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Luxury Cities of the German-Speaking World

The nearest destinations are often the finest.

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For travellers from Germany, Austria and Switzerland, the great hotel experience is often only an hour away by train. Between the North Sea and Lake Geneva stand some of Europe's grand hotels with the longest traditions — houses that have received guests from all over the world for generations while shaping the social life of their cities.

This collection brings together the cities in which the German-speaking world shows its hospitality with the most confidence: capitals and trade-fair cities, cities of music and cities on the lakes. For each city we name the hotels we book through our Preferred Partner programmes — at the official hotel rate, with additional privileges.

Sense of Place Each Destination Portrait starts from a single question: what makes the Sense of Place here so remarkable?
Destination Portraits
  • GermanyBerlin — Capital of ContrastsBerlin pairs Prussian stateliness with a culture that keeps reinventing itself. Between the Brandenburg Gate, Museum Island and the Gendarmenmarkt, the city's grand hotels are only a few steps from the opera, the Philharmonie and the galleries.
  • GermanyMunich — Cultivated OrderBavarian tradition, cultural depth and economic strength meet in Munich. Maximilianstrasse, the Pinakothek galleries, the English Garden and the Alps close by make it a destination that shows a different kind of elegance in every season.
  • GermanyHamburg — Hanseatic ReserveHamburg shows luxury with Hanseatic understatement. The Alster and the Elbe, the old Kontorhaus office buildings and the Elbphilharmonie give the city a breadth found in hardly any other German city — and its grand hotels stand directly on the water.
  • GermanyFrankfurt — A Metropolis in MiniatureFrankfurt is a financial centre, a trade-fair city and a transport hub — and, for all that, surprisingly compact. Between the skyline, the Museumsufer and the Westend, the city combines international business with a hospitality that relies above all on discretion.
    • The Florentin by Althoff CollectionLHW VITA
    • Steigenberger Icon Frankfurter Hof
  • GermanyBaden-Baden — Europe's Summer CapitalIn the 19th century Baden-Baden was where European society met — and it has kept that bearing. Thermal springs, the Kurhaus, the Festspielhaus and the Lichtentaler Allee make the town the very model of an elegant retreat.
    • Brenners Park-Hotel & Spa
  • AustriaVienna — Imperial CultureVienna's imperial memory lives on in its music, its palaces and coffee houses, and the Ringstrasse. Few cities hold so many grand hotels in so small an area — and few treat the ceremony of hospitality as so natural a thing.
  • AustriaSalzburg — A Stage for MusicSalzburg is a city of baroque proportions, framed by fortress, river and mountains. Every summer the Festival makes it the world's stage; for the rest of the year it remains one of Europe's most beautiful small cities.
  • SwitzerlandZurich — Precise LivingClarity defines Zurich: water, finance, design, galleries and an urban quality that never insists on itself. Its setting on the lake and Swiss efficiency make a city where refinement looks effortless, never theatrical.
  • SwitzerlandGeneva — Discreet AuthorityIn Geneva, luxury is a matter of discretion, not display. Views of the lake, diplomatic institutions, the art of watchmaking, private banking and the Alps close at hand make it a city of quiet international influence.
    • Beau-Rivage, GenèveLHW VITA
    • La Réserve GenèveLHW VITA
    • Four Seasons Hotel des Bergues
  • SwitzerlandLausanne — Terraces above the LakeLausanne rises in terraces from Lake Geneva to its old town. Olympic capital, university city and gateway to the Lavaux vineyards, it is also the city with what is probably the finest tradition of palace hotels on the lake.
  • SwitzerlandBasel — Art on the RhineBasel lies where three countries meet, and it lives for art: the Fondation Beyeler, the Kunstmuseum and Art Basel make the city on the Rhine the gathering place of the international collecting world each year.
  • SwitzerlandLucerne & Lake Lucerne — Classic SwitzerlandLucerne is Switzerland as one imagines it: the Chapel Bridge, the old town, the lake and the mountains in a single view. Around Lake Lucerne lie some of the country's most remarkable hotels — in the town itself and high above the water.
    • Bürgenstock Hotel & Alpine SpaLHW VITA
    • Park Hotel VitznauLHW VITA
    • Mandarin Oriental Palace, Luzern

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