October 2011--I booked online and requested a room with a view. It was lovely! We had room 24 with the elevator just outside our door and a huge terrace overlooking the hills and at bight, the lit up Roman ruins on the hillside.

The room was large with a sitting area and a small TV...no wireless though and we would have liked that although not entirely necessary--just used to being able to quickly look things up in the area when we need to rather than asking the staff at reception.

The breakfast was more than plentiful and fresh. My only disappointment was rather weak cappuccino and coffee both from an automatic machine.

The wellness area of the hotel was well-kept with a small indoor pool and jacuzzi as well as a sauna, steam room and all sorts of services. I had 30 minutes of foot reflexology and Victor had a massage and both were very good and reasonably priced. This was much calmer than the town's public therme (Cassopieia?). I went there with a friend and it was a bit complicated--vouchers for this, different receipts for that, extra charges to use the steam and sauna areas and VERY crowded on the Saturday afternoon we were there. Think lots of little kids with arm floaties in the jacuzzi with their parents and no place to be in the warmer inside pool without someone else a foot or two away from you. for an extra 5>50 Euro I even got to sit thigh to thigh with 20 or more other people packed into the sauna. NOT relaxing at all and made me really appreciate Sole Uno in Rheinfeldon which I find much nicer. Going on a Saturday though to any thermal baths is something I will avoid in the future. Better to go for 2-3 hours during the week or at night. The hotel wellness area was far better for me...smaller but much more relaxing and with better services.

The hotel was in a great location just beside hotel Romerbad and an easy walk to the restaurants. Our best meal was at the local Winestuebe (not sure of the name but on the right hand side as you walk into town with a pretty wooden carved relief of grapes, wine barrel etc. just next to a bank and near the big red church) melts off the bone rabbit dish served with white sauerkraut and spaetzle. That and some local wine at a shared table made for a very lovely and social evening. The place was warm and friendly and it looked like that was the place to be as the hotel restaurants we looked into were mostly empty and this place was packed. Excellent food and service so we quickly understood why.

Overall a nice quick getaway weekend for us. Had it not rained, there looked to be a lot of excellent walks and hikes also in the area and the hillsides of vineyards with ruins scattered here and there was very picturesque.