Julian Alps, Slovenia

Milka Boutique Hotel

Price per night from$393.83

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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 (EUR340.00), via openexchangerates.org, using today’s exchange rate.

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Style

High Alp-titude hotel

Setting

Bucolic Kranjska Gora

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You may stay at Slovenia’s Milka Boutique Hotel as a couple, but so intense is the connection to nature here, your affections might be diverted. Gaze lovingly at her soaring Alps and crystal lakes from your room, and spend days getting intimately acquainted as you ski, hike, paraglide or swim. Or swoon over her generosity: supplying the award-winning restaurant with high-pasture harvests, and the limestone, larch and clay used in the burnished, modern design. Add heritage Slovene crafts, and naturally, you’ll fall in love.

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Facilities

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Need to know

Rooms

Six, including three suites.

Check–Out

Noon, with some flexibility, subject to availability. Check-in is from 3pm till 10.30pm; remote access and self-check-in instructions can be provided for after-hours arrivals. Late check-outs will be charged by the half or full day.

More details

Rates include a generous, locally inspired buffet breakfast.

Also

The restaurant is wheelchair-accessible, but unfortunately rooms are not.

Hotel closed

Milka Boutique Hotel is closed throughout April and November.

At the hotel

Sauna; bike and ski store; lobby boutique; free-to-borrow yoga mats, hair-straighteners, beach towels and plug-adaptors; charged laundry service on request; and free WiFi. In rooms: TV, Revo radio, minibar, coffee machine, tea-making kit, air-conditioning, recycled slippers and custom organic bath products by Hiša Nature. Please note, the Lake Luxury Double has a tablet instead of a TV.

Our favourite rooms

The hotel’s surroundings are indeed a vision, whether you see them while submerged in a platformed bath tub in the Rock Suite or supine on the bed in the Lake Luxury Double (which feels all the more romantic for its lack of a TV and floaty veils). But book the Garden Suite and you’ll have an extra sensory perk, thanks to its terrace-set hot tub.

Spa

You don’t just let off steam here, you also marinate in it with your beloved — the cosy, Finnish-style sauna can be booked in hourly slots for free. 30- or 60-minute massages can be booked in-room.

Packing tips

Gearheads can empty their bike rack and unstrap their skis to store in the hotel’s dedicated room. But even the most leisurely traveller should bring some pre-emptive active wear.

Also

Exclusive bespoke ceramics (made with the help of a local geologist), organic candles in clay pots, custom all-natural cosmetics and more can be bought in the lobby boutique.

Pet‐friendly

Those who don’t want to part from their pet can book the Rock Suite, which sleeps one dog (under 15 kilogrammes) for a fee of €60 a night. See more pet-friendly hotels in Julian Alps.

Children

Can little Heidis and Hannes come too? Yodel-ay-hee-no, we’re afraid, as the hotel is for over-12s, and only the Cone Luxury Double can accommodate an extra guest.

Sustainability efforts

There’s a lot of local pride in Milka’s sustainability efforts: the limestone the hotel’s built with was quarried by hand from pits dating back to the Austro-Hungarian era — the same stone from the stoic surrounding mountains. Wood flooring uses imperfect oak offcuts, and the façade is burnt and brushed larch wood (also said to ward off evil spirits as an added perk). Plastics have been banned; food is sourced within 150 kilometres of the hotel (most produce comes from neighbouring farms); pure-as-can-be Alpine water combats wasteful bottling; and many products you’ll see throughout — from glassware to ceramics to bath products — are made locally by artisans with generational skillsets. There are smart systems and heat pumps to save energy; and staff are well taken care of, too, with rent-free accommodation provided nearby and healthy, work-life-balance initiatives.

Food and Drink

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Top Table

As nose-to-the-glass as you can go.

Dress Code

Earth- and comfort-kind (there are no stiffly starched manners here); waft in wearing linen, cotton, wool or silk in forest pine, lake teal, pasture sage and cool stone hues.

Hotel restaurant

Nature acts as sous chef in the restaurant, providing herbs from high Alpine pastures, pine nuts, bushels of berries and much more. She steers the menu by the seasons, too: green picks in summer, pickles and preserves in winter… In turn chef David Žefran shows his respect by not overly embellishing the flavourful produce in his tasting menus (there’s no à la carte), with dishes such as deer, onion and dandelion; or brown trout with geranium. It’s a collab as fruitful as the local plantings, with the restaurant scoring two Michelin stars in two years. The kitchen gives you plenty of fuel come morning, too: breakfasts consist of many freshly baked treats, cheeses and meats, eggs many ways (and the option to top with caviar or truffle) — washed down with sparkling wine, if you’re so inclined.

Hotel bar

Whatever your knowledge of Slovenian wine, consider it topped up here: the hotel pours picks from regional vineyards, and liberally borrows from neighbouring Italy and Austria. Give yourself a refresher by buying a Sip & Savour experience (held Tuesday to Saturday, from noon to 3.30pm), where drinks are paired with charcuterie and cheese platters. Cocktails and mocktails are bespoke, using local ingredients; and coffees and teas are carefully curated, too.

Last orders

Breakfast is served daily from 7.30am to 10.30am, and the restaurant is open for dinner Wednesday to Saturday, from 6pm to 7.30pm. The lounge is open for drinks from 7.30am to 9pm.

Room service

Peckish guests craving time in PJs can order platters of local cheese and charcuterie to their door from 3pm to 10pm.

Location

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Address
Milka Boutique Hotel
Vršiška cesta 45
Kranjska Gora
4280
Slovenia

Milka Boutique Hotel is set in northwest Slovenia, mirrored in the sleek surface of Lake Jasna and sheltered by the burly bodyguard peaks of the Julian Alps.

Planes

Ljubljana Airport is just over an hour’s drive away from the hotel; staff can arrange transfers on request (around €140 one-way).

Automobiles

There’s free parking on-site and electric vehicle stations (€25 a charge); if you struggle to find a spot, staff can act as valets and park your car in the neighbourhood.

Other

Zip over on your helicopter and you can touch down on a nearby helipad; or if you’re arriving by jet, a private landing strip is 30 minutes’ drive away.

Worth getting out of bed for

Kinaesthetic learners, this one’s for you — the people of Kranjska Gora don’t sit still for long, it seems. There are 20 kilometres of slopes to ski, and a myriad of other ways to make winter a true wonderland: snow-shoeing, ice-climbing in couloirs…Or ski jumping at the Planica Nordic Centre, where such feats of aerodynamics have been achieved that there’s also a ‘ski-flying’ hill. Those unsure of their wings can hike up and zipline down, or learn more about the phenomenon in the on-site museum. 

There’s no slowing down when the snow recedes either; climbers conquer peaks reaching over 200 metres and three famed plateaus: Pokljuka, Mežakla and Jelovica, and cyclists can tackle the 1,611-metre high Vršič Pass, which links the Sava and Soča valleys; or beginners have less-challenging trails to choose from. Lake Jasna is all set for stand-up paddleboard and kayak jaunts, but staff can arrange white-water rafting, paragliding or parachute jumps, should you wish to hit the accelerator.

Local restaurants

To give kitchen staff a breather, the hotel’s restaurant closes from Sunday to Tuesday. While it’s a must-try when open, this offers an opportunity to sample Slovenia’s Alpine-dining scene. In Pino Alpino’s mod-rustic dining room, try chic comfort food, such as barley risotto with coffee shoyu and truffle, or pear and cheese ravioli with candied walnuts. Restaurant Triangel has a Bib Gourmand for its rooted-in-tradition dishes: noodly beef broth, trout with caviar, homemade strudel, served with a side of Martuljek mountain range views. Kotnik’s pizzeria paddles out pies with unique toppings — say, the ‘tartufata’ with deer prosciutto and sweet cream.

Local cafés

Pekarna Planika’s line-up of rye loaves, palmiers, fruit-filled things and éclairs will perk up your hiking pit-stops. A must is the potica: a local delicacy of walnut paste rolled in pastry, mixed with either sweet or savoury fillings.

Local bars

A little village of faux, fairylight-strung igloos outside Jasna Chalet Resort (just down the road from Milka) lets you dine and drink alfresco even when snowbound.

Reviews

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Anonymous review

By Mr & Mrs Smith

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 embedded-in-nature nest ringed by the Julian Alps and unpacked their ski goggles and crampons, a full account of their full-speed-ahead days and more mellow nights will be with you. In the meantime, to whet your wanderlust, here's a quick peek inside Milka Boutique Hotel in Slovenia…

Do you feel our heart beating? It might be that we’re holding a bit of a flame (likely eternal) for Slovenia’s Milka Boutique Hotel, or that we’ve been going full tilt at its grown-up playground of a setting by Lake Jasna and the Julian Alps: swooping superhero-like on a paraglider, val-der-ri-ing up to high plateaus and defying gravity  while ‘ski-flying’. 

But you needn’t ascend peaks to chase that high. Why, here it is, as you bubble away in your suite’s alfresco hot tub, surrounded by Alpine majesty; as you taste-test the landscape in the lauded restaurant, where menus speak of crystal streams and sleepy pastures, and even the tableware is made of clay from the lakes. And it’s here as you ready for bed: applying the hotel’s herbaceous lotions and potions (organic, of course), lighting their custom-scented candles, and pouring a glass of Slovenian wine into a crystal glass, handblown at heritage studio Rogaska Slatina. Be still our heart — at least until the next outing.

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