My 9-year-old son Augustine offers his review of the Frutt Mountain Resort, a Kempinksi property in Kerns, Switzerland, where he spent four days skiing earlier this spring.

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Frutt Mountain Resort Review (A Kempinski Property In Switzerland)

The Frutt Resort, a ski lodge located in Melchsee-Frutt not to far from Lucerne, was very nice. It was located in the canton (like a state in the USA) called Obwalden and on a lake called Melchsee. The point of this trip was to go skiing on Stöckalp. I had never seen anything as beautiful and tall in my life. The peak was 2,255 meters (over 7,000 feet). We went in late March, but it snowed several days before our arrival and during our stay, such that there was a lot of snow on the ground, at least four feet.

My dad gave me his old iPhone and told me to take a lot of pictures.

The funny thing was that you cannot not drive to the hotel, at least during the snowy months. During other times of year there is a single lane road up the mountain and you can only drive uphill during “even” hours and downhill during “odd” hours. But since it was very snowy, we had to park at the bottom of the mountain and take a gondola up, which was 30 CHF for adults and 15 CHF for me (and my little cousins were free since they were both under five years old). When we arrived, we walked through a tunnel to the hotel that had a statue of Santa Barbara in it, which is one of my favorite cities in California.

The lobby:

Family Room

We stayed in a family room where there were four beds, one for my Oma, one for my aunt and uncle, one for me, and one for my cousin, plus a crib for my little cousin. The room was comfortable though a little crowded for all of us.

It had a coffee machine with those little Nespresso things and there was also chocolate.

Shopping + Shoe Shine

It was a strange hotel because there were little jewelry stands everywhere, but I guess they make money that way.

There was also a really cool automatic shoe shine machine.

Pool + Spa + Fitness Center + Bowling + Cinema

The indoor pool was so nice. It was heated, really heated, like a jacuzzi (it reminded me of the Hyatt in Malta). There was a gym and sauna next to it that my dad would have liked, but no one went in either of them and I didn’t take any pictures. There was bowling and a cinema too that I did not check out.

Kids’ Club

There was also a kids’ club for kids my age, but it was boring, though my five-year old cousin loved it.

Skiing

The arrival was a little scary for me. We got out of the car and literally the moment we stepped out of the car there was an ambulance and this guy with oxygen tanks and all sorts of wire and machines. So I called my mom since she’s a nurse. She said it wasn’t caused by skiing but probably by a seizure, stroke, or heart attack. I know that was supposed to remind me to be careful but all that did was make me more scared than I already was.

We then went out to try our skis out on the first day and I had a ski lesson the next four days.

The teachers were great. No overprotective like the stupid ski teachers that live here in the United States. Also if you didn’t listen to the teacher they would kick you out of class! My cousin got kicked out once.

These mountains were huge. Once we went to a ski place in the U.S. and the biggest hill they had was as small as the kids’ hill in the Alps. There were also strong winds that made your face feel like you just dived head first into toothpicks. The next day was exactly the same. But the third day we skied down a four-mile track and it lead to the parking lot. So we knew how we were getting to the car when we went back!

I got a lot better at skiing after four days of skiing here and it was really fun.

When I say it was snowy, I mean it was snowy. I’ve never seen so much snow and it was dark and gloomy for the first couple of day.

Then the sun finally came out on the third day.

Dining

We ate all our breakfasts and dinners at the hotel. The menu wasn’t huge the food was really good. The waiters were very nice and caring. But the grown up main course took FOREVER…they just got appetizer after appetizer. The appetizers were fish, salads, edible flowers, beef, and bread. I usually ordered this delicious chicken that they had.

Each morning we had breakfast, which was a buffet. In the buffet there was pancake machine like the Alaksa Airlines lounges, berries, apples, eggs, cereal, yogurt, and bread…lots of bread. They also had the worst coffee machine in there (at least according to my dad, though I don’t drink much coffee yet.).

Lunch was the same as dinner except we usually ate snacks from home for lunch.

There was a hotel bar that my aunt and uncle escaped to when they had enough of us kids.

CONCLUSION

This was such a fun trip with my aunt and her family and I really liked the hotel but especially the skiing. Skiing in the Alps was something I want do a lot more often.

We took another route back to Germany where we passed a bad car accident with three ambulances two fire trucks and seven police cars. Everyone was out trying to get reception on their phones but there was none.