Ski-in, ski-out. Literally.
The chalet stands at 820 m on the slope above Ellmau. You click in at the front door, ski down to the Hartkaiserbahn gondola and come back over the piste in the evening, right up to the ski room with its boot dryer.
Behind it lies the SkiWelt Wilder Kaiser–Brixental, one of Austria's large linked ski areas: 275 km of pistes, 81 lifts, 22 ski schools. If you don't ski, you toboggan, walk or sit by the fire. If you want both, you have both. We are, after all, a ten-minute walk from the village.The ski season starts in early December. The best weeks for families, Advent and the Family Ski Weeks in March, are usually fully booked by October. If you book early, you have a free choice of apartment and dates.
From mid-March to early April, and in early December, the lift pass for children up to 15 costs nothing when a parent buys a pass for 3 days or more.
This is the SkiWelt Family Card, not something we made up: during the Family Ski Weeks (2027: 14 March to 6 April, plus the first week of December) children up to 15 get their lift pass free when a parent buys a pass for 3 days or more. For two families with four children that quickly adds up to several hundred euros. And at the end of March there is still plenty of snow up on the Hartkaiser while the terrace down here is already in the sun.
A boot dryer, a place for every pair of skis, and 30 seconds from the door to the piste.
Wet ski boots don't belong in the apartment. In the ski room every family puts its boots on the dryer in the evening, and in the morning they are warm. Skis, boards, helmets and toboggans have numbered places; wax and an iron are ready. You get in with your apartment key, round the clock.
For the afternoon when your legs are tired from skiing, or for those who never click in at all.
The toboggan run on the Astberg between Ellmau and Going is about 3 km long; the ride up on the Astbergbahn takes ten minutes, the run down a quarter of an hour, depending on your nerve. In Söll there is a floodlit night toboggan run. For three-year-olds, the slope behind the chalet is enough. Winter walking paths start at the front door: to the Bergdoktor farmhouse in about 20 minutes, or to Lake Hintersteiner See by bus and then an hour round the frozen lake.
The three quietest weeks of the winter: the first pistes are open, there are Christmas markets in Kitzbühel and Kufstein, all at low-season prices.
Before Christmas the Kaiser is empty. The lifts run from early December, the Advent windows are lit in the village, and Kitzbühel and Kufstein have their markets, both 20 minutes away. On the Advent weekends the Grizzly Suite is just right for two families who want to bake biscuits together without the kitchen getting too small.
The ski day ends at four. The evening belongs to the fire in the suite and to the small Finnish sauna, which you reserve by the hour just for yourselves.
An open fire in the living room of the Grizzly Suite, with logs ready. While the children sleep in the Bear's Den, four adults sit by the fire with a glass in hand. Grizzly has already taken care of the bedtime story.
Small, Finnish, free. You put your name down for a slot at check-in or with Martina, and then your family has the sauna to itself for an hour. Towels are ready.
Sauna, ski room & wellnessPrices are for the whole Grizzly Suite per night, for up to eight guests, plus €110 final cleaning and local tourist tax. Booked direct: best price and free cancellation up to three months before arrival.The winter prices for 2026/27 are fixed. If you book in summer, you secure the Advent and Family Ski Weeks dates that are mostly gone by October, with free cancellation up to three months before arrival.
3 nights Fri–Mon in the Grizzly Suite, the Christmas markets in Kitzbühel and Kufstein, the open fire, a sauna slot. For two families who want to catch their breath once more before Christmas.
7 nights in the suite. Children up to 15 ski free when a parent buys a pass for 3 days or more. Ski room and sauna are included.
The whole suite for 7–8 guests in the February school holidays: 2 bedrooms, the Bear's Den, 2 bathrooms, an open fire. Arrival Fri–Sun, minimum stay 6 nights. For two families it works out better than two hotel rooms.
Grizzly Suite per night: €280 from 1 July to 18 December, €400 from 19 December to 30 June, for the whole suite with up to 8 guests, plus €110 final cleaning and local tourist tax of €3.50 per person per day from age 15. 30% deposit, the balance 30 days before arrival. The smaller apartments in winter: The apartments.
Fresh-snow days belong to the piste, sunny days to tobogganing and the terrace. The SkiWelt publishes its snow report online every day; you'll find the link in Grizzly's folder in your apartment.
“I don't ski, I'm a bear. But in the morning I stand at the window and watch you click in at the front door, and in the evening, when you come back over the piste, the fire is already lit. That's my job here.”Grizzly, the house bear
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