{"id":1166893,"date":"2026-08-24T16:12:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T16:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1166893\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T16:12:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T16:12:18","slug":"11-best-alpine-hotels-in-europe-for-a-coolcation-like-no-other","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1166893\/","title":{"rendered":"11 best Alpine hotels in Europe for a coolcation like no other"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Best for:<\/strong> a boutique stay<\/p>\n<p>Had history\u2019s fickle ways played out differently, the Alpine village of Adelboden would be as well known as Gstaad, where Loro Piana rubs shoulders with Moncler on the high street. But after a flurry of fame in the Edwardian era, when Henry Lunn brought the first package group of British skiers here, it settled into affable obscurity, livened up by the annual World Cup giant slalom. One loyal regular, though, was Welsh-born Grant Maunder, whose family holidayed here in the 1970s and \u201980s and who repaid the village\u2019s hospitality by opening the Cambrian hotel about 15 years ago. This is the follow-up, and it\u2019s an altogether more considered project, swerving away from the usual Alpine clich\u00e9s in favour of a clubby midcentury look assembled by Dutch-based design studio Nicemakers. Behind the classic chalet fa\u00e7ade, the ground-floor living space, which flows from breakfast tables to dining room and bar, ripples with texture \u2013 boucl\u00e9 fabrics here, Nordic Knots rugs there, crazy paving underfoot \u2013\u00a0and showcases vintage furniture alongside woodcuts and brutalist sculptures. Easy to imagine Tony Curtis here, resplendent in a roll-neck and perusing a \u201960s copy of Esquire. The intention was to make it all feel as much of a private home as possible, with bedrooms clear of hotel clutter and a sense of relaxed, \u201cjust drop by\u201d warmth. It\u2019s adults only and, unusually, fully inclusive (from feasts of salmon and mountain cheeses to the old-fashioneds), a concept at which some may baulk \u2013\u00a0until they remember their last restaurant bill in Switzerland. Maunder refers to The Brecon\u2019s aesthetic as \u201cSwelsh,\u201d and, when you\u2019re dallying in the terrace pool, with the flanks of the Bernese Oberland rising operatically above, it all feels pretty wonderful. Rick Jordan<\/p>\n<p><strong>Price:<\/strong> From about \u00a3650 per night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Best for: a boutique stay Had history\u2019s fickle ways played out differently, the Alpine village of Adelboden would&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1166894,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5174],"tags":[7907,2000,299,5187,2199,8792,316764,61524,2600],"class_list":["post-1166893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-eu","tag-austria","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-european","tag-italy","tag-skiing","tag-st-moritz","tag-swiss-alps","tag-switzerland"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117151370369619701","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1166893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1166894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1166893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1166893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1166893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}