If you are traveling by train, this hotel's location cannot be beat. It is approx a block away from the 'rear' entrance to the train station, making access easy. Also less than half a block to the Grancy metro station (the metro goes all the way downhill to the waterfront & CGN Ferries). Bed was comfortable, shower was wonderful. Breakfast was excellent, if the room on top of the hotel can get a bit bright at times, but the views of the city & lake would be hard to beat.

A nice, no-frills hotel a few yards from the train station. The reception staff are friendly and efficient.
The room we stayed in, a so-called “executive room”, had a strange layout. The lobby of the room contained the wardrobe and the sink on one side, and on the other, separated by a sliding door, the toilet and shower. This lobby/bathroom area was then separated from the bedroom by a big sliding door. It’s not ideal if the person you are sharing with either wants to go to the toilet in the night or gets up early for work and wants to shower. Both the sliding doors are quite noisy, as is the flushing toilet.
A final criticism of the room – the hide-a-bed (sofa bed) was open and made up, which left very little space either to sit or to work at the desk. It would have been much more comfortable if they had kept the hide-a-bed as a sofa, and only opened it up when a third bed was required.
The gym is very well equipped, but it is extremely warm in there and there didn’t seem to be any ventilation. On top of that, there was no water on hand. The tap didn’t work either, so unless you bring your own water, you’ll find it a very thirsty work out!
The major complaint I have is the breakfast. CHF 22 for what they pompously refer to as “Full Buffet Breakfast for CHF 22.-“. The day we ate there, everything was bargain-basement quality, with the minimum possible choice. We arrived at 9am and the restaurant was supposed to serve breakfast until 10.30am. There were exactly 6 slices of dry, very salty boiled ham, 7 slices of very tired bacon, lots of tasteless small sausages, a choice of 3 individually packaged, poor quality Swiss cheese, and some camembert. There were 3 small ends of very stale bread loaves, some croissants and a couple of sweet rolls.
The view from the restaurant is beautiful, and obviously that is what you are paying for. So I suggest that you visit the restaurant to see the view, and then go and eat breakfast elsewhere! You’ll get a much better and cheaper deal in the many small places around the station.

I had to stay a couple of weeks at the Agora Swiss Night in early April 2022 due to an apartment renovation. I found the hotel pretty functional. I mean to say that the location is just behind the Lausanne Train Station in what is considered to be the most beautiful neighbourhood in Lausanne, close to the tourist area on the lake called Ouchy, close to the downtown, and next to the metro line and many bus lines at the front of the train station. But that is not what I was impressed with, as this is my neighbourhood anyway and I know all this
There were many little details that showed the designers were paying attention to guests’ typical needs. There was Kleenex!!! (amazing how some hotels do not have this anymore, used to be standard) But it was the magnifying makeup mirror in bathroom, the little but long shelf with the huge mirror over the bathroom sink convenient for putting “stuff” away from the potentially wet sink edges. I am an older woman and I need a magnifying mirror to put on makeup, but so does anyone with glasses, man or woman, to get ready. Men for shaving, women for makeup, eyebrow plucking, etc. Yet one never sees this often. Then the bathroom had a little draw which was very useful, shelves above the area to hang up clothes, and lots of hangers, hangers that were real hangers, not those annoying ones with the permanently attached ring that the rest of the hanger slip off and on in a way which is complicated if one puts something heavy like a winter coat on the hanger. The cabinet under the wall hung flat screen TV had metal embedded into it so one could place even a very large suitcase on it and keep the lid open or shut as needed, which was incredibly practical. There was a nice wooden suit stand that I could also dry something on, like the step out towel from the shower. The bathroom had no mold whatsoever, was spotlessly clean, and for me that is really important. The shower stall was huge with glass walls, one was covered with graphics but with long panels to see through into the bedroom, which I thought quite designer too. I was very impressed with the interior design, the care, the thinking through of what a guest needs.
I was sad the room had wall to wall carpet, a thing I hate, and happily rarely see in Europe, where we have tile, parquet, wood, even real linoleum or Pergo perhaps ,(although that is rare). And one walks through the “powder room” part of the bathroom to enter the bedroom, which I find unsanitary. Here in Switzerland we usually do not wear “outside” shoes in the house for cleanliness reasons, as we keep our homes quite clean, and our floors. I was surprised by that set-up, but suppose I saw the benefits in terms of space usage and eventually got used to.
The hotel has also got an important protocol in place so that if one is ecologically minded, as am I, one can put a "stop" sign on the outside of the door to prevent room cleaning, towel changing, sheet changing, and then turn it to the green side to tell the maids to come in. I do not like to have my towels changed every day when I travel, this system is an ecological nightmare in terms of water waste for the laundering. It is not necessary; it is not what we do at home. I have my towels changed once in a week, or at a beach resort maybe twice, because sand, etc. The maids all know and understand. Other hotels I have followed the protocols but the maids come in and change everything daily anywhere, because they are often not well trained, illiterate in some cases, and do not even understand the concept of the thing, no one has taught them. So they think their actions are pleasing. Here at the Agora this was never a problem.
The breakfast hall is pretty trippy, it is at the top of the hotel with a panoramic view of Lake Geneva and the French and Swiss Alps, all done up in white, silver, and pale blue with a winter snowy motif. And there are so many breakfast choices. Not really for vegans like me, but for vegetarians and omnivores it is great. The staff is friendly up there. And there is a choice of how much you want to spend depending of the 22FS full breakfast buffet, or just if you want a "Continental Breakfast" type deal for I think 6.5FS with coffee and croissant (maybe a juice too?).
I wasn't wild about the decor because I like old fashioned and cozy or elegant styles. But for a modern style it was very original, sticking to a nostalgic mountaineering theme. Quite nice B&W graphics in the elevators of the Swiss Alps, very graphic but photographic alpine forest scenes in B&W in the bedrooms. With dark wood and red accents and in my room cow hide covered directors chairs in chromed steel, so pretty designer.
There is a nice desk with all the electric plugs from around the world built in, and including USB plugs conveniently at the desktop on the wall, which I thought was very clever. Plenty of lights, for the desk, two at the bed for reading, but gratefully none were the depressing gloomy overhead lights, and with many light switches, even being able to control most of the lights, bathroom, etc from the bed. This was well thought out. Truly. Even nice brown velvet drapes, heavy black-out drapes, with beautiful floor to ceiling sheers underneath, all sliding on curtain tracks.
The views from the rooms are quite descent as well, they look onto beautiful old Edwardian and Victorian buildings all around. My room actually looked across at a friend's apartment building.
The staff at the desk are very good, efficient, and if desired, friendly. And some were very kind to me, for which I am grateful.
I would stay here for business, pleasure or family holiday time if I were ever actually a tourist in Lausanne. As an older woman I felt very safe walking around the area at night as well. (Of course this is actually my neighbourhood, but I am not in the habit of taking meals out in restaurants all day every day, as I did for two weeks, I was forced to go out after dark and eat supper. And there are also some very nice restaurants right around the hotel but not near enough for any odors to waft into bedrooms, so no worries there).