Highly recommend this museum when you are visit Biel. Superb and clean museum. Every floor has…read morehistory of search or omega watches. I was extremely impressed by this Omega museum as it recently opened within the last few years. Gorgeous architecture and very modern. You can learn the history of omega and how their original time pieces have evolved throughout time. Plenty of mens and womens watches were on display. Even JFK watch was there. Also there's the Omega instrument from the moon and ended with 007 James Bond collection. Pretty cool!!! Another good bonus?!? Museum is free so come check it out!

If you are a fan of mechanical watches, this is a must when you visit Switzerland. It has only been…read moreopen for two months as of this writing, but is fantastic. The third floor is entirely Swatch and the second floor is all Omega. Both are excellent, but are for people of different tastes. The history of Omega is outlined beautifully throughout. It starts with a video of the history of time and clock-making in general. Then you enter the main Museum section with samples of virtually every time piece Omega ever made. Included with the tour is a red telephone-like device on which you can listen to the history by pushing numeric buttons associated with each case. You move chronologically through the displays - past the space walk and lunar landing displays - all the way through to the end where there are displays summarizing the Bond movies and their representative watches. There is a final presentation of the unique coaxial movement. A great experience for those who appreciate fine watchmaking.

We like the newly renovated Swisshôtel Kursaal. When we came here it was just 5 days open. They…read morehave renovated already 100 of the total of 171 rooms. As I understood they are using currently only the renovated rooms. Switzerland is still in the 2nd lockdown so the Casino is not open and restaurants are for hotel guests only. We had 2 really modern and beautiful rooms on the 4th floor - all new and unused ;-). The interior of the hotel is very welcoming and the staff is so friendly. They have a self parking - cost 26 Swiss Francs but you can leave the car the whole day after departure- so you can explore the beautiful old city of Bern (walking distance). We even got for free, the Bern Tickets valid for two days to use the public transportation system of Bern. Don't know if this was just because of the lockdown ...other point the Mini-Bar (limited selection but still a nice gesture) was for free too. They have 2 restaurants the Yu (Japanese buffet) and the Gardino. To attract people they do all March 2021 the "Chef at Kursaal" event Friday and Saturday night - where each time Gourmet Chefs are presenting a nice dinner in the Gardino restaurant in combination with a hotel room for one night. Its a great and innovative idea during lockdown and the food, staff was great. An extraordinary dinner experience under the given circumstances. Because it's a one time thing I will not explain the food in more detail (let the pictures dpeak for themselves). Just something to the wine menu. It's the wine list from Gardino, which was a former gourmet restaurant (under a different name) they are using up some of the wine for really good prices. We got a 2014 Silex (Pouilly-Fume) from Didier Dagueneau !!! for 140 Swiss Francs and a Le Pergole Torte 2014 (yes I know, the 2016 would have been even better but it was already out) for 107 Swiss Francs - which is very close to retail prices- you even will have some issues finding those wines in the retail infir this price level. So great thing hope they still have a lot of bottles left in the cellar. Overall such a great experience and we were fortunate.