The Top 11 Hotels Near L'Entre-Roches
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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.
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A 19th-century cloister in the old heart of Besançon, converted into a boutique hotel with just enough monastic bones left to feel like somewhere, not just somewhere nice. The name means "wild," which the nuns who preceded the guests would find baffling given the spa. Rooms look out over the citadel and the river, and there's a restaurant downstairs for the nights you'd rather not wander far.
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The balconies face Lake Geneva and the Alps, so the view does most of the decorating. This grand lakeside hotel in Lausanne has been around forever, and it leans into the chandeliers-and-marble register without apology. Rooms are spacious, beds are serious, and the spa and two pools give you reasons not to leave the property. A Forbes Four Star. The Pic restaurant handles French cuisine if you do venture downstairs.
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A 17th-century mansion in Arbois that its owners run as a five-room chambre d'hôtes, keeping enough of the private-home feel that you half expect someone's grandmother to appear with a key. Rooms draw on the town's natural surroundings for their decorative theme, antique in spirit but pulled together with boutique-hotel coherence. The owners are well-connected in Jura wine circles, which tends to make itself known in useful ways.
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A 17th-century Jura farmhouse that behaves nothing like one inside, Maison Zugno is a small country hotel where the owners have layered bold contemporary furniture and color against old stone and period bones. The standout room is L'Observatoire, a cylindrical freestanding suite with a curved picture window wrapping the bedroom. A small spa, outdoor pool, and jacuzzi round things out for anyone who came here specifically to do nothing.
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The infinity pool hangs above Lake Geneva like someone forgot to put a wall on it, and that view sets the tone for the whole stay. This is a grand Belle Époque palace hotel in Evian-les-Bains, still carrying its original architectural swagger while managing not to feel like a museum. The evian SPA, the lakeside setting, and a Michelin-starred restaurant on the premises make it easy to justify not leaving the property for days.