Selections
Across the Alps, the spas worth planning a trip around, from the silence of Forestis to the glass-roofed pool of The Chedi Andermatt and the reborn Aman Rosa Alpina.
There is a particular pleasure to a spa in the mountains: cold air and hot water, snow on the skylight, tired legs after a day on the slopes. The Alps have made an art of it, and at a handful of hotels the spa turns a good stay into the best part of the trip. These are the eleven that do it best.
At 1,800 meters on the Plose above Brixen, the quietest hotel in the Alps and a spa built on that silence: local wood and stone, treatments drawn from the forest and the old Celtic wyda tradition, and pools of spring water that face nothing but the Dolomites. The benchmark for the new alpine wellness.
From €750 a night. Book through Forestis.
In a hotel set directly on the Bellecôte piste, the spa fills two floors around a 14-meter pool, with a stone hammam, a wooden sauna, and a cold plunge beside it. Small, hushed, and precise, like everything Aman does. Open in winter only.
From €3,150 a night. Book through Aman.
Home to Switzerland’s first Six Senses Spa, two thousand square meters, with a 25-meter indoor pool set against a great stone wall and a Himalayan salt room. The village is discretion itself, and the spa matches it.
Book through The Alpina Gstaad.
The dramatic newcomer, opened in 2023, ski-in and ski-out beside the main gondola. Its indoor pool, stone-lined and lit through a canopy of thousands of suspended timber battens, is among the most striking rooms in the Alps, and the water is never far from the snow.
Book through Six Senses.
The legendary San Cassiano hotel, reopened in July 2025 after its transformation. The new spa spreads over two levels, with seven treatment suites, an indoor pool facing the forest through walls of glass, and a heated 20-meter infinity pool outside in the mountain air. South Tyrol set the new standard for alpine wellness, and the reborn Rosa Alpina raises it.
Book through Aman.
Five thousand square meters on four levels, one of the largest spas in the Alps, arranged around Lefay’s method drawn from the five elements of Classical Chinese Medicine: pools inside and out, salt water, and saunas in a sequence you are meant to take seriously. Go for the full immersion.
Book through Lefay.
The forest spa. Forsthofgut’s waldSPA turned the woods themselves into the treatment, with a natural bathing lake at the heart of the garden, pine-scented saunas, and a 25-meter infinity pool. Its lake house holds a Finnish lake sauna and an onsen-style hot pool, and in 2025 the spa added a longevity area with cryotherapy.
Book through Naturhotel Forsthofgut.
On the Alpe di Siusi at 1,800 meters, one of the largest high-alpine meadows in Europe, with the COMO Shambhala approach transplanted to the Dolomites. There is a 22-meter pool inside and a second one out in the cold, and the view from the water, meadow, peaks, and nothing else, is the treatment.
Book through COMO.
Asian calm in the Swiss high country: a 35-meter pool under a glass roof, twelve spa suites across 2,400 square meters, and interiors of dark timber and firelight. A 12-meter outdoor pool stays heated through the year, and the snow falls around it.
Book through The Chedi Andermatt.
The classic choice. Suvretta’s spa keeps the grand scale of the hotel, with a 25-meter pool looking out to the mountains of the Upper Engadin and an open-air whirlpool heated through the year, on a private estate that has been perfecting winter since 1912.
From €920 a night. Book through Suvretta House.
On the Rothschild family’s Mont d’Arbois estate, with heated pools indoors and out that steam against the snow, and a new outdoor jacuzzi and salt-wall sauna added in 2026. It received France’s Palace distinction the same year. As good after the slopes as it is instead of them.
Book through Four Seasons.
Eleven spas, four countries. At each, the hours off the slopes are as considered as the hours on them.
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