Hotels near Kochel - Pessenbach, Bad Tolz-Wolfratshausen

The location of this hotel is to die for! Kochel am See is stunningly beautiful and this hotel is perched on the edge of the lake - our bedroom just hung over the water. On a bitingly cold day (at least -10*c) we had a warm welcome at reception - the receptionist spoke no English and we had virtually no German but we got along fine! The bedroom was comfortable, if a little austere (traditional), and the bathroom was smallish but modern and all very clean. The room was warm and stayed that way through the night (not all hotels can say that). The hotel is in two parts with the accommodation and wellness centre separated by about 40m - important to know when the temperature is so low. We watched the sunset from the restaurant where we took tea and later had dinner. The restaurant is formal but friendly - you need to ensure that you get a window table. We had our best meal in Germany here - my wife had half a squash stuffed with mushrooms and cheese and I had three fishes (salmon, char and another fish we could not get google translate to recognise) on a bed of mushrooms and courgettes baked in parchment followed by a sharing plate of desserts. The portions were massive like everywhere in Bavaria but these dishes were beautifully executed. The hotel is just outside the village on the road between Kochelsee and Walchensee and in warmer weather would be a great location for walking around the lake and mountaineering.

The best in advance: The staff were very friendly and helpful. It is an old building, and that can have its charm. Well, we didn't really find it. The reception is quite pragmaticly located in the staircase, but well. Tree up - there is a soft linoleum floor for the first time. Another stairs up - and then the shock: The room was very spacious, but sincerely no longer acceptable: The beds were crossed, the facility was cheap and sometimes broken, dust wires on the walls - I better stop. The bathroom was even worse: stick box half stripped out of the wall, awful toilet seat, bad tiles that are no longer to clean because of age, black flirts, ... I think the picture is clear. Renovation is urgently necessary - and, honestly, you can't offer the rooms to guests like this. The price is the most heavy - a worse price-performance ratio I have not experienced on many trips inside and abroad. I can only speak for our room - perhaps others are better. Location: quite far outside the city center, but you know that before. To walk about 15-20 Min to the old town - a very nice way to walk.

Architecturally very nice hotel with a nice room design. Very friendly and endeavoured staff. Great breakfast buffet - but not recommendable evening buffet for that, unfortunately there is no alternative in the house. When booking the rooms with Alpine view, you buy the road with traffic before the hotel. Since the rooms do not have air conditioning, sleeping at open balcony door is difficult. The quiet rooms are located to the forest - but they also have no sun. During our stay, a car manufacturer with a variety of front vehicles with his team was in the hotel and the constant coming and driving then the hoped rest has been very disturbed. We felt like a “gap filling” for rooms not allocated to seminar/meeting guests. When we addressed the various shortcomings, we received only quite lapidar comments. Maybe there are still some ”initiation difficulties/children's diseases” to be removed and owners need to consider whether they prefer to operate a meeting hotel or a holiday hotel.