Badrutt's Palace Hotel

Badrutt's Palace is a luxury hotel and resort in St. Moritz, in Switzerland's Engadin. It opened in 1896 and today has 163 rooms and 47 suites, eleven restaurants, two bars, a shopping gallery and a spa. In 2006 its owners, Hansjürg and Anikó Badrutt, bequeathed two thirds of the shares to Hans Wiedemann, who had become director in 2004.

La Liste placed it among the ten hotels tied for first place in its 2026 ranking, each with 99.5 out of 100. Time Out, reporting the result, calls it the "turreted St Moritz landmark" that has hosted the resort's most glamorous guests since 1896. Wikipedia adds that it has appeared on The World's 50 Best Hotels list and holds a Forbes 5 Star Award.

The Badrutt story began in 1856, when Johannes Badrutt bought a guesthouse in St. Moritz; his son Caspar bought the Hotel Beau Rivage in 1864 and turned it into the Palace. The hotel's tower, a symbol of the town, was rebuilt after a fire in 1967. Rosewood Hotels & Resorts managed it for a period until 2003, after which it returned to private operation; the Hans Badrutt suite, completed in 2003, measures 280 square metres.

Sources of this text: Wikipedia · La Liste (France)