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22. juli 2024
We stayed at Falkensteiner Kronplatz as a family in July 2024. Overall, we had a very good stay. Plus points: - A modern, well designed and architecturally interesting hotel with very comfortable rooms. We booked the most basic room category and had no regrets. The room was spacious, with a large walk in wardrobe and generous bathroom with big rain shower. The outdoor terrace was furnished and very comfortable, too. - Cleanliness. Everywhere. Rooms, public areas, pool, restaurants. - The location is great - just a few steps from the Kronplatz ski lift and a few minutes from beautiful Bruneck. - The two Experience Concierges were really helpful and incredibly knowledgeable. - Our son enjoyed the play room and made friends with a few other children. He also had fun in the pool, and tried the climbing wall. Room for improvement: - The hotel was advertised as family friendly with two pools, a sports pool and a rooftop infinity pool that we were looking forward to using. However, when we arrived we were informed that the rooftop pool was adults only, so we could not use it at all. There were a few other adults only areas, so on balance, the hotel didn't feel massively family friendly. - Evening meals. The hotel said on its website that there was a choice of a multi-course gourmet menu, and a more standard a la carte menu. The latter doesn't seem to exist. We asked twice and were referred to the fussy five course menu both times. Now, this is by no means a bad menu - but it's very complex, and after a few days of tomato dust and vodka air (yes, really), we fancied simpler food. The South Tyrolean option on the menu only changed twice during our 9 day stay, so this unfortunately didn't help... Recommendation: Break it up a bit. Offer a starter and dessert buffet on a few evenings. Use your amazing outdoor space for a barbecue. And please offer a simple, classic a la carte menu in addition to the fancy food. - Service in the restaurant was very hit and miss. On a few evenings, it was a well oiled machine. On others, we waited... and waited... and waited. And were served cold food. And although there was a sommeliere who was keen to take a wine order, getting soft drinks was strangely difficult. On two consecutive evenings, we spent over two hours in the restaurant (despite skipping dessert), so we treated ourselves to pizza in the very good Hotel Corso in Bruneck the following day. What a relief - and perhaps the best meal we had on our holiday! - Related to this, if you are serving adults five courses over two hours, but you only offer one course to children (which takes 20 minutes), then that results in very, very bored children. Again, if you want to be family friendly, you need to do a lot more.
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