Hotel reviews: Hotel Plainbrucke, Salzburg, Austria – Part 1

This Hotel is situated in the Itzling West area of Plainbrucke which is a small district of Salzburg. We landed at the Airport and from there we decided to take a taxi trip to the hotel which took us approx 10 -15 mins I guess.

This cost us 15 euros which isn’t too bad, but later on we found out the bus journey would have been free!

Upon arrival, we went to the reception and received a warm welcome from the member of staff behind the desk. We were actually an hour early for check in and we explained this to the woman but this wasn’t a problem to them and we were told that we could go straight to our room as it was ready for us which I was really please about as we had to get up at 3am for out flight to Austria so I was more than tired at this point so it was nice to get in the room and freshen up.

The lady escorted us to our room which was on the first floor, and in the second building of the hotel (more about that later!). I would like to point out that we had to carry the cases to the room ourselves as there wasn’t a porter available but maybe there would have been if we asked.

On first impressions, the room was clean, tidy, smelt nice and seemed very homely. As we walked into the room, straight ahead of us was the bathroom which consisted of a walk in shower, basin and a toilet as standard. Above the basin, there was a large mirror and a shelf. There was a heated towel rail behind the door which came in very handy. On the towel rail were two bath towels and adjacent to the sink were two hand towels.

Just inside the door was a large coat hook with 6 coat hooks attached which was obviously very useful with the amount of coats we packed.

The bedroom itself was spacious and consisted of a 4 poster bed (which my girlfriend had specifically ordered), a wardrobe big enough to fit both our clothes in comfortably and a chest drawer on top of which was a TV. The TV only had one channel that was in English though, which was CNN. In front of the window were a table and two chairs. Beside the bed, on either side was a bedside cabinet with a lamp on each. Unfortunately there wasn’t an electric kettle so we were not able to make ourselves a nice brew when we arrived in the room, so I would recommend people to take a travel kettle if you like your tea and coffee.

The bed was two separate mattresses within a king-sized four poster but the tiny gap between the mattresses didn’t really cause any problems although I do think it would have been better if