The 16 Best Resorts in Austria

Every room faces the mountain, and the windows run floor to ceiling so nothing gets in the way. Das Edelweiss is a ski-in, ski-out alpine resort in the Großarl valley, the kind where après-ski feels like a second career, the infinity pool frames a snowcap sunset, and the interiors lean hard on warm natural wood. The Michelin Guide awarded it 2 Keys.

Sixteen Icelandic horses live on the grounds, which tells you a lot about what kind of resort this is. Set in Austria's Großarl valley, Moar Gut is an all-inclusive mountain retreat built around the logic that children and adults should both be comprehensively worn out by bedtime. Trampolines, a petting zoo, alpine treks, multiple pools, a full spa, and, somehow, a baby spa. Rooms run to natural wood and stone with balconies for the view. The Michelin Guide awarded it 2 Keys.

Alpine lodge materials, modern design sensibility: antlers on the walls, an abundance of pine, and black-and-white ski photography, yet somehow it reads as a contemporary resort rather than a hunting chalet. The 163-room hotel sits in fashionable Kitzbühel, and many rooms look out over its rooftops and towers. Stone bathrooms, walk-in rain showers, balconies with loungers, an indoor pool, and a spa round things out. The Michelin Guide awarded it one Key.

A wellness resort on the Mieminger Plateau, just outside Innsbruck, built around the idea that you should exhaust yourself outdoors and then spend considerable time in a sauna village recovering. Pale wood, private balconies, nature views in every direction, and nine pools spread across the spa. One of three restaurants sits at the top of the resort's 27-hole golf course, which is either very convenient or a character test. The Michelin Guide awarded it one Key.

The mint-chocolate facade is your first hint that this Tyrolean resort takes its personality seriously. Inside, warm wood, antlers, and rustic stone pile up in the most committed way imaginable, and the rooms lean into it further with oversized artwork and electric fireplaces over solid oak floors. It holds a Michelin Key, and Seefeld has been sending people home happy for centuries, Alpin Resort Sacher doing its part for the last hundred-odd years of that run.

Floor-to-ceiling Alpine views and natural wood on every surface set the tone at this 33-room resort in the Zillertal Valley, which sits directly alongside a championship golf course and doubles as a ski base in winter. The small room count keeps it feeling like a house rather than a hotel, which is a trick more places should figure out. It holds a Michelin Key.

A dual-level infinity pool perched above Zillergrund Nature Park is a strong opening argument for this alpine resort outside Mayrhofen. Rooms lean into the mountain-lodge aesthetic without tipping into kitsch, with platform beds and furnished balconies that face the kind of scenery people move here for. The Michelin Guide awarded it one Key. Five generations of the same family have kept the place running, which tends to show in the details.

Rooms face the Hahnenkamm, the slope that hosts the most feared downhill race on the World Cup circuit, so even the view comes with a backstory. This alpine hotel runs 115 rooms and 36 suites, most with mountain sightlines, and the suites lean large enough for a small family reunion. When the snow melts, the adjacent golf club is right there to fill the void.

A 2,200-square-meter rooftop spa with an outdoor whirlpool tends to reframe what you thought a ski-town hotel could be. This design hotel in Sölden sits deep in the Ötztal valley with slopes right outside and panoramic mountain views from nearly every angle. Inside, the rooms run minimalist but warm, with wool blankets and deep soaking tubs softening the clean lines. Après-ski here skews toward a Finnish sauna rather than a crowded bar, which suits some people very well.

Halfway up the mountain from Kirchberg, this classic Alpine lodge and chalet property sits in the middle of the Kitzbühel ski area, which means you can be on the slopes before most people have found their ski boots. Traditional Tyrolean style runs through the inn rooms and the larger chalets, which sleep up to eight. The wellness center with its pool, sauna, and Turkish bath earns its keep in both ski season and the surprisingly lovely Tyrolean summer.

Steven Holl's crumpled aluminum cube rises over Kamptal Valley vineyards like something that landed there by accident, which is a fine way to arrive at a wine-and-spa resort. Rooms come in unexpected geometries that feel nothing like the spa-hotel template, and the Aveda Wine Spa runs to a thousand square meters with a heated outdoor pool. The nine-centuries-old cellars sit directly beneath it all, which the 21st-century architecture is polite enough not to mention.

Thermal pools fed by mineral-rich water sit at the center of this spa resort in Lower Austria's Weinviertel wine country, a corner of the country most visitors drive past without stopping. Every room has a private loggia, the Silent Spa concept means the sauna world is actually quiet, and the restaurant leans into local produce in a dining room that feels dressed up without being fussy. The Michelin Guide has it in their selected hotels.