Hotel Tyrol

Stayed here as part of the Ulster Bus Grand Tour and the staff and service was excellent. Very helpful, the rooms were good with great views from the Balcony and the food was really good. The village and the cable car trip were great places to visit.

Went with ulsterbus and from the first day the food and accommodation was 5 stars but tell the gentleman in the restaurant to smile great bar and the entertainment on Friday was brilliant and the Austrian buffet was first class

Back nearly three weeks ago from a holiday at Hotel Tyrol. The hotel was excellent value for money and we would definitely consider coming back. The meals were always of good quality – five courses – one was salads, another was usually soup, served starter main course and dessert. The ‘Austrian’ night meal is a carvery. Schnitzel is veal it turns out too. Can highly recommend Almdudler as a soft drink made in Austria – think herb / elderflower lemonade is the closest I can describe. Others have explained that the german speakers are in one room for meals and the English speaking in another. It probably the better room the English speaking folks are at, and its layout usually encourages one table to talk to another table and exchange ideas for walks etc. Breakfast was good – scrambled or boiled egg, bacon or sausage, rolls, cereal, juice, fruit (look round the corner), yoghurt, cheese, hams. Plenty to fill us up for a day’s walking. Some have commented on limited television options in English. The hotel must have improved this recently as there were 10 good quality well known channels available on the set – look at channel 40 upwards, We enjoyed an hour at the end of the day watching something. The outdoor swimming pool was really useful after a day’s travels or walking. It feels as if you are in back garden rather than a hotel – and it is so much the better for this! There is building work for an extension of leisure facilities but I believe this will be finished within the next few weeks. (it may even be built by now!) A heated outdoor pool for winter and indoor pool should satisfy the skiers. The building work was not intrusive and did not spoil our enjoyment at all. The room we had has had its bathroom transformed – probably one of the most modern bathrooms we’ve been in apart from a five star hotel in Pula. The room wasn’t redecorated yet, which wasn’t a problem (except if you tried to read in bed – the frame would be against your head). I’m assuming the hotel is working gradually through the rooms as we could see nearby rooms up the corridor were the newer design. We found the owners engaging – the man on reception and Suzanna were always very helpful, and could make jokes, and got our humour as well. The one fly in the ointment was the lady behind the bar. We were with others at a table who found it bemusing to say the least. The lady took my wife’s order and disregarded me. Eventually when she did come back with my wife’s order a few minutes later she took my order and eventually served the drink. We’re unsure we got the decaffeinated coffee that was ordered. Soll is lovely little village – there was a market in the summer on the Wednesday night. The Waiser Kilder card allowed a lot of free transport – had we changed buses it was possible to get to Kitzbuhel, Worgl and Kufstein were possible too. We used route 55/54 at the bottom cable car station for a low level easy walk at the start. Lots of stations to fill the water bottles. We also used the buses up to Hintersteiner See – lovely lake – chilly to bathe in but yet refreshing with the temperatures we had. There’s a little park with an admission charge, €3 for a deckchair and €3 for a parasol. It serves small snacks and drinks too. We walked from there back to Soll (I think path 56). On the way down, there are two options – a steep path right to Soll or a longer but gentler descent. We went with the latter – do not worry if this takes you back uphill for a few minutes – after it the path is very good. Signage was poor coming close to the village at Moorsee – my advice is to stick to the road rather than the yellow sign to the forest – it led to a junction with no sign and we wasted a lot of extra time. We also went up in the gondolas to the top of Hohe Salve. We came down route 99/95 to Hexenwasser – the second lake on the route has restaurants, ice cream, children’s play area. Hexenwasser is rather tastefully done – we liked the wooden rocking chair for sunning ourselves and the home made lemonade at the bar. For more details of the walking routes, call to the Tourist Information centre in the village – they have little booklets with maps which show the routes. Out of hours, a number of items are left outside to take. We would come back to the area – plenty to see and do, bring your walking boots. Oh and watch the cash machines – the one on the main street corner wanted to charge 2€ transaction fee, but the other one round the corner and the one near MReise Supermarket did not have a charge. You may wish to bring a travel kettle as there no such facilities in the hotel room. A good experience of the hotel at which we were made very welcome, most staff are very proud of the hotel