Maistra 160 takes its name from its address on Via Maistra in Pontresina, the old mountaineering village of the Upper Engadine, and it breaks deliberately from the chalet template and the Belle Époque façades around it. Gion A. Caminada designed it for Bettina and Richard Plattner, and it won the Swiss Arc Award 2024. Lucrezia Zanetti and the stone sculptor Christian Aubry drew its colours from the rocks of the Bernina. Downstairs, the spa gathers round an open-sky cloister with a fire, an outdoor pool, saunas and a basalt steam bath; upstairs, the bar’s Stammtisch belongs to the village.

A value voucher can be any amount from CHF 50 and spent in the hotel or the Maistra Concept Store. Day Spa vouchers start at CHF 45, on their own or with a massage or breakfast, and treatments run from a classic massage to Hot Stone or Lomi Lomi Nui, from CHF 80.

The hotel still calls itself a hidden gem. A voucher is, in effect, the directions.