[snakke]

It is also important to note for our North-American friends what exactly an exclusive resort means in this context. Some North-American exclusive resorts consist more like a golf-club where all slopes are not accessible unless you pay the "club fee" or in some cases buy a house in the village.

While here Gstaad is still open to the "common man". Yes, it's expensive skiing eating and hotels, with a lot of celebrities coming and going. It's also pretty big with 176km of pistes (where in NA how big a resort is is measured in skiable acres instead, so to give you an idea, it has 10 cable cars, 13 chairs and 13 surface lifts). So big enough they have to also aim for "normal people". Just mentioning it since the word exclusive might spring to mind a different kind of resort than some Americans are used to.

[dsfyu404ed]

>While here Gstaad is still open to the "common man"

The cost to exist and engage in the day to day commerce of life there is sufficiently high that the common man does not and mostly cannot bother hence no need for other forms of exclusivity.

[RHSman2]

It is no more expensive than any other ski resort close by. But it is expensive for what it is. Very moderate skiing.

[MichaelZuo]

Are there North-American style exclusive resorts in Switzerland?

[snakke]

Not as far as I know. There's probably some guy who has a small surface lift in his garden that only friends use, but that is not really comparable.