Last updated: October 2026
We checked in so late that the night porter had to show us to our room, so we arrived at Falkensteiner Family Resort Lido having seen almost none of the dramatic scenery that makes the Dolomites famous. So opening the curtains the next morning to a view of the hotel’s own lake and the September sunshine was a lovely start to the long weekend.
In this review: Who it’s for | Getting there | The room | Food | Rooftop and outdoor fun | Pools and lake | Baby Land | Falky Land | Things to do nearby | Our score
Falkensteiner Family Resort Lido is a 5-star families-only hotel that works from babyhood right through to the late school years. With R at 20 months, Baby Land (the crèche) was standout, and even without a school-age child we managed to do a surprising amount of the included activities, adapting them to suit a toddler as we went.
Having seen Falky Land (the kids club for 3+), the teen zone, and the weekly family entertainment programme, I can confidently say it would be a fabulous hotel for most families, and with the Dolomites on the doorstep it’s a great base if you want an adventurous, outdoorsy and wholesome holiday with kids.
Still deciding where to stay? Our Dolomites with kids guide explains why we’d choose Val Pusteria.
Falkensteiner Family Resort Lido at a glance
- Location: Ehrenburg/Casteldarne, Val Pusteria, South Tyrol, with a train station opposite the hotel
- Families only: you can’t book without children, unless you’re part of a family (for example grandparents)
- Nearest airports: Munich is the most reliable all year round, about 3.5 hours by car. Innsbruck, Salzburg, Verona and Bolzano are also options
- Our room: Premium Family Suite Falkynest, with a separate children’s room behind a sliding door
- Our rate: Flexible Full Board Plus (the hotel only offers Full Board Plus). Check prices for your dates
- Childcare: Baby Land (6 months to 3 years) Monday to Saturday, 9am to 6pm. Falky Land (3 years and up) daily, 9am to 9pm. Both always included
- Best for: families who want a resort the kids won’t want to leave but still want to explore the Dolomites
- Also on site: a rooftop Sky Adventure Park, pool area with slides, a natural lake with a sandy beach (no swimming), playgrounds, an indoor trampoline park and an indoor play area
- Worth knowing: Baby Land is closed on Sundays, and the Rooftop Bar was closed for our whole stay, but that didn’t have an impact and was likely seasonal
Who is Falkensteiner Family Resort Lido best for?
It’s ideal if you:
- have a baby or toddler and want a crèche from 6 months (and one that takes little ones on mini adventures)
- have school-age children who will undoubtedly make the most of the activity programme, pools and rooftop adventure park
- want a family-oriented resort base for Dolomites days out, with Kronplatz and Lake Braies within easy reach
- like the idea of a families-only hotel where everyone else has children too (you can’t book without children, unless you’re part of a family, so it really is built for families)
Falkensteiner Family Resort Lido is bigger and more professional than some kinderhotels we’ve stayed at (for example Parco San Marco felt more like you were staying with family with every member of staff making a fuss of your child). And where it excelled was the setup, because the hotel has been built entirely to create ‘wow’ moments for the children visiting, more than anywhere we’ve been so far. This made it a trip we won’t forget!
What ages is Falkensteiner Family Resort Lido best for?
Baby Land made our stay easier, and R settled within minutes, plus we managed to do a surprising amount of the activities geared towards older kids with him. There were babies and toddlers everywhere (and it offers a lot for families with children’s across multiple age brackets), and the little details made all the difference (like the room with a fridge of fresh milk and different formulas or the thick changing mat that was supplied in our room).
For older children the resort comes into its own, with Falky Land looking so fun I’d have spent an afternoon there myself (and that’s before you get to the pool and sky adventure park). There is even a dedicated teen zone too which looked very cool (pics below!).
Getting to Falkensteiner Family Resort Lido
We flew into Munich on Thursday evening and drove close to 3.5 hours, which is why we checked in so late. There are plenty of airports around (Munich, Salzburg and Bolzano among them), but it’s a bit of a drive from all of them, and Munich offered us more flight choice at a lower cost. Innsbruck and Bolzano (SkyAlps flies there from Gatwick) are closer if you can make the flights work.
Once you’re there, a car isn’t essential but it depends on your itinerary. The train station is opposite the hotel, and the Holidaypass Premium covers public transport across South Tyrol. Some of the places we visited on our itinerary required a car, so I’d decide your rough agenda first.
For skiing in winter, Kronplatz is a short drive or train ride away, with a great ski school for kids and a setup that’s ideal for families. It takes about 25 minutes to Perca station, and from there the gondola goes directly to the top.
The resort and our room
The resort is mostly on one level, which makes it very easy to get around with a pram. We stayed in the Premium Family Suite Falkynest, and the layout worked well with our 20 month old toddler.
There’s a children’s room that’s part of the main room but separated by a sliding door, with two single beds and a cosy Falkynest (a built-in nook that works like a top bunk with rails around it). You also get a lovely large balcony with two loungers and a seat looking over the lake, plus a space in the underground car park.
The sliding door made it feel like one or two rooms depending on what we needed in the moment. Once R had gone to bed we could shut it and chill in the main room, which you obviously can’t do in a standard hotel room.
The room itself had plenty of wardrobe storage, a small table with two chairs, and a fridge. It had a shower only rather than a bath, but that wasn’t an issue for us.
R’s favourite part of the room wasn’t inside, it was the path we took every time we left or came back to the room. The corridor outside had giant plaques of all kinds of animals next to every door, and he was in heaven walking along it and chattering away to all of them (like saying goodnight to them all before bed).
We were on the Flexible Full Board Plus rate, which covers breakfast, lunch, Bake&Cake in the afternoon and dinner.
Full Board Plus is the only rate option here, and childcare is always included in Baby Land (6 months to 3 years) and Falky Land (3 years and up). Water and regional soft drinks are included with all meals. It also includes the Holidaypass Premium, which covers public transport in South Tyrol and some cable cars like Kronplatz. The hotel also offers a cot, baby bath, nappy bucket, buggy and carrier if you require it – we only used the cot and changing mat in our room.
Eating at Falkensteiner Family Resort Lido
The food is the thing we weren’t expecting to rave about, but it was delicious. Breakfast had fruit, eggs made to your choice, fresh hot food like pancakes and avocado with salmon, fresh croissants, and lovely pre-made yoghurt and fruit bowls as well as make-your-own stations for cereal and the usual staples.
Lunch on the Friday was mussels, another day it was fish and chips, and there were always two adult pastas or risottos and fresh salads available. For kids there was a children’s meal option as well as pasta with a couple of different sauces.
At 3pm there is a great selection of cakes and treats (one day a yummy strudel), a very good reason to head back inside after an afternoon at the pool and playgrounds. Speaking of sweet treats, on the Friday evening there was an incredible candy bar and we enjoyed taking a few bags of pick n mix back to our room for when R was in bed!
Dinner starts at 6:30pm, and was just about fine for R without him getting too wired. Everyone else seemed to go at the same time so it had a buzzy atmosphere. And it was absolutely the star of the show, with starters of sushi or octopus salad before high quality mains like steak and prawns, duck leg, and beef short rib.
R devoured a different pasta every evening (the pasta station has tomato sauce, bolognese, cheese sauce or olive oil) but if you want something different or in addition to pasta, children also can choose their own “Little Food Heroes” set-up, with a new box of regional dishes each day (like grilled salmon with potatoes and spinach).
Before dinner we’d have a drink in the bar, where there are toys that R happily played with.
It’s worth knowing that you have the same table for breakfast and dinner throughout the whole stay. There are highchairs all over the restaurant, as it’s a families-only hotel.
Rooftop Sky Adventure Park and outdoor fun
There is so much to do at the Sky Adventure Park, and even without a school-age child we managed to enjoy a surprising amount of it. We tubed down the dry ski slope on our first afternoon, with R sitting in the tube with us (skiing or snowboarding on the slope needs booked lessons, which we didn’t do).
The Bobby Car track was great for toddlers, and it had a nice bar next to it. We poked our heads into the indoor trampoline park and meant to go back when it was quieter, but forgot. I’m sure R would have enjoyed it!
We tried both playgrounds, and the one on the ground floor is better for toddlers. Jack did the zipline (you just do it yourself, it’s not very big), and there’s an indoor play area by the crèche that’s open for anyone to drop into at any time. R absolutely loved Molly the Pirate Raft, a free, self-pull boat across the lake (you lock the gates so it’s safe to let them loose).
We didn’t try the sports side of things but there’s football, basketball and hockey areas, plus a pickleball court, a roughly 150m dry ski slope that can be skied all year round with its own lift, and bike and e-bike hire with helmets. I’d have loved to have done the bikes if we’d had more time as there were cycle trails right from the hotel.
If you’re visiting in winter, the hotel offers an ice-skating rink, toboggan, skate and ski hire and a hotel ski shuttle to Kronplatz, and through its partner ski school children from age 4 can be picked up at the hotel and taken by train with a supervisor to the slopes, returning in the afternoon.
Falkensteiner Family Resort Lido’s pools and lake
The pool area hosts an indoor pool with a small toddler pool, a lovely outdoor pool looking out onto the lake, and some indoor slides. It’s not huge (I think calling it a water world maybe sets an expectation that it’s bigger than it is) but it’s family-friendly and just the right size for an hour of fun (or longer if your kids are happy to play on their own or chill in one of the many bed areas).
The water was warm enough for us, and the toddler pool is a nice temperature to sit in while they play, though it’s small, with a slide and a few squirting statues, so perhaps could do with a few more interactive things.
We used the outdoor pool every day, and we did the slides too (the hotel has the longest indoor water slide in South Tyrol), with one of us holding R while the other had a go, as he was a little small to go on them.
There’s no adults-only pool but the hotel does have an adults-only Finnish sauna, bio sauna and steam bath, plus offers massages, and the adults-only spa is open all year. We didn’t have time to check this out.
Beyond the pools there’s a natural lake with a sandy beach, although swimming isn’t allowed. Around the restaurant and bar there’s plenty of outside tables and sofas overlooking the water, which soon became our favourite spot in the resort – a gorgeous place to enjoy lunch in the sunshine.
Baby Land: how R got on
Baby Land takes children from 6 months to 3 years, Monday to Saturday from 9am to 6pm. On the Friday morning I stayed for about 10 minutes to settle him in and play with some toys, then quietly disappeared off on our first adults-only hike since becoming parents. There were two members of staff and only a couple of children in there, so it felt calm and personal. After the morning programme they have lunch in the children’s restaurant, and we picked R up just after he’d eaten, which meant we could sit down to lunch ourselves for the first time in a while! He was super smiley when we collected him and had clearly bonded with the staff – one of the carers even sent me photos from his morning.
The Friday session turned into quite the adventure. R went on a train from the station outside, in a double buggy with three or four other toddlers, to a play park. He proceeded to say “choo choo” and point out the window towards the train station for the rest of the trip, so I took that to mean it was good fun! On the Saturday the activity was out in the forest. Baby Land is closed on Sundays, so we took R up Kronplatz that morning (see our Dolomites itinerary for how that went).
The hotel also has a baby kitchen in the lobby with milk, HIPP baby food, multiple formula types, a microwave, steriliser and bottle warmer. We gave R his bedtime bottle using milk from the fridge and it worked very well.
Falky Land, the teen zone and the weekly programme
R was too young for Falky Land, which is for ages 3 and up, but a member of staff gave me a tour and it looked amazing. Upstairs is a giant make-believe zone – like a miniature medieval village, and downstairs there’s a cinema and rooms that feel more like arts and crafts classrooms, where they do things like make their own pizza. Childcare is always included, so all of this is part of the stay.
The weekly timetable we saw in September shows how much goes on. The younger children could bake pizza and biscuits, try slime school, go on a candy treasure hunt, take part in a Swiss bobsleigh race down the ski slope, join a circus workshop with dance or head into the forest for nature activities, with cinema and popcorn to round things off. In the evenings the hotel runs a kids disco, magic and pirate shows and a weekly edutainment programme with creative workshops and nature detectives.
The hotel’s older kids’ group is called the Falkons, and the teen zone timetable we saw was for ages 10 and up. It runs from late afternoon into the evening, with football, basketball and pickleball tournaments, a campfire with marshmallows, sumo wrestling, a food challenge and a Kahoot quiz, finishing around 10:30pm. The group has dinner together in the children’s restaurant at 6:30pm.
As part of this there’s a cool teen zone with cinema-style seating, ping pong, sumo wrestling, a karaoke room, a getting-ready hair salon room and an electric darts machine, where teens can simply go and hang out. The programme changes every week, showing the level of attention they are giving children of all ages at Falkensteiner Lido.
Things to do nearby: our Dolomites itinerary
The Dolomites around the resort are super accessible. There’s a train outside the front door, and you can drive easily everywhere, and most of the things we did worked fine with a baby carrier (and some areas are pram-friendly).
Our 3 days in the Dolomites with kids itinerary covers Lake Braies, Kronplatz, the Perca Earth Pyramids and the best local playgrounds. For how this area compares with Val Gardena, Alta Badia and Cortina, see our guide to the best parts of the Dolomites to visit, which also lists other family resorts to shortlist if Falkensteiner Lido is booked up.
Our Falkensteiner Family Resort Lido review: would we return?
We stayed for three nights in September 2026 with R, who was 20 months, in a Premium Family Suite on the Flexible Full Board Plus rate. Our stay was gifted but all opinions are based on the experience we had.
In short, yes, I loved it, and it felt different to anywhere we’ve stayed before. The food was amazing, the activities were really good and the setting is stunning.
If you’re still planning, our 3-day Dolomites itinerary covers what to do from here.
If you’re comparing family hotels like this one, Falkensteiner Family Resort Lido also features in our guide to the best Kinderhotels in Europe.
Our score
✈️ Getting there: ⭐⭐⭐ – Plenty of airports around (Munich, Salzburg, Bolzano), but a bit of a drive from all of them, and only Munich is reliable all year round.
🍼 Pramability: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ – The resort is mostly on one level, and a pram or baby carrier works in most of the local area.
🍷 Adult fun factor: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ – The food, the activities and the Dolomites on your doorstep more than make up for the missing adults-only pool.
💰 Value: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ – Once you’re there it’s all included, and everything felt really high quality.
Allie, Jack & R x
Frequently asked questions
Yes. Baby Land takes children from 6 months, Monday to Saturday from 9am to 6pm, and childcare is always included. R went on two mornings, settled quickly and we could eat lunch without him. The suite’s sliding door between the main room and the children’s room also made evenings much easier.
There are facilities and childcare from 6 months through to the teen years. Baby Land (6 months to 3 years) made it easy for us with a 20-month-old, and I’d expect it to be at its best for roughly 4 to 11 year olds, who can use Falky Land and the Falkons programme as well as the rooftop adventure park, pools and lake. There’s also a teen zone. We’ve only stayed with a toddler (though we managed a surprising amount with him), so the older age groups are based on our Falky Land tour and the hotel’s programme.
No. It’s a families-only hotel, so you can’t book without children, unless you’re part of a family, for example grandparents travelling with the family.
The hotel lists a rooftop Sky Adventure Park (a year-round ski slope, zipline, adventure playground, Bobby Car track, sports courts and pickleball), a pool area with slides, a natural lake with a sandy beach (swimming isn’t allowed), playgrounds, an indoor trampoline park, an indoor play area, bike hire and a daily kids club and weekly activity programme. With R we did the tubing, Bobby Car track, both playgrounds, the zipline (Jack), the slides, the indoor play area, Molly the Pirate Raft and Baby Land.
Yes, childcare is always included. Baby Land (6 months to 3 years) and Falky Land (3 years and up) are part of the stay, and Full Board Plus is the only rate option, so there’s nothing extra to add.
Falky Land for ages 3 and up runs daily, but Baby Land is closed on Sundays, so plan a family day. We went up Kronplatz.
Free use of public transport across South Tyrol (buses, regional trains and several lifts, including Kronplatz) and free participation in the weekly programme.
A car makes Lake Braies and the playground stops easier, but there’s a train station opposite the hotel and the Holidaypass Premium covers public transport, so you could manage without one.
Water (still and sparkling) and soft drinks such as iced tea, Italian cola and lemonade are included with all three meals. Wine and other drinks cost extra.
There’s no adults-only pool, but the hotel has an adults-only spa with a Finnish sauna, bio sauna and steam bath, plus massages. It’s open all year, not just at Christmas. We didn’t have time to check it out.
Prices vary by season and room type, so check your dates using the Check prices and availability buttons on this page. Full Board Plus is the only rate option, and meals, soft drinks and childcare are all included.
Our stay was gifted in exchange for a review, but all opinions are our own. This post contains affiliate links, which means we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you.
