The Best Hotels Near Du Cerf, by the Record
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Perched on the Rhine in central Basel, this grand old hotel has been around forever, and it carries that history in marble corridors and neoclassical interiors rather than hiding it behind a rebrand. Rooms run firmly toward old-world luxury, the kind where the service anticipates the ask. A Forbes Four Star property, it draws a well-traveled crowd who appreciate that the restaurant takes French tradition seriously. Bob Dylan and Napoleon both stayed here, which is quite a spread.
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A two-room bed and breakfast on the top floor of a building that's been around forever, in a mountain town that produces a remarkable share of France's pastis and absinthe. One room leans historical, the other contemporary, both decorated with an eclecticism that stops just short of chaos. It's a genuinely small operation, so if both rooms are booked, that's it. Pontarlier sits midway between Basel and Geneva, which helps explain the clientele.