Dolder Grand

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The Dolder Grand is a luxury hotel in Zurich, Switzerland. It sits on Adlisberg hill, about 2 kilometers from the city center and 200 meters above it. Opened in 1899, the hotel covers about 40,000 square metres and has 175 rooms and suites, two restaurants, a bar, 13 conference rooms and a 4,000-square-metre spa. It is connected to central Zurich by road and by the Dolderbahn rack railway, whose upper station is next to the hotel.

The Dolder Grand was built between 1897 and 1899, designed by Basel architect Jacques Gros for Heinrich Hürlimann, who also created the nearby Dolder Waldhaus and the Dolderbahn. It opened on 10 May 1899 and was enlarged in 1924 and 1964. In 2001, Urs Schwarzenbach became the main shareholder. The hotel closed for a major renovation in 2004 and reopened on 3 April 2008. The project, led by Norman Foster, cost CHF 440 million and kept the original 1899 look while removing later additions. Two new wings were added next to the old building, and two floors were added beneath it.

In May 2019, the Dolder Grand began accepting bitcoin, becoming the first Swiss luxury hotel to take cryptocurrency as payment.