TUI BLUE Schladming

Take payment early Great hotel and perfect for the slopes. Unfortunately booked as pay on arrival but they take payment 1 month before directly off your credit card. So you lose the key points too. Very poor that thus website pass on the sensitive data.

Stayed at the TUI Blue over new year for a week of skiing. The hotel is perfectly located for the main Planai gondola, it’s right opposite and the breakfast room plus spa area has a brilliant view of the end of the black run, which makes for an entertaining view at the end of the day. Breakfast buffet was excellent, something different every day and the egg chefs were brilliant. Machine coffee was decent. The bar, reception and restaurant staff were all so friendly. There’s usually one odd member of staff but here they were all genuinely lovely. Dinner was very good although there are some slightly weird combinations for main course. Presentation and quality of the meat was excellent though. It’s buffet style which might not suite everyone but it didn’t feel like mass catering and there was never a queue. Beds were also super comfy. Spa fantastic (the sauna is outside on the roof terrace) . Heated boot room. Reasonable bar prices. Only minor negative points were: - the bar area is small, it would good if there were some proper seats to relax into at the end of the day or after food rather than just high bar stools. - dinner is two sittings, either 6.15-7.30 or 7.30-9 so if you want to eat at 7, you can’t really. But I guess that’s how the restaurant doesn’t feel crowded. - not enough hooks in the room to hang ski gear up to dry.

The location of the hotel is outstanding in itself, literally 50m from the main bubble to the slopes. The rooms are spacious and comfortable, the shower a lovely wet room. The ski locker is on the floor below the restaurant with easy access to the street. Unfortunately for Schladming itself, it really misses one or two decent bars, so you find yourself in the Tui bar. And it's the bar and restaurant where this place excels. The food is ok, but for the package price with Crystal amazing - it's the staff though, they're truly superb from the moment we arrived to the night before we left as I pen this review. They are friendly morning and night, chatty, helpful and funny and I can honestly say I've not found a warmer welcome anywhere we've ski'd. The beer (Schladming Brau) is available everywhere but actually pretty good. Tui don't have the Zirbenschnapps but apricot is quite fine... Will come again, and would recommend you do too!