Hotel y Restaurante Tannenhof — Hotel in Colonía Friesland

The rooms at the Tannenhof were pleasant and clean and the food was decent. The grounds were lovely. The only real problem had to do with management. While I don’t expect people working in a hotel in a foreign country to speak English just for my convenience, I do expect a hotel in a Mennonite colony to have at least one person on staff who speaks German or Low German. We were met the first evening by someone who did speak these languages, and we explained that we spoke no Spanish, but no effort was made to offer an avenue of communication should we need it. Instead we muddled by, dealing with the lovely young kitchen staff/maids using Google translate when my few Spanish words didn’t suffice. ||I have said that the rooms were clean. They were spic and span upon our arrival, but after that we had to coax towels and toilet paper out of the girls, and ask to have our floors mopped and our beds made. Some days. Some days these things were done. We couldn’t figure it out. When we told them we needed something, they jumped to it every time, but we shouldn’t have had to tell them. Whoever had the job of managing the staff was asleep on it. I cannot praise the friendliness of these girls enough, nor their efforts to please us, and I do not blame them for falling short where they did. I blame whoever should have been in charge. The Tannenhof is a decent hotel. I hope someone will decide to care for it, and its guests properly. This would include offering an itemized bill for the stay, instead of waiting until it has been asked for repeatedly and,...

Grounds well attended and nicely laid out. |- Deliciously cool big entrance in this present heat. Very pleasant first impression! |- Outside pool. |- Quiet. |- Friendly staff. ||- Bed we had was comfortable but the mattress really should be replaced. |- Small mirror too high on the wall - I couldn't see in it. Try a full flat mirror above the basin. Guests don't generally need a medicine cabinet.|- Bedside lamps would be better than only an overhead light. |- hat rack not needed. Makes for clutter in the room. One closet will suffice. ||PLEASE Provide customers with a detailed printed receipt if it is requested. ||Restaurant :|- USE LESS SALT. People can add salt to their food but you can't take salt out. |- have English translations. |- don't use basil on fish or wrenike.||Friesland is a lovely little town that has well manicured yards, shops and businesses, a church, museum...

Lastimosamente solo me tocó almorzar allí y ya en un horario en donde el buffet contaba con lo que quedó después de otras visitas. Aún así, lo que me tocó, tanto la picaña como los ravioles caseros de ricotta sabian bastante bien para haber sido los últimos en quedar. Ensaladas tipo alemanas, como el repollo morado encurtido con uvas pasas, y los aderezos como la salsa de crema de leche con perejil, son algunas de las cosas tipicas que se encuentran entre su buffet que me imagino variará cada domingo. Tienen disponible hospedaje con desayuno incluido, una piscina y salón para eventos. Lo que más me llamo la atención del lugar es la disposición de su jardín y los alrededores de la colonia Friesland donde se encuentra; una especie de submundo ordenado dentro de San...