Sonnschein Hotel

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The hotel was charming with lovely well appointed rooms and
beautiful views over the amazing countryside. The reception areas, dining areas and bars were decorated in a charming rustic style which made us feel very relaxed and at home.
The staff were friendly, helpful and all spoke excellent English.
Everything was as it should be in a 4-star hotel except, unfortunately, for the food!
The breakfast was a good buffet style with plenty to choose from but the coffee was already on the tables in vacuum jugs, which gave it a rather strange flavour. We did find later that we could fill small jugs from the machine in the buffet, which gave us good coffee. (Whether we were meant to or not, we didn’t find out)
At breakfast we chose our main evening meal from the two choices on menu on the table. The main dishes served in the evening were acceptable but the portions were miniscule and if we expected to fill up on the wonderful desserts that Austria is justly famous for, we were mistaken! For three consecutive nights we were served banana based dishes; fruit cocktail consisting of banana and chopped apple; banana and caramel ragout and Choux buns filled with cream and sliced banana!
On Friday there was a special gala dinner consisting of a “farmers' buffet” and was truly very good with plenty of food and lots of choice; however, the ubiquitous yellow fruit even made an appearance at this dinner in the only dessert buffet we ever saw during our stay.
I could see that the hotel kitchen was capable of producing excellent food but that which we were served was not 4 star standard. I felt it was cheap and penny-pinching.