Hand-picked in Reit im Winkl: the 5-star hotel Hotel Gut Steinbach. Your suitespot booking includes breakfast for two, a room upgrade subject to availability, hotel credit and VIP service – over €500 in value.
Hotel Gut Steinbach · BlindauFor this guide we reviewed the best hotels in Reit im Winkl and chose one: a luxury hotel on an estate of fifty hectares – with rooms from 15 square metres and a chalet of 185. What that means for booking is below.Our choice for Reit im Winkl is the Hotel Gut Steinbach in Blindau, the hamlet on the plateau above the village. In our ranking it stands at 4.4 out of 5, and a night starts at 120 euros. The hotel is independently run and belongs to Relais & Châteaux.
Why we recommend it: Because it is not a hotel with a garden but an estate with a hotel: around fifty hectares of meadow and forest at 700 metres, a natural pond, a game enclosure – and a restaurant that lives from it. At Restaurant Heimat Achim Hack cooks what the farm delivers, and the Michelin Guide has awarded it the Green Star. Add a spa with indoor pool, rooms, suites and chalets in the regional style, the Graf von Moltke family as owners and, since the start of 2026, a new operator with hotel director Raphael Merkel. The Winklmoosalm lies six and a half kilometres away. Our recommended category is called Superior Suite.
15 square metres at the start, 185 at the end – and the booking is binding.
In detail: 15 square metres in the Classic, 25 in three further Classics – one to mountains or game enclosure, one to the game enclosure –, 30 in two Superiors, one of them to mountains or game enclosure; then 35 in the Family Suite, 45 in the Superior Suite, 75 in the Premium Suite, 90 in the Family Suite and in the Maisonette Suite, 90 to 92 in a second Maisonette Suite, 110 in the Penthouse Suite and 185 in the Alpine Chalet.
What that means: the entry at 120 euros is the Classic at 15 square metres. That is a small entry – and one of the cheapest for a luxury hotel. The two belong together.
And then one particularity: the booking is binding – the category you book is the one you sleep in. Anyone booking 15 lives on 15.
Hence our recommendation Superior Suite at 45 square metres: three times the entry, the first category with room for a living area, and the level one otherwise hopes for by upgrade – here one books it. Anyone wanting the view takes Classic or Superior with a view of the mountains or game enclosure – a view you will find only here.
The package: breakfast, 30 euros credit for the spa, a bottle of wine and early check-in and late check-out. Spa credit and a bottle of wine are a rarity in hotel packages.
Our advice: Book the floor space you want – not the one you hope for. With a binding booking, the Superior Suite at 45 is the honest booking; the chalet at 185 the one for families.
The Hotel Gut Steinbach stands in Blindau, the hamlet on the plateau above Reit im Winkl – a kilometre and a half from the village centre, six and a half from the Winklmoosalm, 23 from Prien on Lake Chiemsee, 42 from Salzburg airport and 85 from Munich.
Our recommendation is therefore for anyone who wants to see the village but not live in it – and for those to whom fifty hectares at the door matter more than five minutes to the village centre.
What lies within reach: the estate itself with pond, game enclosure and farm paths, from the door; the Winklmoosalm with the Steinplatte ski area, six and a half kilometres; Lake Chiemsee with Herrenchiemsee and the Fraueninsel, half an hour.
For orientation: Salzburg airport is three quarters of an hour away, Munich an hour and a half. Kitzbühel is half an hour across the border, Salzburg with the old town an hour. On the estate one walks; into the village one drives.
The Hotel Gut Steinbach offers 14 categories, seven suites and a chalet among them.
The rooms: 15 square metres in the Classic, 25 in three further Classics – two of them with a view of the mountains or game enclosure –, 30 in two Superiors, one of them with a view of the mountains or game enclosure.
The suites: 35 in the Family Suite, 45 in the Superior Suite – our recommended category –, 75 in the Premium Suite, 90 in the Family Suite and in the Maisonette Suite, 90 to 92 in a second Maisonette Suite, 110 in the Penthouse Suite.
The chalet: 185 square metres in the Alpine Chalet.
On the view: this hotel’s motif is the Chiemgau mountains above the estate – two categories look onto the mountains or the game enclosure, a third onto the game enclosure.
What applies equally to every category: breakfast for two, 30 euros credit for the spa, a bottle of wine and early check-in and late check-out subject to availability.
A night at the luxury hotel in Reit im Winkl starts at 120 euros.
The suitespot benefits apply here from the first night. Included are: breakfast for two, 30 euros credit for the spa, a bottle of wine and early check-in and late check-out subject to availability. The booking is binding: the category booked is the one you get.
When it is loveliest: from December to March, when Reit im Winkl has the snow it is known for, and from June to September, when the alpine pastures are open.
What belongs to Reit im Winkl: the shoulder season. In April and in November the lifts are off and the pastures closed, but the estate is no smaller. That is not a warning but the calendar: anyone coming then has Restaurant Heimat to themselves.
When to ask early: at Christmas and New Year, in the Bavarian school holidays in February and August and at Whitsun.
How long to stay: three nights – a day each for estate, alp and Lake Chiemsee.
And whatever the date: you get the suitespot benefits in the quietest week of the year just as you do in the busiest.
The Chiemgau is the landscape between Lake Chiemsee and the Tyrolean border where Bavaria photographs its postcard: onion domes, alpine pastures, a lake with a palace on the island – and Reit im Winkl as the village at the end of the valley that has snow when nothing else does.
Personal luxury travel adviceOur travel advisors personally accompany your booking – 365 days a year, from the first offer to late check-out. Reach the suitespot VIP service via email or WhatsApp.Phone: +49 30 81452346 · hotel@suitespot.comThree things belong to it. First the Winklmoosalm: the high plateau at 1,160 metres, cross-country and Steinplatte in winter, alpine meadows in summer, six and a half kilometres. Second Herrenchiemsee: the palace of Ludwig II on the island, by boat from Prien, half an hour to the harbour. Third Salzburg: old town, fortress and festival, an hour.
The package at this hotel is breakfast, spa credit, wine and check-in and check-out.
What our travel advisors arrange most often: the suite instead of the room, for the reason stated above, the table at Restaurant Heimat and the chalet for the family – because 185 square metres on an estate with a game enclosure are what children tell about a holiday.
We reviewed the best hotels in Reit im Winkl and chose one: Gut Steinbach in Blindau, on an estate of around fifty hectares above the village.
A night starts at 120 euros. That is one of the cheapest starting points for a luxury hotel.
15 to 30 square metres in the rooms, 35 to 110 in the suites, 185 in the chalet. Our recommended Superior Suite has 45.
Gut Steinbach. In our ranking it stands at 4.4 out of 5: an estate of around fifty hectares, Restaurant Heimat with a Michelin Green Star, a spa with indoor pool, Relais & Châteaux.
Three categories have a defined view: two of the mountains or game enclosure (Classic at 25, Superior at 30) and one of the game enclosure (Classic at 25).
Yes: the booking is binding – the category you book is the one you sleep in. Included are breakfast, 30 euros spa credit, a bottle of wine and early check-in and late check-out.
42 kilometres from Salzburg airport – three quarters of an hour. Munich is 85 kilometres away, the village centre a kilometre and a half, the Winklmoosalm six and a half.
From December to March for snow and cross-country skiing, from June to September for hiking. At Christmas, in the Bavarian holidays and at Whitsun the hotel fills early; April and November are shoulder season.

