Wellness in Saas-Fee: A romantic getaway

Wellness, good food and Saas-Fee

Spontaneous visit to Lake Blausee

The well­ness get­away starts in the car, in a cosy jog­ging out­fit and with fresh­ly baked banana bread for on the road. The trip from Zurich to Saas-Fee via Bern takes time, but as the say­ing goes: The jour­ney is the des­ti­na­tion. With good con­ver­sa­tions, a short lunch break in the Kan­der­tal val­ley and the joy of dis­cov­er­ing new regions of Switzer­land, time flies by. With the words “Stop the car! We’re at Lake Blausee,I’ve always want­ed to go there!” we make anoth­er spon­ta­neous detour.

To wellnessHostel4000, of course, where else?

Once we’ve parked our car in the mul­ti-storey car park at the out­skirts of town, it’s only a five-minute walk to see it in all its glo­ry: wellnessHostel4000. The idyl­lic atmos­phere of the car-free moun­tain vil­lage gives us a warm wel­come. Behind the large win­dow on the ground floor are the charm­ing bistro and recep­tion area. The hos­tel in Saas-Fee fea­tures 51 rooms: 4- to 6‑bed rooms, fam­i­ly rooms, bar­ri­er-free rooms and dou­ble and twin rooms. We stay in a dou­ble room with shower/WC and have a beau­ti­ful view of the vil­lage – free of charge.

Hand in hand through Saas-Fee

Although we’re very much look­ing for­ward to some well­ness, we’re drawn out­side in this weath­er. We explore the vil­lage and enjoy the time togeth­er. The tra­di­tion­al wood­en hous­es on stilts, called “stadel­häuser” mean­ing barn hous­es, are built in such a way that they are pro­tect­ed from mois­ture and pests. At Sum­mit Cof­fee & Lounge, we start with a cof­fee, then enjoy a roman­tic aper­i­tif on the sun ter­race, all with a won­der­ful view of the snow-cov­ered four-thou­sand-metre peaks. We can’t com­plain!

In love with apple cake

As soon as we arrived, we imme­di­ate­ly caught sight of the fresh­ly baked apple cake in the hostel’s bistro. After our walk, it was still there in the dis­play case, tempt­ing us, and we were thrilled. The ter­race leaves noth­ing to be desired. While the sweet apple cake melts on your tongue and the sun’s rays warm your skin, pure relax­ation sets in.

Time for wellness

Our absolute high­light is the well­ness area at Aqua Allalin. The view from 1,900 square metres is sim­ply breath­tak­ing. There is a Finnish and a biosoft sauna oppo­site each oth­er. In between you will find a warm stone pedestal and three foot­baths. The sen­so­ry show­ers are locat­ed at the heart of the well­ness area: Sum­mer rain, icy mist, moun­tain stream and water­fall. Respect to any­one brave enough to enter the icy mist. Time flies as we explore the dif­fer­ent areas bare­foot and wrapped in our cosy, warm bathrobes.

You will find the admis­sion prices here.

Dinner at the hostel

After so much relax­ation, hunger soon catch­es up with us. wellnessHostel4000 not only offers apple cake, but also Youm­mi food and drink. You can enjoy a deli­cious three-course din­ner for CHF 19.50. We have rice with veg­eta­bles and tofu, accom­pa­nied by a mixed sal­ad – and because one slice a day is sim­ply not enough – a piece of lemon cake for dessert. Every­thing tastes great, and now we can fall into bed relaxed.

Morning swim in the whirlpool

We head back to Aqua Allalin in the ear­ly morn­ing. Anoth­er high­light is the whirlpool, which gives you a direct view of the gorge and the panoram­ic bridge. After the jacuzzi, you can rehy­drate with a cup of water or tea. In this atmos­phere, the emo­tions are guar­an­teed to bub­ble up.

Wine and candlelight

If you want to end your get­away with a din­ner out­side the hos­tel, Saas-Fee is syn­ony­mous with good food and out­stand­ing ser­vice. At restau­rant Chez Roli, we expe­ri­ence exact­ly that and savour a roman­tic meal with excep­tion­al­ly friend­ly staff. The veg­e­tar­i­an game dish is deli­cious, espe­cial­ly the chest­nuts. A glass of wine, what a per­fect way to round off our trip.