Reach for the stars

for the Million Stars Hotel project. Room prices start from £65, rising to around £600 if you really want to splash out, including breakfast.

Depending on their altitude and outdoor character, the rooms are available for bookings up to the end of October.

No one room is quite like another. You could spend the night on the Piz Nair mountain in a cable car that has been converted into a tiny home.

Or how about a glass-fronted cube on the Eggishorn mountain with views of the Aletsch Glacier?

An observatory has been transformed into a hotel room for guests in St Moritz. There’s a plexiglass room on Lake Maggiore, and even a boat you can camp in on Lake Thun.

For glampers who want to sleep directly under the stars, outdoor beds are available in Oberems in the Valais, in La Ferrière in the Bernese Jura, or in Toggenburg.

Guests can sleep soundly in their own protective bubble in picturesque locations in Thurgau and southern Ticino, as well as on the rooftop of the Hotel Widder in the city of Zurich.

Lovers of the great outdoors can even choose to spend a night in a tree tent suspended above the ground, taking them that little bit closer to the stars.

It’s not the first time that Switzerland has blazed a trail as brightly as a comet through the night sky. From close to nature accommodation to pop-up hotels, glamping to glacier getaways, the country has got them covered. But this is the first time that such a wide range of unusual accommodation options can be booked by means of a single platform.

“Far more projects were entered than could be chosen for the Million Stars Hotel project,” says Martin.

“A specialist jury made up of marketing and hotel industry experts was tasked with selecting the accommodation options to be included in the project.

“Successful entries had to include accommodation with a clear view of the starry sky, a highly original and exciting location with nearby sanitary facilities and attractive alternative accommodation in case of bad weather.

“One of the goals of the Million Stars Hotel project is to make guests more aware of regions that are less well-known from a tourism perspective.

“The project has been successfully implemented in spite of the difficult conditions encountered recently. Obtaining permits and securing funding during the coronavirus pandemic has proven a real challenge.

“I am therefore

CLEAR WINNER

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