Opened in 1864, Grand Hotel des Bains Kempinski was built around the Mauritius spring so that guests might enjoy the water’s healing properties. Today, guests still linger at the hotel’s wellness complex—and especially after a wild night at Billionaire, the hotel’s on-site nocturnal extravaganza. … Read More
Guests who make the ascent to Grand Hotel Kronenhof at the base of the Roseg glacier in Switzerland’s Engadin region are fully entitled to feel as if they’ve arrived in Shangri-La. … Read More
Located in Oerlikon, a five-minute train ride from Zurich’s city center, Swissôtel Zurich is a splendid retreat. Recently renovated, the hotel’s 347 luxury rooms and suites are furnished in contemporary style – and feature superb views of Zurich and the … Read More
While we are proudly nocturnal, we nonetheless found ourselves oddly and intoxicatingly energized on a recent morning – well before eight o’clock. Imagine our surprise, but there we were, atop the highest hotel in Zurich, Switzerland, on the 32nd floor … Read More
Currently, the largest city in Switzerland (with nearly 400,000 people), Zurich has been designated the city with the best quality of life in the world – for seven years in a row. … Read More
With a name like Ambrosius, it might have been expected that Ambrosius Hiltl would become a restaurateur – but who could have imagined that he would open what has become the oldest vegetarian restaurant in all of Europe. As his … Read More
With suburbs in three countries (and that airport on French soil), Basel represents a kind of postmodern EU, where ideas and cultures are as fluid as Schengen Area border crossings.
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At 344 feet, the 31-story Basler Messeturm (Trade Fair Tower) is the tallest building in all of Switzerland. Completed in 2003, the glass-sheathed leviathan in shimmering aquamarine appears to rise from the Rhine. And while it might seem incongruous to … Read More
