Heinzler am See

Heinzler am See

Breakfast runs until ten, which matters on a lake morning when the water outside the terrace is doing something worth watching before you commit to a day of hiking or cycling around Immenstaad. Heinzler am See has been run by the Heinzler family for three generations, the brothers splitting the work so one manages service and the other the kitchen, and that division shows in a restaurant that keeps proper hours seven days a week rather than treating food as an afterthought to the rooms. There are 52 rooms across the main hotel and a second building called the Seehaus a minute's walk down Seestraße, so guests wanting quiet water views and those wanting proximity to the terrace bar can each get what they came for. A sauna and spa handle the slow afternoons, a fitness room and mini golf handle the restless ones, and a private beach with water sport facilities means the lake is a feature, not scenery. Fishing and tennis are on offer too, and pets are allowed if the ironing board and safe in the room aren't the only things travelling with you. This is not a hotel for a party of teenagers left to their own devices; under-18s can't stay unsupervised. It suits a couple wanting a proper lakeside stay with a kitchen that takes itself seriously, less so anyone chasing a design-forward city hotel or expecting round-the-clock nightlife. Check-in is at three, checkout at eleven, ordinary hours for an establishment that has clearly stopped needing to prove anything to first-time guests. Heinzler am See is a family-run lakefront hotel in Immenstaad, its 52 rooms split between the main house and the Seehaus annex nearby, with a spa, private beach and a restaurant run by the same family for three generations.