Zell am See · Austria · Ordinary hotel, well placed
Staying at Zell am See for the Austrian Alps
The best-placed town in the Austrian Alps for a week of driving out and back — the Krimml falls, the Grossglockner road, the Eisriesenwelt and a glacier are all day trips from it — and the food all has to come to you.
No kosher kitchen — listed for where it stands, not for its food.
- Every Austrian mountain entry on this site except the Nordkette is reachable from here in a day, which no other town in the country manages. That is the reason to be here rather than anywhere prettier.
- There is no kosher provision in the Pinzgau and none anywhere in Austria outside Vienna. Two ways round it, both listed here: Kosher Tirol delivers prepared meals and Shabbos food into this valley in season, and Chabad of Salzburg does Shabbos meals on advance registration.
- Order the food before you book the hotel, not after. A valley with no shop is a valley where the meals are the fixed part of the plan and the hotel is the flexible one.
- There is a lake, with lidos and open public bathing and no separate arrangement of any kind. Worth knowing before choosing a hotel on the shore for the swimming.
- Listed as an ordinary hotel town. No kosher claim is made by anything here and none is implied.
Distances measured from Zell am See, on Lake Zell, not from the building itself.