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Suvretta House, St. Moritz

Suvretta House

St. Moritz, Switzerland. Located about a mile outside St. Moritz at over 1,800 m, it is the resort’s only ski-in, ski-out hotel.

Suvretta HouseSt. Moritz, Switzerland

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Opened
1912
Rooms
181rooms and suites
City
St. MoritzSwitzerland
Setting
Mountains & natureEurope

Practical information

Address
Suvretta House
Via Chasellas 1
7500 St. Moritz
Switzerland
Official website
www.suvrettahouse.ch
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At a glance

  • 181 rooms and suites (171 rooms and 10 suites), 45 of them with balconies.
  • The Grand Restaurant with its formal dress code, the Suvretta Stube, Anton’s Bar and the Chasellas and Trutz mountain restaurants.
  • The Suvretta Spa over 4,670 m² with a 25-metre indoor pool, tennis courts that turn into an ice rink, and a children’s ski school.
  • Located about a mile outside St. Moritz at over 1,800 m, it is the resort’s only ski-in, ski-out hotel.

History

11 dates, written by Grand Hotels of the World from the sources below.

  1. Architect Karl Koller builds the Villa Suvretta, later bought by British MP Charles Sydney Goldman, who acquires 4.5 hectares around it.

  2. Goldman and the Swiss hotelier Anton Bon lay the foundation stone of a new hotel.

  3. Suvretta House is inaugurated before 200 guests, with 250 rooms, 370 beds, a library, a music salon and banqueting halls.

  4. After Anton Bon’s death, his widow Marie Bon shapes the hotel’s atmosphere; their son Hans becomes director in 1916.

  5. Vaslav Nijinsky gives his last public performance in the hotel’s ballroom.

  6. One of Switzerland’s first ski lifts opens from Suvretta to Randolins; Douglas Fairbanks is its first passenger.

  7. The hotel closes during the Second World War, then undergoes renovation.

  8. Additional land is acquired to protect the ski slopes from development.

  9. Dorli and Rudolf F. Muller take over the management.

  10. Esther and Peter Egli, of the founding family, succeed Helen and Vic Jacob, who had run the hotel since 1989.

  11. A renovation by designer Sue Freeman is completed, and the hotel receives the Prix Bienvenu of the Swiss Tourism Association.

Sources: Wikipedia (EN), “Suvretta House” (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Official website. Text rewritten and translated by Grand Hotels of the World.

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