Hotel Monte Leone

The Hotel Monte Leone is a family-run hotel and restaurant at the top of the Simplon Pass, at 2,005 m in Upper Valais, on the road linking Brig to Domodossola. Run by the Zaino family (Gastro Simplon GmbH), it occupies a round building recognisable by its pink tower. It has 14 rooms, a sauna for hotel guests and a restaurant serving Italian and Swiss specialities, with a 100-seat panoramic room; a souvenir kiosk completes the premises.

For snowkiting, the hotel is the base of the Swiss Snowkiting School, the school operating on the pass. Its winter packages include nights in a double room with breakfast at the Monte Leone: two nights for the Beginner, Transition and Kite & Fly packs, four nights for the three-day training camp. Lessons start right next to the hotel, where the "Simplon, Monte Leone" bus stop and the car park are; the freeride and freestyle area lies across the road, opposite the hotel, and the training plain is a little further down. The hotel, for its part, invites guests to come and eat after a lesson at the snowkite school.

No kite service of the hotel's own is published: no storage room or gear drying is advertised, rental and teaching being handled by the school. Packages are booked through the school; a room alone is booked directly with the hotel.

The hotel's opening dates are not published. The snowkite packages cover the school's season, from December to April (bookings open from November 2026 to April 2027).

Rooms can be booked through the website form, by phone or by email; snowkite packages are booked with the Swiss Snowkiting School.

Access: about 25 minutes by car or 40 minutes by bus from Brig (Brig-Domodossola line over the pass), "Simplon, Monte Leone" stop in front of the hotel. The pass road is passable in winter with winter tyres.