Beau-Rivage Palace

Not to be confused with Geneva's Beau-Rivage (a different hotel, a different family, a different lake), the Beau-Rivage Palace in Lausanne has been the grandest address on Lake Geneva since 1861. Coco Chanel was a regular. Victor Hugo stayed. The Treaty of Lausanne was negotiated here in 1923. The hotel sits in ten acres of private parkland on the lakeshore at Ouchy, with the Alps across the water, and the Anne-Sophie Pic restaurant holds two Michelin stars. 168 rooms and the kind of lakeside grandeur that makes you understand why the Swiss invented the concept of the Palace hotel.