Hotel Rose Wood a Hof bei Salzburg

Schloss Fuschl is definitely the best hotel in Salzburg area which allows you to combine a relaxed type of holiday on the lake with attending the Festival and fine dining. Me and my family, being for many years Fuschl’s returning guests, were awaiting its reopening with great anxiety, happy to be able to include a week at Fuschl lake in our summer schedule. Upon arrival, we were glad to discover that the renovation has not changed the historical ambience of the place. Overall, we had a great week in Schloss Fuschl and I was considering to give it a four out of five. The one point off is due to the change of breakfast concept which we didn’t appreciate. Old Schloss used to have a high quality breakfast buffet which we liked a lot. The new a la carte concept is probably aimed at saving money to the hotel but for guests it’s less convenient - you loose time waiting, you have much less freedom and variety while picking your breakfast selection, you never know the size of portions when ordering for the first time, etc. We’re strongly against a la carte breakfasts. The reason I’m giving it a three and not a four is that today, on our last day of staying, the hotel staff did everything possible to screw the day for us. First the concierge did not give the taxi driver a correct name and location of the restaurant that we booked and so we ended up in a wrong place, secondly our room cleaning was not done until 3pm even though we asked for 10am every day and last but not least - the spa manager Eva and the jetty guy Yann decided to cancel our pre-booked 1-hour boat trip because of 15% chance of rain for the time when the trip was supposed to finish. We were told this only after coming all the way down to the jetty and then Eva was also openly lying to her colleague saying that she apparently called me to the room and warned about the rain. Well, now as I’m writing this review, two hours have passed and there is still no rain. I was deeply offended by how Yann, Eva and the third lady in blue dress of Hindu appearance handled this situation, seeing the sun shining and four customers staying by the boat ready to board. We would also suggest the hotel to establish Whatapp chats with arriving guests to improve communication. The guest service button on the hotel phone rarely worked because nobody answered the calls.