Ehrwald, Austria

Eriro

Price per night from$1,607.58

Price information

If you haven’t entered any dates, the rate shown is provided directly by the hotel and represents the cheapest double room (inclusive of taxes and fees) available in the next 60 days.

Prices have been converted from the hotel’s local currency (EUR1,556.00), via openexchangerates.org, using today’s exchange rate.

Style

Local hero

Setting

Tyrolean tranquillity

Earth-kind hideaway Eriro looks spruce with its local-wood construction, and you’ll feel it after a stint in its nurturing arms. Its all-natural embrace lulls with screen-free suites, healthy doses of montane views and a nourishing spa. Local produce is cooked on an open fire at the rustic restaurant and traditional fare fuels days on the nearby ski slopes, barefoot hiking or foraging for herbs with experienced guides. And with everything included with your stay, Alpine living becomes second nature.

Smith Extra

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A glass of champagne each on arrival; GoldSmiths also get a 40-minute massage at the spa

Facilities

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Need to know

Rooms

Nine suites.

Check–Out

10.30am. Check-in, 1pm; both are flexible, subject to availability.

More details

Rates at Eriro include all meals and drinks (excluding some spirits); valley parking and a shuttle service from the car park; cable-car tickets or ski passes (depending on season); guided local experiences, and mountain kit.

Also

Unfortunately this Alpine stay is not suited to guests with reduced mobility.

At the hotel

Ski room, bikes to borrow and charged laundry service. In rooms: free WiFi, record player, wireless speaker, tea- and coffee-making kit, minibar, free bottled water, woolly socks, bathrobes and Aesop bath products.

Our favourite rooms

Your sanctuary-like suite at Eriro is designed with analogue living in mind, so you won’t find any screens; instead majestic mountain backdrops are projected from your floor-to-ceiling windows. Boum and Wisa are made for two: pick out constellations on the terrace’s day-bed, before warming up in the in-room wooden bath tub. Things also heat up in Himil, with its private sauna and wood-burning fireplace.

Poolside

You’ll find three meditative pools in the wellness area, which give forest bathing new meaning with mountain-framed views and spruce-lined surroundings. Sela is a cavernous pool with dim lighting, bath tub-like temperatures and a light-refracting singing bowl suspended from the ceiling. Inspired by the Japanese onsen bathing culture, Taja is kept to a toasty 40 degrees, and a picture window offers glimpses of its namesake Tajakopf mountain. From its panoramic perch, just-as-hot Sunna is wrapped by floor-to-ceiling windows that showcase all-angles Alpine peaks. Each pool is open between 10am and 8pm for individual use, so let staff know in advance if you’d like to take a private dip.

Spa

Nature’s healing touch is harnessed and celebrated at the small spa, Roa, which calms with aromatherapy massages and soul-soothing mountain views. There are two saunas with help-yourself herbal peels and infusions, and the pebbled path between both resembles one you’d find etched into the mountainside, which adds to the spa’s grounding feel. You can tap into vibrational waves in the low-lit sound room, or restore ski-weary limbs in one of the three heated pools.

Packing tips

In your suite, a Swarovski telescope and cosy socks encourage soirées of stargazing; a journal will come in handy for noting down herbal remedies and foraging tips garnered from in-the-know guides.

Also

You can connect to the internet in your suite, but the rest of the hotel is free of WiFi.

Pet‐friendly

Adventurous pooches are welcome on request for €75 a night, which includes a bed, blanket, bowl and treats. See more pet-friendly hotels in Ehrwald.

Children

Eriro welcomes over-14s only, and Felisa and Himil are best for families. If you're booking out the entire retreat, little Smiths of all ages can stay.

Sustainability efforts

Eriro’s arcadian surroundings are the inspiration for its sustainability initiatives, which include its zero-waste attitude, all-local suppliers for food and materials, and nature-respecting activities. The traditionally Alpine chalet is constructed out of spruce sourced from the owners’ own forests (their families have long lived in Ehrwald), and reclaimed wood, local stone and sheep’s wool furnish the interiors.

Food and Drink

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Top Table

You’ll be in the company of peaks and pines at one of the tables by the picture windows.

Dress Code

Ruddy-cheeked from rambles, in cosy knitwear, barefoot/in your woollen socks.

Hotel restaurant

Eriro’s celebration of local tradition culminates at Ezzan, the open-plan kitchen where chefs cook on wood and stone with fuir (local dialect for ‘fire’). This burning heart of the hotel reinterprets typical Tyrolean cuisine, with locally foraged and sourced ingredients, to whip up mountain-fresh fare. Dishes change daily and reflect the weather, and in between preparing meals, staff can take you on foraging trips or show you how they dry and ferment goods. A farmer-style breakfast is served each morning with seasonal specials and multiple courses; lunch and dinner deliver rustic yet refined flavours, and afternoon tea and all-day snacks are served at the herza (old German word for ‘heart’), the central room of the lodge.

Hotel bar

In a living room-like space between Ezzan and the herza, you’ll find a small help-yourself bar stocked with soft drinks, hot brews and speciality spirits; staff are on hand should you want something shaken (or stirred) up for you.

Last orders

Breakfast is served between 8am and 10am; lunch is from 11am to 4pm, and dinner is between 7pm and 10pm.

Room service

You can order dishes from Ezzan's menu to your suite during the restaurant’s opening hours.

Location

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Address
Eriro
Ehrwalder Alm 4
Ehrwald
6632
Austria

Reached by cable car, high-altitude Eriro is perched by the pistes and Alpine meadows of picturesque Ehrwald in Austria, near the Bavarian border.

Planes

Innsbruck Airport is a 90-minute drive from Eriro; Munich Airport is under three hours away by road, and staff can arrange transfers from either on request. You transfer will drop you at the Ehrwalder Almbahn cable car; from here, staff will accompany you on the 10-minute walk to the hotel with the correct kit.

Trains

Rail routes from Munich, Innsbruck and Salzburg call at Ehrwald Zugspitzbahn Bahnhof, which is a 25-minute drive from the hotel; staff can collect you from the station for a charge.

Automobiles

If you hire a set of wheels, you can park at Ehrwalder Almbahn, the valley’s main gondola station. Parking with valet services are included with the room rate, as is a transfer from the car park to the hotel; in winter, a guide can accompany you with snowshoes or a snowmobile across the slopes to Eriro; a ramble or golf cart are your summertime options. The walk from the cable car to the hotel takes about 10 minutes.

Worth getting out of bed for

Despite its away-from-it-all feel, Eriro is within easy reach of Ehrwald’s ski lifts and hiking trails. The 28-kilometre ski area comprises gentle blues and some red runs, some of which you can access from the hotel; plus cable car and lift passes, and use of the hotel’s mountain kit is included with your stay. Borrow snowshoes for wintery yomps and bikes for downhill rides; staff can take you on a guided hike to Seebensee Lake or for a sunrise fire pit-cooked breakfast on the mountains. Get a taste for Alpine life with wood-making workshops or yodelling classes, which improves posture and breath control. The team of experience coordinators each have their own approach to Alpine adventures: Christina might take you on a barefoot walk or for a meditation session in the forest; Miriam leads herb foraging and tea ceremonies, and a local hunter can take you wildlife tracking.

Local restaurants

Strudel, spaetzle and schnitzel are your post-ski fuel at traditional Brent Alm, which sits at the base of the Ehrwalder Almbahn red run. Hearty dumpling soup and steak frîtes warm cockles at cosy chalet-style Restaurant Holzerstubn. Authentic Austrian dishes are given a polished makeover at Das Walters, where mountain-sourced produce is the star of each dish.

Local bars

Make a pitstop at Sofa Cafe for frothy coffees, syrup-drenched waffles or après-ski spritzes.

Reviews

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Anonymous review

Every hotel featured is visited personally by members of our team, given the Smith seal of approval, and then anonymously reviewed. As soon as our reviewers have returned from this Alpine lodge in Tyrol and unpacked their woollen socks and foraged herbs, a full account of their back-to-nature break will be with you. In the meantime, to whet your wanderlust, here's a quick peek inside Eriro in Ehrwald…

Nature and nurture come together at Eriro, a green-minded lodge in the Austrian Alps, and this harmony is epitomised by the peak-like chalet, whose contours pay homage to the mountains that backdrop it. You’ll more than get your fix of Mother Nature with slopes on your doorstep and savvy local guides each with a specialism: Miriam will take you to forage herbs for tea ceremonies around the fire pit; Christina leads sunset hikes (barefoot if you want to tap into your holistic side).

Nurturing arrives at the Earth-inspired spa — in the Finnish sauna or one of the heated plunge pools — and in your view-gazing suite, where a gift of sheeps’ wool socks plus an in-room wooden bath tub will warm you up after rosy-cheeked days relished outdoors. Virtuosity continues at the open-grill restaurant with all-local produce and traditional dishes, and a zero-waste approach to ingredients that’s as commendable as its Tyrolean plates.

However you choose to spend your time at this wholesome retreat, rooted-in-nature spoiling is at the heart of Eriro — and it’s an ethos that’s sure to serve you well.

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Price per night from $1,601.38