Description: The charming Hotel Georgenhof is a 3-story traditional mountain hotel. It is nestled on a small road with several other hotels about 10 minutes outside Berchtesgaden, but it feels like you are staying in a remote village. To get to the hotel from the town, you travel up and around on a winding road past some pastures and a small onion-dome church. Drive with the windows down--the smell of the fresh air is invigorating!
The Family Weindl runs the hotel and they are fluent in both German and English. One of them will greet you when you walk into the small lobby to check-in. The grown son was very helpful providing directions and offering suggestions about what to see and do in nearby Salzburg.
Several room options are offered (e.g., single rooms, flatlets, etc.). My husband and I stayed in a double room which was spacious, had a very clean private bathroom (with toilet and standing shower), and a comfy "double" bed. Really two single beds next to one another, but that's pretty standard in Europe. The decor was a little bland, but tasteful. The furniture was a light solid wood and consisted of the beds, a desk (with locking drawer), and a small table.
The most surprising part of the room was a very large built-in wardrobe across from the bathroom. We both could unpack all of our belongings and still have room to store our suitcases inside the wardrobe. We stayed at the Georgenhof for 4 nights so it was fantastic to be able to unpack and really make the room a temporary home.
The best part of the room was the wooden balcony equipped with a table and chairs. The view of Mt. Watzmann was breathtaking! And, again, I can't stress enough how wonderful the fresh air smelled!
Rooms at the Georgenhof are purchased with or without half-board (supper). We purchased our rooms without--vegetarians don't do well with traditional Bavarian suppers! But all rooms come with an extensive breakfast. Each group staying at the hotel gets a table for breakfast that is "theirs" for the remainder of their stay. Breakfast consisted of coffee, juice, croissants, rolls, yogurt, fruit, cereals, meats, and cheeses. There was an assortment of fruit spreads... try the cherry spread! I always ended eating one more roll than I really wanted to just so I could have some more cherry spread.
There are too many positive attributes about this hotel to name them all... clean rooms, great views, privacy, reasonable prices, friendly staff, cherry fruit spread!
The one drawback to the Georgenhof was the other guests. They were all very nice, and we would often chat with people at other tables during breakfast. However, we were the only couple under 30. It might have been nice to have some other younger couples there to socialize with, but I'm not complaining... my husband and I loved it! We'll definitely be staying at the Georgenhof the next time we're in the area!
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