Lausanne Palace

On Google Hotels, read on 28 September 2026, the lowest price across all sellers for a night for 2 was €290 on Saturday 10 October, €293 on Wednesday 14 and €285 on Saturday 24 October, €283 on Saturday 7 November, €311 on Friday 13 November and €292 on Saturday 5 December; €306 for New Year’s Eve, and €349 for Saturday 10 July 2027. The lowest prices came from smaller sellers such as Super.com and Agoda; on Booking.com, Expedia and Hotels.com the same night cost more, and the hotel’s own website was not among the sellers. Basic rates exclude breakfast, and the city tax is CHF 7 per person per night, the hotel says.

Yes, if you want a spa and the centre on foot; if you want quiet, ask for a room on a high floor. On Google it has 4.6 out of 5 from 2,373 reviews; on Tripadvisor 4.6 from 1,601; on Booking.com 9.2 out of 10 from 1,652, with 8.7 for value for money. Among the themes Google counts, service, the building and the location receive the most praise; street noise reaches the lower floors on the city side, and reviews mention rooms awaiting renovation alongside refurbished ones.

4, plus 2 bars. La Table du Lausanne Palace, with 2 MICHELIN stars and 18 out of 20 from Gault&Millau, serves contemporary French cooking facing the rooftops, the mountains and the lake: open Wednesday to Saturday, for lunch from 12 to 3pm and dinner from 7 to 11pm, last orders at 1pm and 8pm; menus of 4, 5 or 6 courses cost CHF 228, 255 or 268, wine pairings from CHF 110. Brasserie du Grand Chêne is Parisian-style, with mains from CHF 32 to CHF 78; Matcha Picchu, Japanese-Peruvian, opens Tuesday to Saturday; Côté Jardin serves breakfast and Sunday brunch. The bars are LP’s Bar and Bar 1915. In August 2026 one guest found La Table, Matcha Picchu and LP’s Bar closed for the summer break.

Not in the basic rates, Google and Expedia show, and the Côté Jardin menu, read on 11 October 2026, prints the buffet at CHF 49, VAT and service included. The hotel’s offers, such as Suite Experience, do include it. Breakfast is served at Côté Jardin from 7 to 10.30am; on Sundays there is brunch from 12.30pm to 3pm or 3.30pm, depending on where the page is read, at CHF 110, or CHF 55 for children aged 3 to 12.

Generous: Le Spa covers 2,100 m² inside the hotel, with the heated indoor pool and its jacuzzi, saunas and hammams for women and for men, a therapeutic bath, a terrace, a veranda, a rest room, the gym, the Aveda Hair Spa and the private Spa Suite for 2, with a sauna, a hammam and a round copper tub for a rose-petal bath. The pool’s length and the water temperature are not published.

For guests, the hotel will not commit; visitors, on the other hand, are welcome. Those staying find no price: the gym is open around the clock “for hotel guests”, and every offer includes the pool, sauna and hammam, yet no page says in one sentence that access comes with every rate, and Perplexity says it is charged, applying the visitors’ price list to guests. Visitors pay CHF 125 for the day, CHF 75 for half a day, CHF 50 with a treatment of at least 50 minutes, says the spa’s page; the Day Spa, Monday to Saturday, includes lunch at the spa bar for CHF 140, or CHF 320 with a 50-minute treatment.

Every day from 6.30am to 10pm. The pool and jacuzzi stay open until 10pm; saunas, hammams and the therapeutic bath until 9pm; treatments run from 9am to 8pm and the snack menu from 11.30am to 8pm, and hours may change on public holidays. Treatments and the Spa Suite are booked with the spa, on +41 21 331 31 61 or online; the pages mention no booking for the pool and saunas.

A Cinq Mondes massage costs CHF 195 for 50 minutes or CHF 265 for 80, according to the spa’s voucher shop; the Grand Rituel of an hour and 50 minutes CHF 295, Biologique Recherche facials from CHF 130 for 30 minutes to CHF 350 for 60, and the Aveda Head Spa from CHF 130 to CHF 240. For 2 there is “An experience for two”, at CHF 590: an hour of the Spa Suite, day access to the spa and a 50-minute Cinq Mondes massage, without saying whether for one or for both.

Heated and indoors, and it is the only one: it sits inside the spa, with a jacuzzi beside it, open all year from 6.30am to 10pm. There is no outdoor pool; the length, depth and water temperature are published by none of the sources we read.

Yes, from the age of 3 and with a parent: Monday to Saturday from 9 to 11am and 2 to 7pm, and Sundays from 10am to 7pm, according to the spa’s page read on 27 September 2026. Other sources narrow the hours: the hotel’s family offer says 2 to 6pm, and Booking.com and the MICHELIN Guide, for children aged 3 to 16, say 2 to 6pm and 10am to 6pm on Sundays. No age limit is published for the saunas and hammams.

Yes, under cover, at CHF 40 a day, says the access page, which also mentions a large public pay car park open around the clock. If you would rather hand over the keys, Google and Expedia list valet parking, at a charge.

At Rue du Grand-Chêne 7–9, in the centre of Lausanne, above the Flon; as for quiet, it depends on the floor, because the street reaches the lower floors on the city side. The metro is 2 minutes’ walk (148 metres) away, the station a 7-minute walk (496 metres), the cathedral an 8-minute walk (599 metres) and the lake at Ouchy a 27-minute walk (2,044 metres). The lake rooms face south over the lake and the Alps, the city rooms north.

By train, in about an hour to Lausanne station, then a 7-minute walk (496 metres) to the hotel. By car it is 61 km, about 44 minutes; the hotel says 40. To be collected, the hotel’s limousine costs CHF 300 for up to 2 people.

Nothing published yet for 31 December 2026: the hotel’s calendar, read on 27 September 2026, listed only the Sunday brunch, until 20 December. For New Year’s Eve 2025 a Lausanne weekly described the Lausanne Palace’s gala evenings, without a menu or a price.

Yes, organised by the hotel’s events team. The largest room, Richemont, with its crystal chandelier, takes 350 for a cocktail, 200 for a banquet or 280 theatre-style; Le Caveau seats 50 for a banquet. The price is not published: the last public figure is the packages of CHF 150 to 280 per person that GaultMillau quoted in June 2020.

142 rooms and suites, the hotel says; Tripadvisor and Expedia count 139, the MICHELIN Guide 146. The suites include 2 Presidential Suites, the Coco Chanel Suite and the Samaranch Suite. It is a 5-star hotel that opened on 19 June 1915, part of The Leading Hotels of the World and Swiss Deluxe Hotels, with 2 MICHELIN Keys.

Yes, according to every source; it is the price they cannot agree on, and the hotel’s website is silent. Expedia charges CHF 25 per pet per night, with service animals exempt; Booking.com and the MICHELIN Guide mention a charge; BringFido says 2 dogs of any size are allowed at no extra charge. The hotel has the final word when you book.

Yes: it is a city hotel with no seasonal closure announced, and Google Hotels showed prices for every month from October 2026 to August 2027. It is the restaurants that take days off: La Table opens Wednesday to Saturday, Matcha Picchu Tuesday to Saturday, and LP’s Bar closes on Sundays and Mondays.