Lakeside venues

Cernobbio, Italy

A cardinal's villa of 1568 on Lake Como, home of Caroline of Brunswick, a hotel since 1873 with a swimming pool floating on the lake.

151 rooms · Since 1873

Historic houseUp to 200 guests

Torno, Italy

Ballrooms for 200 seated guests and suites for about 40 in a 1573 villa on Lake Como, with its own boat dock and helipad

17 rooms · Since 1573

Moltrasio, Italy

Vincenzo Bellini composed at this 1787 villa on Lake Como, reopened as a 24-room hotel in 2022 and voted the world's best the following year.

24 rooms · Since 2022

Historic houseUp to 130 guests

Tremezzina, Italy

Lakeside terraces and loggias on Lake Como for ceremonies of up to 100 and dinners of up to 130, reached on foot or by boat

Since 1787

Tremezzina, Italy

Greta Garbo's character in the 1932 film Grand Hotel longs for Tremezzo, and the Art Nouveau palace she meant opened on Lake Como in 1910.

Since 1910

Gargnano, Italy

Villa Feltrinelli, built in 1892 on Lake Garda, was Mussolini's wartime residence and became a 21-room hotel in 2001 after a four-year restoration.

21 rooms · Since 2001

Stresa, Italy

Ernest Hemingway convalesced here in September 1918 and later sent Frederic Henry, the hero of A Farewell to Arms, to the same hotel in Stresa.

Since 1863

Lausanne, Switzerland

The Lake Geneva palace at Ouchy where the 1912 Treaty of Lausanne was signed and the 1923 treaty negotiated, in a four-hectare lakeside park.

Since 1861

Vitznau, Switzerland

A 1903 lakeside hotel below the Rigi, rebuilt and reopened in 2013 with suites only and wine at the center of the house.

Since 1903

Hof bei Salzburg, Austria

A fifteenth-century hunting lodge of Salzburg's prince-archbishops on a spit of land in Lake Fuschl, filmed as the Sissi palace in the 1950s.

Castle

Thonon-les-Bains, France

Two floors of the Pavillon Amédée VIII and a garden on the shore of Lake Geneva, with 22 hectares of vines and parking for 100 cars

Since 1400

Udaipur, India

The Leela Palace Udaipur has its own jetty on Lake Pichola, and guests dine at Sheesh Mahal with the Lake Palace lit on the water.

80 rooms · Since 2009

Udaipur, India

Built in 2002 on the Mewar maharanas' hunting grounds, The Oberoi Udaivilas rises from Lake Pichola in domes that look older than the City Palace opposite.

87 rooms · Since 2002

Lake Louise, Canada

The Canadian Pacific Railway put a chalet on the shore of Lake Louise in 1890; the hotel that grew from it faces the Victoria Glacier across the water.

539 rooms · Since 1890

Queenstown, New Zealand

A lodge on the shore of Lake Wakatipu named after the Māori hero who, in legend, burned the giant whose body made the lake.

Daylesford, Australia

A chef and a painter opened a lakeside restaurant in a faded spa town in 1984 and built it, room by room, into a country hotel.

Since 1984