Switzerland is a wellness devotee’s mecca, with spectacular spas sprinkled throughout the country, from the peaks of the Alps to the shores of Lake Geneva. We love Dolder Grand (a sprawling oasis in ...

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Travel to Switzerland is most vividly about enjoying the outdoors: skiing or hiking in the Alps, taking boat rides on blue lakes and rivers, or taking in historic towns and cities. Cafes, restaurants ...

Rain pelted the windshield as I drove up the Vals Valley. Waterfalls coursed over cliff faces, and the peaks of the Alps were lost in fog. Not the kind of weather that walkers who come to Vals in the ...

When the owners of Waldhaus Sils-Maria, a fifth-generation family-run hotel in the Swiss Alps, decided to add a serious spa to their circa-1908 storybook property, they turned to natural-product maven ...

The country is awash with natural springs and, as elsewhere in Europe, it was the Romans who first tapped into the thermal waters. It’s been a while since a Swiss politician took his clothes off to ...

The Chenot Palace Weggis, which is ushering in a new scientific era of the famed Chenot Method under Dr. George Gaitanos, is the newest high-end spot in Europe for one-week visits to reboot health: "I ...

The phrase ‘there must be something in the water’ could have been coined at the Grand Resort Bad Ragaz. This palatial spa hotel, hidden in the mountains of eastern Switzerland, draws its USP from the ...

Samantha Tonkin discovered that a burgeoning “wellness” industry has broadened the appeal of health and fitness holidays beyond the silver-haired generation. A sleek limo rolls up to Montreux train ...

Of course, the Swiss are great at keeping secrets—look no further than their famous banking system for proof of that. But the country’s best-kept secret is hidden away in the Alpine village of Flims, ...