Hotel Riml

Perched at 2,200 meters in the Ötztal Alps, this ski-in, ski-out hotel is the kind of place where the mountain view comes with every room, thanks to floor-to-ceiling windows framing the peaks. Rooms blend contemporary lines with blonde alpine wood, the spa adds two heated outdoor pools and saunas, and there's an indoor golf facility of genuinely absurd scale. The bars serve homemade stone pine schnapps, which feels like the correct ending to any day up here.

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