Lausanne Palace
Lausanne, Switzerland · 5-star Hotel Leaders Club (LHW) Price swings 181%
Lausanne Palace in photographs
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When to go
The cheapest month we have found is August, at around USD 385 a night - -2% against what this hotel usually asks.
Where to book
- Book on Booking.com - Free cancellation options, guest reviews and a familiar checkout.
- Book direct with the hotel - Usually the best price, and the only route where a loyalty discount applies.
- Hotel website - Photos, facilities and location.
The loyalty angle
This hotel sits under Leaders Club (LHW). We have seen the member discount on the hotel's own booking page. Every price on this page is the public rate, so a member may pay less than the figures shown.
Our notes
A Belle Epoque address above the lake
The Lausanne Palace opened on 19 June 1915, on a terrace above the city with Lake Geneva and the French Alps laid out below it - the view a good number of its rooms and its balconies still look straight onto. It has stayed in the hands of the Sandoz Family Foundation since 2015, and its Belle Epoque bones - the grand staircase, the wrought-iron balconies, the proportions of a hotel built when a stay here was itself the occasion - are original rather than restored-to-look-original.
For three decades running it was also the private address of the presidents of the International Olympic Committee, whose headquarters sit a few minutes away in Lausanne: Juan Antonio Samaranch, Jacques Rogge and Thomas Bach each kept rooms here in turn, a tradition that lapsed only when Kirsty Coventry took the role in 2025 and chose not to continue it.
The area
Lausanne sits on the northern shore of Lake Geneva (Lac Léman), the largest lake in western Europe, which Switzerland shares with France. The city climbs from the lakefront at Ouchy up to the Gothic cathedral on the ridge, so almost every street ends in a view of the water and, on a clear day, the Savoy Alps across it. The cathedral was consecrated in 1275, and a night watchman still calls the hours from its tower in the small hours. Down at Ouchy, the promenade, the old lakeside hotels and the Olympic Museum make an easy morning: Lausanne has been the home of the International Olympic Committee since 1915 and calls itself the Olympic Capital.
The region is the reason to stay a few nights rather than one. East along the shore, the Lavaux vineyard terraces, a UNESCO World Heritage site since 2007, run for about thirty kilometres toward Vevey and Montreux, with walking paths between the villages and wine cellars open to visitors. Vevey, Montreux and the Château de Chillon follow along the same line, each a short train ride away. Across the lake, the CGN steamers cross to Evian in France in about half an hour, and the same boats stop at lakeside towns on both shores.
Geneva lies at the western end of the lake, roughly forty minutes from Lausanne by direct train. It brings the Jet d'Eau, a fountain that throws water around 140 metres into the air, a compact old town on the hill above the water, the Palais des Nations and CERN. That makes Lausanne a quiet, hillside base that reaches both the vineyards and Geneva without a car, and with the Alps close enough for a day on the snow in winter.
In the blog
Lausanne: four palace hotels, and the one that undercuts them all
Lake Geneva's grandest hotels sit within two kilometres of each other, and the cheapest of them runs at a third of the dearest. All four share one free rewards club that we have measured cutting up to 10.7% off the public rate.
2026-09-23 · Lausanne, Switzerland
What it costs through the year
| Cheapest we have seen | USD 374 ≈ €334 |
|---|---|
| What it usually costs | USD 391 ≈ €349 |
| Dearest we have seen | USD 1,084 ≈ €969 |
| Times we looked | 78 |
| Gap between the two | 181% |
| Last checked | 2026-10-29 |