Hôtel Mirabeau Lausanne

My partner and I stayed with our little dog at the beginning of the year and we can only speak positive words about this hotel. It felt like home and we have to thank especially the staff and the girls at reception who helped us with directions on what to see and how to get to the various locations we were planning to visit. Our little dog was very welcome and treated very well. The hotel has a restaurant, a bar, and a gym on the premises. The restaurant is superlative, in just a few days of our stay we dined there twice. The Hotel has a great location to reach the centre of Lausanne and on our arrival we were provided with a ticket allowing us to use all public transport for the duration of our stay. So if you are looking for a hotel in Lausanne I highly recommend it!

I majorly enjoyed my stay at the Hotel Mirabeau. After a mix-up with a booking, they were extremely accommodating in getting me a room. I slept very, very well each night and I did not hear any of my neighbors. They have breakfast downstairs and the room was spacious. The bath is huge as well, which was nice. The shower is a bit more difficult to use as I think it was more designed as a bathtub. The hotel is very walkable to the local train station, which I needed to use quite a bit, so that was lovely. My only qualm was that there was no conditioner for your hair. I never travel with shampoo or conditioner as I usually just use what the hotels provide and this is the first time I stayed at a hotel that only had shampoo. Unfortunately, I did not have time to go shop for some conditioner, so I dealt with difficult-to-brush hair. I would not dock the hotel any stars for this, but just wanted to put in a word as I am sure some other travelers may have the same want. Overall, an amazing stay and would definitely recommend to friends.

Couldn't be better. Room was spacious, beds comfortable, hotel and staff very helpful. Location very convenient for getting aorund Lausanne. Provided travel card was an unexpected plus offering us a free ride anwhere within the city limits. Restaurant is superb and very professional . Included breakfast buffet was very extensive and well prepared. ||Dinner menu also superb with several unique offerings. Don't miss desert.

A wonderful hotel, conveniently located between the city center and the train station with a wonderful view of the lake Geneva. Old-timely luxurious and charming. Great service. We are here on a business trip and will definitely be staying here next time we visit.

I can't say enough good things about Hotel Mirabeau. It is extremely clean and quiet. Everyone who works there is very helpful and courteous. The restaurant serves excellent food. The breakfast is very good. We were on the fifth floor and had a balcony. The views of the lake and distant France were drop-dead gorgeous. ||The property is very easy to find from the train station. We climbed the hill with luggage the first day. We are in our 60s, had luggage, and found it doable. But after that, we simply took the number 1 tram from the train station (located to the right of the station when leaving) and went one stop to the Mirabeau stop.

We once again stayed at the Hotel Mirabeau during our trip to Lausanne. We again booked the family room (two adjecent rooms sharing one bathroom). As always we were very happy with our choice. The hotel also offers a great breakfast buffet!

I really enjoyed the stay at this Hotel. It was clean and had character. The staff were friendly and accommodating. The rooms are on the small side but given the age of the building this is to be expected. I'd happily stay again.

The hotel caters for groups and parties (I guess that's where the money is) and doesn’t seem to care so much about independent travellers. On Saturday evening, the reception area was packed (gathering for a birthday party there) and it was hard to make your way through to get in or out. The bar was closed for another group - a hotel closing the bar on a Saturday evening! Then loud party noise and disco/karaoke till 1am (no sleep!)|Certainly there are some positives - good location quite near to the railway station, an art deco/art nouveau feel, pleasant staff.

Hôtel Mirabeau Lausanne was the final and most swanky of the 3 hotels we tried during our whirlwind tour of Switzerland in November 2017. We were in town specifically to experience the start of the Lake Geneva-area Christmas Market season and Mirabeau was a great home base for our excursions. The train station is just a couple city blocks down the street (not too steep coming back), there's a bus stop right next door, and you're a 20-minute walk away down to the shore of Lake Geneva or up to Old Town. The wonderful daytime concierge, Peter, started us off with the perfect welcome. We arrived exhausted around 17:30 after a long day of tourism in Solothurn and a rush hour train ride back down to Vaud. Unfortunately, something had gone awry on my reservation (something I suspect was entirely my own fault) and I had reserved a room with 3 beds, but only 1 guest. We were a family of 3 and the room they originally had for us would have been tight, so we were immediately upgraded to a spacious 4th-floor "family room" suite with a balcony over Avenue de la Gare and a partial lake view from the kids' room overlooking Avenue de Rosemont. We paid an additional $50 per night fee for the extra adult, which I consider entirely reasonable especially with the included the $25 daily breakfast buffet for all of us (a bargain compared to what we'd been spending on most Swiss restaurant meals). As it also happened to be the American Thanksgiving holiday, Peter also offered to make dinner reservations for us at his favorite traditional Vaudian-cuisine restaurant (Café du Grütli http://www.cafedugruetli.ch/) that would put us in the middle of the Bô Noël (Lausanne's Christmas market & light display in Old Town https://www.bo-noel.ch/en/). We had a tasty seasonal meal, drank delicious local wine, and made new friends with the friendly proprietors. I later realized that the restaurant was listed as one of the recommended favorites on Trip Advisor and in Rick Steves' book, so we were in good company. Love! Our beds were very comfortable and the soaking tub in the enormous bathroom was great for relieving the stress of the day. TV options included some BBC channels in English, so that was a relief after a week of French- and German-language everything straining our language-ignorant brains. We didn't use the contents of the refrigerated mini-bar, but I appreciated having a fridge to hold my dinner leftovers! We didn't use many amenities around the hotel, but we thoroughly enjoyed the self-served breakfast spread in the 1st-floor restaurant. Everyone (even the picky 5th grader) found something they liked. I personally gorged on lox, sausages, mushroom melange, ratatouille, assorted cheeses & bread, freshly soft-boiled eggs, fruit, and juice, plus plenty of expertly brewed coffee - all great fuel for a day of touring and travel. Reviewer W.R. was right, though. The opening/closing sounds of the doors for these rooms are very loud, and I could see being annoyed if the floor were fully rented with lots of coming & going at odd hours. I always bring heavy-duty earplugs when I travel, so noise wasn't an issue for me this time. I'd definitely return to this hotel for my next visit to Laussane, and if the season were summer, I'd ask for a room on the lakeside. Sunsets over the lake can be spectacular!

Hotel Mirabeau is an absolutely charming hotel with some of the best staff we've experienced in Switzerland. The front desk team was so welcoming and genuinely helpful. We travel here quite a bit to visit my husband's family (usually 4-6 weeks at a time) -- we find special hotels like this are not easy to come by and this one is a stand-out! We've stayed in Ouchy at some of the "higher end" hotels and although also extremely nice, we enjoyed being a little further outside the more touristy area to absorb real life in Lausanne. If you have time, try out Le Flon, easily reached by the nearby train station if you're w/out a car. Great atmosphere for dining, shopping and people watching (modern/urban outdoor setting). Also, do not be swayed by the hotel's Best Western affiliation. This is by no means like any BW in the United States.

In 30 different countries and countless hotels in the past 50 years this was one of the best. Check in and out went smooth and efficient as did dinner service. The room was clean, comfortable and spacious. The food in the dining room was cooked and presented perfectly

I stayed here for about three nights in July 2014. Pros: very friendly and helpful staff, nice breakfast, and a good location. Cons: the shower sucks-it's one of those fake shower doors that doesn't enclose the entire shower, so it's basically impossible to take one without flooding the entire bathroom. Another major con is that you can hear neighboring doors to easily-too much noise for a hotel at this price point. The White Noise app from my phone was the only attempted solution. The shower doors are a major drawback for me-I probably should only give one or two stars. For example, I don't think I can stay here again because of the shower. However, if not for the shower doors and noise inside, it would get five stars.