There are signs to suggest that Schloss Elmau, in the Bavarian Alps, will align with your assumptions about luxury hotels. It belongs to Leading Hotels of the World. It’s isolated in a magnificent Alpine valley. The property has twice hosted G7 summits (2015 and 2022). It has a spa with a hammam, Japanese onsen and Pilates studio.
I lost track of how many swimming pools it has.
But it differs from traditional luxury in more ways than it conforms. It’s run by a philosopher-hotelier, Dietmar Mueller-Elmau; if you Google him, the quick bio that pops up describes him not as a hotelier but as a “writer.”
“I’m a bit unorthodox,” he told me, in what is surely a contender for understatement of the year.
There is no general manager at Schloss Elmau. There is a managing director, but the holder of that title was given it because, Mueller-Elmau said, “he’s talking to travel agents in New York, and they want to know that what you tell them will be…
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