Fodor's Expert Review Naturhotel Waldklause

It's hard to tell where this hotel ends and the countryside begins—floors are natural stone, rooms smell of applewood paneling, and some exterior walls are built around trees. The lumber is all Austrian—felled during a full moon (yes, really!), which makes it easier to steam and bend because at that time sap is drawn up the tree to give higher moisture content. Rooms are rounded, curved, or angled and all are different—take No. 221 and you have a terrace that resembles a small park—and each has water piped from a mountainside spring.