Guest User
February 27, 2023
Fabulous stay and will return. As a party of 8 we stayed at the Astoria from 27th December. It’s a great hotel. Bedrooms were really well set out, comfy bed, lots of hanging and storage space and a small bathroom with hot shower (one of our party had a bath). Our room had fab views of the Matterhorn. Great selection at breakfast - fruit, cereals, pastry’s and hot choice of eggs / bacon & toasty maker. Evening meal was a four course - with choices for pasta and main course made the previous evening. Vegetarian choice good too. We were there for New Year’s Eve - with 10 courses starting with buffet choice, fish course, pasta … it was fab. The hotel team are fantastic - they really couldn’t do enough for us, made us all feel welcome and provided a great service. Boot room is well set out with individual heated lockers for each room. We used the sauna and hot tub on the roof a few times. Really amazing sitting looking out over the slopes with the sun setting on the Matterhorn. The hotel is a few minutes walk to the main cable car station. And at the end of the day you can ski back down a red to the station, or red 13 brings you even close to the hotel - a bit narrower and steeper. The skiing was great - lots of snow and well maintained pistes. We booked area lift passes to cover Zermatt but the links were shut on a few days. If I was going again I’d definitely book a local pass and upgrade on the days the links are open. You can do this at the top of the first cable car - when you know the links are open. Great lunch stop is the restaurant by the Bontadini lift.