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Zurich, Switzerland
Baur au Lac
A family-run hotel in its seventh generation since 1844, set in its own private park on the shores of Lake Zurich, close to the Bahnhofstrasse.
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Switzerland
Lakeside grand hotels, mountain railways and cities that work.
Our notes
Beyond the ski resorts, Switzerland has a summer of lake steamers, mountain railways and grand hotels on the water at Lucerne, Geneva and Lugano. The Bernese Oberland at Gstaad and Interlaken works in both seasons, and the Glacier Express and the Jungfraujoch railway are genuinely worth the ticket. Everything runs to the minute, which makes a complicated itinerary simple. Summer is June to September; the ski season runs December to March.
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Hotels and resorts in Switzerland
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Lausanne, Switzerland
Beau-Rivage Palace
A lakefront palace hotel in Lausanne dating to 1861, with eight named suites, four restaurants and a 1,500 square metre Guerlain Spa.
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Geneva, Switzerland
Mandarin Oriental, Geneva
On the right bank of the Rhône in Geneva, a 178-room hotel built in 1950 as the Hôtel du Rhône and run by Mandarin Oriental since 2000.
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Hotel
Geneva, Switzerland
Beau-Rivage Geneva
A nineteenth-century hotel on Geneva's lakefront, with 52 rooms and 43 suites facing the Jet d'Eau from Quai du Mont-Blanc.
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Hotel
Geneva, Switzerland
La Reserve Geneve
La Réserve Genève occupies a 10-acre park on the shore of Lake Geneva, five kilometres from central Geneva, with three restaurants and the Spa Nescens on site.
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Hotel
Lake Lucerne, Switzerland
Hotel Schweizerhof Luzern
A family-run five-star hotel on the Schweizerhofquai in Lucerne, steps from the old town, with 101 rooms overlooking Lake Lucerne.
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Lake Lucerne, Switzerland
Park Hotel Vitznau
A century-old private guest house on the shore of Lake Lucerne, with 49 suites and residences, two restaurants and six wine cellars.
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Hotel
Lake Lucerne, Switzerland
Burgenstock Hotel & Alpine Spa
Two wings, Heritage and Contemporary, share one funicular ascent above Lake Lucerne and 211 rooms with lake or mountain views.
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Hotel
Lake Lucerne, Switzerland
Villa Honegg
Villa Honegg sits at 914 metres above Lake Lucerne, an Art Nouveau villa built in 1905 and reopened as a 25-room hotel in 2011.
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Hotel
Geneva, Switzerland
The Ritz-Carlton Hotel de la Paix, Geneva
A lakefront hotel on Quai du Mont-Blanc in Geneva, with 74 rooms and suites overlooking Lake Geneva, the Alps and the Jet d'Eau.
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