From a small guesthouse to a three-star boutique hotel
One evening in a bar, 28-year-old Alois Lechner met a German travel agent who suggested he turn part of his new, nearly completed house into a guesthouse for the many tourists eager to spend their summer holidays in Terento. Alois was persuaded, and in 1967 the first guests arrived from Germany. The guesthouse didn’t yet have a name and the 16 rooms were simple, but the food was superb and the atmosphere delightfully homely. The holidaymakers fell in love with it and returned year after year. Enchanted by the splendid view of the Dolomites, it was one of them who named it Dolomitenblick.
Within a few years, the space was no longer sufficient, so two new rooms were built and the kitchen was extended. Towards the end of the 1970s, an indoor swimming pool and a sauna were added – a minor revolution for the time – and these were soon followed by a bar and further rooms.
The turning point came in 1996, with the construction of nine modern wooden rooms with balconies and en-suite bathrooms, a new dining room and a larger bar.
The years 2000, 2006 and 2013 saw further significant changes: the construction of a new kitchen, the creation of a new sauna area, the extension of the swimming pool, and the building of the new Panorama Royal rooms, the new lobby and the library. Yet the Lechner family’s passion and the warm South Tyrolean hospitality remain as they always have been.