Badrutt's Palace Hotel
The historic Palace Hotel in St. Moritz — more recently renamed as Badrutt's Palace Hotel — is an internationally known hotel in St Moritz, Switzerland, famous for its glitz and glamor. It was constructed over four years and opened in 1896 as a successor to the Krup Hause resort hotel which had been the first cold weather winter resort.
It is owned and operated by the same Badrutts family, now in their third generation, who created winter tourism. The most prominent hotel in St. Moritz, royalty, the nouveau riche and idle rich, artists, dignitaries, and performers have stayed at the hotel.
The founder of the hotel built the first half-pipe luge/skeleton/bobsled run to support his guest's interests — and as a community service to prevent further injuries from sledding in the narrow streets of the village.
The hotel is one of the certified The Leading Hotels of the World. The hotel has 159 rooms, 38 of which are suites. It contains the Le Restaurant which serves French cuisine and others such as the Le Relais restaurant run by Nobuyuki Matsuhisa which serves traditional Japanese with Peruvian influences, the Belle Epoque restaurant and cocktail and sushi bar, the Renaisssance Bar, the 55-seat restaurant Le Bistro run by Frédéric Breuil and created by Italian designer Maurizio Argenti, the Chesa Veglia and the Acapulco snack bar.[1]
Recent awards
- 2011 Rated by Gayot.com as one of the Top 10 Romantic Spas in the World
- 2009 Hotel Rating by Karl Wild, No.2 in the Top 15 Five Star Leisure Hotels in Switzerland
- 2009 Condé Nast Traveler Gold List, USA
- 2009 PATWA, International Gold Award nomination for “Best Hotelier of the Year”
- 2009 Condé Nast Traveller Gold List, UK
- 2008 Hotel Rating by Karl Wild, No.3 in the Top 15 Five Star Winter Hotels in Switzerland
- 2008 Condé Nast Traveler Readers' Choice Awards, No.6 in the Top 25 European Resorts
- 2008 16 Points in GaultMillau for NOBU@ Badrutt’s Palace
- 2008 15 Points in GaultMillau for Le Restaurant
- 2008 Icomos (Intl. Council on Monumenst & Sites) “Special Mention” Award for Chesa Veglia
- 2008 Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence for wine cellar
- 2008 SonntagsZeitung Hotel Rating, No. 3 in the Best Holiday Resorts in Switzerland
- 2008 Condé Nast Traveler Gold List, USA
- 2008 SonntagsZeitung Hotel Rating, No.6 in the 20 best golf hotels in Switzerland
- 2007 Condé Nast Traveler Readers' Choice Awards, No.4 in the Top 20 European Resorts
- 2007 Bilanz “Hotelier of the Year” Switzerland 2007, Hans Wiedemann
- 2007 Bilanz Hotel Rating Switzerland, No.9 in the Best Holiday Resorts in Switzerland
- 2007 PATWA, Hans Wiedemann “Best Hotelier of the Year”
- 2007 Hotel Rating by Karl Wild, No.2 in the Top 20 Five Star Winter Hotels in Switzerland
- 2007 VIP International Reader’s Travel Award No.2 in the most Luxurious Ski Hotel Worldwide
- 2007 Swiss Mountain Water Award, “Award of Recognition” for ecological heating system
- 2007 Réserve Badrutt’s Palace Pinot Noir awarded Medaille d’Or Mondial
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