Hotel Kreuz & Post Grindelwald

Hotel Kreuz & Post publishes the same banquet page in 3 languages, and each version carries the same layout and the same figure for its function room: up to 90 guests. Read what each version actually says, though, and the case for a wedding here gets thin fast. The German original, titled "Seminar & Event Anfrage" in the main navigation, never once uses the word "Hochzeit." Its English translation, filed under the nav label "Group Requests," uses "wedding" twice. Its French translation, "Demandes de Groupes," uses "mariage" twice, in the same 2 sentences where the English page says "wedding." 3 pages, one hotel, one identical function room, and the word for the one thing this listing is about survives only in the 2 languages written for people who don't live in Grindelwald.

That is close to the entire documented wedding evidence for a hotel that has stayed in one family for 4 generations: 2 sentences, on one page, reached by clicking a nav item that names neither a wedding nor even a celebration. "Whether it is a birthday or a wedding, a family event or a company event, we make sure that your banquet is an experience," the English page reads, and a paragraph later, in the same words rearranged: "Birthday or wedding, family reunion or corpoate event, we'll make sure that your banquet is a feast" (the missing r in "corporate" is the site's own typo, not this write-up's). No dedicated wedding page exists anywhere on the domain, no wedding photograph, no wedding testimonial, no wedding package, and, as the rest of this piece will show, no price for anything at all. What does exist, published in real detail, is everything else the hotel says about itself: its rooms, its 2 restaurants, its own history, and the shape of what it will and won't put in writing.

Otto Konzett was a dishwasher here before he was the owner

The hotel's "Our Hotel" page runs an actual timeline rather than vague heritage language, and part of it checks out independently against the site's own contacts page. It opened in 1899 as "Zum Weissen Kreuz." The Konzett family enters the story in 1946, when Otto Konzett, who the timeline says had worked in the hotel as a dishwasher in his youth, bought it after the war. The next dated entry names Hansotto Konzett, who attended the Canton of Bern's hospitality course in 1952 and later oversaw an expansion: the enlarged hotel reopened in the summer of 1970 with 50 rooms and 90 beds, all with private bathrooms, a detail the page states as a mark of how far the property had come. On June 19, 1990, Hansotto sold the business into a newly founded company, Hotel Kreuz & Post AG, "passing it on to the next generation," in the timeline's own phrase. A separate figure, Martin Konzett, appears from 1978 (a hospitality license for the canton) through 2007, when he presented a sustainable district-heating concept to a hotel association meeting that, the page says, now heats the whole village center.

The fourth generation is named and dated too. Benjamin Konzett trained under a Michelin-starred chef in St.-Blaise, graduated from the Lausanne Hotel School in 2014, and, per the page's own final entry, has led the hotel since March 2024. A different page, the plain contacts page rather than the illustrated history one, independently states the same claim in 4 words in its own address block: "Family Konzett in 4th Generation." 2 pages built for different purposes agree on a fact that would be easy to overstate, and neither one needs the other to make its point. One naming detail sits oddly next to all this documentation, though: every page footer on the site still lists the owner as "Family Konzett Propr.," the same wording the site presumably used before 1990, not "Hotel Kreuz & Post AG," the company the timeline itself says was founded on June 19, 1990.

A 1748 barn supplies the walls of one dining room

What a couple could actually book, if they got this far, is concrete rather than aspirational. The function room behind the "up to 90" figure is the Panoramic Dining Room, called the Panoramasaal on the German pages: breakfast runs 07:00 to 10:00, dinner during high season, and its own page describes à la carte dining with alpine views rather than repeating the group capacity. Groups larger than 8 there are asked to choose one set menu, "for a smooth dining experience," in the page's own phrase. The hotel's other restaurant, Kreuz & Post "A LA CARTE," serves daily from 08:30 to 23:30, kitchen open 11:30 to 22:00, and applies the same set-menu request at a lower threshold: groups over 6. Inside that restaurant sit 2 named rooms with distinct characters. The Challi-Stübli is built, per the site's own words, "with wood and interior elements from an original Simmental barn dating back to 1748," which the page calls the source of its "authentic charm." The Kreuz-Stübli next door is pitched differently, as a room for "relaxed dinners, private gatherings, or lively sports nights," available for exclusive reservation and doubling as a spot to watch football and ski races on a screen.

The rooms a couple would actually sleep in are named by category rather than counted: Single Room, Standard & Superior Double Room, Deluxe Double Room, Hotel Apartment, and a Panoramic Suite of 60 square meters with what the page calls a "split-level" layout and a view of the Eiger North Face. None of the current room pages states a total room count; the only figure on record for that is the historical one, 50 rooms as of the 1970 reopening. Above the rooms sits a rooftop wellness area (a solarium and spa) and, unusually for a village hotel, an ice rink for skating, curling, and ice hockey with a curling hall holding 4 rinks, plus a boulder hall and an indoor rope course, all reached from the same nav menu as the wedding-adjacent banquet page. Nothing on any of these pages ties any of it back to a wedding specifically; a couple would have to ask.

No price appears anywhere on this site, for a wedding or for a room

That's the honest gap in what Hotel Kreuz & Post publishes: not just a missing wedding price, but a missing price for everything. The rooms pages describe each category and route straight to a booking widget with no rate shown in the page text itself. The offers pages, including a 7-night "Mountain Romance" package running from 21 May to 16 October with free local bus travel and reduced admission to the sports center, list what's included without stating what it costs. The one page carrying the word "wedding" states a headcount, 90, and nothing about money: no per-person rate, no room-hire fee, no deposit, no cancellation terms. Whoever wants a figure has to write to the same general address every other enquiry on the site uses, info@kreuz-post.ch, or call the switchboard number, +41 33 854 70 70. There is no named wedding coordinator anywhere on the domain, no dedicated events email, nothing that marks a wedding enquiry as different from a request to book a birthday dinner.

That same phone number is also where the site's own attention to this one page shows its limits. The French version of the banquet page prints a phone link 3 times: twice correctly, as +41 33 854 70 70, and once, in the paragraph inviting a couple to get in touch about a wedding, as +41 33 354 70 70 instead, a single-digit slip that appears nowhere else on the domain. It's a small thing on its own, but it lands on the one page that also carries the site's only mention of "mariage," on a domain where the hotel's own 4-generation history is told in careful, dated, cross-referenced detail elsewhere. The 2 halves of this website read like they were written by different parts of the same family business: one that keeps a real archive of who ran the hotel and when, and one that treats a wedding enquiry as a line item on a form built for something else. Both are true of the same address on Dorfstrasse 85, and a couple reading this site today would be right to notice the difference.