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Hi Kfordco,
Yes, several restaurants and hotels will close for about 6-8 weeks until the ski season starts up. This is mostly in Wengen, not Zermatt. Zermatt may have a few as well but the town is larger and it will probably be less noticeable.
Early October should still be fine though – but when will you be there?
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We will be in Wengen Oct 2-4 and Zermatt Oct 4-6.
Thanks!
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We were there in late November, 2017 and several hotels and restaurants were closed. Quite a few stores were also shut for renovations until mid December, so if you are thinking about shopping at any particular stores, I would also check out when they close for the season too.
In advance, we emailed each restaurant and verified hours, menus etc. We had 2 vegetarians in our group and had to make certain that they would be able to eat without a lot of issues. We avoid a lot of problems by doing this before we go–there’s nothing worse than thinking a restaurant is open, only to find that it is closed on certain days of the week or shut for the season.
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Forget to mention were we in Zermatt.