Das Graseck Mountain Hideaway & Healthcare
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Das Graseck Mountain Hideaway & Healthcare · Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
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Key Highlights
- ✓Gourmet Dining: The food is consistently described as excellent, superb, and delicious, emphasizing healthy, regional, and seasonal produce.
- ✓Outstanding Service: The staff is frequently commended for being professional, incredibly friendly, helpful, kind, and attentive, ensuring a pampering experience for guests.
Expert Review: Das Graseck Mountain Hideaway & Healthcare
Das Graseck Mountain Hideaway & Healthcare: A Serene Alpine Retreat with a Focus on Wellness
Das Graseck Mountain Hideaway & Healthcare in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, a Michelin One-Key property, consistently receives high praise as an exceptional destination offering a unique blend of luxury, natural beauty, and holistic well-being. Nestled high in the Bavarian Alps, this hotel provides a tranquil escape with breathtaking panoramic views and a dedicated healthcare concept.
1. Overall Rating & Sentiment
The general consensus for Das Graseck is overwhelmingly positive, with guests frequently describing their stays as "exceptional," "amazing," "magical," and a "dream come true." It is highly recommended by travelers seeking relaxation, indulgence, and recuperation in a stunning mountain setting.
2. Key Highlights
Guests consistently rave about several standout features:
- Unique Mountain Location: The hotel's secluded position at 900m above sea level, accessible by its private cable car, offers an unparalleled "hideaway" experience with spectacular views of the Wetterstein mountain range and the Partnach Gorge.
- Exceptional Spa & Wellness Facilities: The Panorama Spa is a major draw, featuring a heated infinity pool with amazing views, a relax pool, saunas (including those with unique scents), a steam room, a hot tub, a relaxation lounge, and a garden terrace. A full-service spa provides massages, facials, and body treatments.
- Integrated Healthcare Concept: Das Graseck distinguishes itself by combining a luxury holiday with preventive healthcare. It offers professional medical screenings and check-ups, conducted by an interdisciplinary team of specialists on-site, providing a unique focus on health and well-being.
- Gourmet Dining: The food is consistently described as excellent, superb, and delicious, emphasizing healthy, regional, and seasonal produce.
- Outstanding Service: The staff is frequently commended for being professional, incredibly friendly, helpful, kind, and attentive, ensuring a pampering experience for guests.
3. Room Quality
The rooms at Das Graseck are characterized by a contemporary Alpine style, marrying classic pine wood with modern furnishings and comforts. Guests find them clean, big, bright, and spacious, often featuring comfortable mattresses. All rooms come with satellite TV and a private bathroom with free toiletries, and many include a balcony or terrace, providing direct views of the snow-capped mountains. Hypo-allergenic bedding and blackout drapes are also noted amenities.
4. Dining Experience
Das Graseck offers an elevated Bavarian culinary experience across its two restaurants. The focus is on "vital cuisine" using fresh, predominantly regional, and seasonal products.
- Breakfast: The breakfast buffet is described as abundant, fresh, plentiful, and delicious, with a wide variety of options including local cheeses, breads, eggs, meats, gravlax, and freshly squeezed juices. Vegetarian and vegan options are also available.
- Dinner: Dinners are a highlight, often consisting of exquisite 4- to 5-course gourmet menus that change daily and offer a choice of main courses. Guests consistently praise the quality and presentation of the dishes. The hotel is also accommodating to food intolerances.
- Other: Guests can enjoy a drink in the beer garden, or relax in the hotel's bar and lounge, which features a fireplace.
5. Service & Staff
The service at Das Graseck receives glowing reviews. Guests consistently highlight the staff as professional, super nice, friendly, helpful, kind, and attentive. Many guests feel truly pampered and appreciate the staff's attention to detail, which contributes significantly to a relaxing and luxurious stay.
6. Location & Accessibility
Das Graseck is truly a "mountain hideaway," situated at 900 meters above sea level in a peaceful, secluded area above Garmisch-Partenkirchen, surrounded by meadows and forests. Its unique location at the foot of the Dreitorspitze in the Wetterstein mountain range, overlooking the famous Partnach Gorge, provides stunning natural beauty and a serene environment.
The hotel's accessibility is a key part of its unique charm: it is primarily reached by the hotel's own private cable car, the Graseckseilbahn. The scenic cable car journey takes approximately four minutes and operates from 07:00 to 22:00. Guests can park their cars at a designated lot at the valley station. While a road connection exists, the cable car ride is often cited as a memorable part of the experience. The location is also ideal for outdoor enthusiasts, with hiking and cycling paths starting directly from the property.
7. Value & Pricing
Many guests consider their stay at Das Graseck to be a great value for the price, given the high level of service, amenities, and the unique location. Pricing can fluctuate seasonally, with August generally being the cheapest month and December the most expensive. Room rates typically range from €340 for a basic room to €675 for a panoramic suite with a private sauna.
8. Common Complaints
While overwhelmingly positive, some minor points of criticism have been noted:
- A few guests have expressed disappointment if their assigned room did not offer the highly-prized mountain views that many other rooms boast.
- One review mentioned "lots of naked Germans in the spa," indicating a common European spa culture that might surprise some international guests.
- The dining facilities generally close around 9-10 PM, and there isn't a "real bar" for late-night socializing, making it less suitable for "party people" seeking lively nightlife.
- Finding the hotel's car park at the bottom of the gondola can sometimes be a bit challenging due to pedestrian traffic in the area.
- Occasionally, the sauna area can become quite full.
- It's worth noting that temporary construction for a new cable car mountain station in late 2023 was mentioned, which could have led to some noise pollution during that period.
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Points to Consider
- •While overwhelmingly positive, some minor points of criticism have been noted:
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Recent Guest Reviews
Massimiliano Mainolfi
We stayed 3 days at this Resort. Our overall experience is very good. The location is amazing, we were lucky to get also a snowfall and the view from our room was incredible. The breakfast is good but a bit limited compared to resorts of the same price level. The dinner was overall good, not excellent, what is absolutely unreceivable is to pay 6.40 Euro for a bottle of water of 75cl. The Hotel is ...
Response from the owner
Dear Mr Mainolfi, <br>thank you for your kind feedback. We are delighted that you enjoyed the hotel's location surrounded by nature and above Garmisch so much! We are always happy to welcome children,...
n h
Nice stay, great spa and stunning setting. However the evening meal quality was poor and the bathroom arrangement in the rooms is just strange. There's no seperation between the bed and bathroom, and only a glass door seperating you from the sound and vision of that zone. It's a strange design choice. It's like what i would imagine it would be like to share a prison cell. As you'll see from the ...
Response from the owner
Thank you for your feedback! Unfortunately you didn't tell us directly that you didn't like the kind of dishes at dinner, otherwise we would have been happy to offer you alternatives.<br>Regarding you...
Talal Mansy
Great experience having to take a cable car up to the hotel. Stunning view from the room. Good dinners and breakfast. Fully recommend and would return!
Kay S
The hotel is nothing too special, but nothing bad either. But the price tag that comes along with it, is way too high. The breakfast is nice, the dinners are okay. The restaurant staff is sometimes a bit too talkative for my taste, but others might like it. The saunas are too small and not open early enough. The room was okay but nothing special either, the cable car was in our case rather a reaso...
Response from the owner
Dear Kay, we regret to read that your stay didnt meet all your requirements. We are a real "hideaway", and the unique location on the mountain, accessible only by cablecar and with no cars or streets ...
Camila Caeta Dagnino
I spent a day-spa at Das Graseck and the place was wonderful and the spa was amazing. I decided to give two stars because the food is ridiculously expensive for the portions served. The amount of food was tiiiiiny and the quality was normal, not gourmet. Generally, in gourmet restaurants you can expect such a case, but honestly this is a point of improvement
Angie Ruddell
A glorious experience! Bottom line, a luxurious and relaxing experience for individuals, couples, and friends. The staff is kind and accommodating, helpful ahead of arrival all the way through your stay. The parking and cable car experience is simple. We were welcomed with Prosecco on the gorgeous patio with a stunning Alps view. Our room was well appointed, and we booked specifically to take an ...
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