After having read the enthusiastic reviews about Hotel Bodmi, we decided to stay in August for one week in a junior suite with our one year old daughter. Yes, it is true that the views are great, the location superb and the rooms big.
But, the interior design of the rooms was very old fashioned, the carpet and the towels (strange pink-red mix...) could be renewed. Same is true for the tablecloth on the restaurant terrace and our balcony chairs; the wholes in it kept our daughter busy. With few exceptions, the staff was everything else but heartly. As a German I sometimes felt directed as by the former East German army or a Swiss female regiment. I did also not understand why the onwers let the staff sit around in the restaurant when not working and, worst of all, smoking like hell.
The food comes in large portions, but is not what one could describe as elaborate Swiss mountain cooking, it is more solid. When we were eating on the restaurant terrace, we had to sit in the last corner (which I can understand because of our the small daughter), but no one of the service had the idea to bring, at least the food for her, with some kind of urgency (Living in Italy that is one of the things I love the Italians for....) Breakfast was good, even so the focus lay more on cheese than on the ham part of the buffet.
If you want to sit outside and see the mountains, you can either do it on your balcony or the restaurant terrace where you have to consume - quite a pitty for this lovely green in front of the hotel. Parking is kind of tricky as you risk every time to grate your car at the wall of the stall.
The owners where kind of friendly, but not so nice not to increase our room rate from the '7-night-stay rate' to the '6-night-stay-rate' - after it had rained heavily for three days without stopping (we had bought a six-day mountain railway pass which we could use two!) and we had decided to leave the hotel one night earlier (still don't understand why the owner had to increase the price while explaining me that it would be "just some ten Swiss Francs per person per night"...).
Would we go back to the Bodmi? No. Having paid more than 200 Euro per night (including only breakfast), I think that what this 3+ star hotel is offering, it is overpriced, might the views also be fabulous. And the cordiality and friendliness of the Bodmi had nothing to do with holidays we had lately passed in Austria and Turkey.
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