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My family have just returned from an extremely pleasant weekend in a wonderful child friendly hotel in Italy and I would simply like to share this info with you. The hotel is extremely child friendly and the service is also excellent. they are set up with a kids club up from age 3 and also have a large playground for kids in a wonderful setting around a little lake. they have great wellness facilities and a nice indoor/outdoor pool too.
The price is very reasonable and it pays to take half board as the food in the hotel in excellent. the buffet breakfast is abundant, they also serve a light lunch of pasta and salad and buffet dinner, except for the plated 6 course gala dinner on friday night. food is simply abundant.
If you want to get away for a relaxing long weekend this hotel is tucked away in the beautiful Dolomite mountains in Sud Tirol on the border with Italy.
A day trip to nearby Brixen (Brunico) is also highly recommended as it’s a very pretty Aldstadt.
In Spring of 2005, we stayed at the National Park Hotel Felben. From Munich, it is a pleasant, scenic, two-and-a-half hour drive to the hotel, located in Mitersill in a valley in the Austrian Hohen National Park. The hotel has all of the facilities you would expect in a kinderhotel, i.e, child care available (from age 2), large indoor and outdoor play areas, comfortable rooms in a variety of sizes and arrangements, excellent dining, indoor swimming pool and baby pool, health and wellness facilities, etc. A children’s program is available throughout the day with puppet shows, free play, arts and crafts, and sledding and skiing in the winter. In addition, the hotel is part of a working farm, so there are many opportunities for the kids to interact with the animals. Children can hold the bunnies, watch the cows at milking time, see the goats and sheep, go for pony and cart rides, even take riding lessons. The hotel is run by the Scharler family, and we found the service to be excellent. Brush up on your German skills though, because not much English is spoken by the hotel management and staff. We thoroughly enjoyed our 3-day stay, and only wish we had stayed longer to take better advantage of everything on offer.
Kinderhotels are a group of hotels and mountain resorts in the German, Austrian, and Italian alps. They are not a chain. Rather, they are a group of independently owned and managed hotels with common standards and amenities. Their primary purpose is to provide a family-friendly environment, in a beautiful setting, while creating an optimal vacation experience for parents and children. Up to 60 hours of child care per week is included in the price of lodging. Most hotels have spectacular indoor and outdoor playgrounds that appeal to a wide range of ages and are multi-seasonal. Swimming pools, saunas, and health and wellness facilities are availalbe in many of the kinderhotels. Most meals are included in the price. Some hotels offer an all-inclusive option that covers all meals, plus snacks. When you arrive in the dining room, you will find everything you need set up at your table, from high chairs, to children’t cutlery, to crayons and activity books. Since you are dining in a room full of other families with children, you don’t have to worry about the noise level or table manners of your little tykes. Everyone understands! Your hotel room will also be set up with ages and needs of your children in mind, including diaper pails, stepping stools for small children, and baby monitors. Check out the website to find individual hotels in the area in which you are interested. The website also provides information on pricing and amenities specific to each hotel.
If you have stayed at a kinderhotel and would like to provide a review, please provide a brief summary of the hotel and your experience in the comment section and we will post it for you.
June 13th, 2007 by 
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