HALLO,
BAD HOFGASTEIN

A traditional, family-run hotel in Bad Hofgastein, a few minutes’ walk from the pedestrianised town centre and the Kurpark. The family have welcomed school and youth groups for years and know what a week with teenagers looks like, so the welcome is warm and unfussy, and the hotel feels like a proper Austrian home rather than a block of rooms. Its social spaces are a big part of that: lounges, a games room and a cinema room where the whole group can be together in the evenings.

Students stay in recently renovated twin and multi-bed rooms with en-suite bathrooms, wood-panelled walls and a desk, and staff have single rooms on the same floors. Breakfast and dinner are served in the hotel restaurant, a changing menu of regional and international dishes, with a hot lunch up on the mountain each ski day.

Evenings are easy to run here. There is a games room with a pool table and table football, a cinema room with a projector for movie nights, cosy lounges for quizzes and board games, and a sauna and steam room area for staff once the day is done. Wi-Fi is free throughout.

The ski bus stops directly outside the hotel and runs to the Schlossalmbahn gondola, about 1.5km away, where the ski school meets and the hire shop is next to the valley station. Heated ski and boot storage keeps kit out of the rooms, and the Alpentherme thermal baths are a short walk away for a swimming evening.