Hotel Schweizerhof Luzern

A grand hotel on the lakeside promenade

The Schweizerhof is one of the grand hotels of the Schweizerhofquai, the promenade that skirts the lake north of the Reuss, between the old town and the KKL congress centre. It has welcomed guests since 1845 and has been in the hands of the Hauser family for 180 years. It is a five-star hotel, and Richard Wagner, Winston Churchill, Leo Tolstoy and Neil Armstrong have all passed through. From the front rooms you look onto the lake and, behind it, the mountains.

Rooms with a story

It has 101 rooms and suites, and each is dedicated to a guest or an episode in the hotel's history: objects, quotations and design details tell you its story. The doubles range from 25 to 65 m². The website publishes starting prices: the 20 m² single from CHF 245; the 25 m² double from CHF 335, and the suites from CHF 660. These are indicative prices that change with the dates.

Eating and relaxing

The hotel has the Brasserie VICO, the Schweizerhof Bar and VILLA Schweizerhof, as well as breakfast. For relaxing it has a gym and sauna and a massage service. In season, the hotel organises concerts and menus linked to the Lucerne music festival and the carnival.

Getting there

From the railway station it is a few minutes' walk over the lake bridge: the hotel says it is ten minutes on foot from the bridge. If you arrive by car, guests park in the hotel garage for CHF 30 a night. For everything else you do not need a car: the boat to Rigi and Pilatus leaves from the landing stage at the station, and the Lion Monument is five minutes to the north.