Swiss Families on a Stockholm Holiday

Switzerland is a member of the Schengen area, so travelling to Sweden normally means no passport queue on arrival in the way you'd expect flying somewhere further afield — it's treated as travel within the same open-border zone. Switzerland isn't in the EU, though, which mostly matters for things like duty-free allowances on the way home rather than anything about the flight in.

Sweden runs almost entirely on card and mobile payment, so a Swiss bank card works the way it does at home — tap to pay for most things, PIN for larger amounts. The only thing worth checking is your card's currency conversion fee on CHF-to-SEK transactions, since it varies by bank and can add up over a family holiday's worth of spending.

Your transfer from Arlanda is priced and charged in Swedish kronor, with the fixed amount shown and agreed before you pay — no surprise once the charge goes through.

For young children (roughly age 0 to 3), a child seat can be requested when you book, confirmed before you pay rather than sorted out at the kerb. Boosters for older children aren't supplied, so if your child still uses one, bring it with you.

A family of four travelling fairly light fits a Standard, Electric or Business car: four seats and a 6-unit luggage budget, which means at most four pieces, no more than two of them large cases. If everyone has their own large suitcase, that is already a job for the SUV / XL. A larger family, or one travelling with grandparents, usually needs the six-seat SUV / XL category — worth checking against your actual passenger and luggage count before you book rather than after you land.

Once you land, your flight is already being tracked, so your driver's pickup time adjusts to when you actually arrive rather than the scheduled time on your ticket — useful after a flight with tired children where the last thing anyone wants is to rush through the terminal. Your driver's name, phone number and licence plate are sent before pickup, so you know exactly who and what to look for in arrivals.