Summary

St Moritz is Switzerland’s definitive ‘exclusive’ winter resort: glitzy, fashionable and, above all, the place to be seen – a place for an all-round winter holiday, with an unrivalled array of wacky diversions such as cricket on snow, and countless festivals. It has long been popular with upper-crust Brits, who come for the sledging. Well, OK: for the world-famous Cresta Run, which isn’t quite the same thing. But, like all such smart resorts, it makes a perfectly good destination for anyone. These days, it even has a public swimming pool.

The town of St Moritz is a bit of a blot on the landscape; but that landscape is truly spectacular. Our skiing here is regularly interrupted by the need to stand and gaze, and once installed on the right terrace we take some shifting.

The Cresta Run ends at quiet, relatively rustic Celerina, which gets its own web page.

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