Dolder Grand Explained

The Dolder Grand (formerly known as Grand Hotel Dolder) is a 5 star superior hotel in the Swiss city of Zürich. It is located on Adlisberg hill, some from, and above, the city centre. Built in 1899, the hotel spreads out over and offers 173 rooms and suites, two restaurants, a bar, 13 conference rooms and a 4000m² spa.^{[1] [2] [3]}

The hotel is connected to central Zurich by road, and by the Dolderbahn rack railway, which has its upper terminus next to the hotel complex.^{[1] [3] [4]}

History

The Dolder Grand Hotel & Curhaus was built between 1897 and 1899, to a design by the architect Jacques Gros from Basel for the restaurateur Heinrich Hürlimann. Hürlimann had previously developed the nearby Dolder Waldhaus hotel, also designed by Gros, and the Dolderbahn to serve it.^[5] The Dolder Grand opened on 10 May 1899, and was extended in 1924 and 1964.^{[6] [7]}

In 2001, Urs Schwarzenbach became the majority shareholder, and in 2004 the hotel closed for an extensive renovation, reopening on 3 April 2008. The renovation and enlargement were led by Norman Foster and cost SFr 440 million. The restoration maintained the original appearance from 1899, and all the extensions added after that date were demolished. Two new wings were added, adjacent to the old building, whilst two additional floors were added below the existing building.^{[2] [6] [8]}

Before the hotel opened for guests, it had free open days when the public could visit the hotel on predefined paths. The people were waiting up to an hour to enter the new rooms.^[9]

On 29 March 2019, Dolder Hotel AG announced that Dolder Grand guests could pay their bills with Bitcoin, making it the first Swiss luxury hotel to accept the cryptocurrency as payment.^[10]

External links

• The Hotel Homepage
• The Homepage of the owner, The Dolder Resort

Notes and References

1. News: The Dolder Grand, Zurich, Switzerland . The Telegraph . John . O'Ceallaigh . 18 November 2015 . 13 June 2017 . 13 June 2017 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20170613134058/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/switzerland/zurich/hotels/the-dolder-grand/.
2. Web site: Urs Schwarzenbach – He renovated the famous Grand Hotel Dolder of Zurich . Hotelresortinsider.com . 4 October 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20151005030828/http://www.hotelresortinsider.com/news_story.php?news_id=133864&cat_id=9 . 5 October 2015 . dead .
3. Dolder . 225 – Zürich . https://shop.swisstopo.admin.ch/en/products/maps/national/lk50?layer=ch.swisstopo.landeskarte50_papier.metadata&product=225&productIdentifier=225&childGroupIdentifier=lk50eb# . 1:50'000 . National Map 1:50'000 . 2017 . 2013 . . Wabern, Switzerland . 978-3-302-00225-5 . map.geo.admin.ch . 15 July 2017.
4. Web site: Directions – The Dolder Grand . Dolder Hotel AG . 13 June 2017 . 13 June 2017 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20170613094504/https://www.thedoldergrand.com/en/directions/.
5. Web site: Discover the moving history of the Dolder Grand in Zurich . 2023-12-11 . The Dolder Grand . en-US.
6. Web site: History – The Dolder Grand . Dolder Hotel AG . 13 June 2017 . 13 June 2017 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20170613092841/https://www.thedoldergrand.com/en/experience/portrait/geschichte/.
7. News: Luxus im Luftkurort Zürich . de . Luxury in the air cure Zürich . Neue Zürcher Zeitung . 16 March 2008 . 22 June 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170622150513/https://www.nzz.ch/luxus_im_luftkurort_zuerich-1.689870 . 22 June 2017 . live.
8. Web site: Innige Umarmung und enges Korsett . https://archive.today/20120912175932/http://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/dyn/news/zuerich/855083.html . dead . 12 September 2012 . Tages-Anzeiger . 30 March 2008.
9. Web site: 20 Minuten – Ansturm auf das Dolder Grand – Zuerich . 20 Minuten . 30 March 2008 . 1 April 2008 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080401065036/http://www.20min.ch/news/zuerich/story/25173556.
10. Web site: The Dolder Grand Hotel accepts payments in Bitcoin with new inapay app . www.presseportal-schweiz.ch . 3 April 2019 . de . 29 March 2019.