travel42 Hotel Review: Palace Hotel Gstaad

Palace Hotel Gstaad travel42 Professional Hotel Review

Location and History

This is a legendary Alpine retreat where international celebrities and well-heeled travelers hobnob with fur-clad ski bums. Nestled on the steep mountainside above Gstaad town, the castlelike hotel's panoramic views take in the valley and surrounding jagged mountain ranges.

Palace Hotel can claim that it started tourism in Gstaad. Until the early 1900s, Gstaad was a tiny remote mountain farming village. In 1905, a train line was completed from Montreaux to...