Hotel La Perla — Corvara, Italy

Hotel La Perla sits ski-in/ski-out on the Col Alt piste—clip in outside the ski room and you’re arrowing into the Sellaronda before the cappuccino crema settles. The Costa family’s “Oste del Alto Adige” ethos wraps five-star polish around a whirring sports engine: ski valets tune edges overnight, bike guides lead spring gravel camps over Passo Gardena, and the in-house Sommelier Cycling team hosts watt-controlled group rides that finish with antioxidant-rich Lagrein tastings.

Indoors, a cedar-clad fitness suite pairs Skillmills with kettlebell rigs; a Finnish sauna, aromatic Hammam, ice fountain and 18 m ozone pool compose a rapid recovery loop that World-Tour pros have used during altitude blocks. A glass-roofed hot tub hangs above the piste for ankle-deep après with Sella peaks blazing pink. Weekly yoga flows unspool at dawn on a larch deck where cowbells replace sound bowls, and a new garden bouldering wall challenges climbers with six color-graded routes.

Nutrition honours Ladin flavours but respects glycogen logic: the famed Ladinia wine cellar serves lean venison carpaccio and buckwheat casunziei; the Stüa de Michil’s Michelin plate logs macros beside porcini-barley soup and charcoal-grilled char. Hydration stands dispense beet-apple electrolyte shots in reusable flasks, and early-bird bikers find oat-milk bircher bowls ready at 05:30.

Rooms echo Tyrolean timber tradition yet hide orthopedic mattresses, blackout drapes and gear-drying cupboards; balconies fit foam rollers and turbo trainers for warm-ups when storms cloak the Dolomites. Bolzano airport transfers clock 90 minutes, ski passes print at reception, and Sport Kostner rental next door swaps wheels or wax in minutes. For skiers pounding 40 000 vert in a day, cyclists chasing Maratona segments or gastronomes who balance calories with couloirs, Hotel La Perla marries slope-edge soul and sport-science savvy in one family-run jewel.