Kid-friendly places in Innsbruck

Riverside hotel at the edge of the old town, with family rooms and an indoor pool open around the clock.

Old town hotel with a rooftop indoor pool and an outdoor hot tub looking straight out at the mountains.

Maria Theresa's palace, with a frescoed Giant's Hall and tours for kids full of hidden corridors and stories of palace life.

A single painting wraps the whole room in a 360-degree battle scene from 1809, with a military museum joined by tunnel.

Tower hotel with a sauna floor and a twelfth-floor breakfast room looking out over the city to the mountains.

A zoo of Alpine animals only, up on the mountainside: bears, wolves, lynx, ibex and an aquarium of Alpine fish, reached by funicular or bus.

One of the colourful old houses along the river, with family rooms and two-bedroom family suites that sleep four.