Eriro
Local hero
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.
Facilities
Rooms
Nine suites.
Checkout
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.
Golf
Laundry
Pet Friendly
Pool
On-Site Restaurant
Room Service
Spa
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.
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.
Gallery
Food & Drink
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.
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.
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