The 25 Best Mountain Resorts in the World

High above Zermatt with views of the Matterhorn, reached by its own mountain tram.

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

A five-star-superior retreat beside Peter Zumthor's quartzite Therme, with Kengo Kuma penthouses and every room facing the mountains.

A mountain hideaway on Plose’s southern slope, pairing Dolomites views with forest cuisine, contemporary suites and a spa rooted in the surrounding landscape.

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

Le Hameau Albert 1er is Chamonix's most celebrated hotel, a five-star Relais & Châteaux hamlet in the centre of town that has been run by the same family since 1903. It brings together a contemporary hotel, a farmhouse built from reclaimed Alpine timber and a cluster of private chalets, all facing Mont Blanc, along with a Michelin-starred restaurant, a much-loved Savoyard bistro and an indoor-outdoor pool. It is the place to stay for anyone who wants Chamonix's great mountains with exceptional food and service.

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

A floating spa hotel on the Lule River, built for the Northern Lights and the midnight sun.

Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise stands on the shore of the most photographed lake in the Canadian Rockies, and few hotel views anywhere are as instantly recognisable. In front of it, the water glows an impossible turquoise; at the far end, the Victoria Glacier hangs between the peaks like a frozen waterfall. The Canadian Pacific Railway built a simple log chalet here in 1890, and over the following decades it grew into the grand, château-style hotel that now anchors one of North America's great mountain landscapes.

The Little Nell is Aspen's only five-star, ski-in, ski-out hotel, set at the foot of Aspen Mountain beside the Silver Queen Gondola. It combines the intimacy of a small, personal hotel with world-class food and wine and impeccable service, and it is the hub of Aspen's glamorous après-ski scene. For skiers who want to step out of the door and onto one of America's most famous mountains, there is no better address in town.

The Ahwahnee is the grandest hotel in America's national parks, a monumental lodge of stone, timber and stained glass set beneath the soaring granite walls of Yosemite Valley. Opened in 1927, it has welcomed presidents, royalty and film stars, and its interiors inspired some of the most famous hotel scenes in cinema. Staying here puts you in the heart of one of the most celebrated landscapes on Earth, with Half Dome and Yosemite Falls on your doorstep.

Ultima Thule Lodge is often described as the greatest wilderness lodge in North America, and it is easy to see why. Deep inside Wrangell–St. Elias, the largest national park in the United States, around 100 miles from the nearest road, the Claus family welcomes a handful of guests to their hand-built log cabins on the Chitina River. Every day, weather permitting, Paul Claus, one of Alaska's most celebrated bush pilots, flies guests to places almost nobody else will ever see: icefields, glaciers, remote beaches and the slopes of some of the highest peaks on the continent.

Awasi Patagonia is the most private way to experience Torres del Paine. On a 15,000-acre reserve on the edge of the national park, it has just 14 villas, each with its own outdoor hot tub and views of the famous granite towers, and every villa comes with its own private guide and 4x4 for the whole stay, so you explore on your own schedule. It is a member of Relais & Châteaux.

A glass-walled lodge deep in Ecuador's Chocó cloud forest, with naturalist-led hikes, waterfalls and the Dragonfly canopy gondola.

Nayara Tented Camp is the most celebrated hotel in Central America, voted No. 1 in the region in Travel + Leisure's 2026 World's Best Awards. High on a hillside facing the cone of Arenal volcano, its 25 luxury tents each have a private plunge pool fed by natural hot springs and an outdoor shower, and a sloth refuge runs through the grounds. It is glamping at its most extravagant, in one of the most spectacular settings in Costa Rica.

Singita Kwitonda Lodge is the most luxurious place to stay for gorilla trekking in Rwanda. It sits right on the boundary of Volcanoes National Park, with the forested slopes of the Virunga volcanoes rising behind it. Its handful of suites, built from dry-stone walls and timber with floor-to-ceiling windows, each have a heated plunge pool, and the lodge has replanted tens of thousands of trees to restore the forest edge.

Bisate Lodge is one of the most extraordinary places to stay in Africa. Six thatched, spherical villas cling to the inside of an eroded volcanic cone on the edge of Rwanda's Volcanoes National Park, looking out over the forested slopes of Mount Bisoke, Karisimbi and Mikeno. Inspired by the traditional architecture of Rwanda's royal palace and run by Wilderness, it is an intimate, deeply soulful base for tracking mountain gorillas, and a pioneering reforestation project in its own right.

A Moroccan retreat above a High Atlas valley, where antique-filled rooms, Berber Tents and private Riads meet mountain views, an infinity pool and warm local hospitality.

Anantara Al Jabal Al Akhdar is one of the highest luxury resorts in the world, perched on the edge of a vast canyon on Oman's Green Mountain. Its heated infinity pool seems to hang over the gorge, its glass walkway leads to Diana's Point, where Diana, Princess of Wales, once admired the view, and its rooms and pool villas look out over a dramatic landscape of cliffs, terraces and ancient villages.

Desert Rock is one of the most extraordinary new mountain hotels in the world: a resort carved into a granite massif of the Hejaz Mountains, a short drive inland from Saudi Arabia's Red Sea coast. Opened in late 2024, it has 64 villas and suites, some hanging from the cliffs, some tucked into crevices and some carved into the rock as caves, each with its own private pool. Inspired by the rock-cut architecture of the ancient Nabataeans, it combines striking design with real mountain adventure, from via ferrata and abseiling to a climb to a hilltop observatory for stargazing.

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

Gora Kadan is one of Japan's most celebrated luxury ryokan, set on the wooded slopes of Hakone, the hot-spring mountain resort south-west of Tokyo. It occupies the grounds of a former summer villa of the Kan'in-no-miya, a branch of the Imperial family, and it blends the serenity of a traditional Japanese inn with contemporary elegance, natural hot-spring baths and some of the finest kaiseki cuisine in the country.

COMO Uma Paro is one of the finest hotels in Bhutan, the Himalayan kingdom famous for its monasteries, its mountains and its philosophy of Gross National Happiness. Set on a forested hillside above the Paro valley, it combines Bhutanese-inspired design, a celebrated COMO Shambhala spa and excellent food, and it makes a peaceful, beautiful base for exploring one of the world's most fascinating mountain cultures, including the famous Tiger's Nest monastery.

Ceylon Tea Trails is one of the most charming places to stay in Asia: five restored colonial tea planters' bungalows spread across the emerald hills of Sri Lanka's tea country. Sri Lanka's first Relais & Châteaux property, each bungalow has its own butler and chef, and stays are all-inclusive, with high tea on the lawn, walks through the plantations and views over Castlereagh Lake.

Matakauri Lodge is one of New Zealand's finest luxury lodges, set on the shore of Lake Wakatipu just outside Queenstown, with postcard views across the water to the jagged Remarkables range. Sister to the celebrated Kauri Cliffs and Cape Kidnappers lodges, it combines intimate, beautifully designed suites, an infinity pool, a spa and outstanding food in a peaceful setting, minutes from New Zealand's adventure capital.