Laax, before you book
Laax sits at 1016 m in Graubünden, split into two parts that share little more than a name. There is no railway station: Chur is the railhead, and a PostBus covers the rest, 40 minutes to the lift base at Murschetg or 53 minutes to the old village, Laax Dorf. By car, the resort is published as 30 minutes from Chur and 1 h 45 from Zürich. That one change at Chur, more than any lack of access, is the detail to plan around before you book.
Everything below the treeline turns on one choice: gondola or lake. Laax Murschetg is the purpose-built base at the LAAX valley station, where rocksresort and the signinahotel put the lift on the doorstep. About 1.5 km away, Laax Dorf is the older village around the Laaxersee, reached on foot by the 1.56 km Senda dil Dragun treetop walkway. Above both, the lift company itself lists places to sleep on the mountain, from one of the region’s oldest mountain huts to a hostel directly on the slope, a real alternative to sleeping in the valley below.
The hotels with dated Booking prices split into two tiers: the signinahotel, marked as the budget option, and two mid-range addresses, rocksresort itself and the winter-only Riders Hotel. Of the three, the signinahotel is the least expensive, with both the lowest starting rate and the lowest average, though its own dated samples show a winter night costing noticeably more than a summer one there. Casa Mulania, Hotel Posta Veglia in the old village and the mountain huts sit outside that price sample, so budget for them separately.
Winter runs from a pre-season on 28 November 2026 through the main season to 29 March 2027, then a shorter low season to 11 April. Summer has no single opening date: the Senda dil Dragun stays open all year, while the TCS pop-up glamping site above the village runs only from the end of June to mid-September, alongside 250 km of hiking trails shared with Flims and Falera. From Zürich HB, allow 2 h 04 for the journey, with one change at Chur onto the PostBus.











