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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 spa.
The hotel is connected to central Zurich by road, and by the
The Dolder Grand Hotel & Curhaus was built between 1897 and 1899, to a design by the architect for the restaurateur Heinrich Hürlimann. Hürlimann had previously developed the nearby Dolder Waldhaus hotel, also designed by Gros, and the Dolderbahn to serve it. The Dolder Grand opened on 10 May 1899, and was extended in 1924 and 1964.
In 2001,
The Hotel Homepage
The Homepage of the owner, The Dolder Resort
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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 spa.
The hotel is connected to central Zurich by road, and by the Dolderbahn
The Dolderbahn (Db or DBZ) is a long rack railway in the Swiss city of Zürich. The line is in Zürich's Hottingen and Fluntern suburbs on the south slope of the Adlisberg mountain. The lower terminus of the line is at ''Römerhof'', some ...
rack railway, which has its upper terminus next to the hotel complex.
History
The Dolder Grand Hotel & Curhaus was built between 1897 and 1899, to a design by the architect for the restaurateur Heinrich Hürlimann. Hürlimann had previously developed the nearby Dolder Waldhaus hotel, also designed by Gros, and the Dolderbahn to serve it. The Dolder Grand opened on 10 May 1899, and was extended in 1924 and 1964.
In 2001, Urs Schwarzenbach
Urs Ernst Schwarzenbach, CStJ (born 1948) is a UK-based Swiss financier. In May 2020, the ''Sunday Times'' estimated his net worth at £978 million.
Early life
Urs Schwarzenbach was born in Thalwil in 1948, and raised in Küsnacht. He is ...
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
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As of December 2015, it had 21.9 million customers in Metropolitan France for mobile services, and provided 6.35 million households with high-spee ...
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.
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.
On 29 March 2019, Dolder Hotel AG announced that Dolder Grand guests could pay their bills with Bitcoin
Bitcoin ( abbreviation: BTC; sign: ₿) is a decentralized digital currency that can be transferred on the peer-to-peer bitcoin network. Bitcoin transactions are verified by network nodes through cryptography and recorded in a public distr ...
, making it the first Swiss luxury hotel to accept the cryptocurrency
A cryptocurrency, crypto-currency, or crypto is a digital currency designed to work as a medium of exchange through a computer network that is not reliant on any central authority, such as a government or bank, to uphold or maintain it. It i ...
as payment. The payment solution is provided and operated by Bitcoin Suisse, which converts Bitcoin into Swiss francs, thereby eliminating any currency risk for the hotel.
References
External links
The Hotel Homepage
The Homepage of the owner, The Dolder Resort
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