Victoria-Jungfrau Grand Hotel & Spa
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| Place: | Interlaken |
| Status: | built |
| Construction year: | 1864 (as Pension Victoria ) |
| Room: | 224 |
| Overnight stays (2006): | 78,396 |
| Directorate | Yasmin & Urs Grimm cache enamel |
| Website: | www.victoria-jungfrau.ch |
The Victoria-Jungfrau Grand Hotel & Spa is a five-star hotel in Interlaken that is one of the Leading Hotels of the World . A special feature of this listed building is the unobstructed view of the Jungfrau massif . The hotel view can be found in many publications about Switzerland .
Companies
The hotel is part of Victoria-Jungfrau Collection AG , which also operates the Palace Luzern , the Eden au Lac in Zurich and the Bellevue Palace in Bern .
The hotel has 224 rooms, including 102 suites and junior suites. The average room rate in 2013 was almost 360 Swiss francs . In addition to several restaurants and bars , the Victoria-Jungfrau Grand Hotel & Spa has a 5500 square meter spa area, equipped with a fitness studio and a wellness area with swimming pool.
In 2000 it won the Hotel of the Year award from GaultMillau and IWC . The former director, Emanuel Berger, won the 2003 Best Hotelier of the Year award .
history
In 1856 the entrepreneur Eduard Ruchti bought the Pension Victoria, a former doctor's house on the Höhenweg. In 1864 he commissioned the architects Jakob Friedrich Studer and Horace Edouard Davinet to build a new building, which was opened in 1865 after a nine-month construction period. In 1895 Ruchti converted his private company into a stock corporation . In the same year it acquired the neighboring Hotel Jungfrau, built by Davinet in 1869. In 1899 the two buildings were connected by a central building topped by a dome; this is how the Hotel Victoria-Jungfrau came into being.
In the years of the Belle Époque , Interlaken experienced a tourist boom with the construction of several mountain railways, which, however, came to an abrupt end with the First World War . Despite the adverse circumstances, the hotel was able to maintain its position in the luxury hotel industry . The Swiss Army used the hotel as the headquarters of the General Staff during World War II , combined with General Henri Guisan's regular visits . Changed comfort requirements made extensive renovations necessary in the 1950s. One of the innovations was a swimming pool. A further expansion took place in the 1970s with the construction of a tennis hall and the redesign of the garden.
In 1990 the hotel celebrated its 125th anniversary. A year later, a wellness area of over 5,500 square meters was put into operation. In the course of the 1990s, further renovation and modernization work followed. From 2002 to 2004 all 212 guest rooms were renovated and in 2003 the wellness area was expanded.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c From the pension house to the bastion of the Swiss luxury hotel industry. (PDF; 215 kB) (No longer available online.) Victoria-Jungfrau Grand Hotel & Spa, 2010, archived from the original on May 18, 2014 ; Retrieved May 18, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Coordinates: 46 ° 41 '11.3 " N , 7 ° 51' 24.8" E ; CH1903: 631 996 / 170667