travel42 Hotel Review: Hotel Baur au Lac

Hotel Baur au Lac travel42 Professional Hotel Review

Location and History

One of Switzerland's most celebrated properties, this refined traditionalist vies with the fabled Widder, the latter proffering a bolder modern eclecticism.

Despite constant, fashion-sensitive updating, this hotel is a glove fit for finicky traditionalists—service here is a postcard of Swiss efficiency, and it makes the team at the Savoy look wooden.

Owned and operated by the same family since 1844 (six generations), this house continues to get the kind of ...