I wanted to take my wife and our 2 year old daughter on a long weekend in the areas around Davos or Zermatt (haven't decided yet).
I am looking for some recommendations for a hotel with spa facilites to spend 2-3 nights. The price range should be about 300 CHF per night (for room only) but wouldn't say no to something more expensive but nice.
Any help? Thanks
Mercure Bristol Leukerbad in Leukerbad, Wallis
I'm SUPER dissapointed in the place. They made us make our treatment reservations well in advance, but didn't comply to our wants in any way. We couldn't have our massages together, we had to have them at 2 and 3 pm, rigt after our check in. That, she claimed, was the only available slots during our stay. My Pedicure could be arranged the next day at noon. we dropped all other special treatments because it was just to complicated to reserve and then scheduel around.
As the room would nly be available at 2pm, and our first massage was aso at 2, she assured us on the phone we would be aloud into the room earlier so as to get adjusted and not miss the massage. we showed up at 1:20, the room was not ready until exactly 2 pm (having worked in a Hotel many moons ago, I know that preparing an arriveĢ room can be done in 20 minutes, after seeing our room I figured it cold have been done in 15....there were no other people checking in during the 40 minutes we waited for our room.)
The "wellness area" was kept at about 20 degrees celcius, cool if you're not wet and in a bathing suit. the water was abrely warmer, in any of the tubs. The sauna was mysteriously locked for the most part, without explanation, an no one around to ask.
The pedicure was brutal. I could go into step by step descriptin and even someone who has no clue as to what a pedicure should entail would be appalled. She barely treated my feet, the filing is aweful, she used the cheapest nail polish ever, which had gone goopy with age and did not apply nicely at all. it was very frusterating to watch and know that I was paying 75 CHF for a service I could do MUCH better on my own. my 11 year old cousin could do better. To add to this I got the entire treatment from the comfort of a folding chair. yes, a cheap, uncomfortable folding chair.
my feet have never had a worse polish job. seriously. not even when i was 5 and painted them with magic markers did they look so bad.
But really, the pedicure was just the crowning point. the whole hotel is ****, and costs way too much.
I also didnt mention that the esthetician kept speaking to me in Portugese, despite my CONSTANTLY telling her I did not understand portuguese. and, no word of a lie, she sniffed the nailpolish brush after opening the bottle and said she loves the smell !!!!!
NEVER GO TO THAT HOTEL! YOU WILL RUE THE DAY!