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What $93 Million Can Do for a 185-Year Old Hotel
The Mandarin Oriental Savoy, Zurich is a curious reimagining of the iconic Baur en Ville—and now the city’s most intriguing new place to stay.
Mandarin Oriental Savoy, Zurich lit up for the holidays.
Source: Mandarin Oriental Savoy, Zurich
The older the historic hotel, the trickier the renovation. So goes the logic for hoteliers, who must carefully toe a line between super-subtle updates with deceptively high price tags and bolder changes that could anger devotees and preservation purists the world over.
That makes the Mandarin Oriental Savoy, Zurich—an 80 million Swiss franc ($93 million) reimagining of the 185-year-old Baur en Ville, the city’s first luxury hotel—an especially impressive undertaking.