By Yolanda Carslaw Published: 1:08PM GMT twenty-two February 2010
Half house includes an glorious four-courser AMONG THE STARS
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LOCATION At 3,100m, at the tip hire of the Gornergrat railway, in the Swiss Valais. You can see twenty-nine peaks of some-more than 4,000m from here, and pistes and hiking trails lead from the doorstep.
CHARACTER A road house has stood here given 1897, and until not long ago supposing usually simple dorm bedrooms and a restaurant: right away the interior is complicated and mostly attractive. Yet it"s capricious in character: the dining room is comfortable and cheerful, but the loll uninviting.
ROOMS Its twenty-three bedrooms opposite dual floors are declared after circuitously peaks and their altitude. Ours, Ober Gabelhorn 4063, was ethereal and modern, with light hunger equipment and flush and slate-grey upholstery. All bedrooms have flat-screen TV, a absolute shower, Wifi and generally great beds.
FOOD Half house includes an glorious four-courser and we drank booze from Heida, Europe"s top vineyard.
WE LIKE Waking up to the extensive view, and the shining look-out tour, when we carefully thought about Saturn. Great for groups during the revisit dual dozen Swiss, who had been entrance the same week for twenty-three years, were carrying a ridicule time.
NOT SO KEEN A contrition there"s no bar, and no sofas in the lounge.
ESSENTIALS 0041 twenty-seven 966 6400; gornergrat-kulm.ch. Doubles from �155, half board.
Getting there
You can get without delay to the Bellevue des Alpes and the Gornergrat utilizing Swiss trains (sbb.ch/en); both are 3 to 4 hours" rail float from Zurich airport, that is served by Swiss (0845 601 0956; swiss.com) from multiform British airports. For Les Marmottes, fly to Geneva (BA, Swiss and easyJet), afterwards it"s dual hours by car, or a small some-more by sight and bus: you have the last climb by gondola, afterwards skis or on foot.
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