Your hosts

Family Rieser

We love being your hosts during the most wonderful part of your year!

We look forward to meeting you:

Sepp Rieser - hotelier and farmer by vocation
Steffi Rieser - your passionate host at the Karwendel. From early until late she flits through the hotel like a whirlwind and makes sure that everything is OK, that nothing has been forgotten and that the hotel is beautifully decorated. Her children unanimously agree: "Our mum is without a doubt the heart of Hotel Karwendel."
Seppi Rieser - manages all the goings-on at the hotel reception and in marketing and helps out in the restaurant and at the bar. The oldest of our three children.
Anja Rieser – wife of Seppi and meanwhile fully integrated in the Karwendel since 2010. She brilliantly combines the job of mother to three children with the task of reservations and reception. Thanks to her ideas and enthusiasm, she is an enrichment for Das Karwendel and a wonderful woman at Seppi's side.
Stevie (Stefanie) Rieser - a dedicated chef. She has wanted to be a chef since she was a child and has now put that into practice. The middle child.

Maggy (Magdalena) Rieser - successfully completed her hotel management studies in 2014 and is now at the reception desk and in service full time. She has passed the training to sommelier with flying colors. Wine is her passion and vocation and she is the first contact person for our guests in the restaurant.
Sepp Rieser Senior, he has been "a bastion of calm" at the Karwendel since 1960, and even today he is involved in all important family decisions.
Seppi Junior - born on January 23rd, 2014, he is the pride and joy of the family and of everyone at Hotel Karwendel.
Emilia - the stork brought her on May 21, 2015. :-) She's our sunshine and full of power.
Leonhard - Our baby, born on 29.05.2019, has completed our happy family.
And the whole pampering team at Das Karwendel ...

From a coffee shop to a hotel

Welcome to our wellness home at Lake Achensee

In order to create something big, you first need a vision as a driving force. And then you require plenty of courage and foresight to invest in the right changes at the right times. Find out here how the Rieser family transformed a coffee shop on the Achensee into one of the leading Achensee hotels.

The history of

Das Karwendel - Ihr Zuhause am Achensee

1960: Karla and Sepp Rieser acquire the Karwendel Café
1965: The Vienna-style café is converted into a Tyrolean-style local pub
1967: The Stegerhof farm in Eben is purchased and converted into a modern cattle farm
1973: Construction of Hotel Panorama
1977: Expansion of Hotel Karwendel
1983: Further expansion of Hotel Karwendel
1985: Expansion of Hotel Panorama
1989: Construction of the "Badestube" water parlour, with a sauna, steam bath, etc. at Hotel Karwendel
1990: Construction of the Karwendel cottage, located 150 m from the main building. (Now owned and managed by Manfred and Burgi Rieser.)
1998: Expansion of Hotel Karwendel with the Swiss pine parlour and hotel bar
1999: Purchase of the Gramai Alpine guesthouse including the Gramai Alpine pasture, mountain lodge and hunting area. (Alpine Guesthouse Gramai now owned and managed by Adi and Gabi Rieser.)
2004: Hotels Karwendel and Panorama are connected, while investments are made in the wellness area, indoor and outdoor pool, vitality garden and a new hotel bar with an integrated dining room.
Certified the 1st Alpine Wellness Hotel in Tyrol.
2005: The rooms in the "Panorama" building section are modernised. All rooms are designed in Swiss pine and with salt stone lamps and are now known as the Sonnjoch rooms and the Achensee suites.
2006: Modernisation and merging of the rooms in the main building. All rooms are designed in Swiss pine and with salt stone lamps. The hotel is awarded the rating 4-star-Superior.

2009: Extension of the 4th floor of what was Hotel Panorama, resulting in the creation of the new Junior suites and the Panorama luxury suite. All rooms built with Swiss pine panelling and furnished with salt stone lamps and hand-made tiled stoves.
2011: The kitchen is expanded and the new Organic luxury rooms are built: anti-allergenic rooms with exclusive wooden floors and large bathrooms.
2013: Awarded a "toque" for the "Wilderergourmetstube" restaurant by the Gault Millau Guide 2014 (13 points) as well as "1 fork" in the Falstaff Guide 2014.
2014: Renovation of multiple rooms as well as the creation of new "Relax Suites" with infra red cabins and Samina sleeping systems.
2016: Largest investment in our history with the creation of the new Karwendel Sky Spa on the 3rd and 4th floor of the hotel with an unobstructed view of Lake Achensee - "a bit closer to heaven". The spa area was doubled in size and is now 2,800m² and 8 new room categories were established (22 rooms were renovated completely). The total number of rooms was increased from 58 to 69. The Josefistube was built and the Panorama restaurant Lichtspiel and the buffet area were expanded extensively.
2018: Conversion of 8 rooms to the new Wellness-Nestl junior rooms and extension of the sun deck at the Sky-Pool for even more relaxation area for our guests with a panoramic view.
2020: Renovation of 18 Sonnjoch rooms – Now we have the new Alpinjuwel rooms with air-conditioning in a modern alpine style for even more comfort for our guests.
2021: Renovation of 20 rooms - we created the new Alpinjuwel, Alpencharme, Schmuckkastl and Schmuckkastl Junior rooms. The new Alpinjuwel rooms in a modern alpine style and with air-conditioning offer even more comfort for our guests.

Family Rieser

Your Hosts

We look forward to meeting you:

From a coffee shop to a hotel

Welcome to our wellness home at Lake Achensee

The history of

Das Karwendel - Ihr Zuhause am Achensee

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