Dalecarlia Hotel & Spa

Sometimes you just need to get away and to relax all by your self. This has been a perfect stay with good food, good service and an excellent time in the Spa. Love being able to sit in the hot tub outside with snow all around. |Will suggested a good wine to suit my dinner, many thanks.

We stayed in room 203 in main hotel just above reception.||PROS|Good location as we had the living room/sofas next door (however this was a complimentary upgrade… not sure what type of room this was otherwise).|Radiator on a timer in bathroom to dry clothes.|Coffee and water station available at all times of day for free.|Breakfast was tasty and offered a good variety.|Fantastic gym - free to use.|Nice spa and pool area.||CONS|You have to pay to use the pool and spa (apparently this is standard in Sweden?!) and you’ve got a 3 hour slot, presumably to avoid crowds, however when we went in the afternoons the 5 hot tubs were basically all full so we had to choose our timings right. If you’re looking for a really relaxing spa, this may not be the place for you… for the amount of people that are using the hot tubs and saunas etc there just aren’t enough relaxing loungers to relax properly afterwards. They have one ‘quiet’ room which has 4 double lounger beds, otherwise all other loungers are outside on the decking… not ideal if it’s raining (which it was for our entire stay!) There’s plenty of seating, but in my experience, in a spa you have reclining chairs or loungers to relax and fall asleep.|Also, for the price you pay to use the spa, you’d think that they’d provide you with flip flops or room slippers (for sanity of not spreading verrucas!) but they didn’t. You could of course buy a robe and sliders at a hefty price though… sorry but I didn’t want this option as I don’t have room in my luggage to take it home.|The room was facing the lake and very warm for some reason. We had to remove the duvet covers.|It was raining during our stay and the umbrellas on loan were not very good.|The staff were courteous and professional, however, felt rather impersonal in their corporate uniforms. Other hotels in the area have a way more authentic vibe.

This review is primarily focused on the restaurant. It is in a beautiful setting overlooking the lake. Menu looks interesting enough. Execution needs some work. Inedible undercooked burger that should have been comped (but for some reason wasn’t). Gritty salad. Long waiting time between courses. Staff still finding their way - presenting Austrian wines as German and so on. Was hoping for a bit more. Beer selection is small but at least offers some local breweries. The hotel in general is rather nice with a number of lounge areas and activity rooms for kids.

The Dalecarlia Hotel & Spa Hotel is located in scenic Tällberg, offering great surroundings with a view of the lake Siljan. Unfortunately, that's roughly where the good stuff ends. Given their room prices, and additional fees for using facilities like the sauna and the Spa, I would have expected a much higher level of standards here.||Our room, facing the lake Siljan, was extremely warm (much warmer than the public areas of the hotel). The only functional ventilation was to open the two windows and let them stay open for as long as possible. The shower doors need some love (maintenance) to prevent water from escaping the shower onto the bathroom floor.||The breakfast lacks vegetables, and the scrambled eggs taste like they came from a pre-fab tetrapak container. The time to clear the tables after guests have left their breakfast sitting should be much shorter. Running out of food was a common issue for many guests during the breakfast.||The dinner was, unfortunately, pretty much a service disaster. We switched tables, after asking staff, so they were aware of the change. We then had to wait 45 minutes for our appetizers to arrive. We had to ask for the customary "bread & butter", while the table right next to ours had theirs from the moment they were seated. When we ordered a beer, we had to ask for a beer glass. The guests right next to us were served beer in wine glasses. The food, when it finally arrived, was good. They even managed to serve the steak as ordered (rare).||We talked to the Kitchen Manager after the dinner, and we did end up with a 30% discount on the bill. I think not paying for anything at dinner would have been a more appropriate gesture.||I fully understand that anyone can have a bad day at the office, but there were just too many things that, when combined, made for a pretty sad experience. Taken this hotel's prices into account, I think a 2/5 rating is about right.

It was difficult to decide how to score this hotel stay as we travelled as an extended family and had two hotel rooms, one family room and one double room. The family room was very comfortable. The beds were cosy, there was plenty of space, big bay windows, a well stocked mini bar and all of the comforts expected from a four star hotel. The double room on the other hand was entirely underwhelming. It was tiny. There was a small window that looked over the flat roof and if you craned your neck, you could see lake Siljan. There was no desk to work at and oddly there were beer and wine glasses left but no mini bar. The bathroom was also tiny and it was difficult to even sit on the toilet without banging our knee. This room was located up some steps with no lift access and would have been problematic if my husband hadn’t been able to carry up the bags, yet there was no offer of assistance with the bags from reception. ||The hotel itself was well kept and fitting for the area. There was complementary tea, coffee, water and biscuits at all times near the bar area which was a nice touch. The bar and lounge areas were comfortable and pleasant to sit in. We utilised the restaurant for breakfast and for dinner on one of the evenings of our stay. We opted for the bbq buffet which was decent enough but very pricey for what was on offer. The breakfast was OK but felt that there could have been a better selection for calibre of the hotel and as mentioned in another review, the scrambled eggs were awful. Otherwise, the food was tasty enough. ||All in all, it was a good stay and had it not been for the small double room, the review would have received a 4 and if I was to stay again, I would be certainly requesting a better allocated room than the small double that we were given.

The rooms were shabby, alot of dust on everything, not very cozy beds, they felt lke something you could buy cheaply at ikea. The food (we only ate the breakfest buffet) was very basic, nothing out of the ordinary with food items that would be expected at a 200-300kr/per/night motel, cold bacon, premade pancaks etc. The service was a bit chaotic, not just for us but before us there were issues with service staff not registering guests properly, making things like going to the spa a hassle. The "spa" itself was nothing special really, its what you would expect from going to a very basic bathing house but with a tiny little shallow pool which was to small to swim in. The sauna was a bit leaky making it hard to get enough heat in there. Obviously the view is nice but i think you are better off going to siljan to see the view and then pack your bags and head for a better spa, hotel or restaurant separately. The location beside siljan is perfect but i cannot attribute that to the hotel. There are trees in the way of the water making the view of siljan less than perfect.

A great discovery! Perched over the hills surrounding lake Siljan, this (luxury) hotel offers a great base from which to explore this area that happens to be the cradle of Swedish culture. Tällberg, Rättvik, Nusnäs, Orsa, Mora, Leksand… ||||The combination of good sized rooms, a modern spa, hiking trails, a nice restaurant and plenty of seating areas to read a book or enjoy a Fika, make this an idilic location, with or without children.

Very sweet staff and great view with beautiful sunset, but the rooms look a bit like hostel rooms (we stayed one upgrade above standard room so I can imagine the standard would be worse). The whole hotel needs a little renovation if they want to keep those prices. For example the carpeting in our room and the carpeting in the dining hall. Food was pretty nice and sweet older waitress. I would say there are better and more quaint places to stay in Tällberg. That being said we had a lovely time visiting the small village.