# Lucerne > Lucerne is a postcard with a working interior. The preserved bridges, lake and mountains create a near-perfect image, but the city becomes more interesting where that image is interrupted: French sociability beside the river, Italian addresses carried through generations and rooftops that turn the Alps into nightlife scenery. - Canonical HTML: https://jpthcorner.com/switzerland/lucerne - Markdown: https://jpthcorner.com/switzerland/lucerne.md - Destination type: city - Location: Switzerland - Publication state: published - Representation: canonical guide context and entry synopses. The published bespoke treatment below derives from the same canonical editorial layer. ## The working interior ## River, city, night. ### Riverfront and inherited rooms ### Brasserie Bodu *Riverfront sociability* - Canonical place ID: lucerne--brasserie-bodu - Canonical source: https://jpthcorner.com/switzerland/lucerne#place-lucerne--brasserie-bodu - Destination: Lucerne - Place type: restaurant - Publication status: published - Editorial status: unmarked Bodu borrows the density and sociability of a French brasserie and places it against one of Switzerland’s most composed riverfronts. It succeeds by resisting the expectation that every memorable Lucerne room must perform Alpine tradition. ### Li Tai Pe *Inherited room* - Canonical place ID: lucerne--li-tai-pe - Canonical source: https://jpthcorner.com/switzerland/lucerne#place-lucerne--li-tai-pe - Destination: Lucerne - Place type: restaurant - Publication status: published - Editorial status: unmarked Li Tai Pe belongs to an older European layer of Chinese dining: restaurants that became local through familiarity and longevity rather than through contemporary claims of regional authenticity. ### Osteria Tiglio *Social memory* - Canonical place ID: lucerne--osteria-tiglio - Canonical source: https://jpthcorner.com/switzerland/lucerne#place-lucerne--osteria-tiglio - Destination: Lucerne - Place type: restaurant - Publication status: published - Editorial status: unmarked Osteria Tiglio continues the Italian identity of a long-used Lucerne address, showing how restaurant spaces can retain social memory even as names and operators change. ### Contemporary Lucerne ### Ampersand *Contemporary Lucerne* - Canonical place ID: lucerne--ampersand - Canonical source: https://jpthcorner.com/switzerland/lucerne#place-lucerne--ampersand - Destination: Lucerne - Place type: restaurant - Publication status: published - Editorial status: unmarked Ampersand shifts the guide away from the preserved old town. It belongs to contemporary Lucerne: urban, direct and disconnected from the obligation to make every meal look toward a medieval bridge. ### Lucerne after dark ### Penthouse *After dark* - Canonical place ID: lucerne--penthouse - Canonical source: https://jpthcorner.com/switzerland/lucerne#place-lucerne--penthouse - Destination: Lucerne - Place type: bar - Publication status: published - Editorial status: unmarked Penthouse converts Lucerne’s geography into stage design. The mountains become backdrop, the hotel becomes vertical nightlife and the postcard city finally behaves like an evening destination. ## Places to know ### Lion Monument *monument* - Canonical place ID: lucerne--lion-monument - Canonical source: https://jpthcorner.com/switzerland/lucerne#place-lucerne--lion-monument - Destination: Lucerne - Place type: monument - Publication status: published - Editorial status: unmarked ### Sammlung Rosengart *museum* - Canonical place ID: lucerne--sammlung-rosengart - Canonical source: https://jpthcorner.com/switzerland/lucerne#place-lucerne--sammlung-rosengart - Destination: Lucerne - Place type: museum - Publication status: published - Editorial status: unmarked ### KKL Luzern *venue | Europaplatz 1* - Canonical place ID: lucerne--kkl-luzern - Canonical source: https://jpthcorner.com/switzerland/lucerne#place-lucerne--kkl-luzern - Destination: Lucerne - Place type: venue - Publication status: published - Editorial status: unmarked ### Mandarin Oriental Palace *hotel | Haldenstrasse 10* - Canonical place ID: lucerne--mandarin-oriental-palace - Canonical source: https://jpthcorner.com/switzerland/lucerne#place-lucerne--mandarin-oriental-palace - Destination: Lucerne - Place type: hotel - Publication status: published - Editorial status: unmarked ### Château Gütsch *hotel | Gütsch* - Canonical place ID: lucerne--chateau-gutsch - Canonical source: https://jpthcorner.com/switzerland/lucerne#place-lucerne--chateau-gutsch - Destination: Lucerne - Place type: hotel - Publication status: published - Editorial status: unmarked ### Hemingway Rum Lounge *bar | Hotel Montana* - Canonical place ID: lucerne--hemingway-rum-lounge - Canonical source: https://jpthcorner.com/switzerland/lucerne#place-lucerne--hemingway-rum-lounge - Destination: Lucerne - Place type: bar - Publication status: published - Editorial status: unmarked ### Mount Pilatus *natural-site* - Canonical place ID: lucerne--mount-pilatus - Canonical source: https://jpthcorner.com/switzerland/lucerne#place-lucerne--mount-pilatus - Destination: Lucerne - Place type: natural-site - Publication status: published - Editorial status: unmarked ### Bürgenstock *resort* - Canonical place ID: lucerne--burgenstock - Canonical source: https://jpthcorner.com/switzerland/lucerne#place-lucerne--burgenstock - Destination: Lucerne - Place type: resort - Publication status: published - Editorial status: unmarked ## Keep exploring - [Zurich](https://jpthcorner.com/switzerland/zurich) - [Crans-Montana](https://jpthcorner.com/switzerland/crans-montana) - [Switzerland](https://jpthcorner.com/switzerland) ## Published destination treatment - Editorial status: unmarked - Editorial placement: published - Chapter: top A guide to the centre, lake and mountain routes - Editorial status: unmarked - Editorial placement: published - Chapter: top ## Lucerne - Editorial status: unmarked - Editorial placement: published - Chapter: top Lucerne keeps the railway station, old town and lake within a few minutes of one another. Its boats and mountain railways extend the same compact logic far beyond the streets. - Editorial status: unmarked - Editorial placement: published - Chapter: top Walk first. KKL, Sammlung Rosengart, Kapellbrücke and the Reuss show how quickly the city fits together. Then let the transport system take over. It carries you from lunch beside the river to a hilltop drink, and from the lake pier to Pilatus or Bürgenstock. - Editorial status: unmarked - Editorial placement: published - Chapter: afternoon ### The first afternoon stays on foot - Editorial status: unmarked - Editorial placement: published - Chapter: afternoon ### Three stops in the centre - Editorial status: unmarked - Editorial placement: published - Chapter: afternoon A war memorial, a private art collection and a concert hall sit within a compact route. Together they explain more about Lucerne than another circuit of the old town. - Editorial status: unmarked - Editorial placement: published - Chapter: afternoon - Source anchor: #place-lucerne--lion-monument - Canonical place ID: lucerne--lion-monument ### Read the history before the crowd moves on - Editorial status: unmarked - Editorial placement: published - Chapter: afternoon - Source anchor: #place-lucerne--lion-monument - Canonical place ID: lucerne--lion-monument Karl Pfyffer von Altishofen commissioned the monument for fellow Swiss Guards killed while defending the Tuileries Palace in Paris on 10 August 1792. Bertel Thorvaldsen designed it; Lukas Ahorn carved the ten-by-six-metre lion directly into the sandstone cliff. - Editorial status: unmarked - Editorial placement: published - Chapter: afternoon - Source anchor: #place-lucerne--lion-monument - Canonical place ID: lucerne--lion-monument The dying animal turns mercenary service, loyalty and defeat into a public image of Swiss virtue. Around 1.4 million people visit each year, so the setting can disappear behind the crowd. Wait beside the pond after a group leaves and read the inscription, “Helvetiorum Fidei ac Virtuti”: to the loyalty and courage of the Swiss. - Editorial status: unmarked - Editorial placement: published - Chapter: afternoon - Source anchor: #place-lucerne--sammlung-rosengart - Canonical place ID: lucerne--sammlung-rosengart ### See Picasso and Klee at a human scale - Editorial status: unmarked - Editorial placement: published - Chapter: afternoon - Source anchor: #place-lucerne--sammlung-rosengart - Canonical place ID: lucerne--sammlung-rosengart Siegfried Rosengart and his daughter Angela assembled more than 300 works of Impressionism and Classical Modernism. The strongest holdings are unusually concentrated: 125 works by Paul Klee and a chronological Picasso presentation covering 1938 to 1969. - Editorial status: unmarked - Editorial placement: published - Chapter: afternoon - Source anchor: #place-lucerne--sammlung-rosengart - Canonical place ID: lucerne--sammlung-rosengart Picasso painted Angela Rosengart five times. Those portraits keep the collector visible inside the collection and give the museum its personal scale. Picasso occupies the ground floor, Klee the basement, and further modernists the first floor. Roger Diener converted the former 1924 Swiss National Bank building for the museum, which opened in 2002. - Editorial status: unmarked - Editorial placement: published - Chapter: afternoon - Source anchor: #place-lucerne--kkl-luzern - Canonical place ID: lucerne--kkl-luzern ### Walk through KKL even without a concert ticket - Editorial status: unmarked - Editorial placement: published - Chapter: afternoon - Source anchor: #place-lucerne--kkl-luzern - Canonical place ID: lucerne--kkl-luzern Jean Nouvel divided KKL into three parts with channels that carry lake water into the building. One wing holds the Concert Hall, another the Lucerne Hall, and the third the restaurants and Kunstmuseum. A single projecting roof gathers them at the shore. - Editorial status: unmarked - Editorial placement: published - Chapter: afternoon - Source anchor: #place-lucerne--kkl-luzern - Canonical place ID: lucerne--kkl-luzern The Concert Hall contains 24,000 plaster reliefs that scatter sound, adjustable echo chambers and a stage canopy used as a reflector. Its background noise measures only 18 decibels. Attend a concert when the programme allows. On any other day, enter for the Kunstmuseum and follow the water channels through the plan. - Editorial status: unmarked - Editorial placement: published - Chapter: tables ### Lunch and dinner in the centre - Editorial status: unmarked - Editorial placement: published - Chapter: tables ### Choose the room by the meal - Editorial status: unmarked - Editorial placement: published - Chapter: tables These four addresses serve different purposes: a long French lunch, an old Lucerne Chinese dining room, a short Italian menu and cooking over charcoal. - Editorial status: unmarked - Editorial placement: published - Chapter: tables - Source anchor: #place-lucerne--brasserie-bodu - Canonical place ID: lucerne--brasserie-bodu ### Order the entrecôte and stay for the Bordeaux - Editorial status: unmarked - Editorial placement: published - Chapter: tables - Source anchor: #place-lucerne--brasserie-bodu - Canonical place ID: lucerne--brasserie-bodu Brasserie Bodu serves French food beside the Reuss. Its best-known dish is entrecôte de Paris; bouillabaisse, fish, oysters from Brittany and seasonal ingredients such as Cavaillon asparagus and morels give the menu a wider range than the room first suggests. - Editorial status: unmarked - Editorial placement: published - Chapter: tables - Source anchor: #place-lucerne--brasserie-bodu - Canonical place ID: lucerne--brasserie-bodu Bordeaux drives the wine list, and the sommelier can handle the pairing. Continuous daytime service makes Bodu useful for a late lunch after the old town crowds have peaked. For a first visit, order the entrecôte and leave enough time for the meal to move at the brasserie’s pace. - Editorial status: unmarked - Editorial placement: published - Chapter: tables - Source anchor: #place-lucerne--li-tai-pe - Canonical place ID: lucerne--li-tai-pe ### Return to the lacquer-red room Lucerne kept - Editorial status: unmarked - Editorial placement: published - Chapter: tables - Source anchor: #place-lucerne--li-tai-pe - Canonical place ID: lucerne--li-tai-pe Li Tai Pe belongs to an earlier chapter of international Lucerne. Its red interior, carved details and broad Chinese menu have the confidence of a restaurant that developed its character before dining rooms began changing identity every few years. - Editorial status: unmarked - Editorial placement: published - Chapter: tables - Source anchor: #place-lucerne--li-tai-pe - Canonical place ID: lucerne--li-tai-pe Come for the room as well as the food. Families, celebrations and repeat dinners have given it a local history that a newer address cannot reproduce. The pleasure lies in its continuity: a Chinese restaurant that has remained recognizably itself while the polished city around it keeps being restored. - Editorial status: unmarked - Editorial placement: published - Chapter: tables - Source anchor: #place-lucerne--osteria-tiglio - Canonical place ID: lucerne--osteria-tiglio ### Let the short menu decide the meal - Editorial status: unmarked - Editorial placement: published - Chapter: tables - Source anchor: #place-lucerne--osteria-tiglio - Canonical place ID: lucerne--osteria-tiglio Tiglio works from a deliberately short menu: a handful of starters, several pastas, one meat dish, one fish dish and desserts. The food is made by hand and the selection changes with the season. The narrow choice asks you to trust the kitchen’s judgment. - Editorial status: unmarked - Editorial placement: published - Chapter: tables - Source anchor: #place-lucerne--osteria-tiglio - Canonical place ID: lucerne--osteria-tiglio The address has carried Italian cooking through changes of name and operator, giving the present Osteria a history longer than its current identity. Choose Tiglio for a quiet dinner and allow the pasta, the daily dishes and the people running the room to set the pace. - Editorial status: unmarked - Editorial placement: published - Chapter: tables - Source anchor: #place-lucerne--ampersand - Canonical place ID: lucerne--ampersand ### The charcoal grill sets the menu - Editorial status: unmarked - Editorial placement: published - Chapter: tables - Source anchor: #place-lucerne--ampersand - Canonical place ID: lucerne--ampersand Ampersand cooks over an open charcoal grill in Lucerne’s new town. Beef, chicken and sharing platters carry the menu, with recurring specials built around the same live-fire kitchen. The grill organizes both the kitchen and the meal. - Editorial status: unmarked - Editorial placement: published - Chapter: tables - Source anchor: #place-lucerne--ampersand - Canonical place ID: lucerne--ampersand This is the practical group dinner in the guide. Order across the grill, share sides and use the bar if people arrive at different times. A cigar lounge adjoins the restaurant for anyone who wants to extend the evening in that direction. - Editorial status: unmarked - Editorial placement: published - Chapter: stay ### The principal stay beside the lake - Editorial status: unmarked - Editorial placement: published - Chapter: stay ### Stay at the Palace - Editorial status: unmarked - Editorial placement: published - Chapter: stay The Mandarin Oriental Palace places the lake outside the windows and Lucerne’s promenade at the door. This is the city’s complete grand-hotel experience. - Editorial status: unmarked - Editorial placement: published - Chapter: stay - Source anchor: #place-lucerne--mandarin-oriental-palace - Canonical place ID: lucerne--mandarin-oriental-palace ### Wake beside the lake in Lucerne’s restored grand hotel - Editorial status: unmarked - Editorial placement: published - Chapter: stay - Source anchor: #place-lucerne--mandarin-oriental-palace - Canonical place ID: lucerne--mandarin-oriental-palace Franz Josef Bucher built the Palace Hotel on the lakeshore in 1906. It reopened as Mandarin Oriental Palace in 2022 after a restoration that retained the Belle Époque façade and surviving rooms such as Salon Alpine. Contemporary rooms now sit inside that historic shell, with the strongest ones facing across the water toward the mountains. - Editorial status: unmarked - Editorial placement: published - Chapter: stay - Source anchor: #place-lucerne--mandarin-oriental-palace - Canonical place ID: lucerne--mandarin-oriental-palace Stay here when the lake should remain part of the day after returning to the hotel. The promenade begins outside, boats move across the view and the old town remains within an easy walk. The Palace works because its scale never separates it from Lucerne: breakfast, the room and the evening light all keep the city and water close. - Editorial status: unmarked - Editorial placement: published - Chapter: evening ### Three places that use the view differently - Editorial status: unmarked - Editorial placement: published - Chapter: evening ### Drink above the roofs - Editorial status: unmarked - Editorial placement: published - Chapter: evening Gütsch, the Montana and the Astoria place their bars at three different heights. The choice depends on whether you want a measured cocktail, a cigar with rum or a later rooftop evening. - Editorial status: unmarked - Editorial placement: published - Chapter: evening - Source anchor: #place-lucerne--chateau-gutsch - Canonical place ID: lucerne--chateau-gutsch ### Ride the funicular up for one drink - Editorial status: unmarked - Editorial placement: published - Chapter: evening - Source anchor: #place-lucerne--chateau-gutsch - Canonical place ID: lucerne--chateau-gutsch The Gütsch funicular covers 170 metres of track and rises 90 metres in about a minute and a half. That short ascent is enough to pull the hotel away from the centre and open the view across the roofs, lake and mountains. - Editorial status: unmarked - Editorial placement: published - Chapter: evening - Source anchor: #place-lucerne--chateau-gutsch - Canonical place ID: lucerne--chateau-gutsch The American Bar opens from noon, and Restaurant Lumières serves a Swiss and Mediterranean menu. Use the bar for a single cocktail around sunset. Keep the visit to that drink unless you have booked Lumières for dinner. - Editorial status: unmarked - Editorial placement: published - Chapter: evening - Source anchor: #place-lucerne--hemingway-rum-lounge - Canonical place ID: lucerne--hemingway-rum-lounge ### Choose this room only if cigar smoke belongs in the evening - Editorial status: unmarked - Editorial placement: published - Chapter: evening - Source anchor: #place-lucerne--hemingway-rum-lounge - Canonical place ID: lucerne--hemingway-rum-lounge The Hemingway lounge holds more than 60 rums from Central and South America, alongside a house bottling called Finest Montana Rum. It sits inside the Art Deco Hotel Montana and still looks across Lake Lucerne, despite the close, dark interior. - Editorial status: unmarked - Editorial placement: published - Chapter: evening - Source anchor: #place-lucerne--hemingway-rum-lounge - Canonical place ID: lucerne--hemingway-rum-lounge This is a fumoir, and cigar smoke is part of the room. Anyone who dislikes smoke should choose another bar. Rum drinkers who accept that condition will find the guide’s most focused drinks list here; the lounge stays open later on Friday and Saturday. - Editorial status: unmarked - Editorial placement: published - Chapter: evening - Source anchor: #place-lucerne--penthouse - Canonical place ID: lucerne--penthouse ### Use the eighth floor for the later evening - Editorial status: unmarked - Editorial placement: published - Chapter: evening - Source anchor: #place-lucerne--penthouse - Canonical place ID: lucerne--penthouse Penthouse occupies the eighth floor of Hotel Astoria, with a rooftop terrace facing Lucerne and the Alps. The bar menu covers classic drinks, newer cocktails and aperitif variations, so the place works before dinner as well as later at night. - Editorial status: unmarked - Editorial placement: published - Chapter: evening - Source anchor: #place-lucerne--penthouse - Canonical place ID: lucerne--penthouse Friday and Saturday hours run until 3:30 in the morning, much later than the other bars in this guide. Arrive after the first drink elsewhere, reserve a table when the terrace matters and treat the view as part of a working late-night bar. - Editorial status: unmarked - Editorial placement: published - Chapter: expeditions Two full-day routes from Lucerne - Editorial status: unmarked - Editorial placement: published - Chapter: expeditions ### The city continues by boat and rail - Editorial status: unmarked - Editorial placement: published - Chapter: expeditions Pilatus puts the mountain first. Bürgenstock leads to a resort and a cliff path. Both journeys begin close to the railway station and depend on their timetables. - Editorial status: unmarked - Editorial placement: published - Chapter: expeditions - Source anchor: #place-lucerne--mount-pilatus - Canonical place ID: lucerne--mount-pilatus ### Climb by cableway, descend by train and come home across the lake - Editorial status: unmarked - Editorial placement: published - Chapter: expeditions - Source anchor: #place-lucerne--mount-pilatus - Canonical place ID: lucerne--mount-pilatus #### Start in Kriens and save the lake for the return. - Editorial status: unmarked - Editorial placement: published - Chapter: expeditions - Source anchor: #place-lucerne--mount-pilatus - Canonical place ID: lucerne--mount-pilatus Take bus 1 from Lucerne station to Kriens, then walk five to ten minutes to the valley station. Panorama gondolas rise through Krienseregg to Fräkmüntegg, where the aerial cableway takes over for the final climb to Pilatus Kulm. This direction lets the landscape build gradually: the city falls away, the forest closes around the gondola and the bare rock finally fills the windows. - Editorial status: unmarked - Editorial placement: published - Chapter: expeditions - Source anchor: #place-lucerne--mount-pilatus - Canonical place ID: lucerne--mount-pilatus #### Give the summit enough time to feel its scale. - Editorial status: unmarked - Editorial placement: published - Chapter: expeditions - Source anchor: #place-lucerne--mount-pilatus - Canonical place ID: lucerne--mount-pilatus At 2,128 metres, Lake Lucerne breaks into long blue arms below the ridge and the Alps run across the horizon. The Oberhaupt viewpoint takes about ten minutes, the Dragon Path about twenty and the Esel around thirty. The flower trail to Tomlishorn, the highest point in the Pilatus range, needs roughly ninety minutes. Restaurant Bellevue is useful for a quick Swiss lunch with the view; Restaurant Pilatus-Kulm has served guests in its historic rooms since 1890. - Editorial status: unmarked - Editorial placement: published - Chapter: expeditions - Source anchor: #place-lucerne--mount-pilatus - Canonical place ID: lucerne--mount-pilatus #### Take the cogwheel railway down through the rock. - Editorial status: unmarked - Editorial placement: published - Chapter: expeditions - Source anchor: #place-lucerne--mount-pilatus - Canonical place ID: lucerne--mount-pilatus The descent to Alpnachstad lasts about thirty-three minutes and drops 1,635 metres over 4.6 kilometres. The line reaches a gradient of 48 percent, held by Eduard Locher's system of horizontal cogwheels gripping both sides of a central rack. It has worked here since 1889. The carriage moves from exposed stone to alpine meadow with almost no pause between them. Reserve a seat on clear, busy days; this train is the mechanical and visual climax of the route. - Editorial status: unmarked - Editorial placement: published - Chapter: expeditions - Source anchor: #place-lucerne--mount-pilatus - Canonical place ID: lucerne--mount-pilatus #### Finish the day on the water. - Editorial status: unmarked - Editorial placement: published - Chapter: expeditions - Source anchor: #place-lucerne--mount-pilatus - Canonical place ID: lucerne--mount-pilatus An underground passage links the railway with the landing stage at Alpnachstad. From there, the boat crosses the lake and returns to the pier opposite Lucerne station. Mountains that felt severe at the summit settle back into the city's skyline as the boat approaches. The complete Golden Round Trip runs in the warmer months, generally from May to October. Check the boat and railway timetables together, and carry a warm, windproof layer even when Lucerne feels mild. - Editorial status: unmarked - Editorial placement: published - Chapter: expeditions - Source anchor: #place-lucerne--burgenstock - Canonical place ID: lucerne--burgenstock ### Cross the lake, climb into the resort and stay for its second act - Editorial status: unmarked - Editorial placement: published - Chapter: expeditions - Source anchor: #place-lucerne--burgenstock - Canonical place ID: lucerne--burgenstock #### Let the boat and funicular stage the arrival. - Editorial status: unmarked - Editorial placement: published - Chapter: expeditions - Source anchor: #place-lucerne--burgenstock - Canonical place ID: lucerne--burgenstock The catamaran leaves beside Lucerne station and reaches Kehrsiten-Bürgenstock in about twenty-five minutes. The city recedes across the water before a vintage funicular climbs 500 metres from the landing stage to the ridge. Lake, railway and hotel appear as one continuous piece of theatre. Sit where you can see the shore on the boat, then move to the lower side of the funicular for the widening view behind the carriage. - Editorial status: unmarked - Editorial placement: published - Chapter: expeditions - Source anchor: #place-lucerne--burgenstock - Canonical place ID: lucerne--burgenstock #### Read the resort as a small town on the ridge. - Editorial status: unmarked - Editorial placement: published - Chapter: expeditions - Source anchor: #place-lucerne--burgenstock - Canonical place ID: lucerne--burgenstock Bürgenstock has occupied this improbable position since 1873. Its sixty hectares hold grand old buildings, sharp contemporary wings, wooded paths, restaurants and a spa suspended above Lake Lucerne. The mix gives the place its particular coolness. A polished hotel corridor can open onto a century-old terrace, then onto a path where the lake is suddenly 500 metres below. Few resorts make the journey, architecture and landscape feel so completely joined. - Editorial status: unmarked - Editorial placement: published - Chapter: expeditions - Source anchor: #place-lucerne--burgenstock - Canonical place ID: lucerne--burgenstock #### Choose between warm water, cigar smoke and the cliff edge. - Editorial status: unmarked - Editorial placement: published - Chapter: expeditions - Source anchor: #place-lucerne--burgenstock - Canonical place ID: lucerne--burgenstock A booked day-spa visit opens the 10,000-square-metre Alpine Spa, with indoor and outdoor pools, saunas, a hammam and the infinity pool facing Pilatus and the lake. The Lakeview Bar & Cigar Lounge offers a slower indoor version of the same panorama with cocktails, afternoon tea and cigars. In dry weather, take the Felsenweg toward the Hammetschwand Lift. The outdoor lift rises 153 metres in about a minute and operates only when conditions allow. - Editorial status: unmarked - Editorial placement: published - Chapter: expeditions - Source anchor: #place-lucerne--burgenstock - Canonical place ID: lucerne--burgenstock #### Stay for a meal after the day visitors begin to leave. - Editorial status: unmarked - Editorial placement: published - Chapter: expeditions - Source anchor: #place-lucerne--burgenstock - Canonical place ID: lucerne--burgenstock Spices Kitchen & Terrace moves among Japanese, Chinese, Indian and Thai cooking with the lake spread beyond the glass. Parisa gives the evening a richer Persian table, while Verbena suits a lighter meal. The Lakeview Bar works for one final drink when dinner would make the return too tight. Reserve the spa and the restaurant in advance, then check the last boat and funicular as a pair. The resort feels most singular when there is time to watch it change from bright terrace to lit windows above a dark lake.