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Old Oct 9, 2002, 1:23 am
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Arrow Sheraton Grand Salzburg, Austria [Master Thread]

Stayed at the Sheraton Jagdhof Fuschl and the Hotel Schloss Fuschl last weekend.

At the Jagdhof we stayed on a SPG award as the rate of about 220€ was a little bit high for an october weekend and 3.000 points offered a great value for an award.

We got one of the brand new rooms (207) in the middle building. We were probably the first guests there. The numbering is weird as 207 is on the first floor and the second floor rooms also start with a 2.

Nice and good bed (but not as good as the heavenly beds), armchair, small working desk, large TV, well staffed mini-bar with affordable prices (coke 2,90€, glenfiddich 5cl 5,90€), large closet, safe with built in power connector for laptop/phone, nice marble bathroom with seperate shower and bath-tube. Small balcony with lakeview.

Restaurant and Breakfast is in the old building, connected with an underground corridor.

Breakfast was 18€ for two and offered a great value. Very nice buffet.


The second night we moved to the Luxury Collection Hotel Schloss Fuschl, just 500m away. This was booked online on a 150€ rate (lakeview room).

I really thought that those luxury collection hotels would offer something special and was a little bit disappointed. We arrived at 14:00 and they said they don't have rooms until 15:00. We came back then and the receptionist gave us our room 215, a corner room with partial lakeview in the guest house. The guesthouse and the rooms are in this typical tyrolean boarding house style. The room was large and comfortable but there was nothing associated with 'luxury'... All those pictures they have online only show rooms in the old castle building, which we learned are all historical suits and are priced above 400€...

The room featured a table with two armchairs, a large tv, a minibar that was very well equipped in the booze section but was some 20% more expensive than that at the Jagdhof. The bed was not so comfortable. Also it had a small balcony. Bathroom was oldfashioned and worn and reminded me a little bit of those bathrooms typically found at 70's motels in the US. Toilet was in a separate and very small room.

We did not test the restaurant as it was very pricey and our taste was more for a schnitzel . For breakfast we did have to depart to early on 6:00 and with a price of 21€ p.P. it's also a little bit steep.

Both hotels share a spa and fitness facilities and have access to a 9 hole golfcourse.

As a SPG Gold both hotels offered a fruit basket.

I would definitely stay again there but would choose the Jagdhof only.
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