The landmark Hotel Palace of 1906, on the shore of Lake Lucerne, reopened after a multi-year restoration.
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Overview
Nineteen Oh-Six
A hundred and thirty-six rooms and suites, most of them with a balcony over the lake.
The Hotel Palace opened on the Lucerne lakefront in 1906 and spent a century as the address in the city before closing for a restoration that took years and reopened it as a Mandarin Oriental at the end of 2020. Every guest room was rebuilt, the public rooms redesigned and the grounds relandscaped; 136 rooms and suites now look out at the lake and the Alps behind it, and most of them have a private balcony or terrace. One room was deliberately left alone. The Salon Alpine still carries its original 1906 decoration, which is the clearest evidence of what the rest of the building used to be.
Find the Salon Alpine. A single hidden room kept its original 1906 interior through the restoration. It is the reference point for everything else in the building.
1906
Year It Opened
136
Rooms & Suites
4
Dining Concepts
3
Michelin Stars
Rooms
Balconies on the Lake
Contemporary rooms behind a Belle Époque façade, facing the water and the mountains.
Lake View Balcony — Mandarin Oriental Palace
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Private BalconiesMost rooms and suites have their own balcony or terrace over the lake.
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Rebuilt InteriorsEvery guest room was taken back and rebuilt during the restoration.
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Lake and AlpsThe view runs across Lake Lucerne to the Alps, and changes completely with the light.
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Belle Époque ShellThe 1906 façade and the landmark public rooms were kept and restored.
Experiences
Lucerne, and Its Mountains
A medieval bridge, a lake full of steamers, and two mountains at the end of them.
Landmark
Kapellbrücke
The 14th-century covered wooden bridge, and its painted ceiling panels.
Water
Lake Steamers
Paddle steamers from the quay, calling at villages around the lake.
Mountain
Mount Pilatus
The world’s steepest cogwheel railway up, and a cable car down.
Mountain
Rigi
The queen of the mountains, reached by rack railway from the lakeside.
Old Town
Altstadt
Painted façades and squares, ten minutes on foot along the shore.
Sculpture
The Lion Monument
Carved into the rock face in 1821; Mark Twain called it the saddest stone in the world.
Dining
Colonnade, and Minamo
Four dining rooms under one roof, and three Michelin stars between two of them.
01Colonnade, modern French, holding two Michelin stars
02Minamo, Japanese, holding one Michelin star
03The lakefront terrace and bar for lighter days
04The ballroom and Salon Alpine for private dining
Colonnade — Mandarin Oriental Palace
Location
On Lake Lucerne
On the Haldenstrasse shore, ten minutes on foot from the old town.
Directly on the northern shore of Lake Lucerne, facing the Alps.
A ten-minute walk along the water to the Kapellbrücke and the old town.
Beside the quay for the lake steamers and the mountain railways.
An hour from Zurich Airport by road or rail.
Fly
Arrive at Zurich Airport.
Rail
An hour by train to Lucerne, or the same by private car.
Arrive
Check in, then walk the shore to the covered bridge.
Lucerne
The Palace, Restored
A 1906 landmark on the lake, with balconies, three stars, and one untouched room.