The Best Hotels Near Das Traunsee, by the Record
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A family-run hotel on a slender peninsula poking into Lake Traunsee, where some rooms let you step directly into the alpine water, which is either your idea of heaven or a very cold mistake. The Bootshaus restaurant handles Upper Austrian cuisine with floor-to-ceiling lake views doing most of the decorating. A panorama sauna overlooks the same water, and private lake access runs around the clock for those who treat swimming as a lifestyle.
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Eight rooms on the shore of Lake Mondsee, each with floor-to-ceiling windows aimed directly at the Alps. This small boutique hotel keeps things pleasantly low-key: shiplap walls, mid-century furnishings, and a quietly nautical feel that stops well short of rope coils and anchors. Guests get direct lakeshore access and an infinity pool that makes the Salzkammergut look like it was arranged for their benefit, which, effectively, it was.
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Seven rooms in the Bavarian Alps, designed as if someone finally asked whether rustic and restrained could coexist. The answer, at this boutique hotel, involves parquet floors and rough-hewn headboards alongside contemporary art and modernist furniture, with the mountains doing the decorative heavy lifting through the windows. Breakfast is a proper Alpine spread, the bar pours well, and the humidor is stocked for those who measure altitude in cigars. It holds a Michelin Key.
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