The 5 Best Luxury Hotels in Luxembourg City

What our travel advisors arrange most often in Luxembourg is the walk through the Bock casemates – a system of galleries the Spanish and the Austrians drove into the rock over centuries, so extensive that it could never be entirely demolished.

Then: the Chemin de la Corniche, a path along the old city wall looking down into the Grund; the Grand Ducal Palace with its Flemish Renaissance façade; the Mudam on the Kirchberg, built into the remains of a fort; and the Moselle with its steep slopes, where Riesling, Elbling and Auxerrois become a crémant that hardly anyone outside the country knows.

And the cooking, which is German, French and Luxembourgish at once: Judd mat Gaardebounen, smoked pork neck with broad beans, the national dish; Bouneschlupp, the bean soup; Gromperekichelcher, potato fritters found at every market; and Rieslingspaschtéit, a pâté baked with the wine in it.

At all five hotels breakfast and an upgrade subject to availability are part of the stay. A welcome gift is added at the Sofitel Luxembourg Europe, the Sofitel Luxembourg Le Grand Ducal, the Luxembourg Marriott Hotel Alfa and the Villa Pétrusse Luxembourg, a late check-out at both Sofitels, the Luxembourg Marriott Hotel Alfa and the Le Royal Luxembourg.

Both Sofitels include a 100 US dollar hotel credit. And the Le Royal Luxembourg carries something almost no property does: ten per cent off in the hotel restaurant – drinks at the Amélys excepted.

And the reason this destination is on our list: hardly any other city spreads its hotels as evenly across town as this one. Tell us whether you want to sleep up top or down below – in Luxembourg that is a real question.