Anders Suites

Kreuztal, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy
2 guests
1 bedroom
1 bathroom

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Stylishly Comfortable: A property designed with great style and with amenities that offer a relaxed stay.

Small hotel: A property with multiple accommodations that provides services, often including meals

Mountain: Elevated living on hills and mountains

Tradition Done Differently

Seven striking architectural suites stand on high in the Italian Alps, offering Dolomite panoramas and a great, new take on traditional, South Tyrolean hospitality. A refurbished family inn, the contemporary remake by architect Martin Gruber reveals sleek, urban minimalist design contrasted by inn’s the wildly rugged natural setting, all at breathtaking mountain heights.

Dolomite Mountain High

“Anders” means “differently,” and owner and chef Andreas Plattner has indeed “done differently” by making out-of-the-ordinary changes to his family’s former, 50-room mountain hotel. The one-time Hotel Aurora has been downsized but decidedly leveled up as Anders Inn, reincarnated as a more refined, high mountain refuge of contemporary design and culinary modernism.

Built of brushed spruce on the outside, the chalet leaves tradition behind with its flat cement roof and sculptural form tucked into the Plose range of the Italian Dolomites. A slightly cantilevered platform opens up the strong, slope side construction to its rugged, rocky terrain, anchored front-and-center by the jagged and solitary Peitlerkofel peak. Floor-to-ceiling windows in each of the inn’s seven suites frame the cinematic alpine display, a sea of evergreen forest extending for miles and shape-shifting cloud formations moving at eye level. Interiors are unfussy, with walls clad in natural spruce, cement floors, and soft simple bed linens keeping the focus on the outdoors. Lower-level suites are apartment style, with living areas and kitchens as well as garden access. Upstairs lodgings are more intimate, with epic views from bed and in-room glazed saunas.

The heart of the thoroughly remodeled inn is its open parlor, a generous living area where the bar, restaurant and a roaring fireplace intersect, offering guests a front-row seat to the mountains. The restaurant’s food is rooted in the region, and the kitchen is helmed by native son and trained chef Andreas, who presents a menu of local, alpine specialties married with Mediterranean flair. Mint for tea and culinary herbs are hand-harvested from the on-site garden, open to guests. Fruit is collected from local suppliers. And guests can enjoy the restaurant, special culinary-themed evenings, or cook for themselves from pre-ordered meal kits and the always open honesty bar. Breakfast is included.

Around

A high-altitude playground set at 1,850 meters in Italy’s dramatic South Tyrol, the inn is built into a steep slope of the Plose mountain range in the Dolomites, with the Peitlerkofel mountain rising cinematically in the foreground. A destination for winter sports enthusiasts, the inn is ski in/ski out, with some 43 kilometers of slopes, ranging from beginner to expert runs, right out the front door and one of the Dolomites longest ski runs, the Trametsch, a part of the local Plose Ski Resort (Brixen Dolomites).

While perhaps best known as a winter wonderland (snowshoeing, sledding, skating, etc. are also available), the Plose range offers year-round adventure for outdoor enthusiasts. Guests can store bikes in addition to skis. Stocked backpacks are available to hikers attempting the area’s many challenging treks, which are also available right out the door in true hike in/hike out style. And Anders stocks yoga mats for winding down time.

The town of Bressanone (Brixen, in German) is less than a half hour’s drive from the property. As the region’s oldest community, the town is known for its magnificent architecture, ranging from its Baroque cathedral, to its Romanesque Chiostro di Bressanone covered in medieval frescoes, to its Renaissance art museum, the Diocesan Museum.