Celebrities recommend Gstaad
Hollywood's Hideaway
"The last corner of heaven in a crazy world," that's how described Gstaad Julie Andrews. Having visited the resort for the first time in 1968, the British actress fell in love with it and three years later acquired a chalet 'Fleur de Lys' there. For 12 years in a row, an actress adorned Gstaad with thousands of Christmas lights and founded a festival of film music.
Julie Andrews has been named an honorary citizen of Gstaad. Among other prominent guests were Peter Sellers and Michael Jackson. Roger Moore had photo shoots beside cows being milked. Brigitte Bardot and Gunther Zacks strolled around the resort.
Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton owned here a two-storey chalet, where they kept their collection of 'Oscars'. Burton called Gstaad the most beautiful place in the world, and Liz liked to have dinner at the Olden Hotel, where stars and local farmers were warmly welcomed.
Gstaad has charmed Valentino Garavani and the Swiss billionaire Ernesto Bertarelli. Paris Hilton has called Gstaad "an oasis of peace", citing chalets, pistes, shopping and apre-ski. The resort exceeded her expectations.
Leonardo DiCaprio, Madonna and Tiger Woods all love
But the resort caters not only to glitterati. Everyone who appreciates the quietness and peace of this picturesque setting will find there place here.
Great entertainment
Located at an altitude of 1,050 m, Gstaad combines style, warm Swiss hospitality and traditions. Every hotel or restaurant is trying to impress their guests. For example, at the they can offer you a chauffeured trip in the 'Bentley' which once belonged to Roger Moore.
When it comes to winter sports, the resort offers 220 km of blue, red and black pistes at an altitude of 1,000 to 3000 metres and Glacier 3000. The favorite place for family passtime is Mount Wishpile (1900 metres) where children can enjoy skiing and toboggan rides. Sledding slopes can be from gentle to extreme. For those who love skating, curling and ice hockey, there are skating rinks and frozen lakes. You can have a horse-drawn carriage ride or a snowcat ride or enjoy heliskiing.
In Gstaad you can find lots of alternative activities: from modern art galleries like Maddox Gallery and Hauser & Wirth to hot balloon rides, classic music festivals and polo competitions. There's also a yacht club and a great selection of contemporary wellness clubs. By the way, in Gstaad you can stay at Iglu-Dorf, open every winter season.
A Gourmet Tour
There are about 130 restaurants with an excellent wine list in and around Gstaad which allows to make a gastronomy tour and include in it such restaurants as Eggli and La Bagatelle, visit a Molkerei Gstaad where cheeses are stored 25 meters below the ground. The oldest cheese in the collection is 150 years old.
Where to stop
More than a century-old history has a hotel Gstaad Palace - the real soul of the resort with an impressive list of guests and a prominent history of events. British field marshal Bernard Montgomery set up parties here, which he ended exactly at ten o'clock. In the 1960s, this family hotel hosted a gala party with Louis Armstrong and Marlen Dietrich. Margaret Thatcher, Kofi Annan, Elton John, Paul McCartney, Diane Ross, Sean Connery, Sophia Loren, Quentin Tarantino, Jimmy Carter... It's far from a complete list of the star fans of this family hotel, which is a trendsetter on the resort. In his La Fromagerie, you'll be offered a truffle fondue and champagne and other traditional local dishes, and in Gildo's - an Italian kitchen. It's GreenGo nightclub has almost 50 years history and Madonna and Princess Diana among famous guests. Its wellness centre is equipped with Cellgym, a system that improves the efficiency of fitness by controlling the oxygen level.
Hotel The Alpina Gstaad is chosen by Leonardo de Caprio, Tiger Woods, Madonna and leaves no one indifferent. Foodies will appreciate the restaurant Sommet, awarded by one Michelin and 18 points of Gault Millau. There's also Megu, rated the best Asian restaurant in Switzerland, with one of the largest sake collections in the country as well as a local cuisine Stübli restarant and a collection of 1,700 bottles from the world's finest vineyards, including Swiss vintages.
The Alpina Gstaad has the only one in Switzerland Six Senses Spa with different pools (indoor, in the cave, with two jacuzzis and open-air), emotional showers, Turkish baths, colour therapy, salt room, heated water mattresses and a range of yoga styles.
Le Grand Bellevue There's no time and effort to hit the guests. For example, on 27 January, there will be a evening on the Abruzzo kitchen, 6 March is a movie night on the menu. In the wine
There are 10,000 bottles of wine and 55 pages of wine.
In some restaurants, for the tasting of basic dishes, desserts and tea ceremonies, we can spend a whole day.
In the restaurant of the international kitchen, Leonard's offer a novel of local food. And there's a water somel here. A bar can be arranged in one of the many chesterfields and order a full restaurant menu with schnices, carpachios, teriacs, oysters, risotto, pasta and other prescriptions from all over the world. And in Le Petit Chalet, you're waiting for a shell and a truffle or cashew fund from a goat cheese.
In Le Grand Spa (3,000 square metres), this hotel has seventeen health areas: baths, ice fountains, grassy, infrared, Finnish, salted sauna, biosauna, salt mole, hammas, laconium, Kneip road, spirit of impressed jaco. Here they offer cheques and three-day health programmes. Yoga Jewimukti, alegro pilates, restorative yoga, physiotherapy, massage and procedures for the person and body, including the apparatus. Buy in a goat bath, milk and honey, algae, Cellcosmet cage. There's also Alpine Spa Suite, where you can enjoy your romantic procedures together.
There's a movie theater on 20 viewers in the hotel, a florist master class, a shoping. You can try Cuban cigars, have a picnic in hotel gardens or play cricket or tennis in world championships. Professional tennis instructors, too, always for you. There's even your own yacht club.
♪ Ultima Gstaad Cooperate with the Swiss clinic La Prairie, proposing progressive technological solutions for recovery. There's a clinic for estetic medicine, where at your services, the detox, the cheque, the botox, laser therapy, DNA tests. In Ultima Spa, they offer procedures based on Swiss Perfection, known by their decisions to counter age change. At the hotel restaurant, they're making kitchens of nickey. You can be accommodated in both rooms and residences with 2-4 bedrooms, your own kitchens and cosmetics.
Bulgari. Interns are skin, fur, marble.
♪ Park Gstaad There's Chubut in restaurants where the dishes of Argentina's Patagonia are served. Most importantly, it's meat that's roasted on open flames with buckles. All possible massages are collected in this hotel ' s spa: lymphoid, lomi, Thai yoga, Ko Bi K, Indian head massage, several aurved species, with alpine grass.
The oldest hotel in Gstaad is Posthotel Rösli. He's been 177 years old.
By the way, here you can rent a stunned by Hollywood stars, like the resort itself.
So if you're not too skiy a man, in hotels and beyond, there's plenty of other entertainment. It's really any taste.
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