Country Info
- Bern
- Capital
- Swiss Franc (CHF)
- Currency
- 7,283,274
- Population
- CH
- Country Code
Switzerland Slideshow
Top Hotels in Switzerland
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Swissotel Zurich Hotel International Zürich
427 reviews -
Radisson SAS Hotel Zurich Airport Zürich
308 reviews
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Intercontinental Geneve Geneva
144 reviews
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Intercontinental Hotels Zurich Zürich
323 reviews
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Starling Geneva Hotel & Conference Center
65 reviews
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Moevenpick Hotel Geneva-Airport
156 reviews
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Movenpick Hotel Zurich- Airport Glattbrugg
328 reviews
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Ramada Park Hotel Geneva
137 reviews -
Novotel Basel
204 reviews
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Movenpick Hotel Lausanne
170 reviews
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Warwick Geneva
225 reviews
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Hilton Zurich Airport Hotel Opfikon
232 reviews
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Novotel Airport Glattbrugg
304 reviews
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Swissotel Basel
109 reviews
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Grand Hotel Kempinski Geneva
176 reviews
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Le Montreux Palace
177 reviews -
President-Wilson Geneva
175 reviews
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Zurich Marriott Hotel Zürich
358 reviews
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Mandarin Oriental du Rhone, Geneva
109 reviews
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Ramada Plaza Basel Hotel And Conference Center
177 reviews
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Hotel Alpha-Palmiers Lausanne
179 reviews -
Basel Hilton
144 reviews
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Nh Geneva Airport Hotel
133 reviews
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Park Inn Airport Zürich
222 reviews
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Renaissance Zürich
184 reviews
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Kempinski Grand St. Moritz
145 reviews
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Swissotel Metropole Geneva
97 reviews
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Radisson Sas Hotel Lucerne
138 reviews
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Allegra Kloten
193 reviews
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Novotel Geneve Centre Geneva
276 reviews
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Sunstar Parkhotel Davos
43 reviews
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Hotel Sunstar Grindelwald
70 reviews
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Holiday Inn Zurich-Messe Zürich
151 reviews
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Best Western Eurotel Riviera Montreux
67 reviews
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Ibis Zurich Messe-Airport Zürich
362 reviews
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Radisson Sas Hotel Basel
113 reviews
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Park Hyatt Zürich
170 reviews
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Europe Hotel Basel
133 reviews
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Grand Europe Lucerne
142 reviews
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Best Western Hotel Chavannes De Bogis Chavannes-de-Bogis
55 reviews
Switzerland
Travel Blogs from Switzerland
We are headed home
This is a top pick! 4 am came early. Really early. We tried to be as quiet as possible. Well everyone but Christina. Heather took the key to the room when she headed down with her luggage. The lights were on a timer connected to key so when the lights went out, Christina at ...
Down in memory lane in Geneva, Switzerland
This is a top pick! We left my parents place for about 2 weeks and we went to Switzerland... through their busy schedules and work times, we managed to see 4 sets of friends...some we have known for over 25 years... even before we got married... so we went down memory lane, ...
Zurich by day, Lugano by night...
This is a top pick! ... brief relaxation and catch up at their apartment we are heading down to the local bar to catch the Euro games, which featured a Switzerland home game making for yet another lively crowd. Somehow, we wind up playing kings at the bar and end the ...
Swiss Family Tuckwell
This is a top pick! ... and 9.30 overnight train to Switzerland's Finance capital...... A few common Switzerland misconceptions 1) Bern is the capital of Switzerland not, thou bigger cities, Geneva or Zurich 2) There is not an all incorporating language of SWISS. Of which ...
Wynigen with Sues wonderful family
This is a top pick! 23.7.06 Wynigen It was a very hot day so Sylvie (next door) let us swim in her pool, ahhh, delicious. We were happy to relax and get to know Sue's family under the gazebo. We laughed and talked a lot. Esther speaks very good English and so do the ...
Authentic Swiss Country Girl
This is a top pick! Hi So on our last day in Turkey we went shopping in Istanbul. I love shopping in Turkey as it is fun to see how the price drops as you go to leave. We bought a blanket that is close to King size and very decorative. When Andrew asked the price he was ...
Down in memory lane 2 in Zurich, Switzerland
This is a top pick! More photos! here are friends we met in Zimbabwe, 23 years ago... Mary and Kevin were teaching in the same school as us and Rene was the doctor who helped me deliver Tristan... more memories, more good food, more laughs...I think we are gaining even more ...
France and Switzerland
This is a top pick! ... and about 4 floors. It was all quite nondescript. Apparently there are many of these "factories" throughout this area of Switzerland - where the art of watchmaking is still appreciated. After visiting the factory and the museum at Chateau des ...
To Zurich Once More
This is a top pick! We left Nonnenhorn around 4 pm and arrived in Zurich 2 hours later. We were at first disheartened to see that Tom and Louise had not come to meet us like they said and we tried to figure out where excacty they lived, but to our joy Tom rode up on his ...
Yet more old haunts, sorry, friends
This is a top pick! Paul and Toni-Rae have the most amazing apartment looking over Lake Geneva. Spend the weekend with them eating lots and wandering around Geneva, the port and visit some old town up the lake with a castle that I can't recall now. ...
Waterfalls everywhere and the alpine hike of death
This is a top pick! (S) Most of you will say "how the hell did you end up in a tiny little town called Gimmelwald on the top of a mountain?" Well, actually, we ended up in Lauterbrunnen at a nice little campground (which would have been a nice place to camp had we not been ...
Schildhorn Beauty
This is a top pick! ... parasailers. It was really lovely and fresh up there. We felt lucky we had someone to take us there otherwise it's a part of Switzerland we probably would not have seen and enjoyed. There is also a revolving restaurant up there so you gradually get a ...
Lucerne not Lausanne
This is a top pick! Monday 16th July - Thursday 19th July Pete is going to have a break from writing this blog, he reckons he's got writers block plus holiday head so it's up to me to keep the blog going. After visiting the city in Lausanne with drove north to Lucerne ...
Zurich - Day 126
This is a top pick! ... by the river so the residents can bath, and there are steps into the river at various points. Beginning to like Switzerland. My friends sister's boyfriend's birthday party this evening (sorry about the mouth full). So went to their house for some ...
Lugano Shenanigans
This is a top pick! ... a lot of people from all walks of life... local celebrity comes to mind as a way of describing their lives in Switzerland! Lugano is a quaint town of maybe 100,000 high in the Alps with spectacular views across Lake Lugano and the surrounding ...
Maderanerthal Region (Swiss Alps) - Day 127-128
This is a top pick! Day 127 - 28/06/08 A train and a few buses today to reach Golzern which is a small village in the beautiful snow capped Swiss Alps. The transport system is amazing here, completely integrated, so when you get off the train the bus is waiting to take ...
Zurich - Day 129
This is a top pick! Nothing interesting to tell today, posted 8kg of stuff home, mostly purchases from Vietnam and some other odds and ends which I no longer needed to haul around with me. Went out for dinner in the evening to an Asian restaurant. Getting my body ...
An unexpected snow storm
This is a top pick! ... our warm beds. On the way up to Engelburg we stopped in the lovely little town of Lucerne, which is the geographical heart of Switzerland. It was freezing and rainy so we headed into a Picasso museum for some warmth as well as some art! Lucerne is ...
Chilling in Bern
This is a top pick! ... goal of Prague in seven days - for us to meet back in Rome in a week or so. First stop for this random tour of Switzerland was Bern. What a brilliant couple of days, a beautiful city, great food and an absolute pleasure to not be staying in a hostel. ...
On a High
This is a top pick! ... , Jungfrau, Switzerland · GMT +1:00 hour Anyone who has not seen the scenery which surrounds Interlaken does not know Switzerland - Felix Mendelssohn Efficiency Personified So we headed, bags on back, to Bern train station where we set about ...
Luxurious Lachen...
This is a top pick! So my standards have yet moved a few notches lower and I now consider myself content to stay in places that are not leaking, and are indoors. Previously, I was looking for beds a bit softer than granite, toilet paper, hot water...or really running ...
Top of Europe
This is a top pick! ... and were taken to a club across the street from his restaurant. And here's a piece of advice on clubbing in Geneva (and Switzerland in general): only do it if you have a really strong dislike for your money. The only entertainment we got (for a Friday ...
Time to Skydive over the Alps
This is a top pick! Trains in Switzerland are simply amazing. To glide through the countryside with snow capped mountains rising from massive blue lakes and lush green fields makes even a train bound for nowhere an absolute pleasure. Well guys look at this space tomorrow ...