Tyrol
Nine rooms below the Zugspitze.
Ehrwald lies on the Tyrolean side of the Zugspitze, and that makes a difference. From Garmisch you see the mountain as a summit with a cable car and a cross. From Ehrwald you see a wall.
The village sits at 1,000 metres in a wide basin, ringed by the Wetterstein, the Mieming range and the Lechtal Alps. It's a place that lives off skiing without having been deformed by it: no party strip, no hotel fortresses, but moors, pastures and a view that gets you out of bed in the morning.
Tyrol is the province with the most tourism and the most uneven distribution of it. Ehrwald got the quiet part.
If you want the Zugspitze without the Zugspitze queue: here.
Ehrwald is, for us, where you go when you want Tyrol but not Kitzbühel, Ischgl or Sölden. Eriro is the house that understands this: nine rooms, adults only, built of wood and stone, with a kitchen that cooks from the valley. It's one of the smallest hotels in Tyrol and one of the most consistent. Come in January for the silence in the snow, or in October when the larches on the Wetterstein turn yellow.
