We stayed here for our winter ski vacation.
I have to say…read morethat I can't compare with other hotels in the area since this was my first time but what i can is list the pros and cons:
PROS:
- extremely good deal. we paid a package price for room, demipension (breakfast and dinner) and lift tickets for a week. a very good price
- the owners are a wonderful family who treated us like friends.
- the breakfast buffet and the dinner (salad bar plus 3 courses which you select the night before) were very very good! (except the fondue, which was billed as a special dinner. my advice, stick with Austrian food, it is excellent)
- the salad bar is great - 10 or so choices of different fresh or cooked salads, all excellent
- last night's dinner had a dessert buffet, which was absolutely great
- rooms are simple but comfortable, and most include a balcony with great view
- free parking
- located at the end of a quiet street, they have a private lake (which unfortunately is drained in winter)
- 10 minutes walk to center of kirchberg
- ski storage room
- owners very helpful with arranging shuttle service, advising on other attractions, etc
- exercise room with ping-pong table (watch out, the dutch tourists are ruthless at that)
- great communication with the owners during our search for accommodations - via phone and e-mail. booked by giving credit card over the phone
- walk to ski shuttle bus or drive to ski school, fleckalmbahn and a few other lifts. free parking at all of them (except in kitzbuhel). when snow is good, ski down almost to the hotel.
- free wifi throughout the hotel
CONS:
- smoking allowed in lobby and bar - filters out to the rest of the hotel - but this being Austria, I can imagine it is the same everywhere
- no toiletries are provided
- small cathode tube tv - but who comes here to watch tv anyway?
- drinks are not included in the package price - i guess they count on a bunch of drunks hanging out late into the night to make some money, which is completely understandable. unfortunately, after skiing 9-5 every day and having beers and schnapps at every stop, we were a 1beer/person group, except when we went drinking elsewhere apres-dinner (a few places around kirchberg are happening and Kitzbuhel's ritzy bars are just a 15 minute drive away) so they didn't make much with us :)
highly recommended in Kirchberg/Kitzbuhel. Although Kitz was voted, again, as the best ski resort in the world, after spending some time on the internet we were able to book a ski vacation at half the price (including transatlantic airfare from the US) than in a nice Colorado resort. You can certainly find better slopes in Les Trois Vallees or Whistler but as an overall package (mostly helped by food, pastries and drinking), this can't be beat.