Budget Hotels & Hostels
Apartments
Guesthouses and B&Bs
Palace Luzern
This luxury belle époque hotel on the lakefront is sure of its place in many a heart. Inside it’s all gleaming marble, chandeliers, airy rooms and turn-of-the-20th-century grandeur. Parking is Sfr35 per day; wi-fi an extortionate Sfr45 for 30 hours...
Rugenpark B&B
Chris and Ursula have worked magic to transform this into an incredibly sweet B&B. Rooms remain humble, but the place is spotless and has been enlivened with colourful butterflies, beads and travel trinkets...
Landhaus Hotel
In a pretty part of town, fronted by the river and Old Town spires, this boho hotel is well run and has character in spades. Its buzzing ground-floor cafe and terrace attracts a cheery crowd and rooms are both spruce and stylish.
Sorell Hotel Rüden
Aimed largely at the business crowd, this solemn, grey-fronted and refurbished guildhall has a touch of character and is handily located between the medieval centre and the train station.
Hostellerie Du Pas De L’Ours
This character-filled timber-and-stone mountain hideaway is fairy-tale stuff. A roaring fire and web-like vaulting in the lobby bar set the tone...
Best Western Hotel Merian Am Rhein
Find this delightfully placed four-star hotel on the riverfront with sterling views of Basel's oldest bridge and cathedral. Oodles of business facilities and a respected Fischrestaurant make it a popular choice for business travellers...
Grand Hotel Les Trois Rois
Without doubt the top address in town, The Three Kings offers public areas and rooms that combine a dignified elegance of times gone by (anyone for a waltz in the ballroom?) with key indispensable mod-cons, such as the state-of-the-art Bang & Ol...
Ramada Plaza Basel Hotel & Conference Center
This seriously tall, cutting-edge glass tower is Switzerland's tallest habitable building, making a stay here irresistible...
Beau Rivage Geneva
Run by the Mayer family for four generations, the Beau-Rivage is a 19th-century jewel dripping in opulence.
Hotel Kipling
What The Jungle Book or its Bombay-born author has to do with Geneva is a question the staff at Hôtel Kipling can’t answer...
Hotel Rebstock Luzern
When Czech novelist Franz Kafka stayed here, he bemoaned that ‘rooms were dark, staff moody and fruit nonexistent’. What a difference a century makes. Today quarters skip from beamed boudoirs to arty rooms with intricate mosaic bathrooms...
La Cour Des Augustins
‘Boutique gallery design hotel’ is how this slick contemporary space markets itself. Disguised by a 19th-century facade, its crisp white interior sports the latest technology and screams cutting edge...
Grand Hotel Suisse Majestic
With its two-tiered frontage and ranks of bright yellow awnings sheltering the balconies of those rooms looking out over the lake, this historic hotel (built in 1870) remains one of the most atmospheric on the waterfront...
Hotel Des Trois Couronnes
An elegant pleasure dome in business since the mid-19th century, the ‘Three Crowns’ is Vevey’s best. The hotel’s three floors open onto interior galleries, and the decor – full of marble, period furniture and antiques – is all class.
Franziskaner Hotel
A silvery-blue glass reception desk sets the tone of this designer sleeping space in a 14th-century house in the Old Town...
Lady's First Design Hotel
Immaculate and generally spacious rooms provide a pleasant mixture of traditional parquet flooring and designer furnishings. The hotel spa and its accompanying rooftop terrace are for female guests only.
Hotel Seehof
This is the near-identical sister establishment of Hotel Rössli.
Metropole Swiss Quality Interlaken Hotel
As the tallest concrete high-rise on Interlaken’s horizon, this is impossible to miss. However, with an exterior this ugly, staying here is a boon: you enjoy lofty views of the town and Jungfrau, and are saved from looking at the Metropole.
Parc Des Eaux Vives
The precious heart of this sumptuous 18th-century mansion with vast rolling green park and the best-ever Lake-Geneva view is its restaurant. But fortunately for wealthy guests there are a handful of lovely rooms tucked up top...
Grand Hotel Kempinski Geneva
It was ridiculed for years as Geneva's ugly duckling, albeit a duckling with five stars and a Noga Hilton label. But since the Kempinski luxury hoteliers got their hands on it, the place has soared in the style stakes...
The Dolder Grand
This hotel has turrets and balconies and occupies a quiet and panoramic position on the edge of the Zürichberg...
Der Teufelhof Basel
‘The Devil’s Court’ fuses two hotels into one. The Kunsthotel’s nine rooms have varying colour schemes, parquet floors and crisp white bedding...