The Best Resorts in St. Moritz

The private ski lift says everything about this grand alpine hotel just outside St. Moritz. Inside, the old-world atmosphere holds firm: wood beams, coffered ceilings, an oak-paneled bar, a billiards room, and a dining room where children are required to dress for dinner. Rooms are classic and quietly luxurious. Breakfast is a lavish Swiss spread, and an indoor pool faces the mountains. The Michelin Guide awarded it two Keys.

A palazzo-style grand hotel in St. Moritz, turrets and blue shutters and all, built over a mineral spring that still feeds the spa's pools and baths below. Chandelier dining, high tea with Swiss patisserie, and a gondola station directly across the street for the slopes. The Michelin Guide awarded it a Key. It's the kind of place where "popping out for a ski" feels like a completely reasonable sentence.

The exterior looks like a marzipan model of an Engadine farmhouse, all painted stucco and shutters, giving nothing away. Inside, this design hotel in Champfèr near St. Moritz earns its Michelin Key with timbered ceilings updated by a palette of pale wood, cream, and bursts of fuchsia or lime. Two bars, three restaurants, and a spa handle most excuses to leave, which in St. Moritz winters is exactly the point.

Floor-to-ceiling windows and private balconies mean the Engadin Valley does most of the decorating at this contemporary alpine hotel just outside St. Moritz. The building is deliberately low-slung, all glass and local timber, chosen over the usual chalet kitsch. Seventy rooms lean clean-lined and blond-wood calm, junior suites nearly double the space, and the spa throws in an underwater relaxation bed for guests who find hot tubs insufficiently dramatic.