Auberge De La Gaichel — Hotel in Habscht

We booked to stay on two separate nights as we needed to be near Clairefontaine and La Gaichel is certainly the most convenient. Our room was on the 1st floor. There is no lift and the stairs are very steep and narrow. There was no one available to help with our luggage and getting the luggage to our room was quite an effort.||We had booked some weeks in advance, but were told we had to take a room on the (noisy) road side, but we could take a more expensive room on the garden side away from the road (which we decided to do as the road has quite a lot of traffic through the night).||We were told that we had not booked an evening meal and would have to wait until 20:30 (or later depending on when other guests were finished). We asked if we could not eat outside on the terrace and were told this was not possible. When we came later, however, to wait for a table to become free, we realized that the interior restaurant was almost empty as most of the guests were eating on the terrace which we had been told would not be available!! So we had to eat inside where we were more or less forgotten about and we had to go to the counter whenever we needed attention.||Anyway the night was quite peaceful and the breakfast was good (although there was no English breakfast tea - only Early Gray).||Our second night was quite different. This time we were allowed to eat on the terrace and we had a small room (with very small bathroom) facing the garden. The meal was fine and we went back fairly early to our rooms where we were able to sleep peacefully until about 3:30 - at which point a wedding group returned and decided to continue their party outside our room. This was of course not the fault of the management, but it should be noted that whichever room one choses (road or garden) there is no sonorisation whatever. So the rooms are only suitable for very heavy sleepers who ideally are deaf, who are fit enough to lug their luggage up to their rooms unaided and who are indifferent to whether they eat inside or on...

We stayed 3 nights in this hotel while my husband was on a business trip. As an American the hotel itself was everything I expect in a European bed and breakfast - quaint, pretty, old. It was a little dated in places but not enough to be off-putting. Our room was actually quite spacious which was rather surprising, and the bed large enough to accommodate my 6'7" husband reasonably well (you get your own little comforter per person - one thing I absolutely love about European hotels!). The room was clean and well tended. Like most older and privately owned Euro hotels there was no air conditioning, so it being the beginning of June it got a little hot and humid, and while we could open the windows there are no screens so bugs did get in and our room was facing the street, which could get a little loud. While this does not bother me I know that's an issue for some. The pillows were a little thin, as were the towels, but I would still call our stay comfortable. The staff was very pleasant to us non-French speakers, and the food was very good. I would've liked to have seen oatmeal offered as part of the breakfast, but that's really my only complaint. I would like to point out (and this is not the hotel's fault) is it is situated in a VERY small town with nothing to do other than biking or nature walks. It's a 20 minute walk to the nearest bus stop for a 1 hour ride to the city,...

The hotel de La Gaichel in Luxembourg just across the Belgian border (near Arlon) and the Auberge de La Gaichel are owned by the same family now the fourth generation of hosts. We visited the hotel, the more luxurious and expensive of the two mentioned for the first time back in the early 1980s and returned a few times till 2001 to only return this November of 2015. Besides the once romantic flower-print wall paper and the old-fashioned small bath, little has changed. The quiet environment at the edge of beautiful forested hills, with the option of a 37 km hike through the Septfontaines valley. The hotel hosts a guide Michelin one star restaurant with ever great but pricy food for the spoiled palate the auberge hosts a brasserie of more modestly priced but nevertheless very tasty food. The same difference applies to the lodging prices with the hotel at about double the rate of the auberge. We stayed in the hotel just to enjoy the luxury of getting breakfast served in the room......in the auberge a buffet style breakfast is the norm. Both hotels could do with some modernization even though a modern touch like free Wifi is provided. The rooms did get a good modern bathroom but the mattress on the beds are too soft. Service and hygiene are excellent and reservations for dinner a must in the through the entire week fully booked...