The walk down is the introduction. A grass path drops away from the hotel past an old tree stump, and below it, set among the trees, are small timber houses with shingled roofs: a workshop with flowers along its balcony, a house on stilts, steps cut into the slope, a yellow slide. There is no adult furniture anywhere in it. You walk in and the scale drops by half.
Nothing in the village is plastic and nothing is lit by a screen. It is wood, gravel, rope and slope, and the weather is part of it. That is the idea Atlántis cares about most where children are concerned: give them a hillside, trust them with it, and they come back with something no playroom gives them.
The farm above the village
Above the village the hillside turns into farmland. Alpacas and llamas graze a steep paddock with a long limestone wall across the valley behind them, and for a few euros children can brush them and walk them on a lead. Further along, cows lie in the meadow under a big sky, and a small pond sits below the farm buildings.
Where food comes from
This is a working farm, and it does not hide it. Red deer have lived in an enclosure here since 1983. Guests can watch them being fed, and the farm’s own butchery supplies venison to the kitchen.
The animals children meet here are part of a real farm, not a petting zoo.
For some families that is exactly the lesson they came for: meat comes from an animal that lived on this hill. For others it will change what they do on the afternoon the deer are fed. Both are reasonable. Knowing in advance is the point.
The village, the farm and the valley, in nineteen frames
Photographed on 30 and 31 August 2026. No person appears in any of it: frames in which a guest or a child could be seen were left out, not retouched.
Why it is on Atlántis
Because the children’s side of this place is made of wood, slope, animals and weather. Because the family who own the ground are named and have been on it since 1810. And because a child who spends a week between a timber village and a farm goes home knowing a little more about where things come from.
What we actually know
- The Nature Hero Kidsclub is stated by the hotel for ages three to twelve. Published opening hours differed between the hotel’s own channels when we checked.
- Alpaca and llama Meet & Greet: about €7 per person for about an hour (hotel).
- Red deer (Rotwild) kept on the property since 1983. The hotel operates its own butchery and states that game from the enclosure is processed there.
- Announced by the hotel: from 18 December 2026 the existing spa is for guests aged sixteen and over, and a new family building, Haus Waldhorn, opens with 30 family rooms, a children’s club and its own pool. Building work was under way when we visited.
- The municipality lies within Natura 2000 site AT2204000.
Photographs and footage from 30 and 31 August 2026. We did not ask the hotel for comment and received nothing from it.
Independent and self-funded. Atlántis is not sponsored by design: not affiliated, not a paid placement, and nobody we write about knew in advance. The stay was found, booked and paid for at our own cost. The views are our own, judged against the Atlántis values: sustainability, cultural immersion, eco travel, real experiences, family-friendliness, and car-free travel or the deep past, depending on the place. No person appears in any photograph or clip on this page, and every clip is silent.