Grand Hotel Des Bains
A St. Moritz grande dame on a natural spring: 1864 heritage, marble-columned thermal pools, Kneipp baths, and a celebrated Alpine spa.
Set over a natural spring in St. Moritz, Grand Hotel Des Bains has been esteemed for its healing properties for well over a century. If your idea of a cure involves marble-columned indoor pools, Kneipp baths and prestigious tennis courts, this five-star Swiss grande dame is unlikely to disappoint.
The hotel’s particular skill is balance. Its royal heritage is everywhere (porcelain fireplaces, wood-panelled cigar rooms, the bones of the original 1864 design all carefully kept), yet the interiors never tip into the museum. Contemporary blonde woods and considered designer lighting keep the rooms fresh, so the past reads as character rather than dust.
That spring is the reason the hotel exists, and the spa is where its promise is delivered. Award-winning and properly serious about wellness, it puts the mineral water to work in treatments designed to do more than fill an afternoon. A stay here is, in the older sense of the word, restorative.
The table holds up its end too. The kitchen leans Mediterranean, a bright, sun-warmed counterpoint to the Alpine setting outside the window, and a reminder that a mountain hotel needn’t cook only in heavy registers.
For travellers drawn to the Engadine, Grand Hotel Des Bains offers the rare combination of genuine heritage, genuine healing waters, and interiors that have been allowed to evolve. It is a hotel that wears its long history lightly, and the kind of place you’ll find us when no one’s looking.
