Edelweiss Lodge and Resort

Edelweiss Lodge and Resort
Mountain view from the main entrance
General information
Location	Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
Coordinates	47°29′02″N 11°04′01″E / 47.484°N 11.067°E / 47.484; 11.067Coordinates: 47°29′02″N 11°04′01″E / 47.484°N 11.067°E / 47.484; 11.067
Opening	September 2004
Management	United States Department of Defense
Other information
Number of rooms	246
Number of restaurants	3
Website
www.edelweisslodgeandresort.com

Edelweiss Lodge and Resort is a U.S. Department of Defense owned recreation hotel in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. Located in the Bavarian Alps near the Austrian border, the facility opened in September 2004 at a cost of $80 million.

Edelweiss Lodge and Resort was built to replace a series of older Armed Forces Recreation Center (AFRC) hotels (such as the now-demolished General Walker Hotel in Obersalzberg).

The hotel and its facilities are limited to only U.S. military members and Department of Defense employees stationed in Europe and foreign military members stationed at U.S. military installations and their family members.

All content within the referenced regulation and this website is based on Commanding General, United States Army, Europe authority. For a complete eligibility listing, see AE Regulation 600-700. The AE Regulation 600-700 takes precedence in an event there is a conflict with this listing.

Due to international agreements, the use of the Commissary, Community Bank and PX/BX are limited to personnel assigned to US Forces in Europe and NATO ID card holders who have this privilege. This includes rationed items such as gas coupons. Be aware that gas prices are considerably higher compared to US standards. Military Post Offices may be used only by retirees who reside in Germany for over 30 days and who have Box R privileges with restrictions. Alpine Adventures is located in Edelweiss Lodge and Resort and has an excellent array of Bavarian items, t-shirts and other souvenirs.

Following the conclusion of the Second World War in Europe, a number of formerly German military hotels and resort complexes were taken over by the United States Army and put into use as R&R centers for the benefit of the soldiers stationed there. While these older hotels served this purpose well for many years, they also became expensive to continue to maintain. In the spring of 2000, the U.S. Army and members of the United States Congress approved plans to construct a modern resort hotel in the Bavarian resort town of Garmisch-Partenkirchen. Upon completion of the new hotel, AFRC-Europe closed AFRC-Chiemsee (Seehotel was a former Reichsautobahn Rest area "Rasthaus am Chiemsee" from Nazi times [1]) and the General Patton Hotel in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, and consolidated the remaining AFRC facilities in Garmisch-Partenkirchen under the new Edelweiss Lodge and Resort. The new loge was where the British winter Olympic team stayed in Calgary in the 2016 movie Eddie The Eagle. Scenes were filmed in the lobby one of the restaurants and the entrance to the conference room.