Top 10 Ice Palace Hotels

Stayed at Hotel Stockalperhof for 4 nights as part of the Classic Glacier Express Tour (Great Rail Journeys). The hotel is generally unmanned after you receive your key, with the exception of the breakfast service. Rooms across 5 floors with even numbered rooms benefiting from a small balcony that looks on to the mountains. Coffee (pod) machine provided but only 2 pods and after this you have to pay for your own (Coop is 100m away) so you end up eating and drinking out a lot of the time. The bathroom suffers from the shower head being positioned too low to be of any use, with a hose that is too short in many rooms. This does need looked at by the management. The hotel is very well positioned in Brig with a number of restaurants on the doorstep and only a 350m walk from the train station. I personally would return without a second thought; it is the shower that stops this being a '5' review.

The location is a bit biased. In the middle of the mountain, it feels like a residential building. The reserved room is an annex building, which seems to be an apartment building. Towels, bedding, etc. are relatively old, and the cleaning is not very fast, especially in the kitchen with the smell of old smoke. The only thing is that the room is bigger. It used to be a one-bedroom apartment with kitchen and bathroom.

The second stay, cost-effective, want to save trouble in the hotel downstairs restaurant to eat, after eating, found that the local price is more expensive hotel, two people ate more than 1,000 yuan, but the taste and environment is indeed good.

We came here for 4 nights with an ebay voucher and unlike the other hotel we stayed at in Gstaad, were made to feel like 2nd class citizens. First they forgot to clean our room, then 2 mornings we had to wait for the table to be laid for breakfast and finally, there was a function on in the usual restauarant and we had to ask where we were to eat and in the other restaurant, we had to eat on bar stools. Food was very uneven, some things were excellent like the salads and pates, others were so so, for instance we had brown sauce with chicken, pork and beef. The same brown sauce. Wine was also pricey, having paid 25 or 30 francs for a bottle of swiss wine in other places we were suprised at 40 for a half bottle of assemblage, which wasn't even labelled which grapes had been used. All in all, sad as we shall certainly return to the area as our daughter works here (and had eaten with us every evening) but shall look for a friendlier place to stay.

The breakfast is average, you can eat enough, starting at 7 o'clock. If there is parking, give you a free parking ticket. Not far from the railway station. If the suitcase is big, it's a bit tiring. Other good