Because together the strength multiplies

Our story confirms that being united is indispensable.
Together by vocation!

How Santer was born For the love of nature Santer and …

Since 1970, Hotel Santer has been run in the third generation by Godelieve and Herbert Santer. But already around 1860 there was a small guesthouse with a farm, called Villa Santer. The carefreeness, and thus satisfaction, of our guests is important to us. Particularly comfortable suites and rooms, the kitchen with local products and homemade recipes, the wellness area with two heated outdoor pools, saunas and traditional treatments, and recreational or sporting activities in the Dolomites - all of this is synonymous with holiday bliss!

Our story

Why choose the Wellness Lodge Santer?

We love to pamper guests and fulfil their wishes so that everything is unforgettable.

Art of hospitality based on a strong tradition
Respect for the environment and its resources
New suites and rooms with enchanting views and surprising details
Genuine, artisanal cuisine with local ingredients
Included services that honour sincere hospitality
3000 m² wellness & spa oasis - pools, saunas, relaxation areas and treatments
Dolomites: Your stage for activities in every season

A born hotelier and visionary

With his wife he transformed the small 5-room guesthouse into a 4-star hotel

Herbert Santer attended the hotel management school in Merano. Already in his youth, Herbert helped his parents a lot in the then small guesthouse Villa Santer. In 1970, he married Godelieve Vercruysse and took over his parents' business. Despite his busy work as a hotelier, Herbert Santer is always busy in the village and volunteers in various associations. Known as a tourism pioneer and visionary, he was the driving force and founder of the beautiful Nordic Arena cross-country stadium, but also the founder of the famous Gustav Mahler Music Weeks in Toblach.

Hotelier with a heart

From Belgium to Toblach for the love of Herbert and Santer

Born in Belgium, Godelieve is the beating heart of the family and the hotel. She grew up in Belgium in a catering business and graduated from hotel management school. When she came to Toblach on holiday, she met Herbert Santer and fell in love with him. At only 21 years old, she left her beloved hometown of Oostend to start a new adventure in Toblach with her husband. Four children were born from the couple's marriage.

One man, many passions

A true marvel

Cook, hunter and farmer, he now is running the hotel. Like his sister Nathalie, he also runs a farm in the Pragser Valley, the Gstattlhof farm, and offers farm holidays here. With his wife Kathrin, who owns two 4-star hotels in the Pragser Valley (Asterbel and Hohe Gaisl), he has two beautiful children. Who knows what his next challenge will be?

Local and genuine

The champion

The horsewoman and top biathlon enthusiast

Nathalie is known worldwide as a successful Italian biathlete. She has achieved numerous podiums in World Cup races and finished second in the overall classification of the Biathlon World Cup in the 1993/94 season. Her participation in five Olympic Games is unique: Albertville (1992), Lillehammer (1994), Nagano (1998), Salt Lake City (2002) and Turin (2006). She then turned his hobby, horse riding, into a profession. In 2011, she renovated the farm Steinwandterhof in Prags and built a large riding stable. She now rents out rooms with breakfast and gives riding lessons for beginners and professionals.

To the Steinwandterhof farm

The physiotherapist

Biathlete, physiotherapist and wellness area manager at Santer

She started with cross-country skiing at the age of 5 and switched to biathlon at 24. She participated in two Olympic Games, in Salt Lake City (2002) and Turin (2006). Her greatest achievements include the title of junior world champion in cross-country skiing and several top placings in cross-country skiing and biathlon. After training as a physiotherapist in Amsterdam and many years as physiotherapist for the Swedish national biathlon team, she opened her own sports physiotherapy practice, Train2Cure, in Oberau. At the same time, she also runs the wellness area of the family-run Santer Hotel. She is married and has two children.

Precious well-being

Economics graduate

The youngest of the sporty trio of sisters

Stephanie, the youngest of the Santer Sisters, participated in her first cross-country skiing competition at the age of 5. From 1999 to 2008, she was a member of the Italian national cross-country skiing team and participated in numerous World Cup races. In 2006, she qualified, like her two sisters, for the Winter Olympics in Turin, but was unable to participate due to a fractured fibula at the last moment. Her greatest sporting successes: Victory in the 2011-12 FIS Marathon Cup and 3rd place in the Marcialonga. She studied economics and management at the Free University of Bolzano and lives with her husband and two children on the Tublá - Hof Maistatt farm.

To the Maistatt farm