Kulm Hotel St Moritz
St Moritz's original grand hotel, founded by Johannes Badrutt, with Olympic history, Engadin views, dining, wellness, and alpine sport.
Kulm Hotel St Moritz does not merely sit in alpine history; it helped invent the winter version. Founded by Johannes Badrutt, the hotel is woven into the origin story of St Moritz as a cold-weather playground, from pioneering hospitality flourishes to the sporting culture that made the Engadin feel less like a season and more like a social calendar.
The hotel’s own history traces a deliciously ambitious line: Switzerland’s first electric lights in its Grand Restaurant, early public telephone innovation, and the birth of modern winter sports on and around Kulm Park. The venue hosted Olympic events in 1928 and 1948, a fact that gives the place a rare kind of glamour. Not decorative nostalgia, but lived-in altitude.
Today, Kulm still plays the grande dame beautifully. Expect high-ceilinged grandeur, Engadin views, serious wellness, polished dining, and immediate access to the kind of mountain pursuits that make St Moritz St Moritz: skiing, skating, golf, lake sports, and the occasional bout of looking extremely composed in technically complicated outerwear.
It is one of the oldest luxury hotels in St Moritz, and that longevity matters. Kulm is not chasing alpine identity; it has rather a lot of it in the walls. For travellers who like their hotels with pedigree, sport, and a little theatrical Swiss confidence, this is the original living room of the resort.
Gold medals optional. Good knitwear strongly encouraged.
