Dolder Waldhaus, Kurhausstrasse 20, 8032 Zurich, phone +41 44 269 10 00, fax +41 44 269 10 01, mail reservations@dolderwaldhaus.ch. The Dolder Waldhaus is the four star sister hotel of Zurich's top luxury hotel Dolder Grand (closed for renovation), just one stop of their private railway below the Dolder Grand. Great views, friendly management and staff. Almost in the forest, perfect for joggers. Swimming pool, sauna, golf, minigolf, tennis, ice rink. The most family friendly hotel in Zurich with modern rooms, suites and apartments. This is the hotel we recommend if we are fully booked. Please have a look at their extremely attractive Gourmet Special!

The Suvretta House is the most British of St. Moritz hotels, with at the same time, a strict dress code, and a large, joyful nursery for guests' children. The managers, Vic and Helen Jacob, feel personally responsible for their guests happiness. Recommended.

View from the Suvretta House in St. Moritz.


The top resorts in Switzerland are St. Moritz, Gstaad and Klosters. Descent International will get you a roof. For last minute accomodation contact American Express Platinum Service.

The Interalpen-Hotel Tyrol is all about mountains, snow, clear air, good food, relaxing in the pool, sleeping well... It recommends itself to your health!

Interalpen - Hotel Tyrol; Dr.-Hans-Liebherr-Alpenstraße 1, A-6410 Telfs-Buchen. Phone +43 5262 606-0, fax +43 5262 606-190, reservation@interalpen.com.

The Hotel Waldhaus in Sils-Maria is a historic hotel located in a small village near St. Moriz. The Waldhaus is a well-run classic hotel palace with a splendid a view over Lake Sils. Definitely one of the most beautiful places to enjoy the snow. Phone +41 81 838 51 00 or mail@waldhaus-sils.ch.

The Waldhaus in Sils-Maria near St. Moritz

The Dining Hall at the Waldhaus in Sils-Maria

The Library at the Waldhaus in Sils-Maria

Club One Seven Phuket, in Patong, Phuket, Thailand. A small hotel run by great people.
The Koh Yao Island Resort, on Koh Yao Noi Island, Phang Nga, Thailand, has beautiful open villas for romance and love.

Hotel Kraft, Florence, Italy, (read more,) Webcam
Hotel Kraft in Wasserburg am Bodensee
Hotel Kraft, Munich, Germany
Kraft Hotel, Gundersheim, Germany
Hotel Krafft, Basel, Switzerland.

"Leaving Small's Hotel" a Novel by Eric Kraft

"Imagine, please, an island, a small one, not in some pellucid subtropical sea, but in a gray bay, shallow, often cold, and on the island imagine an old hotel, where an aging dreamer, Peter Leroy, lives with his beautiful wife, Albertine Gaudet.

Albertine runs the hotel, and Peter spends much of each day sitting in a room on the top floor, writing the Personal History, Adventures, Experiences & Observations of Peter Leroy, his life story.

If you could look over his shoulder and watch him at work, you would be likely to find that he was re-writing an episode from his past, making of his life a story that it never was, because when he reminisces he finds that he’s as interested in the possibilities as he is in the facts, and also because memory, like an old radio receiver, picks up a lot of static."

Review by Robin Nesbitt in the Library Journal, April 1, 1998

"Peter Leroy and his wife, Albertine, run a small hotel on an island near Babbington, Long Island. Peter, nearing age fifty, is reflecting on his life. The hotel business isn’t doing so well; there’s been a decrease in guests, and there isn’t enough money to fix the leaky roof or mend the cistern. Peter worries about his wife’s happiness, about getting older, and about his future. Albertine, who runs the hotel, creates an advertisement about Peter reading from his memoirs—one entry a day—leading up to his fiftieth birthday in the hopes of enticing more paying guests. Through the daily memoirs, we begin to hear stories about thirteen-year-old Peter and his friends. Peter talks about his crush on a neighbor woman and about his adult friend Porky White, owner of the Kap’n Klam restaurants. Past and present intermingle as we learn about the boy who became Peter Leroy. Kraft, who has written several other books about Peter (Little Follies, St. Martin’s, 1995), has created a beguiling tale of hope, friendship, memories, and love. Recommended for all fiction collections."

Eric Kraft's Website

The Sukhothai, Bangkok, Thailand.
Bangkok Marriott Resort & Spa, where your housekeeper Mai worked before joining the Palais Kraft team.
The Beverly Hills Hotel.