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The resort hotels are the best. I've stayed in all of them except the new Nordic one attached to Rulantica, the waterpark opened recently.
If you are driving over, you get free parking with resort hotels and special access to the hotel monorail platform which saves queuing at the gate.
My favourite is Hotel Bell Rock, second is Colosseum. All have a theme, New England (weirdly 😅) Italy, Spain, Portugal. They also have heated pools in the hotel. The Bell Rock has an excellent dinner buffet and a charming restaurant. All have a themed buffet actually.
There's no fast pass access, so queues can be long at busy times. There are many themed restaurants and all are very reasonable in price compared to Disney.
They have a new virtual reality area starting, so you could spend 2 days in the park, one virtual reality and a day in the waterpark. Rulantica is excellent, clean, indoor heated pools and floors, adult spa, cocktail swim up pool, outdoor loungers pool and bars. You have a watch which you use to buy drinks and snacks and pay on exit.
The Nordic themed hotel is connected to the water park, and has two restaurants and a bar etc. It looks amazing, haven't seen the rooms though.
Swiss school holidays start beginning July, french and German more in line with UK. So it can be busy in August, avoid the 1st if you can, Swiss national day is a big thing in the park.