Activities at Hotel Le Montreux Palace or nearby

• Accommodations:

  • 185 rooms & 50 suites

  • Connecting rooms available

  • Rooms with balcony, lake view and/or Jacuzzi (on request)

  • Wi-fi Internet access

• Dining options:

  • La Terrasse du Petit Palais - A haven of peace with its unbelievable views over the lake and the Alps.

  • La Palmeraie - The restaurant, where you can enjoy your breakfast, offers the perfect setting to start your day; light and airy with magnificent views on the region.

  • La Brasserie du Palace - Gourmet brasserie, decorated in Belle Epoque style, offering the typical cuisine of a Parisian brasserie. The bar offers a wide range of different coffees during the day. In the evening the bar converts into a wine bar, an ideal place to discover the wine specialties of the region.

  • Piano bar La Rose d'Or - The piano bar La Rose d'Or is adjacent to the upper lobby and is an ideal place for an aperitif, a cocktail or even a nightcap. It has a relaxing atmosphere, attractive surroundings and features nightly entertainment with a live pianist every evening except on Sunday.

  • Harry's New York Bar - This sophisticated cocktail bar is the meeting point for international and local. A vast choice of cocktails is served. The à la carte menu features cuisine from around the world, including an assortment of home-made tapas, Thai-style chicken soup, grilled US rib-eye and spaghetti arrabbiata... all with live music in an unforgettable environment, every evening except on Sunday.

• Meeting facilities:

  • Léman A & B (266 - 532 persons)

  • Léman C (286 persons)

  • Salle des Congres (374 persons)

  • Salle des Fêtes (231 persons)

  • Salon Rotary (98 persons)

  • Salon de Bridge (112 persons)

  • Salon Club (95 persons)

  • Salon Vert (60 persons)

  • Terrasse du Petit Palais (590 persons)

• Sports/Relaxation facilities and services:

  • Health Club featuring:

    • 2 pools: an indoor heated lap (8m x 20m, 28°C) & an outdoor swimming pool (15m X 7,5m -- not heated), open year-round.

    • Saunas and Steam rooms

    • Indoor Jacuzzis

    • Cold plunge pool and bubble loungers

    • Luxurious changing rooms

    • Towel Service

• Other facilities or services:

  • Business Center

  • Indoor parking & Valet service (overnight)

WHAT TO DO AND SEE WHILE STAYING AT HOTEL LE MONTREUX PALACE

• Chillon castle, one of the most beautiful places in Switzerland.

• Helicopter flight or hot-air ballooning

• Mountain excursions

• Boat cruises on Lake Geneva

• Medieval village of Gruyeres, renowned for its cheese

• Glacier of Les Diablerets by cable car

• Fine vineyards of the region

• Picturesque centuries-old villages

• Local product tasting

• Visit Montreux, Vevey, Lausanne and other Swiss cities for local sightseeing opportunities.

• Many original museums (the Games Museum at La Tour de Peilz, Fine Arts Museum in Vevey, Olympic Museum in Lausanne, etc.)

ABOUT MONTREUX

3km (2 miles) E of Vevey; 24km (15 miles) E of Lausanne; 100km (62 miles) E of Geneva

The chief resort of the Swiss Riviera, Montreux rises in the shape of an amphitheater from the shores of Lac Léman. An Edwardian town with a distinct French accent, it has long been a refuge for expatriates, including the novelist Vladimir Nabokov. Known for its balmy climate, it sports a profusion of Mediterranean vegetation, which grows lushly in the town's many lakeside parks. The mountains at the town's back protect it from the winds of winter, allowing fruit trees, cypresses, magnolias, bay trees, almonds, and even palms to flourish.

The city has expanded greatly from its original 19th-century core, incorporating several former villages along the shoreline. One of these, Clarens, was used by Rousseau as the setting for his epistolary novel La nouvelle Héloïse. The resort enjoyed its heyday in the years just before World War I, when it had only 85 hotel beds. It hosted such distinguished visitors as Tolstoy, Flaubert, Dostoyevsky, and Ruskin. In recent times the town has revived, and today about three-fourths of the resort's 20,000 inhabitants are engaged in some touristic capacity or another.

Though the resort is favored year-round, it's most densely crowded in summertime, when traffic clogs most of the streets.