Name: Hotel Monopol
Address: 1 Pilatusstrasse 6003, Lucerne, CH
Price range: From $444

Hotel Monopol, LucerneHotel Monopol in Lucerne, Switzerland has a corrected score of 3.3 ± 0.6 (thin evidence, no platform scores), ranked 31 of 47 hotels we score in Lucerne. Its platform ratings, normalised to 0-5, average 4.3 before correction. Rooms from about $444 a night (cached, not a live quote).Hotel Monopol is a four-star hotel in central Lucerne, housed in a late nineteenth-century palace-style building. It stands directly beside the train station and the KKL Culture and Convention Centre, with Chapel Bridge, the lake and the old town two to three minutes away on foot. The 79 rooms are spacious and traditionally or modernly furnished, and guests have a terrace, café with free WiFi, restaurants, a bar and a business centre. Pets are welcome and parking is available. Reviews average 8.2, with staff friendliness and the daily buffet often praised. Rates start around $444 a night, which is above the hotel's typical average, and a basement disco can be noisy late at night.What stands out

Friendly, helpful staff

Clean, spacious, comfortable rooms

Well-regarded daily buffet

Steps from station and old town

Watch out for

Noisy basement disco late at night

Rates above the hotel's average

Better-scored in Lucerne

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Seehotel Hermitag, Lucerne: 3.9 ± 0.2 (fair evidence, 2 of 4 platforms), from $596 a night. Seehotel Hermitage is a small luxury hotel on the shores of Lake Lucerne, about 4 km from the city centre, with lake and Mount Pilatus views.

Waldhotel Buergenstock, Lucerne: 3.8 ± 0.3 (fair evidence, 2 of 4 platforms). The Waldhotel Bürgenstock is a five-star hotel standing around 500 metres above Lake Lucerne on the Bürgenberg mountain, within the wider Bürgenstock Resort.