Hotel Seeblick

The hotel is located across from the lake, but you are unable to see it from the rooms. The rooms themselves are clean and quiet, but very basic. No fluffy towels or nice bath products here. Very typical for a 3 star European hotel. The bathrooms are adequate, however, the showerheads need to be replaced as only half of the holes in them seem to work. The hairdryers have the switch on them that must be held down to activate, leading to sore hands if you have long hair. This is a nice option if you are backpacking in the region and want a clean place to say, but not the spot for a business retreat or spa weekend.

We booked in here by Eurobikes as part of a cycle tour. We were put in a room on the road and it was super noisy and we hardly got any sleep. In the hotels defense I believe Eurobike patrons are put in the cheapest rooms as all of the hotels we have stayed in put us in the worst rooms, right on the road. The restaurant was good and staff were friendly. The rooms and beds were ok but the curtains were so thin that the light came streaming in from 5am. Wifi is not free but Euro5 per person per day. I don't think it is a bad hotel but we were disappointed with our stay.

With one exception on both counts, I have nothing really bad, or really good, to say about the Seeblick Hotel. The Seeblick is a nice hotel, clean and well-maintained, on the main street of Bernried, a short walk from the Starnbergersee. The rooms are small but well-kept. The bathroom is tiny but has been modernized with new tile, sink (with counter), toilet and combination bath-shower (but tissues are not supplied). The bed covers, unlike the typical light featherbed that one often finds in German hotels, were heavy, making it seem that one is sleeping under a ton of bricks. Our room was in the front of the hotel, facing the relatively busy main street of Bernried. If you do not enjoy sleeping to the cacophony of cars, trucks and motorcycles, you have two choices: stuff your ears with earplugs (as I did, because I could not stand the thought of repacking and unpacking my clothes) or ask for a room on the interior courtyard (which our friends did). On the really positive side, the Seeblick Restaurant is quite good, particularly for lunch or dinner. The breakfasts, which are free of charge, are adequate, but not great due principally to the limited selection of fruits and juices. On the negative side, the front desk is virtually nonexistent and not particularly competent and there is no internet connection available in the rooms (neither wired nor wireless). Let me give a couple of examples of our frustration with the front desk. I delivered two shirts and some underwear to the front desk to have these items laundered and ironed. My clothing disappeared into a black hole. I asked a couple of times about my laundry but no one seemed to know. After a day and a half, they finally located my laundry and promised to have it ready by the morning we were to check out. Then, one day an ironing board and iron suddenly and unexpectedly arrived in our room. We asked to have them removed. Nothing happened, so the next morning we put them outside our door.

Don’t go if you have any dietary requirements. My egg-allergic friend was served a consommé with a raw egg in it. Non g/f bread was served to another gluten intolerant friend All this despite talking to the staff and the management as well as the tour company beforehand. Rooms were clean and the breakfasts were superb.