Enjoy leisure and wellbeing of this deluxe country house hotel with intimate charm and privacy. Surrounded by its own hotel-park and gardens it lies in the sunniest and widest part of our unspoiled alpine scenery: UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE -- Our "Private Beauty, Health-Resort & Spa" with indoor-pool and new biological garden-pool offers soft wellness for relaxation. In addition to therapies a large scale of sports and leisure are offered by the hotel-itself. The fifth generation (1893), owner and general manager B''at Rickli, skilfully creates an ambiance of good taste, gracious living and perfect service. This charming country house hotel offers finest privacy: 80% are Suites and Junior Suites. All bathrooms new with luxury appliances. We do not accept travel-groups, seminars, meetings, organized meals, nor official celebrations. The Lounges, Restaurants and the Lounge-Piano-Bar are spacious, clear with vast windows; they are for residents only, except the Restaurant Fran''ais. *** MKANDERSTEG is a small, friendly village-resort, spread over 4 km on a green plateau with meadows, trees, rivers and a tiny lake - enjoy a very original ambiance, not sophisticated. A ramblers paradise around Kandersteg : Three valleys offer a nature protected region up to the crystal glaciers (3600m). Even a trip to the largest glacier of Switzerland is possible (Aletsch-glacier, 2 hrs). *** Best situation for EXCURSIONS : in the middle of the Bernese Oberland and direct access to the south and north of the Alpine mountains (tunnel: train & cars, 15 min. Fr 25.-), to the most attractive sight-seeing places of Switzerland, even to Italy, in the range of 30 min. to 2 hours drive. Milano in 3 hours.