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Hotel Chaumont et Golf
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The Chaumont & Golf Hotel
is a modern hotel on the top of the mountain, Chaumont, behind
Neuchâtel. The hotel has a swimming pool, sauna, turkish
bath, solarium, piano bar, billiards, and tennis. Golf is ten minutes
away. Nice walks in the forest are minutes from your door. |
Eighty-eight rooms, suites
and apartments are priced for one or two occupancy and differ according
to high and low season. Room rates range from about CHF200 to CHF
600. Service and taxes are included in the price. Low season from
January to June, and September to December. Contact the hotel for exact dates. Rooms include
direct line telephone, satellite TV, radio with alarm, mini bar, hair
dryer. Some rooms have kitchenettes and balconies.
Two restaurants are on site. Also, down the hill and across the street
is the Petit
Hotel Restaurant a 'down home' restaurant serving
a limited menu including fondue, and also, delicious horse steak (and
other types of steak). The Petit Hotel Restaurant will give
you more of a 'Swiss' feel than what you would have in the modern
hotel restaurant. If the restaurant was on a major highway (which
it isn't) the Petit Hotel Restaurant would be a popular truck
stop.
The Chaumont and Golf Hotel is 10 minutes by bus from the Neuchâtel
train station (take bus number 7) or 13 minutes or more by funicular
(mountain cable car) and connecting bus. Parking at the hotel is free.
The hotel will also provide transportation to the train station. Be
sure to give them some advance notice. |
Wild Flowers
at Chaumont |
At an elevation of 1100 meters winters bring snow, but the road from the hotel and to Neuchâtel is well maintained. Downhill skiing is available within 15 minutes drive for easy slopes. Beginners to intermediate are about 20 minutes away. For real alpine skiing that will take your breath away and threaten life and limb you will have about a two hour drive.
A wide variety of wild flowers competes with grasses in surrounding fields in the spring. You can buy a book about Swiss wildflowers at the bookstore Peyot in downtown Neuchâtel or order the book on Amazon.com. |
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