Boutique Hotel Weisses Kreuz - Adult only Hotel

The Boutique Hotel Weisses Kreuz is at Furrengasse 19, in the Old Town of Lucerne. The site of the house places it directly on the lively bank of the Reuss, next to the historic town hall, and presents it as the oldest boutique hotel in the historic centre, with over five hundred years of history: it is the oldest surviving inn in Lucerne and has carried its name since 1742. Booking gives Lucerne station at three hundred metres on foot, adds in the description two minutes on foot from the Chapel Bridge and five from the station, and reports that Lake Lucerne, the boat landing stages and the KKL are comfortably reachable on foot. The score is 8.2 over one thousand one hundred and eighty six reviews and the position is rated 9.6. The hotel is in a pedestrian area and satellite navigators do not bring you to the door.

On age the two sources say the same thing, and neither of them writes a number. Booking states in the children's conditions that children are not allowed and adds that no cots or extra beds are available. The site of the house is equally explicit and equally without figures: among the advantages for guests it lists the child free zone and writes that at the centre is the world of adults, a refuge without children and without animals that promises quiet in a lively setting. The booking engine of the house confirms the rule from the other side: the guest selector has only the number of people and the possibility of adding a room, with no counter for children. The eighteen years that can be read on Booking are the minimum age for check-in and not the rule of the hotel: the age in figures is not published by the property.

The rooms, Booking says, are modern and elegant, with a flat screen television with three hundred international satellite channels, a minibar, quality parquet floors and a free Nespresso coffee machine. The listing of the unit on sale adds the city view, the private bathroom with shower and toiletries, the safe, the fridge, the tea and coffee set, the radio, the heating, the hairdryer, the fan, the alarm clock, the desk, the wardrobe and the hypoallergenic room; the upper floors are reached by lift. The site also lists among the advantages the boxspring bed, the ceiling fan, sparkling and still water in the room and the minibar open twenty four hours at reception. There are four categories: single room, standard double, superior double and suite, and the site writes that the suite has a whirlpool tub.

The hotel restaurant offers classic Italian cooking and has a summer terrace; hotel guests receive a ten per cent discount both there and at the Restaurant Rathaus Brauerei. Breakfast is included in the rates sold on Booking and is described by the site as ample.

Two practical things. Arrival is from 14 to 23 and departure between 7 and 11; at check-in a photographic identity document and a credit card must be shown, and the time of arrival should be given in advance. Car spaces are available at a charge at Lucerne station. Pets are not allowed and for bookings of more than five rooms the property may apply different conditions and surcharges.