Dalecarlia Hotel & SPA, BW Premier Collection

This hotel is in a superb location and is well designed and appointed. Parking is easy and the reception staff were very helpful and professional. |The terrace has superb views over Lake Siljan and is ideal for a pre dinner drink.|The only downside is the restaurant. The staff are willing but there is no organisation. The queues to be seated were far too long. The a la carte menu is pricey and the food underwhelming with poor attention to seasoning. The shrimp sandwich served in the bar is a tastier alternative. The breakfast buffet was high in variety but low in quality

Excellent location and atmosphere! Good dinner service and occasional live music in the restaurant. Nice breakfast, could be more waffle irons.

The hotel itself has a very nice entrance and reception area with large stairs to the upper floor, looks great and impressive. THEN, after check-in you will find your room in one of the long corridors and the standard is like a cheap hostel. Actually, it feels like the hotel is on its last moments to either be surrended or is waiting for a renovation very soon. The rooms are just cheap and NOT worth the price one pay. Our room clearly had a water damage earlier, could easily be seen on the floor. Air outlet in bathroom not clean, full of dust. THEN, a christmas dinner with too many people, it was just crowded and gave a feeling of "let's push as many as possible into the restaurant to gain most profit". Wine is very expensive here too. Again, rural place where they squeeze profit out of you. AND, if you are aiming for the SPA then be aware of that the spa is 150 meters walk from the hotel with an uphill walk on the way back. Cannot recommend this hotel.

The Hotel is well maintained both inside and out. The is a lot of dark wood paneling and nice public rooms. It is worthwhile to pay extra for a room with a view of Lake Siljan. Breakfast was excellent. The only minor downsides are the shower water pressure is low in AM amd bathroom floor could have been cleaned better||

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.

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 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.

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.