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Alpine Insider Club

The Alps, before everyone else

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Stay in Alps covers where to sleep across the Alpine arc — Switzerland, France, Italy, Germany and Slovenia. Most of that work ends up on the site. Some of it does not: the hotel that just reopened after a two-year renovation, the week in March when a valley empties out and rates drop, the small guesthouse we would book ourselves but that is too small to carry a whole article.

That is what the Alpine Insider Club is for. It is a short, plain email for people who are actually planning a trip — not a digest of everything we published. If you are choosing between two resorts, wondering when to go, or trying to work out which side of a lake to sleep on, this is written for you.

It is free, it takes one field to join, and you can leave in one click.

What members get

Concrete things, sent when they are useful — not on a schedule for the sake of it.

🏨Hotel picks we would bookA handful of stays each time, with the reason we would choose them: the room type that is worth the upgrade, the one that is not, and who the place actually suits.

📅When to go, and when not toAlpine pricing swings hard by week, not by season. We flag the quiet windows — shoulder weeks, school-holiday gaps, the days either side of a peak — while there is still time to book.

💎Valleys and villages off the listThe places that never make a top ten because they only have four hotels. Often the better trip, and almost always the better rate.

🔄New openings and reopeningsRenovations, new spas, hotels changing hands. Worth knowing before the reviews catch up, and often the moment prices are softest.

📖City guides firstOur free Alpine City Guides go to members before they go on the site, so you get them while you are still deciding.

🔍How we actually chooseThe notes behind a selection: what we compared, what we ruled out and why. The reasoning we cannot fit into an article.

⛰Season briefingsBefore the ski season and before summer: which resorts are worth the trip this year, and where to sleep in each of them.

A recent edition, in short

Three hotels in the Dolomites with a rifugio-style feel — and the one we would pick for a first visit.
Why the second week of March is the best value week in Zermatt, and what it costs either side.
A valley in Slovenia most people drive straight past on the way to Lake Bled.

Written by the Stay in Alps editorial team. No automated round-ups, no forwarded press releases.

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One to two emails a week at most, and less when there is nothing worth sending. We would rather skip a week than pad one out.

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Hotel picks with the reasoning behind them, timing advice on when to book and when to travel, lesser-known valleys and villages, new and reopened hotels, and our free Alpine City Guides before they go public.

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Yes. The site is funded by hotel affiliate partnerships, explained in full on our methodology page. Membership costs nothing and never will.

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