Luxury Ski Chalets in St Moritz

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Glamourous St Moritz is as exclusive and luxe as you’d expect. Staying in a luxury ski chalet in St Moritz gives visitors the chance to combine great skiing with shopping at the plethora of designer boutiques and dining at some truly fantastic restaurants with amazing views.

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About St Moritz

The town looks onto a frozen lake, used in winter for everything from polo to cricket! Indeed, there’s lots more than skiing to do here, with a whole mountain dedicated to non-ski activites. It’s a great destination for a luxury ski holiday with a difference.

Glitzy hotels, the Cresta Run, and silky fur coats – these are the images conjured by St Moritz. This distinguished Swiss resort pioneered Alpine winter tourism in 1864 and continues to exude an exclusive, affluent atmosphere. Gucci, Chanel, Prada and Louis Vuitton all have outlets in St Moritz. This is a place to see and be seen on a luxury ski holiday, as well as to enjoy the snow and sunshine.

Take your pick of luxury ski chalets, spas, Champagne bars and quirky events such as the annual horse race across the frozen lake. St Moritz is known for its generous quota of sunshine and is busy all year round with music festivals, ice-bound cricket and polo matches, bob sledding and more. Five kilometres down the valley is the chic and charming village of Silvaplana, sitting beside its own lake and part of the same ski area.

BEST TIME
TO VISIT

The St Moritz ski season runs from late November to mid April, and there is a full schedule of events all year round. The resort’s logo is a golden sun, and it gets more than 300 days of sunshine a year.

NEED TO
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Ski Area

Engadin / St Moritz
Resort Altitude

1822m
Top Lift Altitude

3303m
Total Pistes

350km
Lifts

56

What we love about St. Moritz

We can’t resist popping in to the achingly cute Hanselmann tea room and confiserie in St Moritz for an alternative après-ski treat of delicious walnut cake, washed down with steaming hot chocolate.

Getting there

Zurich airport is 2 hours 50 minutes drive from St Moritz.

The Skiing

The Engadin/St Moritz ski region is the largest in Switzerland, stretching across nine different, interconnected areas. As well as some easy cruising runs above St Moritz, you can find more challenging slopes, fantastic off-piste powder and an impressive number of walks and toboggan runs further afield. Free ski buses take you up to Celerina and beyond, or in another direction to access the Diavolezza pistes. They also go down to Silvaplana which has its own extensive network.

Best Places To Eat and Drink

Only in St Moritz could you stumble across the largest whisky bar in the world – Devil’s Place at the Hotel Waldhaus am See. You can dine like a King in this town, and for most visitors that is a major attraction. World class restaurants such as Bumanns Chesa Pirani (with two Michelin stars) and the hotel Bellavista in Silvaplana serve the finest, locally sourced produce and fine wines. Perfect if you are staying in a self-catered luxury ski chalet. St Moritz even has its own Gourmet Festival in the last week of January when top chefs compete to create the most amazing dishes for the lucky guests attending.

Up on the mountains there is a choice of good quality slope-side restaurants, some rustic, many with panoramic terraces for soaking up the sun. For a gourmet pit-stop try Marmite at the top of the Corviglia gondola.