Run by the friendly Steger family, the Hotel Edelweiss is a traditional Austrian hotel with affordable traditional rooms and a first floor restaurant with wonderful traditional food. I enjoyed the simple breakfast of coffee and cold cuts which is common across Germany and Austria and have to say that I really loved the various types of schnitzel. I ordered mine each night with a mix of side dishes. I fell in love with the Hungarian cooks Tyrolean spinach dumplings which were the size of baseballs. Affordable lodging, friendly warm hosts, and while the older members of the family don't speak English very well, the young managers and staff were able to talk to me in English quite well. Basically anyone under 35 spoke English. At night, I was lucky to see in the cafe a group of local musicians playing traditional music, and the ZIllertal valley where the hotel is located is a center of folk music, so the owners can usually point you to another cafe or hotel for music.
Really sweet people, and prices that were a deal. There is a train that links the ZIllertal to the mainline train between Innsbruck-Vienna-Munich. Well worth the detour off the well worn tourist path for a taste of real Austrian hospitality. read more
