Lausanne Hotel School:
Located in Lausanne, a beautiful city which lies on Lake Geneva in Western Switzerland, The Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne (EHL) is a leading hospitality school which is part of the University of Applied Sciences of Western Switzerland. EHL is an international, bilingual school, offering hotel management and hospitality programmes in both English and French. It provides the solid management education of a top business school while basing its programmes on its own unique educational philosophy: hospitality management as both a science and an art.
Situated to the North of the city near Epalignes on the Route de Berne (1), the campus is surrounded by forests, lakes and mountain trails, yet it is only a few minutes away from the lively university town of Lausanne and an hour away from the international city of Geneva. The School has excellent sports and leisure facilities with many other possibilities nearby for sports and recreation. EHL is different from other universities and the EHL campus is different from other campuses. It is an integrated learning space that provides the best possible learning conditions for the many different aspects of hospitality management.
Location and Facilities:
EHL is both a school, fully equipped to provide the best possible learning experience for its students - and a hotel, complete with restaurants, accommodation, conference and banqueting facilities, and a reception, to provide an extraordinary hospitality experience for students, employees and visitors.
The campus is a technologically rich learning space which provides optimal conditions for management studies. It is fully wireless: students all have their own individual laptops, installations are cutting-edge and an IT help-desk is available for on-going support. The School’s unique CyberHotel enables faculty and students to investigate the latest professional software applications.
It is also a purpose-built hotel complex which provides on-site access to professional hospitality experience throughout your studies.
It offers specialized learning facilities including a fully equipped wine laboratory and an extensive professional library. It also has a range of restaurant concepts which provide a real-world context for your studies and at the same time allows to discover and enjoy different culinary experiences every day.
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Directions / Instructions:
Air:
The nearest airport for Lausanne is Geneva Cointrin International Airport which conveniently has its own train station where you can travel directly to Lausanne in 43 minutes. It is also ideally situated alongside the motorway to Lausanne so you can drive by car in 35 minutes.
All the major car rental companies are situated in the airport arrival hall.
All major international airlines take off and land at Zurich Kloten International Airport, which is also served by an on-site station. This puts Zurich barely 2 hours 40 minutes away from Lausanne by train or 2 hours 15 minutes by car.
Basel and Bern also have their own international airports.
By metro and bus:
* From the train station you need to take the metro M2 (direction Croisettes) until the end station of Croisettes.
* From Croisettes you need to take the Bus "45" to EHL.
The ride from the train station to EHL will take approximately 30 minutes. The ride from Croisette to EHL will take 10 minutes.
Underground:
Lausanne is the only destination in the Lake Geneva Region to have an underground system (3 lines): the first one is the shortest underground line in the world and it covers the 1.8 kilometres between the port of Ouchy and the town centre.
Rail:
The TGV Lyria arrives in Lausanne from Paris, the TGV Sud-Est arrives in Geneva from Montpellier or Marseilles (Geneva–Lausanne > 34 minutes).
The Pau Casals takes you from Barcelona to Lausanne ICE trains link Hamburg, Berlin and Frankfurt to Basel (Basel-Lausanne > 2 hours 9 minutes).
The Pendolino links Lausanne with Milan or Rome.
Car:
To drive on motorways in Switzerland you need to have a sticker which is available for CHF40 at post offices, service stations and border controls. This sticker allows you to drive free of charge on all Swiss motorways until 31 January of the following year.
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