On October 9, 2024, The MICHELIN Guide revealed the brand new One, Two, and Three Key distinctions for the most outstanding hotels in Austria.
This announcement comes four years into a comprehensive refresh of our hotel selection. The MICHELIN Guide now includes over 5,000 hotels across the world, and not a single one is simply a room for the night. These are places that significantly add to your experience as a traveler, each vetted and judged excellent in five categories: architecture and interior design, quality and consistency of service, overall personality and character, value for the price, and a significant contribution to the guest experience in a particular setting.
Which brings us back to the Keys. The culmination of countless hours of evaluation by our Inspectors, the Key hotels below represent the highlights of our broader selection. Like the MICHELIN Stars for restaurants, the MICHELIN Keys recognize our most outstanding hotels.
In total, the 2024 MICHELIN Guide hotel selection in Austria includes 2 Three Key hotels, 17 Two Key hotels, and 43 One Key hotels. Want to know more about the MICHELIN Key? Here's everything you need to know. Or head below to see all the Keys.
Highlights of the Austria 2024 Key Hotel List
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On this page, you’ll find every single one of our Key distinctions in Austria, sorted by number of Keys and location. Click on any hotel to go straight to the hotel page to learn more about the nuts and bolts of each property. Alternatively, you can read any number of in-depth pieces about the aspects of the special craft that make up a Key hotel over on our magazine. Scroll down for more insights into the Austrian Key hotels in 2024.
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14 Hotels with a total of 21 Keys Awarded in Vienna
The big news in Austria is the particularly large number of Keys awarded in the capital of Vienna. In total, 14 hotels earned a total of 21 Keys (including eight One Key hotels, five Two Key hotels, and one Three Key hotel). But isn’t this simply to be expected in Austria’s most famous city, home to almost two million inhabitants? Well, not quite. Let’s take a look at other global metropolises: Rome, with 2.8 million inhabitants, has 18 total Keys, and New York City claimed just about double the number of Keys of Vienna, despite having four times the population.The impressive collection in Vienna can be divided into two categories. There are the elegant, luxe hotels — mostly steeped in history — such as Hotel Sans Souci, Hotel Imperial, and Palais Coburg. Then, in contrast, there are the young, hip, modern hotels like Hotel Josefine, Hollmann Beletage Design & Boutique Hotel, and The Guesthouse Vienna. A testament to the terrific variety in this fabulous city.
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Welcome to Breathtaking Tyrol
Tyrol in Western Austria is known for its breathtaking Alpine landscape, its authentic cuisine boasting dishes such as Kaspressknödeln (cheese dumplings) and Schlutzkrapfen (mezzelune), and its particular brand of hospitality. Indeed, Tyroleans' warmth is the stuff of legend, and this is reflected in the number of hotels in the region presented with a Key or Keys. For example: the One Key hotels Das Central in Sölden, Tannenhof in St. Anton am Arlberg, and Hotel Trofana Royal Resort in Ischgl; plus the Two Key hotels Grand Tirolia Kitzbühel and Alpen-Wellness Resort Hochfirst in Obergurgl. Each one of these properties is first class in its own right — particularly popular in winter.
Burgenland, Carinthia, Upper Austria, and Styria
In these four regions, the landscape is far less Alpine than in Tyrol, and there's truly no one season better than the other to visit. On their travels around this patchwork of hilly landscapes and forests, our Inspectors unearthed exclusive gems. The legendary, fairytale-like Rosewood Schloss Fuschl in Hof near Salzburg in Upper Austria, which reopened this summer after two years of refurbishments, was awarded an exceptional Three Keys.
Other top finds include: the One Key hotel Scheiblhofer THE RESORT in Andau (Burgenland); Impulshotel FREIGOLD in Freistadt (Upper Austria); the 14-room hideaway Montestyria in Styria; and Two Key hotels Schloss Seefels and Falkensteiner Schlosshotel Velden in Carinthia on Wörthersee.
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Click below to jump to each distinction:
The Three Key Hotels
Hof bei Salzburg: Rosewood Schloss Fuschl
Vienna: Hotel Sacher Wien
The Two Key Hotels
Grossarl: DAS EDELWEISS - Salzburg Mountain Resort
Grossarl: Family Nature Resort Moar Gut
Hochgurgl: TOP Hotel Hochgurgl
Kitzbühel: Grand Tirolia Kitzbühel
Längenfeld: Naturhotel Waldklause
Lech am Arlberg: Hotel Almhof Schneider
Lech am Arlberg: Severins – The Alpine Retreat
Obergurgl: Alpen-Wellness Resort Hochfirst
Salzburg: Schloss Mönchstein
Techelsberg: Hotel Schloss Seefels
Tux: Aktiv & Wellnesshotel Bergfried
Velden am Wörthersee: Falkensteiner Schlosshotel Velden
Vienna: Hotel Imperial
Vienna: Hotel Sans Souci Wien
Vienna: Park Hyatt Vienna
Vienna: Rosewood Vienna
Vienna: The Amauris Vienna
The One Key Hotels
Achenkirch: Das Kronthaler
Andau: Scheiblhofer THE RESORT
Bad Gastein: The Comodo Bad Gastein
Fiss: Schlosshotel Fiss
Freistadt: Impulshotel FREIGOLD
Grän-Haldensee: Bergblick
Hittisau: Genießer - & Romantikhotel DAS SCHIFF
Innsbruck: Boutique Hotel Weisses Rössl
Ischgl: Hotel Trofana Royal Resort
Ischgl: Schlosshotel Ischgl
Kitzbühel: Hotel Kitzhof Mountain Design Resort
Kitzbühel: Schwarzer Adler - Adults Only
Lech am Arlberg: Post Lech Arlberg
Lech am Arlberg: Burg Vital Resort
Lech am Arlberg: Walch's Rote Wand Gourmet Hotel
Leogang: Hotel Krallerhof
Leogang: mama thresl
Leogang: Naturhotel Forsthofgut
Maria Alm am Steinernen Meer: die HOCHKÖNIGIN Mountain Resort
Mariazell: Hideaway Hotel Montestyria Chalets & Suiten
Mayrhofen: ZillergrundRock Luxury Mountain Resort
Neustift im Stubaital: Spa Hotel Jagdhof
Obsteig: Holzleiten Bio Wellness Hotel
Palt: MALAT Weingut und Hotel
Salzburg: Hotel Goldener Hirsch
Salzburg: Hotel Goldgasse
Salzburg: Hotel Sacher Salzburg
Seefeld in Tirol: Alpine Resort Sacher Seefeld
Seefeld in Tirol: Hotel Klosterbräu
Sölden: Das Central
Sölden: The Secret Sölden
St. Anton am Arlberg: Hotel Tannenhof
Tux: Hotel Alpin Spa Tuxerhof
Uderns: Sportresidenz Zillertal
Vienna: Altstadt Vienna
Vienna: Andaz Vienna Am Belvedere
Vienna: Hollmann Beletage Design & Boutique Hotel
Vienna: Hotel Josefine
Vienna: Hotel MOTTO, Vienna
Vienna: Palais Coburg
Vienna: The Guesthouse Vienna
Vienna: The Ritz-Carlton, Vienna
Zell am Ziller: Das Posthotel
