Hotel Sacher Salzburg - Salzburg, Austria

Hotel Sacher Salzburg

2 Nights (Tuesday, Wednesday)

Room Type: Standard Room

Price: €340 (room and tax)

Overall Grade: B

3+

1. Location. While not in the more touristy Old Town, the hotel is located on the Salzach River, between the Old and New Town. Because Salzburg is quite small, there is no need to be in the Old Town and the Hotel Sacher was in a nice location for enjoying all that Salzburg has to offer, Old and New.
2. Size and decor of room. Given that we were in the lowest level of room, the size was still quite large. There was plenty of room to walk around in and to leave our things strewn about, which tends to happen after a day of sightseeing. The hotel had recently been redone and it showed in the fabrics and furnishings. Everything was very nicely presented and well finished. We think this is the first room we have ever stayed in with a chandelier in it! (See photo below.) We especially appreciated the large safe built into one of the many closets. The size of the safe differed completely from the one we had in our Vienna hotel and we liked that it was built into the closet shelf, making it virtually impossible to remove. Some safes in hotel rooms are so small and just sit inside closets making it seem like you could just pick it up and take it. Not this one!
3. We loved walking into our room and finding a small plate with several different kinds of chocolates on it. The Sacher is known of course for the famous Sacher Torte so it was nice to get a little sample of their confectioneries in our room.
   

Standard Room, Hotel Sacher Salzburg

View from our room, Salzach River

3-

1. There was no free internet in the room and the price they charge to connect is absolutely hilarious. We called down to the front desk to get an access code, thinking maybe it was free, until the front desk told us they would charge us €14.99 for three hours! That is about how much we pay for internet at home for TWO MONTHS!! The thing is we only wanted the internet to check emails and three hours at that price was just way too excessive for us.
2. There was no breakfast included in the rate. We had an exceptional room rate because it was the off-season but it still would have been nice to have had bed and breakfast.
   
3. The shower head and door were set up very poorly in the bathroom. The shower head clipped to a vertical rail on the long side of the tub. This isn't usually a problem but the protecting door only covered one half of the tub and the powerful shower head, when turned on, kept wanting to spray water on the end of the tub without the door. Go figure. I guess we can just add it to our list of terrible shower experiences!