Sporthotel Ellmau, Saalbach-Hinterglemm

Loved the comfortable atmosphere, terrific staff, lovely and varied meals. There were eight of us, the oldest 70, the youngest 16 and we all felt welcome and at ease.

The Sport Hotel in Ellmau is a very big hotel with some 160 beds. It is most obviously seen to be big when one enters the lounge, or to be more exact, the lounges because there are many of them. These range from the cosy to the newly built and luxurious with its wonderful view of the Wilder Kaiser mountain range. We went in summer with Shearings. Our room was the quietest we have ever stayed in � we asked for this � and at the rear of the hotel with a balconied view of the forested and green mountains with the railway going up it. It was typically Tyrolean being large, possessing of a settee as well as small table and seats. The shower room was luxurious and the whole room spotlessly clean. The facilities of the hotel are luxurious with two pools, the cleanest we have encountered. The whirlpools and massage facilities are similarly top drawer. The staff are uniformly polite, friendly and have excellent English. The food is perfect. My wife is a vegetarian and this was a treat for her. A huge array of buffet salads, meats, fruits and sweets, together with a choice of imaginative and well cooked courses would have obtained the coveted two rosettes if this were a UK hotel, certainly given the choice. Free brandy one evening and free cake and coffee on the terrace one afternoon! We will most certainly return.

WE loved everthing about this hotel food very good service we had a 2 year old with us and nothing was to much the rooms comforable and clean bathroom was New but not too keen on the glass door as you could see people on the loo.This was the only falt.