If you love unspoiled rural landscapes, enjoy a sense of history and prefer to stay at places with character rather than at cookie-cutter hotel chains, Kloster Kappel has your name on it! It's located on a secondary highway from Zug/Cham to Zurich, west of the Albis, and you cannot miss the large monastic complex. However, don't expect any signs about... More

AbouIt an hour out of Zurich is this renovated monastery. The attached church is still active and on Wed. night there is singing. It was hard to figure out where the registration/lobby was. I had a single room which turned out to be a double room facing south to the Alps. From my bed, through the windows I could see... More

I stayed at the Kloster Kappel for two nights. It's an old monastery and there is lots of history. There are rooms looking down the valley and other rooms facing the courtyard. The view down the valley is great but the bells of the cows keeps you from sleeping. The courtyard rooms are more convenient for that matter, very quiet... More