Almhof Schneider

The Schneider family has been on this exact site since 1451 — five hundred years as a mountain farm before the first guest rooms were added in 1929. Gerold Schneider's grandfather built Lech's first ski lift next door in 1940. Today, the fourth-generation owners — both architects by training — have created something between a grand alpine hotel and a private art gallery, with Le Corbusier chairs, Lucie Rie ceramics, and a curated exhibition programme that changes each season. Austria's first 5-star Superior hotel. 53 rooms, the Wunderkammer restaurant, and a Klausur cocktail bar that hums with the quiet satisfaction of people who have spent the day in deep powder and intend to spend the evening in deep burgundy.