Royal Savoy Hotel & Spa
Lausanne, Switzerland · 5-star Hotel Leaders Club (LHW) Price swings 131%
Royal Savoy Hotel & Spa in photographs
When to go
The cheapest month we have found is August, at around USD 434 a night - -10% 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
The Royal Savoy has stood on Avenue d'Ouchy since 1909, when the Swiss architect Louis Villard built it in a full Art Nouveau style for European nobility drawn to Lausanne's lake views - a class B Swiss heritage property today, with its ornate corner tower and entrance portal specifically protected. One guest left more of a mark than most: a young King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand stayed here in 1946 while studying in Lausanne, and was fond enough of it that he later commissioned two Thai pavilions for the hotel's grounds as a gift of thanks. They still stand today.
By the 2000s the building needed more than upkeep, and the hotel closed for a five-year, USD 122 ≈ €109 million reconstruction that only reopened in November 2015. It was a careful rebuild rather than a replacement: the historic facade was cleaned and restored under the guidance of the Swiss Heritage council (workers found an old mosaic strip hidden under the plasterwork, since restored), while behind it the hotel gained a new contemporary Garden Wing and its former servants' attic was converted into guest rooms. Interior designer Maria Vafiadis led the project, and the hotel now runs to 196 rooms across the historic building and the new wing - more than doubled from before, on the same footprint the Belle Époque original occupied over a century ago.
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 390 ≈ €349 |
|---|---|
| What it usually costs | USD 480 ≈ €429 |
| Dearest we have seen | USD 1,020 ≈ €912 |
| Times we looked | 41 |
| Gap between the two | 131% |
| Last checked | 2026-09-19 |