Hotel Schweizerhof Luzern

We were in Lucerne for 2 days and 2 nights in November. My first impressions of the hotel were great. The lobby is beautiful and the staff was most helpful. We arrived before checking and the staff let us put our bags in a locked room until we could check in.
The only two disappointments about this hotel were the room décor and the breakfast. We were in the «Tracy Chapman» room. Very randomly decorated and had her signature on the bathroom wall. Coming from the elegant lobby, it was quite weird. The size of the room was nice. There was plenty of room to stretch out. The breakfast was nothing special and the servers didnt seem to want to help us or bring us coffee.
The location of this hotel is amazing! Right on the lake and close to all the shops and the train station. The bar staff was friendly and upbeat.
Stayed November 2015

If you have to think a little bit, unbelievable relaxing. And if it is just for a coffee.

L’hôtel est immense mais rien n’est laissé au hasard. Le service est très bon de l’arrivée au départ rien a dire. Ha si! La vue des chambres est exceptionnelle!

Auf der Durchreise an die Cote d´Azur eher durch Zufall spät Abends im Schweizer Hof gelandet, doch nie bereut.
Klassisches Grand Hotel, schönes Zimmer und ein atemberaubender Blick am nächsten Morgen auf den Vierwaldstättersee und die Berge.
Nach einem hervorragenden Frühstück ging es weiter Richtung Südfrankreich.
Sehr empfehlenswert!

Me and my parents were once again in town, so I paid a visit to the Schweizerhof’s Gault Millau-​rated Restaurant Pavillon and enjoyed a dessert variation. The menu looks very safe, but the dessert menu looks far more interesting and is quite large!
The head chef made me an expanded dessert plate, an exemplary example of the kitchen’s varied patisserie, including:
— Two kinds of chocolate mousse (good, but no Grand Cru)
— Chocolate sorbet with rhubarb and raspberry coulis (very good!)
— White chocolate brownie (a bit dry, but good)
— Choux pastry
— Panna Cotta with raspberry coulis (excellent!)
— Mango semifreddo (wonderful taste)
The restaurant offers suprisingly good value for money (for a five-​star hotel in this location), since my dessert plate cost me just CHF 18.50. You can’t order it from the dessert menu, but it can be arranged — just ask the waiter.
If you want to really eat stunning haute patisserie in an equally luxurious atmosphere with even better service, then visit the Palace’s Michelin-​starred Restaurant Jasper. You can order a dessert variation there, too, but pastry chef Nicole Beckmanns sweet dreams are best enjoyed one-​by-​one.
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My stepmother was interned here during WW II, after a hair-​raising escape from Austria and occupied Belgium. We started coming here in the 1960s, long after the establishment had been returned to its glory as one of the finest hotels in Switzerland. Today, it is one of the few places from childhood that has kept up its standards, even as Luzern has descended into tacky tourism on all sides.
We always ask for a lakefront room. These are huge, with high ceilings and enormous windows. The amenities are what one would expect for the price. The room service is great, and the lobby bar serves fine champagnes.
But having said all this, we still prefer to drive or take a boat to one of the more remote villages around the lake to find an anonymous gasthaus with a good, unassuming restaurant. And we almost never come here in summer, when the crowds overwhelm. It’s too bad, because the lake still remains one of the world’s most spectacular natural beauties.

Un Grand Hôtel comme on n’en fait plus!
5 étoiles et qui les vaut avec un service à l’ancienne: porteurs à l’arrivée et au départ, chambres refaites entièrement en fin d’après-midi.
De plus idéalement situé au bord du lac de Lucerne dans un superbe panorama.
Chambres toutes modernisées mêmesi le mobilier est ancien; immenses SdB, écran plat, internet, etc. etc.