Location is quite lucky - next to the gondola lift and the ski bus station. It is in one of the two streets of the village yet is luckily located downhill, so you never need to climb to get to your hotel.
Food selection for breakfast is always the same and gets a little stale on you after a few days, but you still have a decent choice and can order fried eggs for a change. No biscuits or pastry, though, but a selection of buns and breads for toasts is always there.
Dinners are very substantial - 5 courses including the salad bar. If you see food as nutrition, then you will never go hungry at Unterwirt. Food is unpretentious, and even when they try to go out of the way, it looks like they follow simplified recipies and leave out supplementary ingredients, such as cheese and bread in the french onion soup. But if you are a gourmandish type of person, then you need not take the halfboard. Just go out for dinner to any of the many restraurants in the village and pamper your taste buds.
The staff serving the dining room are quite nice.
The beds are good and the rooms are quiet - at least was mine in the second floor facing the street.
A bathtub would be more welcome after a day on skis, but there is only a shower cubicle. Having read a complaint about the towels in some of the earlier reviews, I actually brought a full set with me, but that was absolutely unnecessary.
There is a sauna in the basement, but I never used it. There is no receptionist, at least I never saw anybody beding the desk, so nobody offered me any supplementary services.
The skiing area of Saalbach-Hinterglemm-Leogang impressed me, so I hope my visit there was not the last one. But I don't think I would like to stay at Unterwirt, as there is no wireless there, neither free or for a fee, which was a torture for an internet addict like me.
- Unterwirt Hotel Saalbach
