Win A Weekend in A Swiss Design Hotel
Beatrice Lessi
How
It couldn’t be easier: just subscribe to the Hotels.com newsletter. Go to the competition’s page and leave your name and email address. That’s all!
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What You Win
You can win two nights, including breakfast, in a designer hotel, either on Lake Constance or in the Swiss Alps – the competition is open until the 25 September 2016, and the winner will be announced the 30 September 2016.
Where
Wellness Hotel Golf Panorama and Huus Gstaad Hotel are the two hotels you can win a stay in.
The Wellness Hotel Panorama offers panoramic views of the Swiss mountains and the golf course Lipperswil. At the back of the hotel, behind lush green hills, lies the Lake Constance. Contemporary design and Wellness complement the gorgeous location.
In a glorious Swiss Alp setting, instead, nestled amongst the rolling peaks of the Bernese Alps, The Huus Gstaad Hotel sunny hillside location boasts the best views in all of Gstaad. Recently reshaped by architect and designer Erik Nissen Johansen, a Norwegian visionary and artist, the hotel offers rich and warming chalet-style interiors.
The competition is open to all Swiss residents.
So what do you prefer, lakes or mountains?
10 Facts About Swiss Lakes And Mountains
Lakes
1.Switzerland has about 1500 lakes.
2.Switzerland holds 6% of Europe’s fresh water reserve, even though its land mass is only 0.4% of it.
3.40% of water originates from the melting of snow, and only 2% from the melting of glaciers.
4.The fresh water is so clean that you can drink out of rivers and lakes, at least from most of them.
Mountains
5. Swiss mountains cover 60% of Switzerland’s land area. If the country’s surface were flattened out, Switzerland would be 12.5% larger.
6. The highest railway station in Europe is in Switzerland, on top of the Jungfraujoch, at 3.454 meters.
7. The world’s longest railway tunnel is in Switzerland: the Gotthard Base Tunnel, 57.1 km long.
8. The world’s longest staircase is in the Bernese Alps: 11.674 steps leading to Mount Niesen.
9. Switzerland has nearly 5.000 cable cars, funiculars and ski lifts, and over 60.000 km of signposted hiking trails.
10. The Swiss are so clean, they even wash their tunnels! A special machine with huge brushes cleans the walls and ceiling of tunnels.
Good luck and let us know if you are the winner!
Top of Europe – Bea and Geri at Jungfraujoch
The most glamorous way to see the Swiss mountains? By helicopter.
Summer snow ball
Mountains, lake, a helicopter flight and high heels – does it get any better?
The most iconic Swiss mountain: the Matterhorn
Wellness Hotel Golf Panorama. Photo: golfpanorama.ch
Hotel Huus Gstaad. Photo: huusgstaad.ch
Typical Swiss – A walk on the lake.
Lushious grass and blue waters – the nature of Switzerland
Light breeze on a late summer day
The very special light you get on a lake
We can’t decide between lakes and mountains – hopefully we’ll keep visiting both all around Switzerland