Best Mountain Hotels
Quartzite walls and steps beside the outdoor thermal pool with mountains beyond at 7132 Hotel, Vals, Switzerland

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Best Mountain Hotels

The world's finest places to stay among the peaks.

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We travel slowly, stay longer, and write only about the hotels we would return to — places where the mountain and the house are in quiet conversation.

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Grand hotel towers above a frozen alpine lake

St. Moritz · Alps

Badrutt's Palace

The legendary grand palace hotel overlooking the St. Moritz lake.

Snow-covered Alpine peaks in winter light

Courchevel 1850 · Alps

Cheval Blanc Courchevel

LVMH's ultra-luxury ski hotel with a Guerlain spa and Michelin-starred dining.

Hotel Jerome's historic brick exterior illuminated at night, Aspen

Aspen · Colorado

Hotel Jerome

An Aspen landmark since 1889, with a historic brick facade, richly layered interiors and the Old West spirit of J-Bar.

Minimal timber cabins set in a steep green gorge

near Geiranger · Scandinavia

Juvet Landscape Hotel

Minimalist glass-walled rooms set in a gorge near Geiranger.

Chalet lines in dark timber and snow

Andermatt · Alps

The Chedi Andermatt

Alpine chalet style meets Asian minimalism, with a striking spa.

Snow-laden forest in Hokkaido

Niseko, Hokkaido · Japan

Zaborin

An intimate ryokan where every villa has its own indoor and outdoor onsen.

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Illuminated timber chalet surrounded by snow beneath mountain peaks
Ski
Indoor pool facing large windows overlooking snowy mountains and forest
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Candlelit dining table beside windows facing mountain peaks
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Timber chalet among trees and snow with mountains behind
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Bedroom with a large bed and windows overlooking snowy mountains
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Sun loungers on a terrace beside a timber building facing jagged mountain peaks
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Stone buildings on a terraced mountainside above a misty valley
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Low buildings on a grassy hillside beneath dramatic mountains and clouds
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Dark timber cabin above a lake with mountains beyond
Romantic
Indoor swimming pool with loungers facing windows overlooking mountains at Rooms Hotel Kazbegi, Georgia
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Long white Schatzalp hotel surrounded by forest above Davos at sunset.

Davos · Alps

Berghotel Schatzalp

An Art Nouveau former sanatorium above Davos, reached by funicular and said to have inspired Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain. Atmospheric and old-world, without palace-hotel prices.

Snow-covered lodge and Ouray mountain backdrop at Box Canyon Lodge & Hot Springs, Ouray, USA

Ouray · Colorado

Box Canyon Lodge & Hot Springs

Box Canyon Lodge & Hot Springs is a small, friendly lodge in Ouray, the little Victorian mining town in south-west Colorado known as the Switzerland of America. Its great secret lies behind the building: four redwood hot spring tubs, terraced up the mountainside, filled with natural mineral water and reserved for guests alone. Soaking in them under the stars, with the jagged San Juan Mountains rising all around, is one of the great simple pleasures of the Colorado Rockies.

Hotel facade with Juliet balconies and flowering trees at Browns Boutique Hotel, Queenstown, New Zealand

Queenstown · New Zealand

Browns Boutique Hotel

Browns Boutique Hotel is a small, stylish bed and breakfast in the centre of Queenstown, on a quiet street just two minutes' walk from the town's shops, restaurants and nightlife. With just 10 rooms, each opening onto a Juliet balcony with views across Lake Wakatipu to the Remarkables, it offers a warm, personal and affordable base in New Zealand's adventure capital.

Sitting area with mountain views through large windows at Buckhorn Inn, Gatlinburg, USA

Gatlinburg · Appalachians

Buckhorn Inn

Buckhorn Inn is East Tennessee's oldest inn, a peaceful country retreat on 25 acres of woodland and meadow on the edge of Great Smoky Mountains National Park, the most visited national park in the United States. Founded in 1938, it offers a quiet, gracious alternative to the bustle of nearby Gatlinburg, with cottages and guest houses among the trees, sweeping mountain views and dinners that draw guests back year after year.

Lakeside exterior of Heritage Hotel Hallstatt's Kainz house beneath the hillside church

Hallstatt · Alps

Heritage Hotel Hallstatt

Heritage Hotel Hallstatt puts you in the heart of one of the most photographed villages on Earth. Hallstatt clings to a narrow ledge between a steep mountainside and a deep, dark lake in Austria's Salzkammergut, its pastel houses and slender church spire reflected in the water. By day it is crowded with visitors; at dusk, when the coaches leave, it becomes the quiet, magical place that made it famous, and staying overnight is the only way to experience that.

Island lodge and pedestrian bridge across Lake Pehoé beneath snowy mountains, Torres del Paine, Chile

Torres del Paine · South America

Hostería Pehoé

A simple hotel on its own little island, reached by footbridge, with one of the most famous views in Patagonia. The rooms are basic; the setting is unforgettable.

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