Need to know
Rooms
105, including 11 suites.
Check–Out
11am, but flexible, subject to availability. Earliest check-in, 3pm.
More details
Rates include an à la carte breakfast of ranching classics. There’s a two-night minimum stay over select weekends throughout the year.
Also
There are six ADA-compliant rooms for wheelchair users and guests with limited mobility, and an elevator to access all areas of the hotel.
At the hotel
Saloon, coffee shop and in-room coffee delivery, library, 24-hour concierge and free WiFi throughout. In rooms: air-conditioning, TV, Bluetooth speaker, minibar stocked with locally sourced treats, reading nook and books, bathrobes and San Saba Soap Company bath products.
Our favourite rooms
No matter how old we get, clambering in and out of bunk beds fills us with child-like glee. The Bunk Rooms and Bunk Suites are made for grown-up slumber parties as much as family weekends away, with a separate living room to spill into post-sleepover. Albert Suite is the hotel’s roomiest and only option with a private balcony, so you can leave the doors ajar and soak up the old-world sounds of Main Street from your freestanding tub.
Poolside
The hotel’s sunken limestone pool is designed to evoke Hill Country’s natural swimming spots, traditionally frequented when temperatures soar in the summer. Four shade-offering cabanas skirt the edge and are available to rent, with a dedicated pool bar providing some much needed thirst quenchers throughout the day.
Spa
Hill Country’s tranquil waterways (think cooling creeks and gently flowing rivers) were the starting point for the Albert spa’s calming atmosphere and nature-inspired treatments. Local ingredients feature throughout the body rituals, facials and skincare menu, including aromatic essences of Texas wildflowers and cactus blossom, which are blended with warm basalt stone massages, herbal wraps and peach sugar scrubs. For the full rancher’s recovery experience, we’d recommend adding on the ‘Texas Two Step’ to your treatment — hydrating shea-butter cream is massaged into your hands and feet, then left to marinate in warm mittens and booties. The fitness center is open around the clock if you fancy getting your muscles Hill Country-hiking ready.
Packing tips
Fredericksburg is the place to channel your inner cowboy (or girl), and if you don’t have your own boots or hat, there are plenty of Western outfitters in town (say ‘howdy’ to Lone Star Hats).
Also
In honor of the hotel’s namesake, Albert Keidel (a known bookworm), there’s a reading nook in every room with a help-yourself stack of bedside page-turners.
Pet‐friendly
Dogs of all shapes and sizes are welcome to stay in any room for free, and will be treated to a bed and bowls on arrival. See more pet-friendly hotels in Fredericksburg.
Children
All ages are welcome, and little Smiths will love the cozy Bunk Rooms and Bunk Suites (which sleep up to eight).
Sustainability efforts
Masterfully balancing preservation and progress, Albert Hotel is sensitively tucked between some of Fredericksburg’s longest standing, protected buildings on historic Main Street. In addition to using reclaimed pinewood and recycled building materials from the original foundations throughout the newly added sections, the town’s original saloon was carefully restored, and the former pharmacy converted into a café while preserving the tiniest of Texan heritage details. In the rooms, minibars are brimming with local beers, wines and snacks, and the bath products are sourced from family-run San Sabo Soap Company on nearby Austin Street.
