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The Best Luxury Hotels in Switzerland
September 2026 · 6 min read
Switzerland invented the luxury grand hotel, and its alpine palaces, in St. Moritz, Zermatt and Gstaad, remain the standard by which mountain hotels everywhere are measured. Here are the finest five-star hotels in Switzerland, all bookable through Pampered Pursuit with VIP recognition, upgrades and credits at no extra cost.
Badrutt's Palace Hotel
St. Moritz
A Belle Époque landmark towering over Lake St. Moritz since 1896, crowned by a fairy-tale tower. The definitive alpine grand hotel, and the social heart of the winter season.
View hotel →Gstaad Palace
Gstaad
A fairy-tale castle crowning a hill above Gstaad since 1913, owned by the same family for generations, discreet, glamorous and unmistakably Gstaad.
View hotel →Suvretta House
St. Moritz
A castle-like, family-run grand hotel of 1912 in a secluded setting between St. Moritz and Champfèr, with its own ski lift and private mountain.
View hotel →Kulm Hotel St. Moritz
St. Moritz
The birthplace of Alpine winter tourism and of St. Moritz itself, set in its own park above the lake, a grande dame with a sustainability conscience.
View hotel →Mont Cervin Palace
Zermatt
The grande dame of Zermatt since 1852, a Seiler family flagship on the car-free Bahnhofstrasse beneath the Matterhorn.
View hotel →Carlton Hotel St. Moritz
St. Moritz
A former palace built for a Russian tsar, now an intimate all-suite and junior-suite hotel above Lake St. Moritz.
View hotel →The Park Gstaad, A Four Seasons Hotel
Gstaad
Switzerland's first five-star hotel when it opened in 1910, fully refurbished under Joseph Dirand and reopening as a Four Seasons for the 2026-27 winter season.
View hotel →Riffelalp Resort 2222m
Zermatt
The highest five-star resort in the Alps, perched at 2,222 metres on the Gornergrat railway above Zermatt, with the Matterhorn framed from the pool.
View hotel →Planning any of these stays? Start an inquiry and Pampered Pursuit will arrange it with preferred-partner VIP benefits, daily breakfast, upgrades when available, and resort credits, at no extra cost to you.
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