{"id":157877,"date":"2023-09-27T11:05:58","date_gmt":"2023-09-27T09:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/?p=157877"},"modified":"2023-09-27T11:05:58","modified_gmt":"2023-09-27T09:05:58","slug":"mandarin-oriental-zurich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/en\/mandarin-oriental-zurich","title":{"rendered":"Mandarin Oriental: luxury and history in Zurich"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Mandarin Oriental Savoy will be welcoming its first guests to Zurich this winter. With this announced opening, the Asian luxury group, which has been established in Geneva since 2000 with the purchase of the H\u00f4tel du Rh\u00f4ne, will ensure that business travellers have an elegant base to call home. in Switzerland's two major business cities<\/strong>These are the gateways to the country, with their international airports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To make its entry into this key market, the luxury brand has found a prime location by moving into Zurich's oldest hotel, the Savoy Hotel Baur en Ville<\/strong>. A hotel with a long history that began in 1838 with an Austrian baker, Johannes Baur, who became a hotelier-restaurateur when he opened this establishment, which became a meeting place for high society, with Liszt, Mendelssohn and Bismarck among its guests. It was a success story that the businessman continued a few years later with a seaside counterpart, the Baur au Lac, a luxury palace that welcomed royalty and celebrities visiting Zurich. The hotel is still owned by Johannes Baur's descendants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n