Days here are
measured in light.
CIMA is eleven rooms of larch and stone above the Val d’Arven. Stay one whole day with us — from first sun on the glacier to a sky full of stars — and let the mountain keep the hours.
Breakfast arrives with the sun.
Most mornings the valley is still under cloud. Breakfast is served above it, from seven — with wool blankets if you come early.
- Rye, still warmthe baker drives up at six
- Butter & Alpkäsefrom Alp Prasüra, across the valley
- Apricot preserveput up last July, jar by jar
- Coffeeroasted small in Chur, poured slow
The mountain writes the itinerary.
Guides, lift passes and picnics are arranged at the desk — a day ahead is notice enough. The rest is weather, and the weather is usually right.
The peaks turn rose.
The water stays at 34°.
The pool
Outdoors, facing the ridge, held at 34° while the air drops below zero.
Cedar sauna
A small hot room with one cold bucket and one large window.
The quiet room
Arven-pine walls, wool daybeds, and nothing scheduled.
Swim while the last light climbs the ridge. It takes about twenty minutes to leave; so should you.
Dinner is five courses.
The sky is the sixth.
Chef Ladina Caduff cooks what the valley handed her that morning — char from the Inn, mountain herbs, pluma from the butcher in Zuoz. One menu, five courses, no hurry.
The cellar leans local: Malans Pinot, Valais Petite Arvine, and a génépy we make ourselves for the very end.
Seatings at 19:00 and 21:00 · residents first
Eleven rooms, one mountain each.
CHECK-IN FROM 15:00 · THE STOVE IS LIT BY 16:00
No streetlights for eleven kilometres. The Attic’s skylight needs no curtain — the stars switch themselves off around six.
Four seasons, four paces.
Deep winter
December — MarchSki-in days, fondue nights.
from CHF 480Alpenglow spring
April — JuneMeltwater, first meadows, empty trails.
from CHF 320High summer
July — SeptemberLong light, lake mornings.
from CHF 410The quiet
October — NovemberFog below, sun above. Our secret.
from CHF 290Rates per room, per night. Breakfast, the spa and the Arven mountain card are always included.
The mountain will keep your dates.
Book with us directly and we hold the best rooms, the first seating at Alva, and a genuinely warm welcome at the platform.
Three hours and ten minutes from Zürich, the last forty by narrow-gauge rail up the valley. Tell us your train — we collect you from the platform, luggage and all.
Arriving by car: the pass road is kept clear all winter. Charging in the barn.