Zermatt is our home, and we love sharing it with you!

Actually living in Zermatt gives us a significant advantage when it comes to local knowledge. We work with many local companies to offer our guests the best deals on travel to and from Zermatt, ski rentals, and reservations at the best Zermatt restaurants. Organizing ski passes on arrival, making restaurant bookings, and providing serviced apartments are all part of what we do.

All our guests are personally met at the station on arrival and accompanied to their Zermatt holiday apartment or chalet in an electric taxi.

The birth of a company

“I landed here in Zermatt by chance in the sixties when this alpine village was just recovering from some bad publicity after an outbreak of typhoid! I loved working seasons in hotels during those early years – it meant leaving in September returning in December and leaving in April returning in June for the alpine Zermatt in summer and leaving me time for visits home to England between seasons.

It must have been during those early years that I fell in love with Zermatt: it felt like a fairy-tale village so far away from the rest of the world situated at the end of a long alpine valley surrounded on 3 sides by the highest peaks in the Alps.

In 1971 I married Georges a native of Zermatt whom I had met a year earlier: with him I learned to speak and understand the local German dialect and become more involved in local life. We had 2 children in the next couple of years and I continued working throughout the year in the local tourist office as well as becoming a tourist guide recounting to guests the history of Zermatt, this stunning mountain village including the story of the tragic first ascent of the Matterhorn which helped put Zermatt on the tourist map.

It was not until the children had left home at the end of the eighties that my husband Georges and I started our company “ZERMATT HOLIDAYS” renting out Zermatt apartments to visitors. During these years we made lots of friends who became returning guests some of whom still visit us today with the next generation of guests. Georges sadly died in 2008 but I continued running the company and enjoyed passing on my knowledge and enthusiasm for Zermatt to thousands of holidaymakers.

The business has undergone enormous changes in the last few years; due to enhanced expectations of today’s guests, we have continually improved our Zermatt apartments and chalets and been keeping up with all the technical advances which enable requests to be answered within 24 hours and reservations to be made online.”

Founder, Zermatt Holidays