Searching for an hotel nearby Nordhausen, we came up the hotel more or less by accident. Good for us. The very German small town is great for a little promenade, while in a 3 minutes walk of the hotel you find several sports facilities. For mountainbikers there is transport to the top of the mountain via a teleferic. We used it to go up and have a drink. The hotel indoor pool is large, rooms are tidy. We enjoyed very much the restaurant, breakfast and dinner. The buffets are great and not expensive. Some parts of the hotel are a bit outdated, but this never bothered us. We took the comfort room and probably take the superior one for the little extra's when we go back. What we probably will do. Our little 6 year-old daughter had a great time, so did we.

An architect's horror story nestling in the hills a little above Braunlage, the Maritim can be glimpsed from almost anywhere in the quiet little ski/tourist town. However its vantage point offers you a vast and pleasant panoramic view reaching across the town to the hills beyond, but only should you have been so lucky as to obtain a room on the south side of the hotel. If you find yourself on the northern side, you might catch the rare glimpse of Grandma stretching out the bat wings on one of the two somewhat sorry looking old archery targets. The interiors of the main spaces are clean and well decorated. The rooms, their facilities and housekeeping are of the quality you might expect from any 4 star hotel, and only suffer from the apparent need to appeal to a burgeoning age demographic for whom the hotel is apparently very popular. The swimming pool and sauna, which we often found to have all to ourselves, were truly wonderful after a long days hiking. With the cable car just a hop and skip down the hill, the Wurmberg is very accesible and Braunlage not far from Drei Annen Hohne from where the charming old steam train will carry you up through thick clouded pine forests to the summit of the Brocken, famous for its mysterious tales of witchcraft and folklore. The Maritim, like every other hotel, restaurant, gift shop or bar in the Harz, boasts its fair share of kitsch witch memorabilia with which to amuse the foreign traveller. We had a lovely stay overall.

We decided to head to Braunlage for a snow and ski weekend and picked the Maritim hotel for its pool, proximity to the lifts and the review we have read about it.
Our room was a standard room, our 5 year old stayed for free and the large and delicious breakfast buffet was included. We had to pay 11 Euros a day for parking but it had the advantage of being indoors and heated. The car stayed at a balmy 13 degrees C, while it was -5 deg. C. outside!
The views from the Hotel are great and the pool was quite nice. We found the restaurant to be a bit pricey, but room service and the pub are more budget friendly.
We liked that the hotel had sleds to loan out for free allowing us to go down the 2km sled piste.
Guests will notice the 1970's lodge feel of the place but it is quaint and amusing at once.

This is our second stay here and as before we think the hotel is good and very well priced. Rooms are large and well furnished with great views over the village/ mountain, location is excellent near the cable car. Friendly staff and great (but pricey) breakfasts, good facilities and nice pool. Some of the bathrooms are very 1970s but not a problem.