Profile: Switzerland's Burgenstock Hotel

This five-star Swiss resort sits 1,600 feet above Lake Lucerne.

The Bürgenstock Hotel & Alpine Spa offers 102 luxurious suites and seven dining facilities with impressive lake or mountain views. The hotel’s conference center boasts 23,680 square feet and contains 21 breakout rooms. The Piazza area is 16,145 square feet. Activities include hiking, skiing, biking, tennis and ice skating.

• Private, funicular railway transports guests from Lucerne to the hotel
• Eight-hour, 23-minute flight from New York City
• One-hour drive from Zürich Airport
• Private pre-Alpine nine-hole golf course
• Steamboat tours on Lake Lucerne
• Alpine Spa on cliff over Lake Lucerne