The Portrait
Rue Philippe-Plantamour runs one street back from the right bank of the lake, opposite the old grand hotels, and the Jet d’Eau is about 150 metres away. The station is 600 metres, which in Geneva means you can arrive from the airport by train and walk the rest. For a city where everything worth reaching is on the water, that is the correct address.
The apartments run from a one-bedroom of 50 square metres up to a three-bedroom of 150 — 538 to 1,615 square feet — with a two-bedroom of 100 in between. Housekeeping is daily, the concierge is around the clock, and the laundry is unlimited and included, which is the detail that changes a month-long stay more than any piece of furniture. Breakfast can be brought up for 45 CHF a person.
No nightly figure is published on the house’s own site. For a stay of a fortnight or more the address asks you to write for its own terms, so ask for the long-stay rate rather than the nightly one.
Who it suits: a working stay in Geneva of two weeks or a season, or a family who need three bedrooms within walking distance of the lake and the station.
Written by the Selloua editors from the address’s own published facts. Nothing in this entry was paid for.