Hotel Miramonte — Hotel in Bad Gastein

This was my #3 stay at Hotel Miramonte, my first in the Summer. |What a wonderful stay! This is a cool hotel in Bad Gastein - a mixture of design, culture and nature. I traveled solo this time and had a fantastic time. I had a double room with a valley view - and the view was simply stunning. I could lie in bed and watch the morning mist lift over the valley - a perfect way to start the day. The hotel has a cool retro feel but is elegant at the same time and there are many charming, sometimes amusing, details throughout the interiors. The spa terrace wraps around the hotel looking over the valley and up toward the mountains, offering a perfect lounging spot after a day of hiking. And it was warm enough this August to sit out on the terrace bar for an aperitivo and/or dinner, later to lounge by the large fire pit as the light faded. Perfect. |I was very happy with my room, not only with the view, but the bed was very comfortable and the room felt so spacious with doors that open out onto a terrace with hammock, sofa and lounge chair. |Hotel Miramonte attracts an interesting European crowd and I had a great time meeting new people. It’s sister hotel Haus Hirt is just 10min walking distance and I spent time between the two hotels, joining the hiking group that left Haus Hirt each morning for a day in the mountains and having dinner there with friends. I also enjoyed the Yoga at the Pavillion, which is 8 min walk from Miramonte with excellent yoga teachers. The sessions were first class. Miramonte also has its own yoga room which looks out onto the mountains - an inspiring spot for yoga! I was very happy with the food options and the quality of the plates. There is a limited range of wines but all wines on the list are very good! The Spa has an interesting menu and I tried out the Thermal Bath - a soak in warm healing thermal water pumped direct from the natural springs in the valley, springs Bad Gastein is famous for. The water boasts all sorts of benefits and I certainly slept well later that night! |I love this place and I am definitely heading back to Hotel Miramonte...

As a result of trying to be „stategic“ and cut the journey in half going from Cologne to Umbria I thought it would be ideal to have a stopover in the Austrian „Bad Gastein“.||||Well, after all on the „strategic“ side of things it didnt realy make any sence because it upped my journey by somewhat 6 hours…but hey: being „strategic“ is boring anyways! And as I arrived at the picturesque super-long streched valley of Bad Gastein it could have as well been on the other side of the globe.||||The Miramonte sits on the side of the very end of this valley, overlooking the centre of Bad Gastein, a place that used to be vouge and luxurious back in the days and has kept its charme although the „Grand Hotels“ are more or less abandond these days, which makes this place quite mystic in a way.||This Boutique Style Hotel is aimed at younger people and has a georgeous style mix of old and new which in this case works so, so well.||||The rooms are cosy and elegant, and the view is plainly stunning. Theres so many architectial details to discover in this place and after a day of hiking in the nearby mountains theres a beautiful sauna where you can relax your body and Soul and enjoy even more views. There are also vegetarian and even plenty vegan choices at the Restaurant plus a decent...

We stayed at the hotel for one week during school holidays; food was excellent (can't comprehend complaints about the food at all), the hotel provides an excellent half board, perfect for a day full of activities. The hotel is conveniently located close to the Graukogel slopes and just a short bus ride from Stubnerkogel (they provide shuttles for free), you can walk to the historic city center within a few minutes on a beautiful walkway. The hotel is very well designed (above all the lobby and the restaurant section), the rooms however lack maintenance. The hotel i's a retrofitted mid-century-hotel, so are the rooms. The vintage bathrooms don't resemble vintage but rather old, so do the built-in cupboards and the doors - stains on the cupboards, no noise insulation at all. It's clean though, but in order to cope with the design standard the hotel imposes on itself, some investments need to be done in the bathrooms and the rooms in general. There are no safes and no fridges in the room which is weird for a premium hotel. The spa area is small but nicely designed, the bio-sauna had a beautiful view but was rather chilly, no infusions in the hot sauna which was...