We stayed at the Walhaus because we were taking the Glacier Express and the train station is acrossed the street. The staff never asked us if we needed help with the luggage. We had to drag our bags to the station across a bridge in the rain. The altitude is high so it wasn't easy for flatlanders like ourselves. The rooms are very small and no a/c. We had a room over the hotel entrance and I was up all night because there was a wedding going on and the revelers were outside smoking and laughing until 5am. At breakfast I watched a couple of flies do a mating dance. Why don't they have screens on the windows in Europe? Haven't they heard of the Plague???

I have stayed here on a number of occasions, usually when driving through.

The Waldhaus is priviledged to be the only lakeside hotel in St. Moritz. It has all types and sizes of rooms (I must have been in at least five different ones) and offers an eclectic mix of special features - always making for a remarkable stay. Staff was friendly and everybody seemed to be in a good mood, but efficiency could be improved upon. Most, but not all rooms offer the spectacular view over the lake and towards the mountains in the southwest. The restaurant is a spacious hall overlooking the lake. Like the whole hotel, it was probably built around the turn of the 19th century but updated so many times that no clear style can be detected anymore.

Food is good but not really worthy of the setting. Not even worthy of the wine list, which is one of the best in the world. You don't have to take my word for it, the respective certificates from "Wine Spectator" and other specialist bodies cover the walls of the place. But the wine list (spectacular as it is) is nothing compared to the Guiness Book certified Whisk(e)y selection. The bar has some 2800 different whiskies on offer and there are at least a thousand more in the vaults waiting to be classified, Claudio Bernasconi, the owner, assured (and showed) me.

There are apartments/suites in a nearby house called "Innfall". Nice, clean and spacious but lacking the view.

Rooms have hifi, TV and minibar. The minibar prices, strangely enough, are the cheapest I have ever seen. I asked Claudio about this and he replied that the cheap prices would "increase honesty".

I like the guy and I like his hotel.

Yes, we were here off season and almost every other hotel was closed so options were few, but this was still a time warp...sensed you were in some 1940s B "film noir" location, which fortunately had magnificent views of the Alps. Tough to tell if this is an old hotel trying to be a rustic ski lodge or an aging ski lodge trying to be a grand hotel of yore. Our room was a very large and aging family ski "apartment"..reasonably clean and nice balcony view. The lobby was dated, staff were semi helpful, and the restaurant was "odd"...1940's feel, widely ranging levels of service and food (some of the best trout I have ever had for dinner, whilst breakfast was a mismanaged embarrassment; highlighted by a very public "dust up" between two overworked staff members). Weird place, but nice views.

we arrived after a very harrowing journey as our trip on glacier express was cancelled third of the way and we had change 4 trains to get to st moritz...we arrived late at 8 pm...trudged our way to the hotel...which is 5 mins walk from the train station...but uphill...
receptionist was sweet she upgraded us to what i think was the best room in the hotel because it was my fiancee's bday..the room was large bathroom excellant...and view to die for...frozen laken...snow clad mountains...amazing...
hotel has the world's best and the largest private collection of scotch..we were treated to the most amazing fare by the bartender...who is a maestro...
food in restaurant was great too...
would go back again and again