Banklialp

The hotel is located just outside of town, about ten minutes walking distance from the train station. Thus, it is very quiet and offers a lovely view across Engelberg. It offers decent value for money.

Most of the rooms are renovated, however, the core building is still old: The stairway is dark and gloomy, the heating is old-fashioned, the balcony uninviting, etc. The rooms themselves are quite nice, though, with lots of wooden elements. If you consider booking this property over another because of the sauna and steam room, don't. The wellness area is utterly uninviting (and the sauna was out of order, anyway).

The view from the balcony is spectacular. Breakfast was good. The efforts of Jan Philippe who handled check in and operations were very much appreciated even though we didn’t have a great stay. He did a great job to order flowers as my sister had birthday (even thought we were billed for a little birthday desert with a candle 12 franks which is usually given as a compliment in any other hotel/restaurant we ever stayed before).

Everything started from the room we were given which had no balcony or view to the mountains even thought it is written in the hotel description that every room has a view. This room was extremely cold (in August) as my baby was waking up all night so obviously I didn’t have a good sleep and in the morning when she finally settled after I took her to the bed with me we were woken up by the Bachelorette partly of sexy Swiss nueces who were screaming in the room in front of us at 7.30 am handing out shots. We were moved to the room we booked next morning with the complimentary breakfast which was good but the room we had the night before wasn’t worth 160 euro at all. The sauna was broken and only steamroom could be used if asked 30 min earlier but it doesn’t make sense if it is acceptable from 4pm till 7pm and still nothing is ready for guests. So basically two important things that made me select this hotel were not satisfactory - room and sauna. The breakfast was good but the restaurant is expensive with schnitzel for 42 franks and small egg soup for 9. There are more value options in the town. You also don’t see mount Titley from this hotel but you do see other mountains which is nice. Having a kettle in the room would be also useful to get hot water for a baby or just a cup of tea at night.