Hotel Alpina Luzern

Big win for convenience to train station and exploring the city. We had a nicely renovated room 3rd floor, with iron/board. First place in 3 weeks travel that had one. Balcony was good as rooms are now so overheated and allowed fresh air.

Very very small elevator to fit only one person with luggage. Charged twice for room and thankfully noticed immediately but took three days to be returned to account.

The hotel was very quiet and spacious

convenient as it’s near the train station

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All three of us, one couple and one single, had stayed at the Alpina before. While memories had faded in the intervening years, we remembered nothing to put us off. The location is great for the railway station, jetties for the lake boats and for the city generally. For Luzern, the prices are at economy level, but there are reasons for this.

The double room was adequate in size. The bathroom had a sliding glass door and a wall partly built of glass, the effect of which was to make it impossible to visit the bathroom in the night without disturbing one's partner. Our friend in the single had an en suite room, but no door to the bathroom. He said it felt somewhat like a prison cell because of this. We were staying during a heatwave. The double room had a portable air conditioner but the exhaust from this was routed out through a window, making it impossible to get in and out of bed on that side. Most of the staff were at least pleasant but one was surly and thoughtless.