Vevey has a limited, but high-quality, range of accommodation options. The pristine Swiss Backpackers Riviera Lodge hostel, 5 Place du Marché (021/923 80 40, fax 923 80 41, rivieralodge@bluewin.ch, www.rivieralodge.ch; a) has excellent dorms in the centre of town for Fr.25, while you can camp on the lakeside at either La Pichette (021/921 09 97, fax 925 53 35), 2km west of Vevey, or La Maladaire (021/944 31 37), 3km east of La Tour-de-Peilz. Of the hotels, Des Négociants, 27 Rue du Conseil (021/922 70 11, fax 921 34 24; b) and Hostellerie de Genève, 11 Place du Marché (021/921 45 77, fax 921 30 15; c) are both simple family-run places in the centre; while rustic De La Place, 5 Place du Temple in the nearby village of Corsier (phone & fax 021/921 12 87; b) is a building dating from 1692 overlooking Corsier’s ancient church on the slopes above Vevey, with spartan but thoroughly atmospheric rooms. At the top end of the scale, the heavenly Hôtel du Lac, 1 Rue d’Italie (021/921 10 41, fax 921 75 08; e) offers small-scale, understated grandeur, with inevitable associations with Anita Brookner; while Des Trois Couronnes, 49 Rue d’Italie (021/921 30 05, fax 922 72 80; g) – the original setting for Henry James’s Daisy Miller – retains all its period style, stuffy but utterly charming. Both lap up the lakeside panoramas.