Best Hotels near Julius Brunnen, Bad Rippoldsau-Schapbach

A comfortable, well-cared small hotel. Perfect stop in the beautiful Black Forest when you are on the way to Italy / Austria/ Switzerland. Prima stay, beautiful large family apartment with sufficient sleeping room for 4 adults. What you don't see on the photos is that behind the banks in the living room are two other bedrooms that you can sleep well. Booking a t****e room is not necessary for a night. What was very fantastic was breakfast. Very well cared. The host made fresh baked eggs / rice egg with spice. Sweet, hearty, fresh breads. Top! And our Mechelse herder was also welcome!!

The hotel is located on the edge of the village. From the main road you must turn right (or if you come from the village to the left) into a deadly road. Here you can park the car, or if you walk a little further on the left side of a parking lot. You can also park in the parking garage, for a charge. We were welcomed at the reception. Our room (106) was (yet) in the old part. You could reach it both indoor and outdoor. We had a spacious room with a box, desk, seating, double bed including an extra bed, a terrace (with seating) and a spacious bathroom with toilet, shower and washboard. There were also rooms on this side of the hotel with a balcony (with a beautiful view of the Black Forest). When you walked inside to the reception, you came through the indoor bath and sauna area. This all looks clean and careful. The swimming pool has a bedroom and a dressing room for both men and ladies and two showers. The restaurant also looks comfortable (think of Austria, because of the wood). The dinner was also delicious and looked careful. Breakfast consists of a (extended) buffet and is also located in the hotel restaurant. A spacious outdoor terrace is nearby. The staff is very friendly and they all do their best to make the stay as nice as possible. In the surrounding area you can walk well and / or visit one of the villages.

The hotel is at the edge of the down town walking area and two minutes walk to a big supermarket and two minutes the other way to the railway station. It was cold and wet when I stayed there, but the town was nicely decorated for Christmas. The room is a good size and very well constructed. The only odd thing is that I never found out how to turn off the bathroom lights. In fact on entering the room, it takes some time how to turn on any lights! The shower is comfortable, but I think the decision not to install a shower door might come back to haunt the hotel in the years to come as the bathroom floor will suffer with the stains. There is a small desk of adequate size, and the Wi-Fi was fast and free. Breakfast is included and is great. On leaving at 04:45, the staff offered to make me a coffee to go. I arrived from Hamburg by plane into Strasbourg. However, I should have taken the train, so I suggest anyone review that option. I flew out of Strasbourg which was €55 by taxi.

We didn’t really like the hotel’s location and layout. Not really near the village center and in the middle of a clearing, so it could get really hot walking midday before you reach the forest cover. We stayed in the Kohlwald house which is across the street (a surprisingly busy street!) from the main building. So we and other guests had to cross it in our robes going to the pool area. The main building itself was like a maze. Having said that, everything else was great especially the food and the service. Shout out to the staff who waited for us during dinner on 30 July and who unfortunately had to leave before dinner service was done because his shift was up. You were awesome! And of course to our countryman in the staff during breakfast (Allan) you were great too!

Not only the location within a very filthy and abandoned area was shocking upon arriving; there were people sitting in front of the hotel and moving around the 'lobby' which defiantly belong to the 'project-complex' (HLM) and not to the hotel. The doors were widely open, but no hotel staff around. As indicated by a sign, guests have to use a very dirty and sticky (defiantly not hygiene and certainly not in-line with COVID-19 sanitary regulations) telephone to call a reservation agent. Unfortunately you only get to know, that there is no staff around until 16:00 hrs (official check-in time). Never the less, even the back-office was completely open and also on the reception desk registration cards with personal information were laying around - visible for everybody, with all personal information, one should keep at a discrete place to cope with official data protection policies. The furniture in the lobby was old and damaged. With all the garbage laying around, broken glass on the ground no staff on place but strange people hanging around and squatting in the lobby befitting from the vacantness this place is the most horrible 'hotel' I ever (almost) stayed. The driveway in front of the hotel was full of potholes and the signs at the entrance seemed like this place was abandoned a while ago and serves now as a retreat for homeless people. Don't get me wrong: if this is the intention to give shelter to homeless people, this is a nice gesture. Still you would need a bit of surveillance and should defiantly not sell rooms at this place to guests, which might have a certain need of security. I would defiantly not want my personal data, including credit card details laying around in a doss house / hostel for homeless people. There are other ways I help people in need! After I have called the group reservation to complain about the state I found the hotel / hostel, asking for a staff to speak with in person on spot, as I could not imagine, that this would be the standard DORMERO would strive for, I was told, that the hotel manager should be around and will be called to the lobby via the reservation agent I had on phone. Well, still after 15 Mins nobody showed up, so I had nothing else to do but leaving from this spooky and creepy place. How could someone leave such a place and run it down to such a bad state?! How could ever someone rate the location and state better than terrible?! Have a look at this place - you would not believe you are in Germany / Black Forrest / Freudenstadt but somewhere else, where nobody lives or took care for ages! I traveled the world and am not only staying at 5* Hotels; but the worst 1* Hotel is cleaner and safer as this place. I understand one might chose the location for the cheap construction site. But not hotel should place their name / brand proudly on that abandoned, filthy, down-and-out garbage dump! Luckily there are many family run places in the area, where I found an alternative quickly. But as I am bit