School's surroundings

The Jazz Festival, the Christmas market, cinemas, shopping centres, restaurants, are all no more than 10 minutes walk. You’ll enjoy our friendly classrooms, the shady terrace, the balcony view over the lake, and the modern equipment and materials that the school uses. You could join the other students in the pleasant cafeteria, check your email or surf the Net free of charge on the computers at ESL.

Standard Activities

- Basketball
- Football
- Volleyball
- Skateboarding (skatepark in the village)
- Hip-Hop classes
- Roller skating
- Walks
- Street hockey
- Table tennis
- Carambole
- Bar-B-Qs
- Video
- Mini-Trekking
- Badminton
- Disco
- Demonstration of graffiti on canvas
- Swimming Pool (Montreux/Vevey/Les Diablerets)
- Excursions in the mountains

- In summer students may use the swimming pool in Les Diablerets free of charge!

Just a short distance from the school in Montreux you will find the following:

- Lakeside terraces
- Montreux jetty
- Tourist information office
- Banks
- Fitness training facilities
- Montreux Jazz Festival (July)
- Restaurants (Swiss, Italian, Asian, Middle Eastern, etc.)
- Bus stop
- Mini golf at the Montreux Palace
- Cinema complex
- Train station
- Swimming pool and beach
- Shopping Mall

Excursions

This program includes visits to the famous Château de Chillon, pleasure trips on the lake in one of the old-style paddleboats, or trips to the leisure centre and bowling alley. These activities take place at the beginning of the week and are not included in the course price.

The Riviera region also boasts amusement parks, museums, a wide choice of sports facilities, indoor and outdoor, mountain or water based, excursions on land and on water, concerts of all kinds and to suit all tastes, as well as a multitude of other activities that you can discover by studying at Montreux.

In order to help you make the most of these leisure activities, ESL has an enormous amount of information on everything that’s available in the area, and they are always on hand to help make bookings or with membership applications during your stay at the school (e.g. for a health club).