Some of the most lavish and jaw-dropping hotels in the world are built for skiers: Michelin-starred chefs, floor-to-ceiling winter-wonderland views, heated pools, award-winning spas, and, of course, the most spectacular slopes on planet earth right outside your front door. From the Swiss and French Alps to the slopes of North America, here’s where we’d love to apres ski this year!
Where: Whistler, British Columbia, Canada
Mountains nearby: Whistler Blackcomb
Rates: From $500 per night
The Fairmont Chateau Whistler is the epitome of a winter wonderland ski lodge, designed to look like a French ski lodge (slash castle) with 519 elegant modern-alpine guest rooms and suites, all overlooking the stunning Whistler Valley mountains. The Fairmont Chateau’s spa is can’t-miss, with Eucalyptus steam rooms, outdoor cedar barrel saunas, hot tubs, and a heated lap pool complete with underwater music.
Where: Courchevel, France
Mountains nearby: Bellecôte ski slope
Rates: From $2,700 per night
This ski-in, ski-out spot is a classic French châteaux-style boutique hotel with just 31 rooms: Each room has a balcony, private hot tub or fireplace, and a team of Ski Butlers to look after your gear in a state-of-the-art ski room, complete with heated boot racks for toasty feet. The Aman Le Mélézin boasts a top-tier sushi restaurant and Japanese-inspired spa, complete with five double treatment rooms.
Where: Arosa, Switzerland
Mountains nearby: Arosa Lenzerheide
Rates: From $525 per night
Perhaps the most OTT ski lodge on our list, the Tschuggen Grand Hotel is the epitome of ski luxury. For starters, the outside looks like a modern art museum with glass walls and shark fin-like roof line, but the real star here is the heated private mountain railway that’ll transport you straight to the base of Arosa Lenzerheide. The mammoth 5,000-sq-ft mountainside spa covers four floors, including saunas, steam rooms, pools, airy treatment rooms and a meditation room. This hotel even has a hairdresser and cosmetic surgery doctor on staff.
Where: Meribel, France
Mountains nearby: Les 3 Vallées
Rates: From $43,000 per week
This spectacular ski chalet comes with an in-house chef, a personal chauffeur to escort you to the slopes, and a concierge service to take care of your every need. The chalet itself sleeps 14 people in six bedrooms and includes plenty of over-the-top amenities like a private pool and hot tub, hammam, massage room, library, even a game room with a climbing wall and pinball machines.
Where: Mont Blanc, France
Mountains nearby: Crans-Montana
Rates: From $1,200 per night
This boutique chalet-style French resort sits atop the Crans-Montana ski resort which means you score a downhill run immediately upon clipping into your skis (which, of course are handled by world-class Ski Butlers.) The lodge boasts not only breathtaking alpine views in every direction, but also gorgeously elegant rustic decor, as well as a Michelin-starred restaurant, panoramic heated outdoor pool, sauna and a hammam.
Where: St. Moritz, Switzerland
Mountains nearby: St. Moritz
Rates: From $1,500 per night
This elegant 156-room hotel feels like a full-blown castle with its Belle Epoque facade full of towers and turrets. The interior is just as timeless and elegant with arched doorways and windows framing the Swiss Alps outside. There are also 10 restaurants, three bars (including The King’s Social House, the oldest nightclub in Switzerland), a spa accessible via an underground tunnel, and an indoor pool with floor-to-ceiling windows of the mountains outside.
Where: Verbier, Switzerland
Mountains nearby: Verbier
Rates: From $1,200 per night
This chic, luxurious ski-in, ski-out hotel in the Swiss Alps is less than a minute’s walk to the Verbier’s Médran Gondola. It features 127 stylish rooms, suites, and Residences—each with a the W’s signature sleek aesthetic, fireplace and private balcony—along with six restaurants and bars, and a gorgeous, state-of-the-art spa.
Where: Zermatt, Switzerland
Mountains nearby: Matterhorn
Rates: From $850 per night
Facing The iconic Matterhorn in the Swiss Alps, this intimate ski-in ski-out resort has 65 rooms, 5 suites, and 2 apartments, as well as bowling rooms, billiards rooms, and of course, both indoor and outdoor spas. To guild the lily, a stay here includes heliskiing on nearby glaciers.
