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The Brecon

Hotel

From $800 Rates shown are approximate and for guidance only, based on recent starting prices.

Minimum stay
1
Location
Adelboden, Bern, Switzerland
Type
Hotel

Amenities

  • Pet Friendly
  • Pool
  • Restaurant
  • Spa
  • Wi-Fi

Experiences

  • Cycling
  • Hiking
  • Massage
  • Skiing
  • Wellness Rituals

Why we love

  • All-inclusive
  • Sixties chalet soul
  • Panoramic heated pool

“A 1914 chalet in the Bernese Oberland where the room rate includes dinner, the wine and the whisky bar”.

The Brecon is a 22-room hotel in Adelboden, a village in Switzerland’s Bernese Oberland, set inside the timber frame of a hotel first built in 1914. Founded by Welsh-born Grant Maunder, whose family has skied here for four decades, it was redesigned with the mood of the ’60s and ’70s in mind: Jean Gillon chairs, wool weaves from Wales, a library and art selected by Bisou Gallery. All meals and drinks are part of the stay, from breakfast and afternoon tea to dinner at the chef’s table and nightcaps in the lounge. A guest-only spa, with saunas and a heated outdoor pool facing the mountains, sits a two-minute walk from the ski lifts.

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