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Laax, Switzerland

Rocksresort

Price per night from$160.12

Price information

If you haven’t entered any dates, the rate shown is provided directly by the hotel and represents the cheapest double room (inclusive of taxes and fees) available in the next 60 days.

Prices have been converted from the hotel’s local currency (CHF127.00), via openexchangerates.org, using today’s exchange rate.

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Style

All-ages Alpinist

Setting

Peak-wrapped playground

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Set high among the Swiss Alps in Laax, Rocksresort is the perfect partner for those who like to ski/board/walk/cycle and flop. Family-friendly, chalet-core apartments with ski-in ski-out access are your launchpad to adventure. But it’s the frills you return to that’ll really seal your affections: a village-worth of drinking and dining spots, plus sports courts and a summer-only play park, ensure that your time spent in resort is just as entertaining. 

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Facilities

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Need to know

Rooms

248 rooms and apartments, including four suites.

Check–Out

10am, and check-in is at 4pm. Both are flexible, on request and subject to availability. If you arrive early, you can store luggage and make use of Rocksresort facilities until your room is ready.

More details

Rates are room-only. Buffet breakfast is available at Signina Hotel, within the Rocksresort complex, for CHF28.

Also

Two of the Three-Bedroom Apartment Superior Six Garden suites at Rocksresort are set on the ground floor and have adapted bathrooms with roll-in showers, a shower seat and grab bars (bookable on request). The resort is extensive, but many of its bars, restaurants and shops are also wheelchair accessible.

At the hotel

Free WiFi throughout. In rooms: TV, Nespresso coffee machine, free bottled water, Soeder bath products; apartments and suites also have kitchens.

Our favourite rooms

Rocksresort rooms come in three flavours — Garden, Alpine and Mountain — with the latter topping our wishlist for its arresting peak-patrolled views. From romance-kindling rooms for two to floor-spanning digs for eight, there are enough bedroom configurations to cater to all kinds of clans. Hob-and-oven-equipped kitchens in the apartments give you the flexibility to dine chez vous. For more upscale interiors with warm wood and tactile soft furnishings, apartments in Casa Mulania top the bill.

Spa

No, but there’s a spa and gym at Signina Hotel, and your stay at Rocksresort gives you a 25 per cent discount on entry fees.

Packing tips

Togs for summer dips in Lake Cauma; board games and cards for apartment downtime in winter, and a thirst for adventure, year-round.

Also

Rocksresort is more village than hotel, home to several grocery and clothing stores, ski, snowboard and bike rentals, and even a hairdresser.

Pet‐friendly

Dogs can stay in any room or apartment at Rocksresort; for a nightly charge of CHF23 for each pet, you’ll get a bowl, blanket and wash cloth. See more pet-friendly hotels in Laax.

Children

Very welcome; little Smiths under 12 years old are charged as children.

Best for

All ages. Under-fours are kept busy in the (peak season) day nursery, and Schneewunderland is a ski kindergarten for over-fours. But there’s even more for the over-sixes thanks to the Laax Freestyle Academy’s fun range of activities.

Recommended rooms

Apartments range from basic (one bedroom plus a sofa-bed in the lounge) all the way up to top-floor adjoining apartments with four bedrooms for larger groups.

Crèche

Day care for kids aged one to four runs 9.30am–3.30pm daily during the winter season. It's CHF50 for a half-day and CHF70 for the whole day, with discounted rates for Rocksresort guests; reserve by 4pm the day before.

Activities

The nursery keeps younger kids engaged with treasure hunts, crafting, storytime and mini excursions, while ages six and up can get super-active with parkour, skateboarding and trampolining at Laax Freestyle Academy. The Laax School fosters learning for all ages and abilities, from its ski and snow kindergarten to advanced snowboarding techniques via cycling and creative workshops with Ami Sabi, the resort’s magical kids’ guide.

Meals

Most of the resort’s eight restaurants are very family-friendly, with kids’ menus, high chairs and crowd-pleasing eats including burgers, pasta, pizzas and even — in summer — gelato. 

Babysitting

There’s free evening care for kids aged two to eight, between 6pm and 9pm (including dinner); reserve your spots by noon the day before.

No need to pack

The resort supermarket has your back for a raft of forgotten kit. You can also rent or buy just about anything ski- or snow-related on site.

Sustainability efforts

Rocksresort takes its sustainability credentials seriously and is aiming to be fully carbon neutral by 2030. In addition to the use of local wood and stone throughout, the resort harnesses solar energy and its rooftop garden feeds native pollinators and supplies the kitchen with seasonal fresh herbs and organic ‘rockstea’. Recycling and composting programmes, LED lighting, water-saving technology, organic Soeder bath products and multiple charging points for electric cars also lighten the resort’s environmental impact.

Food and Drink

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Top Table

If there's a better winter warmer here than antipasti and fine wines by the open fire at Grandis Ustria da Vin, we’ve yet to find it.

Dress Code

Informality rules; don’t be surprised to find guests fresh off the slopes and still fully togged up, sipping cocktails.

Hotel restaurant

Rocksresort certainly doesn’t skimp on the dining options. Ristorante Camino spotlights crowd-pleasing Italian staples — pasta, carpaccio and wood-fired pizzas. Ikagai is your pan-Asian street food option, where colourful salad bowls are the order of the day. Riders specialises in plant-led dishes; Mulania Brasserie is your stop for polished French fare, and there are no prizes for guessing what’s on the menu at Burgers. Just by the valley station, Tegia Larnags promises Swiss classics and a sunny terrace. 

Winter sees the addition of fondue specialist Casa Veglia and meat, cheese and wine by the fire in Grandis Ustrai da Vin. Likewise the Piazza, for further adventures in fondue, plus coffee, pastries, wine and more. 

Hotel bar

There's a broad selection of family-friendly bars to browse. Snake Bar’s wall of skateboards nods to Laax’s freestyle spirit and there’s a skate track right outside for flipping and sliding between soft-serve ice creams. Il Pup sits right next to Burgers, meaning you can pair après-ski beers with a signature smash on the terrace. Refuel in the Petrol Station with its quirky ceiling furniture, and combine cocktails with live music and table tennis at the smart Riders Lobby Bar. Wine bar Grandis has oenophiles covered while the younger crowd slope off to arty Camino Bar at Signina Hotel, and the winter-only Indy Bar for cocktails, snacks and table football. 

Last orders

Breakfast is available at Signina Hotel between 7.30am and 10am. Many of the other resort bars and restaurants stay open until 10pm.

Room service

Download the Laax app to order takeout from resort restaurants including Burgers, Camino and Casa Veglio.

Location

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Address
Rocksresort
Via Murschetg 15
Laax
7032
Switzerland

Rocksresort sits high in the Swiss Alps, with access to more than 200 kilometres of slopes in the Flims–Laax–Falera ski area.

Planes

The resort is around two hours southeast of Zurich Airport. Private transfers can be arranged in advance for CHF500 each way. The Laax Airport Shuttle Service connects Zurich Airport and Laax on weekends during the winter season; book tickets at additional cost at least 48 hours in advance.

Trains

The closest train station is at Chur, around 30 minutes from Rocksresort. Trains from Zurich Airport serve the station, from where you can then take the yellow Postbus to the Laax Bergbahnen stop by the hotel. Private transfers from Chur can also be booked through the hotel for CHF100 each way.

Automobiles

You’ll find plenty of car rental agencies at Zurich Airport, and most will have snow chains available to add to your booking. There’s ample parking at Rocksresort, including more than 30 electric-vehicle charging points. Tickets for the garage are issued at the reception desk in Signina Hotel, which you’ll find within the resort.

Worth getting out of bed for

With slopeside access to the year-round adventure playground that is Laax, Rocksresort puts you within a gondola ride of more than 200 kilometres of pistes, an assortment of snow parks, toboggan runs and skating rinks. The meeting point for Laax School is right beside the resort, too.  

In summer, hiking trails traverse atmospheric ancient forests, glassy mountain streams and — particularly in the case of the Flimserstein’s Pinut via ferrata ascent — come with views every bit as breathtaking as the altitude. Try a less taxing wander along the Senda dil Dragun, an elevated treetop walkway that runs the length of Laax, or go full relaxation mode with a refreshing plunge into Lake Cauma’s otherworldly turquoise waters, a gentle 40-minute yomp from the resort. 

Local restaurants

With 14 drinking and dining spots across the resort, you’re unlikely to dine elsewhere during your stay. That said, a couple of standout lunch spots on the mountain are worthy of your attention. La Vacca’s cosy teepee set-up — complete with cowhide throws, sheepskin rugs and roaring central log fire — delivers charcoal-fired steaks washed down with full-blooded red wines. Nearby S’nani leans in hard to its old-school Swiss chalet interiors with dishes such as smoky leek and potato soup, beef and chestnut tartare and braised yak stew. 

Reviews

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Anonymous review

By Mr & Mrs Smith

Every hotel featured is visited personally by members of our team, given the Smith seal of approval, and then anonymously reviewed. As soon as our reviewers have returned from this sprawling mountain resort in Switzerland’s Graubünden region and shaken the snow from their boots, a full account of their high-altitude Alpine adventure will be with you. In the meantime, to whet your wanderlust, here's a quick peek inside Rocksresort in Laax… 

Rocksresort’s modern, chalet-style set-up welcomes clans of every shape and size, with the chunkiest configuration of adjoining apartments sleeping up to eight. Call dibs on the mountain-view room and get ready to dive headlong into the resort’s abundance of pleasing pastimes, for Laax is the kind of place for which the phrase ‘Great Outdoors’ was coined.  

The resort has instant access to hundreds of kilometres of picturesque pistes and a dedicated ski school. In spring, the snow gives way to nature-wrapped hiking and biking trails amid dense pine forest, pocketed with clear mountain lakes. 

Back at base, a culinary village of bars and restaurants caters to globetrotting tastes, from French fine dining, via pan-Asian street food to Swiss fondue.  

The resort’s apartment stays may be ideal for families, but there’s plenty of après-ski on offer to keep adult Smiths equally entertained. 

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Price per night from $147.51