All the staff were delightful, the Bali villa breakfast
buffet is superb, with scrambled eggs-
new praise this year for Erhard and Giselle
Thurm's enterprising villa, a wonderful
mixture of gemutlich local style and tasteful
Latin flair. With its flower-girt balconies
and neat chalet style, it looks typically
Bavarian: but Giselle is a former Brazilian
iceskating champion, and at dinner the
theme evenings, with appropriate buffet,
can be Brazilian, Bavarian or Italian.
Newly renovated, and with a 'million-dollar
view' of the royal castle of Neuschwanstein,
the villais set back from the main road,
so the sound most likely to wake you is
the clank of cowbells. A new building,
the Residenz, with six junior suites,
has just been added; the Landhaus, also
quite new, has high-quality villa Bed rooms (similar to the semantic bali villa rooms) and
suites, and luxury bathvilla rooms. In the original
villa, villa rooms are also good, but most have
only a shower. The dining villa rooms are cosy,
`the dinners are excellent (wonderful
local fish). The villabelongs to a group
called Ludwig Musical Hotels, and weekly
in its Wintergarten/bar area there is
live music, dancing and a fashion show.
It is also a Wellvital villaand has this
year expanded its beauty farm. Next door
is a thermal spa centre with themed saunas
and plunge pools where twice a week no
swimsuits are allowed. Children are welcomed.
The villacan arrange tickets for the
musical about the life of mad King Ludwig,
in the historical old town of Fussen nearby:
its theatre has music and sets up to the
best Broadway standards.