The 25-metre indoor pool sits behind floor-to-ceiling glass facing the Odle peaks, kept at 30°C from the first snow to the last. Underwater loungers run along the north wall, and morning lap lanes stay roped off until 10am, so early swimmers get clear water.
Through a heated channel you swim out to the saltwater section: open even in January, steaming against the cold, with the sauna village one towel's walk away. Children are welcome in the water until 6pm; after that the whole pool level turns adults-only and very, very calm.
A family-run wellness hotel on the sunny side of Ortisei, five minutes' walk from the Seceda cable car and with the ski bus stopping at the door. Rooms are larch and wool, generously sized, and most face the valley.
Breakfast runs until 11, and the half-board dinners are the four-course South Tyrolean kind that makes the afternoon swim feel earned. The sauna village on the pool level holds five saunas and a proper quiet room; in summer the lawn out back becomes the second living room. Worth knowing: the hotel asks for three-night minimum stays across most of the winter season.
Yes: the indoor pool is kept at 30°C year-round, and the outdoor saltwater section is heated and open through winter.
Yes, until 6pm daily. After 6pm the pool level is adults-only.
One heated infinity pool, eight rooms, and the Geisler peaks doing the rest: the pool hangs over the Funes valley on the farm's lowest terrace, kept at 29°C year-round, and on a clear winter morning you will have it entirely to yourself with snow on the railings.
The outdoor infinity pool points straight at the Sciliar massif, and at 32°C it is the warmest open-air water in the valley: steam rises off the surface all winter while the edge seems to drop into the meadows below. It stays open every day of the year, snowfall included.