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Find the best hotels in the Alps, from mountain spa and wellness retreats to the alpine ski resorts, design hotels to modern luxury escapes and boutique guesthouses. Explore with The Aficionados.
During the summery months, the alpine peaks transcend into sweeping carpets of lushness that is so green and bright you need shades. Fill your thoughts with lush, sweet meadows, wild flora, cooling glacial springs, fragrant herbs and the rich scent of fertile lands and rural life. Once our friend, winter, returns, explore these mountain resort hotels for ski, snowboarding and sporty adventure.
The Aficionados crew have lined up some 50+ designer boutique hotels and luxury alpine retreats from Italy, Austria, Germany and Switzerland – each individually hand-picked and curated into this edit of the Alps.
Character, local-ness and, of course style, define these crafted boltholes of heritage, luxury and modern sensibility. Altitudinous air aplenty, this is the perfect kick for you adrenaline junkies out there, but is also suited for those of you seeking egoistic me-time wellness with holistic and dare we say, life-changing spas. Frankly, it is the perfect place just to take it all in.
So get clued up on our ALPINE HOTEL EDIT - cool boutique dens of mountain living with heart. This is the Alps with luxury and design as your style guides.
A wunderkammer of gorgeous heritage-styled hotels and designer guesthouses in the Alps that share a DNA of traditions, design, style and modern comfort with odd, eccentric pieces thrown in the mix.
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Hike with the cows in this Alpine adventure of outdoor Austrian idylls, a famed foodie hotspot, the ladies have it good up here in Vorarlberg's Bregenzerwald.
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Cosy Cool in the Mountains - meet the ‘Softies of the Alps’, comfort-laden hotel outposts that celebrate the juxtaposition of smooth relaxation shrouded by snow-capped, jagged peaks.
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Affectionately known as the Monte Carlo of the Alps and the playground of the royals and the Habsburgs, Austria's Bad Gastein is a Wunderkammer of faded Belle-Époque glamour and energetic creativity.
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Reworked timbers, laden cloths, traditional carpentry, engineering and architectural imagination often escort these contemporary hotels of modern alpine design and creativity. Less is sometimes more in the Alps.
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Turrell’s latest skyspace is such an iteration, located in Lech, a little skiing town in the Arlberg mountains, Austria. At a height of almost 1800 meters above sea-level, The Skyspace-Lech, a lightroom inside a stone building at the end of a 15-metre tunnel, is set in alpine terrain, and is only accessible by foot or by skiing – so wear your walking shoes and your best raincoat.
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Bold, creative and inspired by the dramatics of their mountain locations - these five alpine architecture pitstops are for the design enthusiast.
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Adventure cycling through the Alps is in itself a wondrous experience – pedalling the heights through the UNESCO Dolomites is the peak (no pun intended) and is surely on every cycle-adrenalin-junkies’ bucket list.
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A photography exhibition 'Messner meets Messner' by Lumen opens this winter at the heart of the South Tyrolean Mountains and Dolomites on the top of Mount Kronplatz.
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The perfect winter pairing must be spa and ski – and where better to indulge than in a luxury retreat hotel clasped in the alpine mountains framed by snow-dusted peaks.
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This year you find yourself dreaming of something slightly less usual, it’s time to take your holiday down-time underground. Into Bad Gastein’s healing caves.
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Bijou refuges crafted deep in the countryside or clinging to the wild coastline, these hideaways bring style to their natural location.
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Pitstop here for a bucket-list dispatch which jumps off the treadmill of busy on a journey through the moi realms of wellness, escapism and curation.
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Who was it that said it's better to have millions of people doing sustainability imperfectly, rather than a handful doing it perfectly?
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Capture the essence of the Mediterranean from cool crafted boutique hotels and villa retreats to the makers and artisans who populate the region with products of style.
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