a-secret-blogger: Hotel des Alpes, Flims

Last weekend, I went to Flims, a popular winter sports resort with my work colleagues.

Every year around March, our company organizes the so called "Schnee-Weekend" (snow-weekend) to socialize with the co-workers and to have fun by doing winter sports together.
We stayed at the "Hotel des Alpes", a comfy and nice 3-star hotel right across the bus station "Flims Waldhaus, Caumasee".

How to get there from Zurich, main station: take the train to Chur (takes about 75 - 90 mins depending on the train), get off at Chur station and take the yellow post bus (Postauto) direction Laax and get off at the bus stop "Flims, Cauma See" (takes about 40 min).

The reception area and the restaurant "il forno" is decorated sweetly like it's Valentine's Day every day with all the red heart-shaped wooden objects. :)

The rooms were also quite pretty, ours had a small kitchen, the room itself was furnished with light colored wood, chalet-like, which is not my taste but perfect for a ski resort hotel and most importantly everything was clean. ;)

There is also an indoor swimming pool and a sauna for the hotel guests.

The cozy "Hausbar", the bar and smoker lounge of the hotel.

A grand piano at the back area of the bar.

The service was friendly and the food at the restaurant was good.

The ski-lift tickets can be bought at the reception which is very practical. The shuttle bus / Postauto across the hotel takes you to the ski-lift area in 5 mins, where you can also rent the winter sports equipments. Those who don't ski or snowboard (like me), you can also have a nice walk to the Cauma Lake (Caumasee) through the woods or to the viewing platform at Conn called "Il Spir". The platform allows a good view of the gorge and the river lying about 380 meters from below.

Chalet "Steinpilz" (porcino) - what a cute name ;)

The beautiful Cauma Lake is frozen now but in summer you can swim. I need to come back here in summer! Must be nice swimming in such a clear and deep blue water!