Easy Stop in Coldrerio

Petrol at the price of champagne The Coldrerio station is the first service area you come across after the Italian border, although it is a large and well-equipped station there are two big problems: the first is that petrol costs the same as Cristal champagne and the second is that the staff is also unhelpful

Never again! Spent a lot and ate very badly. I ask for the wings and the lady puts on her own what she wants without even listening to what I was telling her

I visited the Coldrerio service area during a car trip. I was impressed by the cleanliness of the facility. The bathrooms are clean and well-equipped, and the outdoor area is always well-kept. The service was good. The staff are friendly and helpful, and the food is of good quality. The only weak point of the structure is the price, which is slightly high compared to other service areas in the area. In conclusion, I highly recommend the Coldrerio service area to anyone looking for a clean and well-organized structure.

The fuel is around 20% more expensive than at other gas stations. Using the toilet costs 1.-. This voucher can be credited towards an order in the restaurant. The drinks are thus reduced back to a normal price level. Without the use of the toilet, it's really too expensive, always compared to Ticino. The rest stop isn't so great that it would be worth stopping here. But fortunately everyone is free to choose what they want.

I now bypass this overpriced rest stop and fill up in Mendrisio, 3 km further/cheaper before. There is also a snack bar in Coronado a few 100 m away.

Fantasy prices, bad coffee, toilet vouchers only valid in the restaurant... Please drive around as far as possible!

Extremely bad gastronomy: * Cappuccino was cold * Replacement cappucino didn't have enough coffee in it * Pinsa designed carelessly Conclusion: Absolutely not recommended!

They try to scam you in every way. Gas much more expensive, can only pay in one place. Need to pay for toilet despite refueling.

The toilets are only payable via Cash. All Hand dryers defect. Vouchers only valid in the Restaurant.

Worthless. Expensive and if you throw 2 euros into the device to pee, you don't get a euro back but a coin to spend in the store. Bad service!!

Awful and over priced, the server Monica was so rude it was unbelievable, will not be returning, the toilet station also doesn't take card a great inconvenience to get change when we have little ones begging for the loo. Very backward for a practically cashless world.

Locked us out on the terrace! The toilets cost 1 franc and don't even have a working hand dryer.

The price of gasoline is an absolute disgrace, the atmosphere in the so-called restaurant is comparable to a desolate waiting room in a third world country. My recommendation: don't stop here!

Horrible, to use the toilet you can pay only in coins...

And always fantastic and interesting Compliments to everyone 🤗

Criminal prizes. Skip Swiss and make a stop in Italy or Germany.

Rip-off, price approx. 40-50% higher than normal!

A place with wonderful staff. We were served by a wonderful and very polite seller, Claudia, who made us a delicious cappuccino and a sandwich. Acceptable prices for a gas station and extraordinary service.

It was impossible for me to fill up with the caravan at the car because the gas station is very difficult to access

Really expensive food place. DKK 80 for a pretty big hot dog and DKK 90 for a very small kebab. The food quality is really poor.

They don't even deserve one star. I think a franc for a toilet is okay, but only if you can also find paper. Then you can no longer redeem this franc at the kiosk, but are forced to redeem it in the restaurant. If possible, avoid this rest stop.

Unfriendly staff, food unloving and unhealthy, not even a credit card possible to pay for the toilet. So: just as unpleasant as this unfriendly service desert in the Canton of Ticino. But at least Bella Italia beckons, what a contrast!

How sad the comments from Italians, they complain about the prices, thinking they are still in Italy 😂😂 Switzerland is another country, completely different, always remember that

It is incomprehensible to me how in 2023 toilet visits are only possible with CASH. If so, please pay by card, as the ATM company also earns money.

It is clear that such truck stops are always more expensive than regular gas stations. But you're definitely getting ripped off here! The prices are outrageous - €16 for a hot dog with average quality and not fresh products? Toilet vouchers can only be redeemed in the restaurant and not in the shop. The shop is just as bad as the restaurant. Exorbitant prices! Never again

The most expensive gas I've ever paid and I came from Slovenia and Italy and live Zürich. Bathroom costs 1eur/chf and you must exit through the shop.

On the way to Italy we went with the family, the girls were very kind, the products were very fresh, we took 3 really good menus, we were expecting the usual dry sandwich that you find almost everywhere but I think it's the best autogrill I've ever been to!!! of course A little expensive but we are still in Switzerland! The quality and service make up for the price!!

Great place for a stopover if you find yourself going to Italy! Despite the crowd the staff was kind and smiling! Hot and good fries Delicious chicken sandwich And finally a coffee that tasted like Italian coffee!! Clean bathrooms and the voucher is deducted from consumption Lots of choice and lots of delicious chocolates in the shop too

Massacre Cold dishes, lukewarm coffee, restaurant staff standing with their backs, complete lack of interest in the customer. In a minute you can prepare meals and coffee and continue supporting the sides. If we weren't so hungry she would have demanded our money back. We will never go there again.

After hours of traveling and queuing, we stopped to divide a sandwich in two and the waitress replied with a loud and listless: "I DON'T WANT TO SHARED THE SANDWICH, I'LL GIVE YOU THE CUTLERY, YOU DO IT!!" do you think this is the case??? On the other hand, the sandwich was good

Do Never ever stop here ! Saturday 29th April 2023 the lady clerk at Exchange rate office gave me 170 Swiss francs for 200 euros … I was caught off guard and I accepted that outrageous exchange rate ! I have receipt to prove it !

Today's visit.... fuel very high prices and that with the toilet voucher! Can only be redeemed in the restaurant! No, please, a joke!

We really get around a lot, but we have rarely experienced such an overpriced catastrophe. Warm up ready-made food at exorbitant prices! Change the industry, because you have definitely missed the job.

Outrageous prices (11 FR for a simple wrap) with average quality. No pricing. No credit card possible at the toilet. Receipt only possible in the restaurant and not in the shop. The rest stop is one of the worst rip-off operations in Europe.

The ATM is charging you extra at an outrageous rate. Shame on the management. Don’t come here! PS : also the hand dryers don’t work (of course)

Very bad concept. Not customer friendly. No go!

Complicated and disorganized. Certainly the last time. It's a shame that people do business like that...

Very quiet if you go between January and April. The sales assistants are kind and quick. Nothing is missing here, there is a bar and even a small newsstand.

2 croissants 2 cappuccinos = €20 Welcome to Switzerland!

You stop out of necessity but it's a fatal mistake! 2 croissants + 1 Cappuccino + 1 coffee = €16!..... also quite dirty place. Incredible how such management can exist.

Not family friendly. During outside temperatures of 2 degrees, the changing table in the toilet is placed directly below the A/C vents resulting in a freezing Baby. Avoid if possible!

You have to pay for the bathroom even if you eat!

The rest stop is really just okay and nothing more. The prices for gas and food are significantly too high. If the interior and quality of the food and drinks were right, you could at best pay the prices, but definitely not like this.

Rude staff, to be absolutely avoided.

Unfortunately the staff was rather unfriendly. Several people behind the counter, we were the only customers and still had to wait. Same thing again at the kiosk.

Unfriendly staff, disgusting food and rubbish on the tables

Clean toilets, friendly service, exchange office. However, we couldn't understand why the menu with pasta, salad and drink wasn't available at 11:20 a.m.

Extreme prices! € 9,90 for a small simple sandwich!!!! Crazy! Toilet use: € 1,- Unfriendly staff

Caution! Bought a ready-made mushroom risotto mix that is advertised as a local specialty. We ate these the day after we bought them and we all had stomach cramps afterwards, which only slowly eased about 3-4 hours later. Brand: Alfieri - Risotto con Porcini & Zafferano. Expiry date not reached yet > 1 year...

Never knew the day would come I would pay 6.80 Euro for too shortly fried French fries. These are the kind of places you will only visit when things don't go as planned and you have no other choice.

0 stars is no option, unfortunately. The restaurant and sales counter both refer to the other for toilet tickets, the panini and hot water for tea cost 15CHF, the staff is unfriendly. Ridiculous.

Use of the toilets 1 euro. The receipt may only be used in the self-service restaurant and only one per person. You would have had to pay 2.40 euros for a coffee. This is usury! ... and stupid at the same time, because under the otherwise usual conditions we would have bought something... not like that.

Disgusting! All the rubbish bins outside were full and mountains of rubbish were already piled up next to them. Restaurant totally dirty. Not a single table was clean, the floor was full of crumbs. And that at 10 a.m., there wasn't much going on, but none of the staff felt responsible. We're out backwards!

I stopped, I needed a bathroom, I went downstairs, and I saw that it was paid or with the restaurant voucher, I went back in and bought the 3 brioches with jam, I went back downstairs, but it doesn't even work with the receipt of the restaurant, as it is written, I went back to the restaurant asking for details, to which the clerk replies that I have to put 2 euros, and informs him, that if it is written with the restaurant receipt, I refuse to pay the 2 euros, to the who finally opened the bathroom for me, after all this wasted time, if it had been urgent I would have wet myself, I get in the car, I take the first bite of the brioche which is old from the day before, shocking, We are still in Switzerland or Burundi ? Below poor service

Parking lots full of rubbish...and endless wasps. Completely zero cleanliness!!!

The girl named CHIARA She was very helpful and kind

BAD TRAP FOR TOURISTS! Be careful when you make a tax refund, the coins often "disappear"... for the rest, don't stop at very high prices, more than double the Ticino average.

Staff seems moderately motivated. Couldn't sell a tourist a motorway vignette or clearly explain where to get one. Outdoor area with overflowing waste bins. Food in the cantina was very bad (pizza).

If you find even less pleasant people, don't hesitate to hire them 👍🏻

How about a toilet notice, yes it's easy to find if you don't have to go to the toilet extremely urgently after a traffic jam. (4000 km Germany, Austria, Italy, Bosnia, Croatia, Slovenia & Serbia and I didn't find a rest stop without instructions) You are forced to wash your hands with piss-warm water because there are no regulators (or not visible). The staff was very friendly, thank you.

Worst place to stay. You have to pay just to get to the toilets.... Expensive bad quality of food.

THIEVES!!’ On 1000.— fr, 90 euros less than normal!

The toilets were clean but we were there on a Monday during the summer holidays (certainly not the highest occupancy). The prices in the restaurant are rather high but the sandwiches were delicious. The toilet vouchers cannot be used at the kiosk or for petrol. The restaurant has a shaded outdoor area.

Overpriced toilets with coupon that only works for the overpriced Restaurant. Very Bad.

Fairly clean overall, possibility of discounting restaurant consumption with the chf 1 voucher by using the bathrooms, but in any case the restaurant prices are too high. In the car parks there is a well-equipped charging station for a fee so there is the possibility of recharging the electric car. As for fuel they are too expensive it is better to go elsewhere.

Terrible customer service. 1 euro to use toilet and there is nowhere to get a change.

Not good, assortment unclear, lousy

I recommend!!! The shower is free, you only pay 1fr or 1€ per pass

The first gas station in Switzerland with parking at the entrance from Italy. Toilet fee 1€. The parking lot is generally not noisy, despite the fact that there is a freeway nearby. The parking lot is clean, well-lit and designed for 10 TIR and several dozen cars.

Easycaffe with chicken and chips a disaster the shop assistants don't know that they don't have the food ready after you pay for it they realize that they have to do it... never again

Very bad experience. To use the bathrooms you pay €1 per person, which would be justified if the bathrooms were well maintained. When we stopped at this service station the women's toilets were indecent: very dirty and without toilet paper! I was in line for more than 10 minutes and in this time no one came by to check or even clean

There is some mud on the side of the road which would taste better than the 'pizza' and 'sandwiches' from here

Toilets are not clean, restaurant expensive, poor quality sandwich. Not a great customer experience!

terrible food, overpriced, staff is rude

For me this is the unfriendly and worst gas station there is. The fact that you have to pay 1 franc to pee is one thing, that you have to go pee first is another, but you can still manage that with a family of 5. But now the big thing is new: you can only redeem one toilet voucher per valid voucher. I think it's an absolute disgrace - we spend a lot of money every time we fill up the tank and now they want to make even more money on the heads of families. An absolute disgrace. We are now looking for a more family-friendly gas station.

Open 24 hours, pay Fr 1.00 for the toilet....... Nothing is cleaned. These toilets are horrible, a disgrace. It's awful how some women leave the toilet, right 🐷🐷

Catastrophe! You pay CHF 1 for the toilet and you can't redeem the voucher at the kiosk! A huge mess! In addition, the toilets are not clean at all!

Not recommendable! You pay 1 Fr. per visit to the toilet and can't even count the vouchers towards the petrol amount. The cashier was on the phone the entire time. By the way, only one voucher may be redeemed per product. Just lousy!!!!!

The food is way too expensive and doesn't taste particularly good either...

Toilet costs 1.-- and is very dirty. The buckets show that the rooms were not cleaned for several hours. Is only recommended in an emergency.

You pay for petrol at their station, you pay expensive for very average food and attention ! :))) you will pay for the restrooms ! Bravo:) By rhe way the stuff do not understand and dpeak English. Be prepared.

The place is clean and tidy, wide choice of products. We have always exchanged euros for francs with a good exchange rate, on Saturday 27 June, however, they applied a worse exchange rate than the pharmacy in the shopping centre, so we gave up and went to a distributor in Mendrisio, obtaining more than 10%. New policy after border opening? Sin! Let me start by saying that I am Swiss who sporadically goes home from Italy.

Absolute rip-off rest stop. A voucher for the toilet can only be redeemed in a completely overpriced restaurant. 2 stars because the toilets were clean. The shop's offer is very one-sided. No offer of fruit or vegetables.

Purely. Good parking. Shower and toilet are expensive.

We filled up with petrol for 86 Fr, but we still paid 1 Fr per person to use the toilet (3 people). Staff wasn't friendly when we asked.

Faire payer l'usage des WC à des clients qui ont consommé pour Fr. 22.70 est une pratique inadmissible. Contrairement à ce que répond le responsable à une critique identique, les autre stations de services en Suisse offre cette prestation gratuitement avec parfois un ticket de WC remboursable lors d'achat.Évitez cet endroit

Little girls at the counter who chat among themselves and after a while they listen to you with barely concealed annoyance. 13.70 euros for two cappuccinos, a coffee and an old brioches from the day before. We make a withdrawal of 100 francs at the ATM in the room. The ATM takes the pin, accepts the selection, gives us the ATM back but doesn't pay out the money!!! They can't give us any reference to contact the bank. They reassure us that the money will DEFINITELY not be taken... 1 franc for the bathroom and in any case the annoying feeling of being just chickens to be plucked and not customers. Let's see what happens for the 100 francs

Personale femminile gentile e cortese. Personale maschile, non so chi fosse ma si atteggiava a responsabile, molto maleducato. Cibo caro ma vabbè, in autostrada ci sta, non condivido bagno a pagamento “scalabile” dalla consumazione

Food wasn't terrible, but definitely not good. Expensive, but we are used to that in Switzerland. But besides that, the staff was not friendly. The toilet is not very clean for the price you pay. All in all, not a good place to grab a bite to eat between rides.

Bad customer service, uneducated girls that won't even assist with unused item return/refund/credit.

Once upon a time, if I happened to be in those parts, I would get petrol there, sure of saving money compared to Italy, but they decided to fleece passers-by, today I paid more there than around Milan: around 1.8 francs per litre, super 95. Never again .

Kälter und unpersönlicher geht die Gestaltung einer Gaststätte wohl kaum. Da geben wir Schweizer unseren ausländischen (und einheimischen) Gästen eine fürchterliche Visitenkarte ab. Von den völlig überrissenen Preisen wollen wir mal absehen, sowie von den ungereinigten Tischen und vom Umstand, dass ein kleines Plakat bei der Kasse darauf hinweist, man hier nur Karten als Bezahlungsmittel akzeptiert .....

Everything is way too expensive... 2 sandwiches Fr. 18.-! Gasoline and shop are also overpriced.

1 CHF for dirty toilets and you can't even collect the vouchers or redeem them in the shop, only in the restaurant.

Unfriendly staff Expensive prices Stupid employees Nothing works Dirty I would like to give 0 stars if it were possible...

If you want to be ripped off twice, you should definitely make a stop...Otherwise drive past quickly... Firstly, the price of petrol is very expensive, up to 15 Rp per liter more expensive than a few petrol stations further away and secondly, you pay 1 franc or 1 euro for a one-time pee... you can then use this amount as a voucher, but only for the restaurant... not to pay for the kiosk or for the expensive petrol... This used to be a great stop when you came from Italy to Switzerland...unfortunately it's not like that anymore... Thanks for the answer...I'll have a good trip...a ​​good transit...without stopping at the rip-off...thank you

Super delicious pizza! I'd love to come back!

Paid over 50 CHF for a pizza menu with 2 of 3 pizzas slightly burned, 1 pasta menu and 1x chickenwings + fries and a 0,5l drink. We only ate it because we were really hungry!!!😂 Next time, I will eat before we pass the border at a Autostrada or drive on (probably) until I am in Germany. The staff was also not really interested, maybe they were just bored and underpaid 😜

You can fill up on everything here. Also LPG. LPG costs 0.95 CHF. Toilets were so-so and cost 1 euro.

No more. Kebab is dry with less sauce than possible.