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The finest spas, wellness retreats and golf courses of the Alps, from medical clinics to championship courses.
Last checked October 2026.
Founded in 1931 on the shore of Lake Geneva at Clarens-Montreux, the clinic runs residential longevity programmes such as Revitalisation, Master Detox and Brain Potential, with more than 50 medical specialists. Visit website (opens the official site) ↗
The flagship of the Chenot group, a five-star superior retreat with 97 rooms and suites and a 5,000 m² medical spa, where detox programmes based on the Chenot Method run for a minimum of one week. Visit website (opens the official site) ↗
A five-star superior hotel with 137 rooms, 500 metres above Lake Lucerne within the Bürgenstock Resort, built around preventive health, fitness, its own spa and space for yoga and meditation. Visit website (opens the official site) ↗
Opened in 2025 within the resort, it combines medical care with spa therapy, from preventive screenings and diagnostics to structured longevity programmes, and includes a Swiss Olympic Medical Center. Visit website (opens the official site) ↗
The German house of the Lanserhof group, about an hour from Munich, practising the LANS Med Concept: medical diagnostics, the F.X. Mayr cure, nutrition, sleep medicine and women's health programmes. Visit website (opens the official site) ↗
The original Lanserhof, founded in the 1980s in the village of Lans above Innsbruck and renovated by architect Christoph Ingenhoven, with detox therapy based on Mayr medicine and personalised daily treatments. Visit website (opens the official site) ↗
Formerly VIVAMAYR Altaussee, an adults-only medical resort on Lake Altaussee in the Salzkammergut with a 1,500 m² medical spa, offering Modern Mayr Medicine with personalised nutrition and medical diagnostics. Visit website (opens the official site) ↗
The spa of Cheval Blanc Courchevel works with Guerlain on treatments designed for the house, with a pool, hammam, sauna and an outdoor Russian banya, open through the winter season. Visit website (opens the official site) ↗
The spa of The Alpina, which opened in December 2012 as the first newly built five-star hotel in Gstaad in a century, has indoor and heated outdoor pools and therapies from East and West; it won Best Spa at a Luxury Hotel/Resort at the 2014 Gala Spa Awards. Visit website (opens the official site) ↗
A 10,000 m² spa at the Bürgenstock Hotel, with indoor and outdoor pools above the lake, saunas, hammam and fitness facilities. Visit website (opens the official site) ↗
The spa and fitness area of Badrutt's Palace, a member of The Leading Hotels of the World, opened in 2000 and since renovated. Visit website (opens the official site) ↗
A 6,050 m² spa fed by thermal water from the Tamina Gorge at a constant 36.5°C, free for guests of the resort's two five-star hotels. Visit website (opens the official site) ↗
Opened in 2019 on the edge of Pinzolo in Val Rendena, a gateway to the UNESCO-listed Dolomites, with a 5,000 m² spa among the largest in the Alps, drawing on traditional Chinese medicine. Visit website (opens the official site) ↗
A castle hotel built between 1914 and 1916 and host of the G7 summits of 2015 and 2022, holding three MICHELIN Keys, with six spas, including the adults-only Badehaus with heated rooftop and salt-water pools. Visit website (opens the official site) ↗
The spa of the five-star superior Interalpen-Hotel Tyrol, a grand mountain resort on a 1,300-metre plateau above Telfs, among the largest spa hotels in the Alps. Visit website (opens the official site) ↗
An 18-hole, par-72 course above Lake Geneva and the venue of the Amundi Evian Championship each July, a women's major since 2013 and the only major played in continental Europe. Visit website (opens the official site) ↗
An 18-hole course designed in 1964 by the three-time Open champion Sir Henry Cotton, at an average altitude of 1,320 metres on the Mont d'Arbois plateau, open from May to October; guests of the Four Seasons Resort Megève have direct access. Visit website (opens the official site) ↗
Founded in 1906, with an 18-hole course by Severiano Ballesteros that hosts the Omega European Masters in early September, plus a 9-hole course by Jack Nicklaus. Visit website (opens the official site) ↗
Founded in 1893, the oldest golf club in Switzerland, with two courses, Samedan and Zuoz-Madulain, near St. Moritz, open from May to October. Visit website (opens the official site) ↗
Founded in 1959, an 18-hole, par-70 course at 1,400 metres, 15 minutes from Gstaad, designed by Peter Harradine and open from late May to October. Visit website (opens the official site) ↗
The 18-hole championship course and 9-hole executive course of Grand Resort Bad Ragaz, set in the Rhine valley against the Alps. Visit website (opens the official site) ↗
Founded in 1926 and long associated with the Villa d'Este hotel, an 18-hole, par-69 course at Montorfano, near Como. Visit website (opens the official site) ↗
Two 18-hole courses close to town: Eichenheim, a championship course by Kyle Phillips, and Kitzbühel-Schwarzsee-Reith, set between the Hahnenkamm, the Kitzbüheler Horn and the Wilder Kaiser. Visit website (opens the official site) ↗
That makes 23 entries in all.
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