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Valsana Arosa
€346.80/ Night
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A fossil-fuel-free luxury hotel in Arosa, run on geothermal energy and a pioneering ice battery, wrapping serious engineering in eclectic, maximalist alpine design.
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Need To Know
- 49 rooms, suites and apartments, several with fully equipped kitchens
- A fossil-fuel-free, CO₂-neutral luxury hotel on the Obersee in Arosa, Graubünden
- Restaurant TWIST (regional Grisons and plant-based menus), TWIST Terrace and the Lounge & Bar
- An 800-square-metre spa with an indoor pool, saunas, steam baths and a 24-hour gym
- The Moving Mountains holistic wellness programme; an indoor tennis centre with two courts
- Open in summer and winter seasons; the south-facing apartments stay open year-round
- Part of the family-owned Tschuggen Collection; child- and dog-friendly
Check in - Check out
Check in from 14:00; check out before 12:00.
We Love
- The ice battery — the heart of the hotel: a giant water tank that banks heat as it freezes and releases it as it thaws, pairing with geothermal probes to run the whole building without a drop of fossil fuel.
- The interiors — designer Carlo Rampazzi's deliberate riot of colour and curiosity, where botanical prints, embroidered textiles, a 14th-century French fireplace and aviator egg chairs share a room and somehow agree.
- The spa — 800 square metres of calm, with an indoor pool, saunas and steam baths facing the slopes and forest, and a fitness studio open around the clock.
- The setting — on the Obersee lake at 1,830 metres, with the Weisshorn in view and, in winter, a piste that delivers you to the door; a base for skiing, hiking and biking through the year.
- The Moving Mountains programme — yoga, meditation and guided mountain expeditions, with plant-based menus at Restaurant TWIST to match the hotel's lighter, cleaner instinct.
Key Features
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€346.80 for 1 Night
Location
Address
Oberseepromenade 2, 7050 Arosa, Switzerland
Travel Info
Valsana stands on the Oberseepromenade by the Obersee lake in Arosa, at around 1,830 metres in Graubünden. Arosa is reached in about an hour by the scenic railway up from Chur, and roughly two hours from Zürich; a Mercedes airport transfer can be arranged on request.
Nearby Places
Arosa can be reached within an hour by train from Chur, or within two hours by train from Zurich. Mercedes airport transfer available upon request.
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Last Updated: 2026-06-16
Expert Review
Origins
Most alpine hotels sell you the view. Valsana sells you the building. It opened in 2017, the reinvention of a century-old Arosa hotel rebuilt almost from scratch with a single, unfashionable ambition: to be a luxury hotel in the high Alps that burns no fossil fuel at all. It belongs to the family-owned Tschuggen Collection, the Swiss group founded in 1980 by the Kipp-Bechtolsheimer family, but it shares little of the grand-palace manner of its siblings. This is a hotel built around an idea.
The idea is in the basement. Valsana's heat comes from geothermal probes sunk deep beneath the site, and its clever part is what happens to the surplus: a vast underground water tank, the "ice battery", stores energy by exploiting the heat that water gives off as it freezes and absorbs as it melts. Warmth drawn from the building in summer is banked in the tank; in winter it is drawn back out, the water freezing to release it. Paired with the geothermal system, it lets the hotel heat itself in deep alpine winter with no oil, no gas and effectively no carbon — a genuine piece of engineering, certified by Green Globe and Responsible Hotels of Switzerland, not a brochure boast.
What makes Valsana more than a clever machine is the decoration wrapped around it. The interiors are the work of designer Carlo Rampazzi, and they are gloriously, deliberately irrational — hand-painted botanical prints, embroidered textiles, a 14th-century French fireplace and aviator egg chairs sharing a room and somehow agreeing. The contrast is the whole point: a hyper-rational, zero-carbon building dressed in maximalist colour and curiosity. Add 49 rooms, suites and year-round apartments, an 800-square-metre spa, an indoor tennis centre and Restaurant TWIST, and the result is a hotel with both a conscience and a personality — rare enough together to make it worth the trip.
Top Secret
Arosa is not only a winter resort, and Valsana is built to prove it. Come summer the snow gives way to some 200 kilometres of marked hiking trails and 700 kilometres of mountain-biking routes, with a drop of more than 500 metres on the descent back from nearby Hörnli for those who want their pulse up. The hotel stays open right through the summer season for exactly this, and its south-facing apartments, with their own kitchens, stay open almost year-round — the quiet shoulder months, when the crowds thin and the rates ease, are the local secret.
The Review
Valsana is the most genuinely sustainable luxury hotel in the Swiss Alps, and the rare one that makes sustainability feel like an indulgence rather than a sacrifice. It runs without fossil fuels — heated by geothermal energy and a pioneering ice battery that banks warmth underground from one season to the next — and it is, at the same time, among the most characterful mountain hotels in the country. You can ignore the engineering entirely and simply enjoy a stylish, comfortable base; but the engineering is precisely why it feels unlike anywhere else.
It sits in the village of Arosa, between the Obersee lake and the forest at 1,830 metres, with the Weisshorn ahead and, in winter, a piste that runs to the door. Carlo Rampazzi's interiors are the opposite of standard alpine pine — eclectic, warm and full of incident, a 14th-century fireplace one moment and an egg chair the next — so that the most rational building in the resort is also the most playful to be inside. The 800-square-metre spa, with its pool, saunas and round-the-clock gym, deals with post-slope aches; Restaurant TWIST handles regional Grisons and plant-based cooking; and the Moving Mountains programme adds yoga, meditation and guided expeditions for those who want a holiday that does them good.
It is not a grand old palace hotel, and does not pretend to be; it is the modern, conscience-clear alternative, for travellers who want their luxury to mean something and their mountain resort to work in July as well as January. Family- and dog-friendly, serious about its values without ever being solemn about them, Valsana is the most forward-looking hotel in the Alps — and proof that the greenest choice can also be the most enjoyable one.
