere, so each photograph is checked for the place before it is used.

What it costs you

Nothing. A few planning pages carry affiliate links, marked as such, and the privacy page explains what that means.

No page about a sight carries one, and nothing on this site is recommended because of a commission.