The Wiesbauer is a great little hotel in a fantastic location. The rooms are spotless, the staff friendly and the food better than some reviews have suggested.
My husband, who eats meat, said the meals were really quite good. You get a choice of two options and the meat is well cooked. Examples of meals include roast chicken with potatoes and veg, pork in a mushroom sauce with vegetable rice and schnitzel with potatoes and veg.
The starters were always soup, mainly made from a similar stock, but there was also a mushroom and a tomato soup. The desserts were not fantastic, but they were ok e.g. slice of cake, banana split, set custard.
Being veggie the meals were a bit more bizarre, but nevertheless well cooked. On our first night they had obviously not put a veggie main course aside for me so while my husband had chicken, pasta and veg I had the veg, the pasta, and they replaced the chicken with...... potatoes. This was weird, I admit, but not typical of the other nights' food. Some other veggie meals I had included spaghetti napoli, a grilled cheese schnitzel-style grill with veg and potatoes and a vegetable omelette with chips.
There is a basic salad bar five days a week (not on changeover days) which does help you feel that you're having a bit of greenery as most people probably realise that Austrians are not big on vegetables!
Breakfasts were basic but sufficient - a few types of bread (with the option of toast), cold meats, cheeses, pate, jam, honey, cereal, milk, yoghurt, tea, coffee and a couple of fruit options.
The drinks were not over-priced and the house white wine was quite nice.
Overall, we had a lovely time in the Wiesbauer and would stay there again if we went back to St Wolfgang.

Having stayed in Austria quite a few times we found the food here to be quite standard Austrian fare, perfectly edible, and a bargain for what we paid. I think some people reviewing expect 5 star gourmet cuisine when paying 2 star prices .We arrived in the evening and a hot meal was waiting for us .Service was excellent , the three ladies were always friendly and efficient.The hotel is as central as you can get , rooms cleaned every day. Our room over in the annexe suffered from having no balcony (not to matter as buildings in St Wolfgang are so close together not many get very good views except of their neighbours) but I think we had one of the larger rooms and certainly had a larger bathroom than in the main building . Overall this place is a bargain if you get a good deal . St Wolfgang is a lovely place ,great for walking , good flat walks around the lake if hills are too much, the views from the surrounding hills are beautiful and the Austrian people are always friendly .

The Wiesbauer has good location in the centre of the town. It is clean and comfortable with pleasant staff. However, like other people we had a reservation about the meals. Some were fine, and I know we weren't paying for anything other than basic nosh, but even given the tightest catering budget, a couple of the meals were unacceptable. It's a shame to spoil what could otherwise get a good rating. A little effort and imagination would work wonders!

We also booked with Inghams via lastminute.com. Inghams reps, Tom and Hannah are helpful and ever-cheerful, and offer a range of day trips and evening activities at reasonable prices.

The Wiesbauer is excellently placed at one end of the village square, with views of the church from rooms at the end of the hotel. You're only a minutes walk from the lake, and ten minutes max from the Shafberg cog railway.

Rooms are clean and warm with a small en-suite shower room (typical tiny hotel towels) and plenty of storage space. The small TV picks up Sky News and BBC World News, as well as plenty of Austrian and German channels. There's a lounge on the first floor, but it's not well used.

Breakfast is from 8am to 9.30am - yoghurt, cereals, orange juice, cold meats, cheese, bread and rolls, jams, honey, coffee (strong) and various teas, including English Breakfast.

If you're on half board, you'll be given a note at breakfast with the two choices for dinner. Dinner is from 6pm to 8pm and has three courses. The starter was always either a salad buffet or clear broth and main courses are typically meat and potato based. Vegetables appeared rarely and are mostly tinned mixed veg and very salty. Be warned - Tuesday's 'omlette with vegetables and chips' has the vegetables IN the omlette and the chips are already salted. If you don't suffer from a lack of sodium I recommend you take the beef or pick Tuesday as a night to eat out (loads of excellent restaurants in the village - we can heartily recommend the Restaurant Hubertuskeller just around the corner.)

Pudding can be given a miss - highlights included tinned mixed fruit with a scoop of strawberry ice cream, apple cake with squirty cream and a hot plum dumpling. Go across the square to Cafe Wallner and treat yourself to a piece of Sachertorte instead!

If you arrive after 8pm, as we did from the Gatwick flight, your first dinner will be bread, cold meats and cheese.

The bar in the restaurant is open until 10pm, serving beer (Zipfer - lovely!) and house wine. The cellar bar opens at 10.30pm except for Wednesdays.

Overall we had a peaceful holiday, which was what we needed, but we can't see ourselves staying at the Wiesbauer again. If we do go back to that part of Austria we'll be staying at the Weisses Roessl.