Take a look inside this stunning hotel in Austria

Blissful treatments come with sweeping views and a side of famous cake at this Austrian hotel.

One of Vienna's most famous five-star hotels, Hotel Sacher, now has a home among the mountains at the Alpin Resort Sacher. The sprawling wellness property near Innsbruck, capital of Austria's western state of Tyrol, was previously known as the Astoria Resort and has just been officially renamed after years of renovations and refurbishments. The new luxurious style reflects the elegance of the glamorous 72-year-old manager, Elisabeth Gurtler, whose family has owned the property since 1950.

Looking out from the resort, the landscape is defined by the mountains - lush and green in summer, crisp and white in winter. The small alpine town of Seefeld rolls out beneath the property and is a popular ski destination. Although Innsbruck is just an easy 30-minute trip away, the Alpin Resort Sacher is a destination in itself, where guests come for the large wellness area of saunas, spas and pools.

The Alpin Resort Sacher takes the alpine part of its name seriously with warm wooden decor throughout creating a cosy pastiche of elements that Gurtler has personally curated. "Those huge chairs at the entrance of the hotel, I had them in my apartment in Salzburg but they were too big, so I put them here," she tells me. No two guest rooms are alike: rather, they are furnished individually with pieces collected by Gurtler, giving the sense that you are staying in an elegant family home.

As a destination resort, the rooms are meant to be lived in, and most have an additional sitting room. The most luxurious suites have secluded balconies for intimate breakfasts, or even private saunas overlooking the property's lagoon. Wooden panelling and fleecy rugs make the rooms snug in winter, but I visit at a warmer time of year so throw open the balcony doors to let in the refreshing mountain air.

The Sacher name is perhaps best known for the Sachertorte chocolate cake invented by the original owners of the Vienna hotel, so - of course - it's served at afternoon tea. In the main restaurant, the breakfast buffet is a selection of local products including comb honey, sausages, smoked ocean trout and yoghurt and cheese delivered to the hotel by local farmers. And, while it's common to see guests wearing hotel robes straight from the spa to lunch, dinner is a more dignified affair with an award-winning menu of Tyrolean specialities.

The star of the Alpin Resort Sacher is its vast wellness centre, boasting five pools, including a lagoon with cabanas and an "alpine beach". The sauna zone is particularly impressive with a glass wall in the largest sauna offering views to the mountains while you bake. Most of the sauna zone is nude and gender-mixed - including a pool and sunbaking deck - although there is a smaller "textile" area for guests who prefer to stay covered. But, with a very generous amount of space in the wellness centre for just 81 guest rooms, being starkers never feels uncomfortable.

I stumbled into a series of treatments in the sauna where the "sauna master" poured oils on the hot rocks, gave me lotions to apply all over my body, then took me outside and covered me in shaved ice before another oil treatment in the steam room.

Michael Turtle was a guest of the Austrian National Tourist Office