The most important building in the history of bathing, with twenty-two bedrooms attached and a strict no-camera rule.
Peter Zumthor finished the baths in 1996 and they were heritage-protected almost immediately. Sixty thousand slabs of local Valser quartzite, fifteen table-like units five metres high, and a fixed route through them that you follow rather than choose.
The meander takes you through the Fire Bath at forty-two degrees, the Ice Bath at fourteen, the Flower Bath and the Sound Bath, and out to the open air. The St. Peter spring rises at thirty degrees. There is a Sounding Stone and a Drinking Stone. There are no phones and no cameras anywhere in the baths, enforced.
Twenty-two bedrooms, by Kengo Kuma, Tadao Ando and Thom Mayne. Night bathing from eleven until one, three evenings a week, for residents only — which is the single best hour in Alpine bathing and the reason to stay rather than visit.
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The rooms
CategorySizeSleeps
Double RoomTerrace facing the Alps; Giubbini Architects
30 m²
not published
Spa DeluxeWalk-in closet, freestanding bathtub, shower with a steam setting
60 m²
not published
Spa SuiteEntrance hall and a second bathroom
90 m²
not published
Penthouse SuiteTop floor, Kengo Kuma, fully glazed; transfer included
90 m²
not published
22 rooms and suites in all. 4 categories from the hotel's own pages, smallest first — see their own page ↗. Occupancy is not published, only the bed. The architect-designed rooms by Zumthor, Ando, Kuma and Mayne are in a separate house, 7132 House of Architects, at about 20 m² each.
Compiled from the hotel's own published pages where available, otherwise from trade and press sources, correct as at September 2026. Anything marked "not published" is something the hotel does not state — we would rather tell you that than guess. The image above is a generated illustration, not a photograph of the property.
