I stayed at this hotel for 2 nights. My visit to Klagenfurt was to see Austria v Slovakia in a football friendly game at the stadium used Euro 2008. The hotel was some 20 minute walk from the city centre. It was a good hotel. The rooms were fine and had all the amenities you needed. The staff were excellent and very helpful. The breakfast was simply fantastic which an outstanding choice. They have bikes on site that you can use. I had one for 8 hours and cycled around Klagenfurt and the lake Worthorsee nearby. Both are lovely places. I would recomend a visit to Klagenfurt and surrounding area. Overall, there are hotyels much nearer the city cente but if you like a strollthen this is fine. There isn't a lot around the hotel to do but I found a local bar "Oke" where the barman was such a nice person to talk to. All staff in the hotel spoke good English. They made you feel very welcome. I enjoyed my stay immensly. If you are looking to visit the football stadium then this hotel is quite some way away. It took me 50 minutes to walk back to the hotel but felt totally safe in doing so even though the game did not finish until 22.20pm.

We stayed in July 2011 for the Ironman. Hotels for this weekend book out a year ahead, so I got in early. Booking by email etc was excellent with very prompt replies, and no problem changing from a twin to a single, then back to a double.

The location is about 1.6km to the east of the centre on a busy-ish road. Our room was 202 and looked out on the side street with a view of distant mountains. The room was a good size, probably fitted out in the mid 90s but amazingly clean, and comfortable beds. Bathroom had a big bath with a shower over it.

The service was simply amongst the best I have ever had and that is based on dozens of yearly hotel stays. The owner is 100% on top of what is going on, had a huge locked room available for all the 20+ Ironman athletes to assemble and store bikes and boxes, plus also had a small fleet of town bikes to borrow (free!) to cycle around town. When these ran out he magically sourced more, quite possibly brand new, within a few hours. There is a supermarket and huge bike store about 100m away (out of town direction, across main road). Parking is free and easy to find a place.

Breakfast was superb. Huge range, lots of fresh bread, plus all the ham, cheese and cooked options. On race day he served breakfast from 4am, and this not only included ALL the standard stuff, but additionally rice and pasta! We did not eat any other meals there.

He then hires (and does not charge for) a bus to take anyone who wants to to go to the race start. He does this as he knows his location is not as perfect.

The only downside is that we like to sleep with the windows open (and the weather is nice and cool at night in July) but although we were on the side street, it was still too noisy so we shut the windows. On the plus side there is superb aircon and triple glazing.

Technology wise there was a big flatscreen tv, and best of all free and very fast wifi all over the hotel with hassle free access (no need to reenter codes daily)

The Ironman race start is 5k to the west of the city centre. If I could not get a hotel right there (which would be expensive) Aragia would be my first port of call.

(And the Ironman course is STUNNING!)

Well this was a gem, it has it all & just a short walk to town.
From our arrival to departure it was a pleasure to stay here.
We wish that we had 2 days to be able to enjoy this wonderful little town far too much to take in in just an afternoon.
The dinner in the restuarant & the breakfast was good, other than the fact that pets are allowed in the dining area.
Friendly staf,f air conditioning , bar fridge clean & tidy, thanks Aragia for making our stopover wonderful.