Hotel berhampiran Strandbad Thumersbach, Zell Am See District

A small B&B close to the Lake. Trains run frequently along the track between the Hotel and the lake. There are about 38 rooms over 4 floors. The Hotel has a small ski room in the basement with boot warming racks and also in the basement is a, free to use, Sauna with shower and a relaxation area with complimentary towels, open 4:30-8:30pm each evening. There is no lift so not ideal for those less mobile. Rooms vary in size and occupancy. Room 32 on the top floor is very small Twin, with slimline beds and limited storage. OK for one person, but would be extremely small for 2. There is a TV in the room and there is a side view of the lake from the windows (no balcony). I slept with the windows open and the the noise from the trains didn’t wake me. The bathroom was spotlessly clean (March 2023) and the shower was quite powerful with shower gel provided. Tissues, loo roll, Liquid soap and towels are also provided (1 bath & 1 Hand/Face. For guests staying Saturday - Saturday, towels are changed once per week on Wednesdays. There is a charge of you require a more frequent change. Rooms are cleaned & beds made, most days. Breakfast, served 07:30-09:30, is a typical selection of meats and cheese slices, soft cheese triangles, eggs (alternating hard boiled & scrambled), tomatoes & cucumber. There is a variety of breads available (with toaster) cereals, milk, juice, yoghurt, Oranges & Apples, Jam and chocolate spread. You can make your own Waffles and there area variety Tea’s and a coffee machine (free, ignore the charge sign at breakfast). Room vacation on day of departure is 10:00am.

My apologies for being so late in reviewing this hotel. We, a group of 4 friends from Waterford , Ireland stayed there in January 2024. My friends not having not previously experienced Austrian culture nor Austrian ski resorts were blown away by our week stay at the St Georg. We arrived approximately 8pm and we were met by the ever friendly Danielle who checked us in and made us all feel so welcome. Breakfasts as you would expect was as a typical European Buffett and the atmosphere in the dining area always relaxed, cordial and professional. I was late one morning, but was afforded a last minute cup of coffee to wake me up. 😂 Proximity to the nearest gondola. Walk downhill for 5 mins or go the gondola and get the Schillerstraße bahn bus up to the middle station. Just follow the river directly across from the hotel. You won’t get lost. 😉 This hotel has everything . Good food, super staff, swimming pool, sauna but most of all this family knows how to run a business and continued success to them. Having been in Austria for many years skiing, this Hotel was definitely one of my favourites. Oh and don’t forget to say Hello to Karl at the bar. Looks like a WWE wrestler but is in fact a friendly giant. Thanks guys. Hopefully see ye next year.

So, if you are looking for a budget hotel ..stop reading. This is “erste Klasse“, you pay and will get everything you need. The hotel is very modern, not at a traditional Austrian hotel. The rooms are spacious and the beds are very comfortable. The every day cleaning is flawless. The breakfast is very.. I say very good… if you have included spa in your stay, you will enjoy something special… there different saunas.. spacious areas to relax… if you want to take a swim.. the hotel has two … indoor and outdoor.. it’s up to you… Why I love this hotel is that the service is great and the a**osphere is .. well it’s really relaxing.. you don’t get the feeling of that you are staying at a railway station.. if you get the feeling….but the downside is that you have to pay for this … well you only live once…

Great hotel. We enjoyed a lot. Nice breakfast. Will come back again

I would recommend this hotel to anyone. It is a family run facility that provides top quality service and makes you feel at home from the moment you arrive. The team are so friendly and helpful and always have a smile. The spa and wellness centre is extremely spacious and well equipped with a variety of saunas ranging in temperatures, to an infra red room and indoor and outdoor swimming pools. The gym has state of the art equipment and is easy to navigate. We went skiing and the rooms are much better than any other place I have stayed in the past for being spacious. The food was superb, with so much choice at breakfast and dinner. Also catering for vegan and vegetarians. The hotel itself was modern and welcoming and it was nice the Segl family who own it came and chatted with all guests. I will definitely return. Thank you for an amazing stay.

Overall I enjoyed my two visits of one night each and the price/performance ratio was acceptable. My experiences were: Both stays: + Smooth check-in. Very nice to get a call once the room is ready and to visit the pools before. The second time the lady at check-in did not offer this, though (and I was not called). + The free pick-up at the railway station is high class + rooms are beautiful. + breakfast is excellent + phantastic water landscape The dinner situation is dire. Unfortunately I must explain this a bit. First stay dinner: - Waiters rushing around, behaving as if in a hurry, speaking very fast. There was 20% occupancy or less and lots of waiting personell. The dinner guests were all herded in a small area. Did nobody think of improving the a**osphere by leaving every second of the (small) tables empty ? - I got a cocky (and wrong) answer when I asked which teas (infusions) are available. My question to be moved to a nicer table seemed to be an unheard-of impossibility. - No drink menu was shown and the prices are not mentioned (except the 3 or 4 drink suggestions on the menue of the day. There the white-wine-suggestion-of-the-day (＞EUR 60 per bottle) was way overpriced). - It seems to be a new policy that the buffet options are drastically reduced. Instead of, for example, main-dish-like (seafood, …) choices 3 strudel and 2 (strudel-like) quiche selections were offered, all similar to each other … - Second stay dinner - The change in food policy seems to be permanent. It simply amounts to have not any more the equivalent of a multi-course dinner, but a simple a three course dinner. In former times, I often did not order the main course from the menue because the buffet items were good and diverse main dishes. This is not possible any more, you would stay hungry. Appetizers (sweets) and deserts (sweets as well) are largely indistinguishable. The good antipasti still on the buffet can not compensate this. - Bizarre behavior of the waiter that shows the table: I came to dinner with rather short (but over the knee) trousers. He told me that was told that this is not allowed and management has told him to watch and mention this. Nevertheless he led my wife, me and my son to the table. I mentioned that my trousers are over the knee and that I did not have long ones with me. He said, very loudly, that would not matter and that he hears this all the time from the guests. That was on the way to the table, he probably intended so that all guests could hear him. The reality is that: (1) the hotel can indeed issue such a dress code if it likes. However, this was mentioned in no place, absolutely nowhere. (2) from my experience, it is unusual for a resort hotel to have such a dress code, even in very upscale resorts (as opposed to the dining venues in 5* city hotels, of course).