Plan the Week She’ll Remember
The team will draft a full itinerary — car, hotels, restaurants, delivery — for your dates. No commitment until you both say yes.
The Porsche 911 Turbo S Cabriolet combines uncompromising performance with exclusive driving comfort—and truly comes into its own on Switzerland’s most beautiful roads. Experience how German engineering and Swiss luxury merge to create a driving experience that stirs the emotions and meets the highest standards.
Twenty years from now, she will remember the silver convertible parked on the lakeside terrace at the Grand Hotel Tremezzo. She will remember the morning light on the bonnet, the way the doorman tilted his head when you pulled up, the sound the engine made when you started it at six to drive into Bellagio before the village woke up. She will not remember the room rate.
That is what this trip becomes — and that is what the Porsche 911 Turbo S Convertible experience is built around. Not a road test. Not a horsepower number. A week away with the person who matters, in a car that knows how to be present without being loud, in a country that has spent two hundred years perfecting the art of taking care of guests who arrive in something interesting.
She doesn’t know yet. Or she knows you’re planning something but hasn’t seen the brief. This is the brief.
There are louder cars. There are faster cars on paper. The Porsche 911 Turbo S Convertible is neither — and that is precisely the point. For a week with the person you have built a life with, the brief is different. You want presence without showmanship. You want the kind of car that the valet at the Eden Roc handles a hundred times a season and parks under the porte-cochère because he knows the morning photograph should be in the shade.
The shape has been refined for sixty years. From across the hotel forecourt, the 911 reads as a 911 — which is to say, it reads as a car that people who know cars take seriously. There is no spectacle. There is recognition. That is a different kind of luxury, and it travels better through Switzerland than a car that demands attention every time you stop for fuel.
Under the bonnet — or rather, behind you — sits a 3.7-litre flat-six with twin turbochargers producing around 650 horsepower. Top down, on a fast straight between Andermatt and Realp, the sound is unmistakable. Roof up at 130 km/h on the autobahn between Zürich and Munich, the cabin is quiet enough to talk.
The all-wheel-drive system is what makes the convertible the right choice rather than the coupé. Switzerland’s weather changes between valleys. A morning on the Julier can begin in sunshine at Tiefencastel and finish in cloud on the pass. The Turbo S handles the transition without drama — and so do you, because you do not have to think about whether the car will. For couples who have read about how the Turbo S handles a Swiss road trip, this is the reassurance that makes the trip possible.
The driving roads will get the column-inches in the car magazines. For this trip, they are the way you get from one good evening to the next. Here are three that work.
Zürich to Lake Como via the Susten Pass
Three days, perhaps four. You collect the car at the Park Hyatt Zürich in the morning, take the Susten and the Gotthard south, lunch in Lugano, and arrive at the Grand Hotel Tremezzo in time for an aperitif on the terrace. The next morning you drive the western shore to Bellagio while the lake is still glass. The car becomes part of the rhythm — never the point of the day, always present for it.
Zürich to St. Moritz via the Julier Pass
A shorter, more concentrated trip. Pick up the car, drive to Chur for an early lunch, then take the Julier south into the Engadine. By late afternoon you are at Badrutt’s Palace, the car parked under cover, the bags already in the suite. The Julier itself is the kind of pass the 911 was made for — long, fast sweepers rather than tight hairpins, altitude that the turbocharged engine handles without complaint.
The third option is gentler still: Geneva along the Rhône valley to Crans-Montana or Verbier, with a detour through the Col de la Forclaz toward Chamonix if the mood calls for it. Less driving, more lingering. If you are weighing which Swiss routes pair best with an open-top 911, the team can build a week around any of these, including hotel reservations, dinner bookings, and a return delivery to a different city than the collection point.
You can stay anywhere with a Turbo S in the parking lot. The point of this trip is staying somewhere that handles the arrival properly. A handful of Swiss and Italian hotels have decades of practice with cars like this — they know to park you under cover, they know not to ask for the keys for valet trips into the village, and they know that the photograph in front of the porte-cochère is part of the experience.
In St. Moritz, Badrutt’s Palace and the Kulm both have covered parking and staff accustomed to supercars during the season. In Andermatt, The Chedi has an underground garage that handles a 911 without ceremony. The Victoria-Jungfrau in Interlaken parks long-bonnet cars on the gravel forecourt where the photograph works best at golden hour.
On the Italian side, the Grand Hotel Tremezzo on Lake Como has the lakeside terrace that has photographed a thousand 911s over the years — and they treat the thousand-and-first the same way. The Hotel Splendide Royal in Lugano sits on the lake and has parking that does not require you to walk five minutes through the rain. In Geneva, the Beau-Rivage and the Hotel des Bergues both park guest cars under the porte-cochère by request. The Eden Roc in Ascona, in the warmer months, is the closest thing Switzerland has to a Côte d’Azur villa hotel — and the staff treat the car accordingly.
You are not bringing the car to the hotel. The hotel is part of the trip the car makes possible.
The reason you book a Porsche 911 Turbo S Convertible through Edel & Stark rather than through any other route is that the trip stops being a logistical project. We deliver the car to the address you specify — your home in Zug, your suite at the Dolder Grand, the private terminal at Zürich Airport — at the time you specify. The handover is unhurried. A team member walks you through the controls, pairs your phone, sets up the seat memory for both of you, and loads the route into the navigation if you have already shared it. He leaves. The trip begins.
During the week, you reach the team by WhatsApp. If you decide on day three that you want to extend by two nights, that is a conversation, not a renegotiation. If the weather closes in on the Julier and you want to reroute through the Albula, the team can suggest alternative hotels with availability. If something on the car needs attention — a stone chip in the windscreen, a warning light — the team handles it. You do not.
Collection is the same in reverse. If you started in Zürich and want to finish in Lugano, fly home from Milano Malpensa, and leave the car behind, that is arranged in advance. No paperwork at the end of the trip. The team takes the keys at the address you specify, hands you a coffee, and that’s the close.
For couples who would normally compare a 911 against an Italian rival, the calculus is genuinely different on this trip. Some readers consider the Porsche against a Ferrari F8 Spider for Swiss touring, and the answer is usually a question of register. The F8 is theatre. The 911 is dialogue. For an anniversary week, dialogue tends to wear better.
The Porsche 911 Turbo S Convertible is the most-requested car in the convertible category between May and September, and demand peaks twice a year — for the early-summer Lake Como season and for the late-summer Engadine window in August and early September. For a specific week with delivery to a specific hotel, eight to twelve weeks ahead is the comfortable lead time. Inside four weeks, the car is often still available, but the choice of colour and the specific delivery window narrow.
When you reach out, the useful details to share are these: the dates, the city of arrival, the city of departure (if different), the hotels you are considering, and any anniversary-day specifics — whether you want the car waiting at a particular restaurant after dinner, whether you want it photographed somewhere in advance, whether the moment matters more than the mileage. The team in Olten will draft the trip around those answers.
Rates vary with season, duration, and country — the team will send a tailored quote for your specific week. The car can be paired with other luxury vehicles for hire in Switzerland if you want, for example, a chauffeur-driven Mercedes V-Class to follow with the luggage between hotels, or a different car for the airport transfer at either end.
When you are ready — when she has said yes, or when you are sure enough to ask — send the team a note with your dates. Within twenty-four hours, you will have a proposal back. The proposal is the brief. The brief becomes the week. The week becomes the photograph she keeps on the dresser.
It strikes the rarest balance in the luxury convertible category: presence without ostentation. The 911 silhouette is recognised by everyone who matters and overlooked by everyone who doesn’t, which is the right register for an anniversary or private celebration. The 650-horsepower flat-six and all-wheel-drive system handle Swiss weather and Swiss passes without drama, so you focus on the trip rather than the car. The cabin is quiet enough for conversation at autobahn speeds and dramatic enough with the roof down on the Susten. For couples who want the drive to be part of the memory without being the whole subject, no other car gets the balance as right.
Yes — direct delivery is standard, not an upgrade. Edel & Stark brings the car to your hotel forecourt, your private address, or the airport at the time you specify. A team member meets you, walks through the controls, pairs your phone, and sets the seat memory for both drivers if needed. The route can be pre-loaded into the navigation. Common delivery cities include Zürich, Geneva, Lugano, St. Moritz, Andermatt, and Interlaken, but the team handles any address across Switzerland. Collection at the end of your trip can be at a different city — the keys are handed back wherever is most convenient for your onward travel.
It was effectively designed for the brief. The cabin seats two in comfort over long distances, with adaptive sport seats that work as well after six hours as after thirty minutes. The boot under the bonnet holds two soft weekend bags or one large case; for longer trips, the team can arrange a follow-on vehicle for luggage. All-wheel drive and rear-axle steering make alpine passes — Susten, Julier, Furka, Grimsel — confidence-inspiring at any pace. The twelve-second roof mechanism operates at up to 50 km/h, so weather changes mid-pass are handled without stopping. The 911 is a touring car first, even at this performance level.
A handful have decades of practice. In St. Moritz, Badrutt’s Palace and the Kulm offer covered parking and staff who handle supercars routinely. The Chedi Andermatt has secure underground parking with easy access. Victoria-Jungfrau in Interlaken parks long-bonnet cars on a forecourt that photographs beautifully at golden hour. The Dolder Grand and Park Hyatt in Zürich, the Beau-Rivage and Hotel des Bergues in Geneva, and the Splendide Royal in Lugano all park guest cars under the porte-cochère by request. Over the border, Tremezzo on Lake Como and the Eden Roc in Ascona handle arrivals with the discretion the car deserves.
For peak season — May through September, and especially for delivery to Lake Como or St. Moritz — eight to twelve weeks is the comfortable lead time. The car is the most-requested convertible in the fleet during summer, and specific colour preferences narrow within four weeks of the date. For shoulder-season trips in April or October, three to four weeks usually works. For winter delivery — which is rarer for an open-top car but entirely possible for clear-weather drives in the Engadine — two weeks is often enough. If your dates are flexible, the team will tell you the windows with the best availability when you make the initial inquiry.
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