Hotel Margaretha — Hotel in St. Wolfgang im Salzkammergut

Great hotel for visiting the St. Wolfgang area. Approx 50 metres from cog railway and another 50 metres from ferry stop. It's about a 10 minute walk into the village centre. There are many cafes and restaurants in the village.

Rooms are fine, each look to be individually decorated and of varying sizes. Ask for a lakeside view. Room 315 has a side lake view between the Strand hotel and the one next door. Large rain shower and Austrian twin beds pulled together. No air conditioning.

Food was mostly great. Usual continental style breakfast with meats, cheeses, breads, fruits and yougurts. Great coffee. Sit at any table at breakfast time.

In the evening, we were allocated a table for the duration of our stay. Menu items were selected at breakfast for the forthcoming evening. Food choices were mostly good. Dress policy for gents at evening meal.

Hotel has a bar. There were a couple of evenings if entertainment during our stay but this stopped by 11pm.

Some minor quibbles. Some table staff had limited English resulting in difficulty ordering evening drinks. Service for evening meals was sometimes slow when other evenings were excellent. At the end of our stay we had some noisy guests early morning and evening. They also smoked continuously on their outside balcony making it unpleasant for us. We had to close windows and doors (thankfully it had cooled by then).

Overall, excellent hotel, well worth the stay with great views from the hotel and...

We stayed three nights at this hotel on our first visit to Salzkammergut. The hotel has a nice location, a short walking distance from the village, and very near the funicular train to go up the mountain and a stop of the boats that cross the lake. Our room was small but had a nice balcony and view to the lake. The breakfast is acceptable (choice and quality) for the price, but the buffet is too small for the number of people. You sometimes have to “queue” to get what you want from the buffet. This is compensated by the large and beautiful terrace with view on the lake where you eat your breakfast. We found the restaurant really good and were surprised diners were only hotel guests as the price quality is very competitive with other places in the village (and the terrace makes the experience nice). The “beach” on the other side of the street was never overcrowded and has some SUPs for the guests. A less positive point is the parking which is too small when the hotel is full. They reimburse if you have to park in the nearby public parking, but we found the parking experience stressing, with guests parking outside the lines or taking two places instead of one for their expensive car.||There is a charging station which you can reserve and costs a forfeit of 20 euro...

My room was shabby with dull features especially the large framed portrait of people from a past era hung askew and adorned with such an accumulation of dust and cobwebs of which one imagined it would be possible to cultivate vegetation in it. A small table was provided with chairs but to in order to stabilise it from wobbling all over we had to improvise with cardboard jammed around it. A redeeming feature was the view of the lake and a small balcony. The staff were found by many guests as well as us to be of a very dour and dull nature, like the tired and worn hotel. When simple requests were asked we were looked upon as if it was an intrusion. As a couple of experienced travellers to Austria for over twenty years and have a decent command of speaking and understanding German we are very familiar with the culture of Austrians and usually have respect for them but not in this case. The owner who is an aficionado of jazz 'music'? has a penchant for having it piped throughout the hotel from breakfast to dinner and all evening. Despite requests from a number of guests to have a different genre/selection of music played instead of the same endless,monotonous repeated jazz numbers these went ignored. Hence after dinner many took their leave...