AUSTRIA

Accommodation

MoaAlm, your home away from home, is situated at 1800m in the middle of the Hohe Tauern National Park in the Austrian Alps. Situated just 3km above the small community of Kals am Grossglockner, MoaAlm is a stylishly renovated guest house with room for a maximum of 12 - 15 guests. After an active day in the outdoors you can enjoy the astonishing view from our sunny terrace, before having dinner at our shared dining table.

Please make yourself at home: enjoy a drink at the bar, curl up on the sofa with a book and enjoy a meal with your new friends at our large oak dining table.

The in-house yoga studio has a large panoramic window with gorgeous views of the mountains. Start the day with an energising morning yoga session or a relaxing afternoon restorative class. The morning sunrise fills the room with energy and the late afternoon sunset turns the mountains a beautiful shade of pink. We love this room, and we hope hope you will enjoy it as much as we do!

We have 6 guest rooms. All are thoughtfully decorated and spacious. The rooms have ensuite bathrooms and stunning views. South facing rooms have balconies and views of the surrounding mountains. All rooms can be made up with 1 double or two single beds. 3 of our bedrooms can also be made up into a triple room, which are ideal for families or groups of friends.

Heating System

Our boiler system for the central heating is extremely efficient, using only sustainable wooden pellets as fuel and producing very little waste. The thickly insulated walls, newly installed loft insulation and triple-glazed windows in most of the house ensure that we don’t even need the radiators on all the time during the winter months to stay warm and cosy! We encourage guests to be conscious about how they use the lighting and heating in their rooms, and to turn off lights and heating when they head out for their daily adventures.

Solar Panels

Our hot water is heated primarily by our solar panels. Only when there are a lot of consecutive grey or rainy days do we need to rely on the boiler system as a back-up.

Hot Tub

There is nothing better than having a relaxing soak in our hot tub... especially as we avoid the use of chlorine and other chemicals, and keep it clean through a natural salt cleaning system. We use Epsom Salts and Dead Sea salt, full of magnesium and especially beneficial for tired legs at the end of a long day of hiking in the Austrian Alps. The hot tub is log-fired, so is only heated by burning sustainable firewood that we source from one of the farmers in the local village. It takes us a few hours to light and heat the hot tub, but it’s always worth the wait, and somehow much more satisfying than just switching on a button!

Suppliers

The growing season is very short up here at MoaAlm as we are at 1800 metre altitude, but our hiking guide Martin is also very handy in the garden, and has managed to grow a bountiful garden of fresh herbs, chard and lettuce to supplement our tea obsession and provide some of our daily greens. We cook with organic and locally-sourced food where possible. Likewise, we try to get all our other supplies from nearby, independent businesses. You can read more about our food sources on blog, "Good Food".

Water Supply

We have our own water supply that comes to us directly from a natural spring the mountain side. This means that we don’t have to worry about transporting water up to MoaAlm through a pump system or by vehicle... it also tastes incredible, as it comes directly from Grossglockner Glacier and is filtered by nature! Our guests often say it’s the purest water they ever tasted.
Cleaning Products, Bed Linen & TowelsWe do all of our own cleaning and washing of bed linen and towels. We try to minimise our use of harsh detergents and chemicals in the cleaning process and where we do have to use them, we choose washing detergents that are ecologically friendly. We dry most of our laundry on the washing line outside in the sunshine during the summer season, and our yoga room doubles as a drying room in the winter months. Guests are encouraged to use the same towel for the duration of their stay to help us reduce the number of washing loads that we put on!

Waste Management

We are lucky that there is a fantastic recycling service provided by our local community. We make the most of this service to reduce the amount of landfill that we produce and also try to limit our use of single-use plastics on a day-to-day basis, using glass jars and buying ingredients in bulk. Upstairs in the guest living area we provide a mini recycling station, and we have this in every main area of the house to streamline the recycling and reusing process. We have a large composting system outside for food waste, but in general not much food goes to waste around here… it’s too tasty!

We believe that if we can all take baby steps to a more sustainable and eco-conscious lifestyle within the realms of daily life - such as reusing our towels and napkins, air-drying linen, reusing and recycling, we can reduce our impact on the natural environment we love so much, and in doing so, improve our quality of life and health here at MoaAlm.

austria@wearactive.com

phone: (+43) 66 424 41919