Picturesque Gstaad, known for its luxurious ski resorts . top hotels, gourmet restaurants, luxury chalets, ski resorts and nearby Saanen airport, car-free Gstaad is also a popular destination for international celebrities like Julie Andrews, Elizabeth Taylor, Roger Moore and Prince Charles and Princess Diana. This wide-open countryside offers versatile and diverse sports programmes in both summer and winter: In summer, there is hiking, mountain biking, paragliding and golf. The summer toboggan and the Lake Lauenen (nature's paradise) are ideal excursion destinations for families. In winter of course there is skiing, snowboarding, snowshoewalking, tobigganing and the apres ski parties where one can have fondue and gluh wine.
In recent years, the centre of Gstaad has developed into the most popular and shortest "shopping mile" in Switzerland. Additionally, it is also one of the most scenic places of Switzerland. It is believed that Yash Chopra visited Gstaad for his own honeymoon and fell in love with the beauty of the region.
Gstaad is one of the most attractive holiday regions in the Swiss alps for family, skiing, hiking, biking & vacations. After all, for decades, Indian directors have been coming to Switzerland to film towns like Gstaad as the backdrop to their elaborate dream sequences. And over the years, film fans have followed too. This reflects in the Gstaad motto: Come up, slow down.