Secluded location but easy to find just off the Autoroute. Food was standard conference buffet fare but more than made up by the friendly service and beautiful surroundings of quiet park and woods, nice open air bar and outdoor heated pool. Pavilions well renovated in euro design comfortable and functional eg good ipod player provided. Stay in the castle if you want a more traditional setting. Pretty much does what it says on the box. Really wanted to stay longer. Clientele heavily the golfing community, both retirees and 40 somethings, but if you just want to chill with partner a good location. Some excellent restaurants eg Schloss Wartenstein with stunning views over the valley within 10 min drive.

Everything in Switzerland is expensive and this hotel is no exception. We paid CHF250 for one nights accommodation (2 adults, 1 child on a cot) and while the room was clean and simple, it was twice the price of the 3 and 4 star hotels we stayed at in nearby Italy, and it had half the appeal. It was rainy when we arrived and left so we did not get a chance to admire the gardens, or the pool, but i'm sure these extra amenities factor into the price. The front desk staff are to commended for being multi-lingual - I heard them speaking english, french, german and swiss-german (?) all in the span of 10 mins!

From the website this looked as if it was a charming, informal and low key hotel. We stayed in one of the pavillion rooms as opposed to the main castle which was a mistake. The pavillion rooms had a real travelodge feeling to them – very basic and no real charm or character. The main castle was lovely from the bit that we saw when checking in and out and the staff were helpful and friendly. Breakfast was like a 1970’s time warp with a stifiling, quiet atmosphere in the restaurant and no real choice. Overall we were disappointed!!

My Mother (a crazy-avid world traveler) recently discovered this place; my husband and I've been back twice in a month. It's one of those places I think maybe I should keep a secret lest you all rush it and its prices go sky-high. Just kidding. No real danger of that, as it's just not the same category as its pricey neighbor, the Quellenhof.

The Schloss is great, though, if you want an affordable, quiet, relaxing vacation, nothing fancy... if you want to read by the pool, play golf, go for long walks (in our case with our very large dog), lounge in the sauna and head to the bad for an afternoon. That's what we just did and upon checkout they informed us we'd not been quoted the lowest rate and so our bill was significantly lower than anticipated.

Not to get your hopes up or anything... but how often does that happen?!
Not often.

Note: we haven't stayed in the Avantgarde rooms yet but understand they're renovated and much nicer. The castle room my Mom stayed in was gorgeous. We stay in rather dated and worn rooms near the sauna (not up to my business traveler standards, but perfect with our giant dog). The only down side here is there is no Internet in the rooms.
We love this place and will go back over and over.