Bond movie: "Goldfinger" (1964) Place and location in the movie: Switzerland Actual place and location: Pilatus Aircraft Factory, Stans, Switzerland What happens here in the movie: Bond (Sean Connery) investigates what Auric Goldfinger (Gert Fröbe) is planning to do Visited by 007 Travelers: July 2014
The night shots when Bond infiltrates to the gold factory, were filmed at Pinewood Studios, England.
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Saturday 19 July 2014
We had a breakfast in Hotel Jungfrau in Lauterbrunnen and then we took a train to Interlaken. Price without Swiss Pass would have been 10,40 CHF (8,51 EUR) / adult, 5,20 CHF (4,25 EUR) / child, total 26 CHF (21,27 EUR), but with Swiss Pass, price was only half of this, when we didn't use "the pass day". From train station we took a taxi to Hotel De La Paix.
The Annex building on the left
Hotel: Hotel De La Paix Address: Bernastrasse 24, Interlaken Price: 220 CHF (181 €) / 1 night, breakfast included, reserved via booking.com Wi-Fi: Free
We had our room in the Annex building, next to the main hotel. The room was not ready so early in the morning, so we just left our luggage to hotel´s lobby and moved on to Interlaken´s Europcar, (Address: Hoeheweg 37, Interlaken) where we rented a car Skoda Fabia with a navigator. The rent was 138,96 CHF (117,42 EUR), for the car (24 h) and 21,39 CHF (20,00 EUR)for the navigator.
Mika in front of Europcar Interlaken
Skoda Fabia
We drove partly the Goldfinger route, and the scenery was really amazing there high on the alpine roads.
We had also our lunch there in Restaurant Aelpli: Ham Omelette was 16,50 CHF (15,43 EUR), Nuggets 18,00 CHF (16,83 EUR) and Pork Escalope 22,00 CHF (20,57 EUR).
Restaurant Aelpli of Hotel Aurora
In Andermatt there is also Hotel Bergidyll, (Address: Gothardstrasse 39, Andermatt) where Sean Connery and the whole EON crew stayed during filming Andermatt scenes of "Goldfinger".
Connery's room was number 21. Unfortunately it was booked when we were in the hotel, so we visited only the hotel's lobby. Here is the photo of James Bond room in Hotel Bergidyll.
James Bond room Photo: Hotel Bergidyll
We continued driving and visited our main destination for today, Verzasca Damin the Locarno district of the Canton of Ticino, Switzerland, is famous for "GoldenEye" (1995), where 007 (Pierce Brosnan) makes his awesome bungee jump. In "GoldenEye" he is supposed to be in Arkangel, Soviet Union, but in reality the scene takes place in Verzasca Valley, quite near the Italian border.
Verzasca Dam was also a filming place for a Roger Moore movie "Fire, Ice and Dynamite" (1990), which is directed by Willy Bogner, Jr, known for making stunt sequences for four 007 movies ("On Her Majesty's Secret Service" (1969), The Spy Who Loved Me" (1977), "For Your Eyes Only" (1981) and "A View to a Kill" (1985). It was amazing to see these daredevils jumping like Bond from the height of 220 meters. In "GoldenEye", the jump was done by stuntman Wayne Michaels. The jump was voted the best movie stunt of all time in 2002 and set a world record for the highest bungee jump off a fixed structure (1995).
Finally, late at night we came back to our hotel with take-out food and after that went straight to sleep. In the morning we had breakfast and continued our journey.
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