Park Hotel Bellevue — Hotel in Pustertal - Val Pusteria

We stayed here a week in Sept ’19 as part of our walking trip package arranged in UK through Headwater holidays.||From the moment of arrival to leaving we really couldn’t find anything significant which we had problems with.||The room was comfortable and well equipped with robes provided for heading to the pool and sauna, it had a balcony with a pleasant view facing towards town and though in evenings we used it during our stay was warm enough to sit out to have a beer or wine before heading to the pool. The room had a mini bar type fridge which we used for storage of our own drinks.||The staff at the front desk were always helpful and the staff in the restaurant were most nearly always on hand to attend to our needs, each night and morning we were sat at same table for the week which was nice as we could chat to the other people who arrived with Headwater on same day and discuss our days walking and plans for the next.||Breakfasts were the usual continental buffet with meats, cheeses and fruit etc. and fresh made omelettes or fried eggs were available, fresh coffee was served at the table.||Evening meals were excellent quality and 5 courses, salad buffet, a soup or pasta course, a meat or fish dish, a pudding and then cheese at the buffet. Everything was well cooked and very well presented.||Wines from the extensive cellars were not cheap, around 25 Euro for a standard bottle of for example the Venetian Merlot which I loved, but certainly not out of the question when spread over a couple of nights.||For the day of my birthday I was presented with a medium sized chocolate cake at breakfast complete with a candle and a candlestick on our table too. That evening after returning from our walk we ate the cake and very nice it was too washed down with a glass of fizz we’d chilled in the room fridge.||The swimming pool was a decent enough size to swim lengths and the separate sauna and steam room were good to soothe a few aches after a day’s walking.||There’s a drying room if you need your boots etc. drying after a day out which we made use of and overnight everything which had been sodden wet the previous afternoon was bone dry with exception of my boots..||Location of the hotel is excellent if you’re starting walks, around 5 minutes’ walk to the rail station or 15 mins up the road into town to the bus station for local buses or the Drei Zinnen shuttle bus, you can pick up buses at the rail station but to be sure of a seat it’s best to start in town.||We felt September was a great time overall to visit both the hotel and the area, the buses we took to various locations to start walks weren’t too busy and most places we walked weren’t too crowded with exception of the Three Peaks trails which were just too busy for our liking.||Would love to stay here...

We returned here in Feb 2019 following a visit visit a few years earlier, when we were struck by how good it was. I'm glad to report that it was even better this time. This is a very charming and extremely well run hotel with great staff. Like the best places they've constantly reinvested in it and as a result it's immaculate and modern whilst being careful not to lose its Tyrolean charm or its authenticity. The best thing though is the food which we always remembered as good but this time was superb. The style is modern European and each evening if you're on half board there's a generous five course dinner followed by cheese. They also have some excellent wines and great Austrian and German beers on tap and bottled. The newly refurbished and very smart dining area looks out on a spectacular mountainscape. It makes for a memorable end to each day. You can see what the place looks like from its website so I won't repeat it here except to say that it's a fair representation and we absolutely loved our stay. It's also very well located for accessing the Alpine skiing stadium and cross country tracks and also for the railway station making it easy to get to by train, which is what we did from Innsbruck. The train service is excellent actually and integrated with Austrian (OBB) and German rail so you can easily book through from Munich for example. We used the OBB mobile app called "Scotty" which we would highly recommend. Some services don't show in the UK's TrainLine for some reason. We will...

We returned here in Feb 2019 following a visit visit a few years earlier, when we were struck by how good it was. I'm glad to report that it was even better this time. This is a very charming and extremely well run hotel with great staff. Like the best places they've constantly reinvested in it and as a result it's immaculate and modern whilst being careful not to lose its Tyrolean charm or its authenticity. The best thing though is the food which we always remembered as good but this time was superb. The style is modern European and each evening if you're on half board there's a generous five course dinner followed by cheese. They also have some excellent wines and great Austrian and German beers on tap and bottled. The newly refurbished and very smart dining area looks out on a spectacular mountainscape. It makes for a memorable end to each day. You can see what the place looks like from its website so I won't repeat it here except to say that it's a fair representation and we absolutely loved our stay. It's also very well located for accessing the Alpine skiing stadium and cross country tracks and also for the railway station making it easy to get to by train, which is what we did from Innsbruck. The train service is excellent actually and integrated with Austrian (OBB) and German rail so you can easily book through from Munich for example. We used the OBB mobile app called "Scotty" which we would highly recommend. Some services don't show in the UK's TrainLine for some reason. We will...