Best Hotels near Strandbad Maishofen, Zell Am See District

So, if you are looking for a budget hotel ..stop reading. This is “erste Klasse“, you pay and will get everything you need. The hotel is very modern, not at a traditional Austrian hotel. The rooms are spacious and the beds are very comfortable. The every day cleaning is flawless. The breakfast is very.. I say very good… if you have included spa in your stay, you will enjoy something special… there different saunas.. spacious areas to relax… if you want to take a swim.. the hotel has two … indoor and outdoor.. it’s up to you… Why I love this hotel is that the service is great and the a**osphere is .. well it’s really relaxing.. you don’t get the feeling of that you are staying at a railway station.. if you get the feeling….but the downside is that you have to pay for this … well you only live once…

Overall I enjoyed my two visits of one night each and the price/performance ratio was acceptable. My experiences were: Both stays: + Smooth check-in. Very nice to get a call once the room is ready and to visit the pools before. The second time the lady at check-in did not offer this, though (and I was not called). + The free pick-up at the railway station is high class + rooms are beautiful. + breakfast is excellent + phantastic water landscape The dinner situation is dire. Unfortunately I must explain this a bit. First stay dinner: - Waiters rushing around, behaving as if in a hurry, speaking very fast. There was 20% occupancy or less and lots of waiting personell. The dinner guests were all herded in a small area. Did nobody think of improving the a**osphere by leaving every second of the (small) tables empty ? - I got a cocky (and wrong) answer when I asked which teas (infusions) are available. My question to be moved to a nicer table seemed to be an unheard-of impossibility. - No drink menu was shown and the prices are not mentioned (except the 3 or 4 drink suggestions on the menue of the day. There the white-wine-suggestion-of-the-day (＞EUR 60 per bottle) was way overpriced). - It seems to be a new policy that the buffet options are drastically reduced. Instead of, for example, main-dish-like (seafood, …) choices 3 strudel and 2 (strudel-like) quiche selections were offered, all similar to each other … - Second stay dinner - The change in food policy seems to be permanent. It simply amounts to have not any more the equivalent of a multi-course dinner, but a simple a three course dinner. In former times, I often did not order the main course from the menue because the buffet items were good and diverse main dishes. This is not possible any more, you would stay hungry. Appetizers (sweets) and deserts (sweets as well) are largely indistinguishable. The good antipasti still on the buffet can not compensate this. - Bizarre behavior of the waiter that shows the table: I came to dinner with rather short (but over the knee) trousers. He told me that was told that this is not allowed and management has told him to watch and mention this. Nevertheless he led my wife, me and my son to the table. I mentioned that my trousers are over the knee and that I did not have long ones with me. He said, very loudly, that would not matter and that he hears this all the time from the guests. That was on the way to the table, he probably intended so that all guests could hear him. The reality is that: (1) the hotel can indeed issue such a dress code if it likes. However, this was mentioned in no place, absolutely nowhere. (2) from my experience, it is unusual for a resort hotel to have such a dress code, even in very upscale resorts (as opposed to the dining venues in 5* city hotels, of course).

Visited the hotel with girlfriends on a long weekend ski break. The hotel is wonderfully situated with lake views at every window. We had a twin room, with a separate shower and toilet. There was a lot of additional furniture in the room, including a desk and chair. We did a bit of furniture removal with the help of housekeeping and made the room perfect for two of us sharing. Towels and sheets where changed on the 3rd day. Buffet breakfast with hot and cold options set us up for the days skiing. A free shuttle to the closest lift (it’s not far but all uphill so don’t try it in ski boots) went every 30 mins in the morning. Dinner options are chosen in the morning, with 3 courses and a salad bar. On Sunday night there was a buffet style dinner, with lots of variety. They don’t offer a post ski hot drink or cake as some hotels do. There was soup on offer. However there is a well stocked tea/coffee station in the room and lots of places to buy snacks from as you come back to the hotel. The spa and fitness area was in the basement but again overlooking the glorious lake vista. Swimsuits are optional in the steam/sauna so may not suit us reserved Brits! The ski area is fantastic and we where blessed with fresh snow each day and all 3 ski areas can be accessed from the shuttle bus drop off.

We booked a specific room at Hotel Heitzmann for a relaxing break in Zell Am See, an area new to us although we have visited Austria often. We were sceptical right from the start as the hotel is on a really busy main road and just feels dirty. The reception is not welcoming at all. We were provided with the keys to Room 100. This is reached via a shabby unwelcoming hallway with random picture hung randomly and at all angles. No modern keycard entry to the room, just a key which felt strange. On entry, we were horrified as this was not only not the room we had booked, but I would suggest it is the most basic room in the whole hotel if not Zell Am See. There is a balcony which is above the hotel entrance and right next to the busy road. The noise in this room is horrific! There are traffic lights a few metres away and the room is totally filled with the noise from revving engines and cars blasting horns because the lights have changed. It feels as if the cars/lorries/buses/motorbikes/tractors are literally in the room. The noise and the fumes which you could taste were a total nightmare. The room itself consisted of a bed with the thinest 1 pillow each imaginable and 1 random, thin red cushion each (I was forced to stay for one night and I had to put the bath robe under both). The bathroom had a cracked floor tile and the soap had run out. There was no attempt at decorating the room. Our welcome pack consisted of 2 Earl Grey teabags, 2 coffee sachets and 2 UHT milk portions. Wow - thanks! Breakfast was chaotic, with too many tables squeezed into the breakfast area which was too small. The staff were rushed off their feet and the whole experience was stressful. The food was unappealing although I did have a yoghurt pot which was nice. The breakfast problem was exacerbated by a lack of seating arrangements. This resulted in Arab men choosing to occupy tables to themselves while they scrolled through their phones. Their families were at different tables. We managed to find perhaps the last table and stayed in the room as little time as it took to eat my yoghurt. The rooftop bar is shabby and feels dirty, not at all a place you would want to spend any time. We did see other rooms in the hotel and they looked like the ones in the photo's but ours most definitely did not. The hotel told us that you can never open the windows in these rooms at night because of the road noise. We complained and were moved on Day 2 to a different hotel by our tour operator. If you are looking for a sleepless, soulless, chaotic hotel experience - this is the hotel for you. I give this hotel one star, only because there is not an option for zero star.