Set the money.
Only money left after rent and everyday life. Never borrow, no extra card, no 'emergency' cash.
18+ · In moderation
The limit travels with you.
Gambling is entertainment with a price, never income. Set budget and time before leaving and you come home the way you left.
Set the time.
Choose a leaving time before entering – rail and boat timetables help. Alcohol and tiredness soften limits.
Notice the change.
When play is no longer leisure, when you keep it quiet or when it touches sleep, relationships or finances: stop.
Get distance.
Every casino can exclude you on request. In Switzerland the exclusion applies in all casinos (Art. 80 BGS); abroad it must be requested there.
Help in Switzerland
Talking helps – anonymous, free, any time.
SOS Spielsucht is the national contact point: around the clock, in three national languages, with referral to the counselling centre in your canton.
Further contacts: cantonal addiction counselling, your family doctor, debt counselling (schulden.ch).
Remember
A loss is not an order to win it back.
A win says nothing about the next round. Systems do not beat chance. The evening, the dinner and the drive are the value of the trip – the table is one room of it.
Our role
We inform, we do not advertise.
Vela Alpina describes distances, opening hours, games and access, accepts no stakes and receives no money from casinos. There are no bonuses, no vouchers and no links to online games here.