🧭 The hut at a glance
The Britanniahütte sits at 3,030 m on a col between Klein Allalin and Hinter Allalin, above Saas-Fee in Valais. The hut belongs to the SAC Geneva section and was built in 1912 as a timber structure with 34 places – funded by an association of British SAC members, which gave the hut its name. In 1929 a stone building with 84 places replaced the original, an extension followed in 1951 and a complete renovation focused on environmental performance in 1996/97. In 2022 the hut was optimised once more in terms of energy use.
🛏️ Beds
- 101 comfortable beds with duvets
- Three separate dining rooms
- Modern washrooms, but no showers
- Winter room with 12 places
- Staffed in winter (March to May) and in summer (June to September)
- Booking essential in high season
🍽️ Services
- Breakfast, hot dinner and packed lunches
- Solar power for lighting and telephone
- 16,000-litre tank for meltwater and rainwater beneath the hut
- Field laboratory for research into acute mountain sickness – the hut serves as a model project for sustainable mountain hut management
- Easy access: 45 minutes to three quarters of an hour from the Felskinn cable car top station
⭐ What makes the Britanniahütte special
- Views of no fewer than seven four-thousanders: Weissmies, Lagginhorn, Dom, Lenzspitze, Strahlhorn, Rimpfischhorn and Allalinhorn
- One of the most visited SAC huts in Switzerland – equally popular with day visitors and alpinists
- Starting point of the Valais Haute Route and of the extended route through to Chamonix
- Britannia via ferrata (K2–K4) right by the hut
- Crossings to the Täschhütte (via the Allalinpass or Allalinhorn/Feechopf) and over the Adlerpass towards Zermatt are possible
- In winter reachable in just 15 minutes from the Saas-Fee ski area thanks to the piste-basher track
- A pioneer of ecological high-alpine hut management with more than 110 years of history
