Daniele F.
Google
The Kolfuschgerhof hotel is a 5-star hotel in the Badia Valley, just outside the namesake village of Col Fosco.
Location: excellent, with a breathtaking view of both the Dolomites and the Badia Valley and the Col Fosco village is reachable with a pleasant 15' walk.
Structure: although rooms are not too many, the hotel is spread on a relatively large area and sometimes the way around it can appear labyrinthic!
Rooms: decently sized and well decorated, although the layout could have been better designed: in our room opening the wardrobe was blocking the access to the bathroom!!!!! Unfortunately, the rooms don't have any tea/coffee facilities and not even a simple bottle of water is provided, which is a major and unexpected shortcoming for a 5-hotel.
Wellness: great, with a huge sauna on the roof garden and a smaller but nice sauna world in the basement. Indoor and outdoor swimming pools and an excellent gym. Regrettably, such beautiful facilities are badly managed. The daily spa ritual in the main sauna was incredibly poorly and amateurishly executed, on one occasion cancelled. The basement's sauna world does not have any drinking facilities (you have to exit to drink a glass of water!) and unexpectedly children are allowed in the adults, textile-free saunas!
Food: the hotel does not provide an afternoon snack, quite a regular feature of this level of Alpine hotels. However, breakfast and dinner offer a quite varied choice of dishes and adequate portions. As for the quality, it is quite fluctuating, with excellent level for the local dishes (in particular meat and game) but the traditional pasta dishes were not well cooked at all. Waiters were ok.
Service: the reception desk is kind and seems to genuinely care for the guests well-being. However, coordination sometimes seems to be a problem, as we were assured the saunas will be turned on at a certain time by reception but eventually were not!
All in all an hotel with a remarkable structure, a great wellness area but that should work on improving various shortcomings, which are not acceptable in such a pricey establishment.
Not recommended.