Relais & Chateaux Gut Steinbach Hotel und Chalets

Relais & Chateaux Gut Steinbach Hotel und Chalets

At Gut Steinbach, breakfast can be delivered straight to the door of one of seven chalets built around a natural pond in the Chiemgau Alps, each with its own infrared sauna, gas fireplace, wine fridge and full kitchen. Reit im Winkl sits close to Kitzbühel and roughly 35 kilometres from Lake Chiemsee, but the hotel is really a destination on its own 51 hectares, holding the main house, the chalet village, and the smaller Steinbacher Hof. The main house has 50 rooms and suites running from 15 to 30 square metres, up to a 110-square-metre Panorama Suite with a kitchenette and tiled stove. The chalets, at 150 to 185 square metres with two or three bedrooms, are the real distinction: built for guests who want their own address on the property rather than a room number. Steinbacher Hof adds three suites with views over the Chiemgau ridgeline. The spa covers 2,000 square metres, with a panoramic sauna, an outdoor barn sauna, a bio sauna, steam bath, a 16-metre pool, and BABOR treatments; in summer the pond itself doubles as the cold plunge. Rooms have no air conditioning by design, since the Alpine nights cool them naturally, though a fan is offered on request. The HEIMAT restaurant carries a Green Michelin Star. This suits couples and families wanting a private chalet with a fireplace and skiing or hiking on the doorstep, less so anyone who wants air conditioning guaranteed. Pets are welcome for a fee. Gut Steinbach has belonged to Relais & Châteaux since 2019, and it shows: no two houses on the property feel alike. Seven private chalets ring a natural pond at this Relais & Châteaux property in the Chiemgau Alps, each with its own sauna, fireplace and kitchen. The main house adds a Green Michelin Star restaurant and a 2,000-square-metre spa. Not for anyone who needs guaranteed air conditioning.