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The Cambrian

Adelboden, Switzerland

Sleek, modern, and situated at the snowy heart of the Swiss Alps, The Cambrian hotel is the perfect place for keen skiers and Alpine adventures to rest their heads – or to bask their way to bliss in the soul-soothing terrace hydrotherapy pool. With awe-inducing mountain views in every direction, you’re guaranteed holiday snaps that your friends will actually want to see.

Need to know

• Rooms 71, including 24 suites.
• Rates Double rooms from $169.89 (CHF163), excluding tax at 4.2 per cent. Please note the hotel charges an additional local city tax of CHF4.20 per person per night on checkout.
  Prices have been converted from the hotel's local currency (CHF163), via XE.com, using today's exchange rate.
• More details Rates include breakfast buffet and spa access.
• Facilities Spa, ski room, gym, library, billiard room, DVD selection, board games, free WiFi throughout. In rooms: flatscreen TV, DVD player, minibar, Keiji toiletries.
• Poolside The spa has pools both indoors and out. Inside, there’s a soothing lap pool fed by a wall-size waterfall and lined with comfortable wooden loungers. Outside, on the terrace beside the restaurant, the hydrotherapy pool with massage jets and Jacuzzi is wonderfully warm, allowing you to bask blissfully alfresco even when the snow is whirling around you.
• Check-out Midday, although later check-out can be arranged for a CHF125 fee. Check-in, 3pm.
• Children The hotel welcomes youngsters and can provide cots (free) and extra beds (CHF100) as required. Babysitting (with staff) can be arranged for CHF25 an hour, and there’s a 24-hour playroom (unsupervised), with games, Playstation and Wii.
• Eco-friendly The Cambrian recycles everything possible, composts food waste and uses locally sourced organic and seasonal ingredients in its cuisine.
• Also You can bring pets for CHF45 a night. Smoking is allowed in the bar. Parking outisde the hotel is CHF20 a night in winter (CHF25 in the underground car park) and CHF10 (CHF15) in summer.

Food and drink at The Cambrian

• Hotel restaurant Italian eatery Nova is a smart, clean-lined space that combines warm red walls with mahogany furniture and cream-coloured chairs. Cuisine is classically Northern Italian, with carpaccio, pasta with rabbit ragouts and saltimbocca typically appearing on the seasonal menu. The wine selection – on display in a long glass cabinet – is excellent. There’s no lunch served in the hotel, but light snacks are available in the lobby. Breakfast is served until a leisurely 11am.
• Dress code Après-ski chic.
• Top table The tables by the windo close to the middle of the room have excellent views of the Alps – and other guests bubbling away in the Jacuzzi pool on the terrace.
• Last orders The chef hangs up his apron at 9.30pm, but you can get a drink in the bar until the early hours.
• Room service There’s a 24-hour menu of drinks and light meals.
• Hotel bar Scott’s Bar is the ideal venue for post-slope topes, with a stylish bubble-glass bar illuminated in an icy blue hue, Swiss beer on tap, and a fine cocktail menu. It’s open from 5pm every day.

Also worth knowing

• Weddings This property is suitable for weddings. More...

The Cambrian Dorfstrasse 7, Adelboden, 3715