Swiss Winter Vacation without Skis
... them or did anything else go wrong?
The afternoon stretched ahead of me. The sun shone out of a gentian-blue sky. The perfect weather for a trip to Switzerland’s highest shopping centre and I hopped on a train to Gornergrat Mountain. The Gornergratbahn clings to the mountainside like a baby monkey to its mother. When the track became too steep for a conventional locomotive, the train switched to rack-and-cogwheel drive. In forty-five minutes, the train climbed to the Monte Rosa massif, an ice-field...
January 24th, 2010 | Marianne Crone | Read More | Comments: 1Filed under: Family Friendly, Hotels & Places to Stay, museums, Restaurants & Bars, Shopping, skiing, snow, Switzerland, top-feature, Travel Tips - General Information, winter, zermatt
One of Switzerland’s best luxury hotels
... masters at creating luxury ambiance and delivering luxury service.
It should be no surprise then that one of the world’s, and certainly one of Switzerland’s, best luxury hotels is the Park Hotel Weggis in Weggis, Switzerland, about a 20-minute drive from Lucerne, with hypnotic views of the mountains and lake.
A member of Relais & Châteaux, the Park Hotel Weggis originally opened in 1875 as the Hotel Bellevue and has since kept its Art Nouveau façade while undergoing various interior...
July 23rd, 2009 | Jeanne Dupuis | Read More | Comments: 1Filed under: Hotels & Places to Stay, luxury hotel, luxury spa, Switzerland
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