Website / Hospitality / Luxury
A quiet-luxury boutique hotel website for Gstaad, built around heritage, photography, and natural booking moments.
Project overview
Hotel Le Grand Chalet is a digital experience for a family-run four-star boutique hotel above Gstaad. The project turns rooms, dining, wine, wellness, and the hotel's long-standing reputation into a calm, premium booking journey.
The goal was to make the offer easier to understand, present the work with stronger context and create a smoother path from first impression to contact, inquiry, booking or product evaluation.
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Case study
The brief was not to make the hotel louder. It was to make its heritage, setting, dining, and hospitality feel as considered online as they do in person.
Trust and performance signals
1989
Established
Heritage used as a first-screen trust signal.
20
Rooms and suites
A deliberately intimate hospitality proposition.
16/20
Gault&Millau
A dining credential kept close to the guest journey.
1,100m
Above sea level
The alpine setting turned into part of the story.
The thinking behind the work
The brief
The hotel combines rooms and suites, three-toque dining, an extensive wine cellar, and a private wellness retreat. The experience needed to hold all of that without overwhelming a guest who is simply deciding whether this is the right place to stay.
Design direction
The homepage opens with the hotel in its valley, then places the most meaningful credentials in a dark glass panel. Generous spacing and large photography let the rooms, dining, cellar, and wellness offer feel closer to a printed hotel book than a generic travel site.
Outcome
The result is intentionally calm: guests understand the hotel's character and credentials before being asked to make a reservation.
Deliverables
Website
UX/UI Design
Web Development
Responsive Design
Luxury Brand Direction
Gallery
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