MICHELIN counts 89 Key hotels in Switzerland in 2026, ten of them with Three Keys and 31 with Two. The list was published in German on 18 September, with the worldwide selection, and it brings three new names to the top two levels: Kulm Hotel St. Moritz and the Beau-Rivage Palace in Lausanne at Three Keys, and Six Senses Crans-Montana at Two. The other 48 hotels hold One Key. St. Moritz alone has three of the ten Three-Key hotels. Here are the 41 hotels at Three and Two Keys, town by town, and the new names among the rest.
Kulm, Beau-Rivage Palace and Six Senses: the three new names
The two promotions to Three Keys go to hotels with long histories, according to MICHELIN’s Swiss list. Kulm Hotel St. Moritz has 150 rooms. The Beau-Rivage Palace in Lausanne has 168 rooms at Ouchy, on the shore of Lake Geneva, and in the guide’s words “the better rooms” look “over the lake and the French Alps”. The new Two-Key hotel is Six Senses Crans-Montana, with 78 rooms on the Route des Téléphériques, ski-in, ski-out access to the Cry d’Er gondola and views of the Matterhorn and Mont Blanc. It has two restaurants, Byakko, which is Japanese, and Wild Cabin. “Even by the standard of Swiss Alpine luxury resorts, Six Senses Crans-Montana is remarkable,” the inspectors write.
“There are other luxury hotels in St. Moritz, but the Kulm can credibly claim to be the original.” The MICHELIN Guide
The ten Three-Key hotels in Switzerland
The order is by town, and the names are MICHELIN’s.
| Town | Hotel |
|---|---|
| Bad Ragaz | Grand Resort Bad Ragaz |
| Basel | Hotel Les Trois Rois |
| Bürgenstock | Bürgenstock Hotel & Alpine Spa |
| Geneva | The Woodward, Auberge Collection |
| Gstaad | The Alpina Gstaad |
| Lausanne | Beau-Rivage Palace (new at Three Keys) |
| St. Moritz | Badrutt’s Palace Hotel |
| St. Moritz | Carlton Hotel St. Moritz |
| St. Moritz | Kulm Hotel St. Moritz (new at Three Keys) |
| Zurich | Baur au Lac |
All 31 Two-Key hotels, from Andermatt to Zurich
One hotel among them is new to the Keys this year: Six Senses Crans-Montana.
| Town | Hotel |
|---|---|
| Andermatt | The Chedi Andermatt |
| Arosa | Tschuggen Grand Hotel |
| Arosa | Valsana Hotel Arosa |
| Ascona | Castello del Sole Beach Resort & Spa |
| Ascona | Hotel Eden Roc |
| Bern | Hotel Bellevue Palace Bern |
| Crans-Montana | Guarda Golf Hôtel & Résidences |
| Crans-Montana | Hostellerie du Pas de l’Ours |
| Crans-Montana | LeCrans Hotel & Spa |
| Crans-Montana | Six Senses Crans-Montana (new) |
| Geneva | Beau-Rivage Genève |
| Geneva | Four Seasons Hotel des Bergues Geneva |
| Geneva | The Ritz-Carlton Hotel de la Paix, Geneva |
| Gstaad | Gstaad Palace |
| Gstaad | Le Grand Bellevue |
| Interlaken | Victoria-Jungfrau Grand Hotel & Spa |
| Lausanne | Lausanne Palace |
| Lucerne | Mandarin Oriental Palace, Luzern |
| Lugano | Villa Principe Leopoldo |
| Montreux | Fairmont Le Montreux Palace |
| Pontresina | Grand Hotel Kronenhof |
| Regensberg | Boutique Hotel Restaurant Krone Regensberg |
| Saas-Fee | The Capra |
| St. Moritz | Suvretta House |
| Vals | 7132 Hotel |
| Vitznau | Park Hotel Vitznau |
| Zermatt | CERVO Mountain Resort |
| Zermatt | Matterhorn FOCUS |
| Zurich | La Réserve Eden au Lac Zurich |
| Zurich | The Dolder Grand |
| Zurich | Widder Hotel |
St. Moritz, Crans-Montana and the lakes: where they are
By our count, St. Moritz has four hotels at the top two levels, Badrutt’s Palace, the Carlton and the Kulm at Three Keys and Suvretta House at Two, with the Grand Hotel Kronenhof a few kilometres away at Pontresina. Crans-Montana has four Two-Key hotels, more than any other Swiss town. Zurich and Geneva each have one Three-Key and three Two-Key hotels, Gstaad one and two, and Zermatt, Ascona and Arosa two Two-Key hotels each. On Lake Lucerne, the Bürgenstock Hotel & Alpine Spa holds Three Keys on its cliff above the water. Ticino has three Two-Key hotels, two at Ascona on Lake Maggiore and Villa Principe Leopoldo above Lugano. Among the 48 One-Key hotels, four are new: Waldhotel by Bürgenstock, Huus Quell by Appenzeller Huus at Gonten, Miiro The Mansard in Gstaad and Hotel Welschen in Zermatt. The restaurants come next. The MICHELIN Guide Switzerland presents its restaurant selection on Monday 2 November at the Andermatt Konzerthalle, in the town of The Chedi Andermatt, one of the 31, as we noted in our calendar of the MICHELIN ceremonies.
The Luxury.it perspective
Switzerland’s list is short at the top and dense in the middle. Ten Three-Key hotels, three of them in one resort, say how much St. Moritz still means to the Alps. The 31 Two-Key hotels are where a traveller finds range, from the nine rooms of the Krone at Regensberg, near Zurich, to the 235 of the Montreux Palace. For the winter, Crans-Montana is the resort to watch, with four Two-Key hotels and a new Six Senses among them. For the lakes, Lausanne now has a Three-Key palace on the water, and Lake Lucerne and Lake Maggiore keep their Two-Key classics at Lucerne, Vitznau and Ascona. The restaurant stars follow on 2 November, and we will add them to our Swiss coverage when MICHELIN publishes them.
Related guides
All 82 three-key hotels in Europe · St. Moritz and Gstaad in winter · Luxury chalets in Switzerland · The Alpine palaces’ winter dates
