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A forest-edge family house in Seis am Schlern, the Plant family's since 1934 — new pool house and apartments, hay-scented saunas, and the Seiser Alm a cable car away.
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Award Winner 2021
Europe's Best Relaxation Retreat
Need To Know
- Cosy rooms in the main house plus 15 new apartments (June 2025), up to a full family chalet
- À la carte concept: breakfast included, dinner a small bookable carte; no half-board, and dining around is encouraged
- Families and pets welcome
- Our Favourite Rooms: the new apartments with private panoramic whirlpools; the family chalet for groups
- Free spa (three saunas, outdoor whirlpool, heated indoor-outdoor pool house), gym and yoga room; swim bag with robe in every room
- In winter: free guided ski excursions, ski safaris and snowshoe hikes with the Seiser Alm ski school, and a free ski bus to the cable car
- South Tyrol Guest Pass included for free public transport; free parking with EV charging
Check in - Check out
Check in from 14:00; check out before 12:00.
We Love
- A family in every corner — Maximilian front-of-house and pouring as sommelier, Patrick in the kitchen, Vanessa in the spa, parents Ulrich and Paula directing: the fourth generation since 1934.
- The forest spa — three saunas (one roasting with the scent of fresh alpine hay), an outdoor whirlpool, and the new pool house, where the heated pool glides from indoors out toward the Schlern.
- By the forest, in the village, under the Schlern — woods at the back door, Seis a stroll away, and the cable car to the Seiser Alm, Europe's largest high-alpine meadow, a short walk off.
- Dining without the leash — breakfast included, then a small, exquisite à la carte each evening; no half-board, and the house happily points you to its favourite mountain huts and village tables.
- The fifteen new apartments — added in 2025 from sleek hideaways to a family chalet, some with private panoramic whirlpools, for guests who want their own front door on holiday.
Key Features
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Location
Address
Via Hauenstein, 25, 39040 Siusi BZ
Travel Info
Bolzano airport about 40 minutes by car; Verona around 1h45, Innsbruck 2h. Free parking with EV charging at the hotel. The village of Seis is a stroll away, the Alpe di Siusi cable car a short walk, and a free ski bus runs in winter.
Last Updated: 2026-06-04
Expert Review
Origins
Waldrast means forest rest, and the name predates the marketing: the house sits where the woods meet the village of Seis am Schlern, and rest is what it has sold for nine decades. In 1934 Herta Knittel took over a small guesthouse here, probably unaware she was writing the first chapter of a family story. The Plant family have kept it ever since — today the third and fourth generations together: Herta's grandson Ulrich and his wife Paula directing, and their children carrying the house's three crafts. Maximilian runs the front and the wine, Patrick the kitchen, Vanessa the spa.
The setting has needed no improvement since 1934. Seis sits at the foot of the Schlern, the flat-topped massif that is the emblem of South Tyrol, with the Santner spire rising from the hotel's own garden view; above the village spreads the Seiser Alm, Europe's largest high-alpine meadow, reached by the cable car a short walk away. The mountain pastures do summer; the gentle, sunny pistes do winter; the forest at the back door does both.
The house itself has just been renewed. A careful rebuilding brought the new Waldrast: a pool house with a heated pool gliding from indoors out, a panorama sauna joining the hay-scented one, a new gym and yoga room, and — from June 2025 — fifteen apartments alongside the rooms, sleek hideaways up to a family chalet, built for guests who want the family's welcome with their own front door.
Top Secret
One of the three saunas is infused with fresh alpine hay, cut from the meadows above — the whole room roasts with the scent of a Seiser Alm summer. Between sessions there are organic dried fruits to graze on, and the outdoor pool steams against the Schlern.
The Review
Seis am Schlern is the gateway the crowds drive past on their way up the mountain, which is precisely its value: village life at the bottom of the cable car, the Seiser Alm's vast meadow ten minutes above, and the Schlern standing over everything like a held breath. The Waldrast occupies the best seam of it — forest at the back, village at the front — and runs on a temper that matches: nobody will organise you here, though the family will happily equip any plan you arrive with.
The renewal has been done with restraint. Rooms stay cosy and wood-warm; the fifteen new apartments add private space up to a chalet scale, several with their own panoramic whirlpools; and the pool house is the showpiece — a heated pool sliding from inside to open air, the massif filling the view. The spa keeps its rituals: the hay sauna's summer-meadow scent, the cold air between sessions, Vanessa's treatments on the Team Dr. Joseph line, dried fruit instead of ceremony.
The dining concept is the house's quiet radicalism. There is no half-board: breakfast is included and generous, and in the evening Patrick cooks a small à la carte of Alpine-Mediterranean dishes good enough that outside diners book in — yet the family will just as readily send you to a hut on the Alm or a table in the village. A hotel confident enough to recommend the competition is a hotel with nothing to hide, and the Waldrast's whole appeal sits in that sentence: a place that treats you as a guest of the family, not a captive of the package.
