open during the First World Lausanne Palace - the last Swiss Grand Hotel: Now so do not build. Facade in the spirit of the Belle Epoque, lobby glitters with crystal and marble columns support the powerful unattainable high ceilings, in the expenditure side the grand staircase strewn carpet. And the numbers correspond to the external greatness - not for nothing is so fond of stopping royalty. For example, Prince Albert of Monaco prefers to shoot the corner suite with a fireplace and a terrace with views of Lake Geneva. And the International Olympic Committee chose the hotel and did his official residence - it's hard to find a more festive atmosphere for the reception of international level. The apartment on the sixth floor apartment IOC President: Juan Antonio Samaranch, has lived here for over twenty years, now he was replaced by Jacques Rogge.
I got a room one floor below, but with the same view of the miraculous Lake Leman (Geneva). Just like the president, in the morning I withdraw muslin curtain and looking out onto the balcony to admire the ghost ridges on the other side, cut off from the cloudy haze of the horizon and therefore seemed to be floating in the air. Exactly the same breakfast in mileyshem restaurant Cote Jardin, where most of the menu consists of useful and diet food. In the same way, dressed in a white robe, came down on a separate elevator in the hotel's main attraction, which in the name of the Lausanne Palace at the time appeared SPA.Zanimayuschy more than two thousand square meters CBE Concept SPA laid out with Swiss precision. Under the shining stars, lamps that dotted the entire ceiling, sparkling water in the pool and bubbling whirlpool, next - a sun terrace with gigantic ficus, sauna, whose walls are lined with pine logs, and wet steam room. Inclined to do waits Fitness Mind & Body Studio: several rooms for yoga, tai chi and pilates, gym and even a nook for the little ones with fun children's gym.
For those wishing to transform and rejuvenate - Beauty Clinic, offering skin care and body-based American Natural Cosmetics Aveda, the most powerful anti-aging procedures on the basis of the line CBE Cosmetic (own development of the hotel), as well as all sorts of exotic rituals using aromatherapy products Sultan de Sabah. For thinking about the general health improvement - spa and thalassotherapy, Ayurvedic program (for which assigned a separate spa area), the rituals of ancient Chinese and Thai techniques, detox courses and programs to reduce weight and body modeling.
Those who want to get all this in complete privacy can book SPA-Suite.
Meals are available here at the Spa Bar Yogi Booster, which serves only vegetarian dishes of useful organic products and cereals and juices of the amazing combinations of fruits, vegetables and herbs. And the rest - on the downy feather of snow-Silent Room for a carved wooden door, who came straight from India. And after finishing the procedures, you can climb to the salon Hair Spa by Aveda, where not only are cut, color and stack, but also combine it with recreational therapy for the hair, from which they have a really brilliant in all senses of the word form. So what of the SPA you will leave the beautiful and ready for everything, including a dinner at the Michelin restaurant, La Table d'Edgard in company with the president of the IOC and the Prince of Monaco.
Lausanne Palace & SPA exceptionally convenient location - in the heart of the city. If you exit the hotel and go across the street to the church of St. Francis, immediately get into web of narrow streets of Old City (La Cit