Lebenberg Schlosshotel-Kitzbühel

Great hotel Staff friendly and efficient Lovely breakfast Huge pool Enjoyed the 15 minute walk in and out of town to dinner every night Transit service from the hotel to the ski lifts and back was excellent Never managed to try the non textile sauna area…..

This is a great hotel, one that feels genuinely five star. Staff are plentiful, well-dressed, friendly, very polite, and helpful. Their spoken English is very good, including one woman who spoke English so well that I initially thought she was a native English speaker. Hotel cleanliness is excellent everywhere. My room was faultless. You might get the impression that the hotel is a long way from the centre of Kitzbuhel. It is away from the centre, but not a long way. The centre of Kitz is a pleasant 15-minute walk along quiet roads and footpaths, and during the day the hotel provides a free, reliable shuttle every 30 minutes to and from the main ski lift station. Furthermore, because the hotel isn’t in the town, it has a great view of the town, especially from the pool and sauna area on the top floor. However, if you don’t want to walk into town every evening for dinner, the hotel offers evening meals. Booking half-board – as I did - is a good option to consider. My dinners were excellent and well served. Something I particularly liked about the hotel restaurant was that tables were more spaced out than one often finds in even the best restaurants; I was able to draw back my chair to stand up without having to check if someone was seated immediately behind me. It sounds like a small thing, but it’s small things like that which demonstrate genuine quality. If you do stay half board, I recommend you pack some smart clothes if you can. I wish I could have packed better clothes for dinner, but my airline luggage allowance was too measly to permit it, so I was embarrassed to have to dine in t-shirts and jeans. The hotel does an excellent breakfast buffet. It has a large, stylish bar area. It has a good ski boot room with individual lockers. The hotel sells ski passes at reception, the cost of which the hotel adds to your bill. This makes it easy to be flexible in the face of variable ski weather, perhaps deciding after breakfast each day whether you want to ski or not, buying one-day passes instead of a multi-day pass covering your whole stay. On a rainy day, you could take a day off skiing to explore the town (although buying six, one-day passes will be more expensive than one, six-day pass).