Romantik Hotel Im Weissen Rössl

A hotel with its feet in the lake

The Weisses Rössl, the White Horse, is in the centre of St. Wolfgang, with its façade on the Wolfgangsee quay. Its name is that of the operetta Im weißen Rößl, set in St. Wolfgang. It has an upper-range four-star rating and is set up for you to stay put: the spa, the restaurants and the lake in front mean you don't need to move the car. In the same village you have the station of the Schafberg rack railway and the lake boats.

The Spa im See

What sets the hotel apart is its pool in the lake: a floating basin on the Wolfgangsee, heated all year to 30 °C, and beside it the Rösslpool, a hot tub at 37 °C, also on the water. Inside there is an indoor pool, a panoramic Finnish sauna with a view of the lake, a family sauna, a steam bath with Bad Ischl brine and a relaxation room. The published hours are: indoor pool, 7:00 to 21:00; lake bathing, 8:00 to 20:00 in summer and until 19:00 in winter; saunas and steam, 12:00 to 21:00, and treatments, 9:00 to 18:00. There is also a day spa for people not staying.

Rooms and prices

It has singles, doubles, family rooms and suites, many with a balcony and lake view, including the Nostalgie rooms, in an old style, and the Landhaus ones. All have a bathroom, safe, minibar, television, Wi-Fi and a basket with a bathrobe and towels for the spa. The website publishes "from" prices per person: from €154 in the Nostalgie single to €658 in the spa suite over the lake, via €188 in the Nostalgie double without balcony and €378 in the Rössl room with balcony and lake view. It does not say what they include, so confirm when booking. Breakfast is a buffet, from 7:30 to 10:30, with sparkling-wine breakfast on Sundays.

Where to eat

The hotel has several restaurants: Poll's Kaiserterrasse, the gourmet one, with three toques (Hauben) according to the hotel, closed Monday and Tuesday; the Seerestaurant, serving Austrian cooking by the lake; the Fischhütte, the Felsenkeller and its own ice cream parlour.

Getting there

By car, you drive up to the entrance to unload and then leave the car in the hotel garage: if you book directly, you get one free space per room. Without a car, regional buses reach St. Wolfgang from Salzburg.