Quellenhof Luxury Resort Passeier

The resort is a founding member of Golfclub Passeier Meran, an 18-hole layout of rolling ground, well-placed bunkers and doglegs, five minutes away by car. Guests pay €72 for 18 holes instead of roughly €105, with tee times booked through reception. Every Wednesday the club runs a competition just for Quellenhof guests, with its own leaderboard; the winner takes home a night at the hotel.

On the resort itself there are four holes, a 20-bay range (ten covered), putting, chipping and pitching greens and a Scope video system for swing analysis. A seven-day pass for the hotel's own course starts at €45.

Tuition is in the hands of Gordon Hume, a Scot who turned professional in 1986 at 17 and has taught since 1993. Options run from a 25-minute private lesson (from €38) to a three-hour taster course for beginners, also offered as a family version, and a basic course with video analysis that leads towards the on-course playing licence. The hotel says Martin Kaymer and Marcel Siem have both holidayed here.

The resort lies about three kilometres from the centre of St. Martin in Passeier and is made up of five buildings that the Dorfer family added one by one, from the Forellenhof of 1973 to the new main house of 2000 and the Vitalresidenz, home since 2010 to the Medical Center. Accommodation runs from rooms and suites to chalets, the largest being the 350 m² Infinity Chalet.

Wellness covers 10,500 m² split into separate zones: the rooftop spa is for adults aged 16 and over, the Vital Spa for over-14s, while the Family Spa welcomes children from six. The Medical Center adds regeneration and biohacking treatments.

On 19 November 2025, at the Teatro Regio in Parma, the Gourmetstube 1897 received its first Michelin star, listed in the 2026 guide. Michael Mayr has run the kitchen since 2017, while maître and sommelier Matteo Lattanzi works from a cellar of some 1,200 wines. The 'Psaier meets the World' menu is built on valley produce, with much of the fish coming from a fish farm in St. Leonhard in Passeier.

In 2026 the resort redesigned its bar and terrace and opened an à la carte restaurant. The glass-walled Sky-Restaurant Teppanyaki, with a 360-degree mountain view, seats only 17 and needs booking well ahead. The hotel asks for smart dress at dinner.

Beyond golf there are six tennis courts (five clay), free for guests from March to the end of November, two padel courts, a pickleball court, riding stables and a 25-metre sports pool with timing. Children get a kids club and junior club, their own restaurant, the Acqua Family Parc water area, a 3D cinema and a climbing hall.

• A post station from 1897: the Quellenhof began as a simple roadside inn in a valley tourism had yet to discover. The Dorfers took over the run-down house in 1923.
• Grandma Resi's blue trout, caught in the Passer river, drew government ministers and other notables to the table.
• First on court: the family says Luise Dorfer built South Tyrol's first hotel with a tennis court, and the resort also claims the province's first hotel padel courts.
• A tunnel for peace and quiet: Heinrich Dorfer had a bypass tunnel built to take traffic away from the hotel's doorstep.
• Arrive by helicopter: the hotel books flights to and from Innsbruck, St. Moritz, Munich, Milan, Verona and Venice.