5 hotels
The great hotels of Switzerland
5 luxury hotels in Switzerland are documented in this guide, ordered by international renown. The oldest, Baur au Lac, opened in 1844; the most recent, Fairmont Le Montreux Palace, in 1906. Each page gives the history, the key figures and a direct line to the events team.
The Dolder Grand
The 1899 castle hotel above Zurich, extended by Foster + Partners and filled with modern art.
Beau-Rivage Palace
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.
Beau-Rivage Geneva
A family-owned hotel on the Quai du Mont-Blanc since 1865 where Empress Elisabeth of Austria died after her assassination in 1898.
52 rooms
Baur au Lac
Johannes Baur opened the hotel in 1844, and his descendants, the Kracht family, still own it, six generations and one private park on Lake Zurich later.
Fairmont Le Montreux Palace
Vladimir Nabokov lived in a suite on the sixth floor from 1961 until his death in 1977, and a bronze of him sits in the garden of the 1906 palace.
236 rooms