Aalernhüs Hotel & Spa

The staff is very friendly albeit sometimes a bit confused and not everyone speaks English. The facilities is however very nice with big rooms, cozy spa and a very nice lobby. We stayed over New Year’s Eve and was very happy during the stay. The spot gets one star less just because I half of the hotel has a view of the parking spot. Not the worse but it’s good to know when you are booking.

Excellent. Absolutely excellent. The personnel who work at this hotel are exceptionally friendly, helpful and courteous. Everybody from the gardener to the receptionists, from the room cleaning staff to the bar tender - all of them are, without exception, polite and attentive. The hotel itself, refurbished to a high standard in 2012, is very tastefully decorated and comfortably furnished. Rooms are spacious with mini bar, safe for valuables and a lot of wardrobe and drawer space for clothes and belongings. Indoor Pool is a good size (often the photos of Hotel pools are taken with a wide angle lens which makes them appear huge on the hotel website but when you see them in reality they are about the size of a handkerchief - but this pool is well dimensioned) and the 2 saunas plus steam room are modern and clean. From the hotel it is about 1.5km to the centre of town (20 minutes walk) where a wooden walkway leads to the extensive beach and the Arche Noah. From there you can stroll along the beach for about 3km and then turn off the beach and walk back along the damm wall. A pleasant 8k afternoon stroll or else a good 8k run before breakfast which is also a joy in this Hotel. Great selection of beads, fresh buns, freshly squeezed orange juice, freshly made omelette in front of your eyes to name but a few of the breakfast highlights. This Hotel has certainly earned its 5 star rating.

Breakfast has to be improved. Mostly unhealthy food , almost no good plant based options for breakfast. When you go to spa hotel you want to have healthy food. Here only old fashioned unhealthy options. Hopefully this will improve soon. I really had great time at spa and hotel room was big with comfortable bed. Balcony overlooking the pool and forest is excellent. But unfortunately they allow people to smoke on the balconies, so we got lots of smoke in our room, that was really annoying at night :(