Hotel Gästehaus zur Sonne

Excellent and attentive staff. Beautiful rooms, fantastic breakfast and wonderful atmosphere. The rooms are very spacious and have all the little extra touches you could need. The only negative I could see is there are stairs with no lift, but that didn't impact our stay. Alex made our stay even better with all the local knowledge of where best to go. The town hosts one of the most traditional xmas markets we've been too and all the locals are very friendly.

Bad Wimpfen is a very sweet, beautiful town on the River Neckar not far from the A6 Saarbrücken- Nuremberg autobahn. Finely preserved and very quiet but with a few good restaurants to choose from. The hotel is in a beautiful, ancient half-timbered building in the town centre. The room was clean and comfortable with an excellent bathroom. Parking couldn’t have been easier - out the front of the hotel (€5 for 24 hours - you need coins(!)) and good wifi. Good cooked breakfast, though you pay an extra €12 per head - it’s not the usual way to be charged extra for breakfast in rural German-speaking Europe. The only other slight negatives were (a) there was no-one at reception when we arrived and we had to let ourselves in - a bit dispiriting and (b) as so often, sadly, in the Teutonic world, the interior of the ancient building had been ruthlessly modernised and was rather impersonal, leaving no antique patina or any other clue that you are in a very old building. Still, overall, 4/5.

Un peu surpris par l’arrivée autonome (pas de personnel à la réception, un digicode pour ouvrir la porte et notre carte de chambre qui nous attendait sur le comptoir), nous avons pris possession de notre chambre pour deux adultes et un enfant. Très bonne surprise, la chambre est spacieuse, moderne et la literie très confortable. L’environnement est calme et nous avons passé deux excellentes nuit. Le premier matin le petit dej a été servi à table et le second matin sous forme de buffet mais dans les deux cas c’étaient très bon et très bien fourni ! Le personnel était également très sympathique. A noter que le parking au pied de l’hôtel est payant mais qu’il est possible de se garer gratuitement à 5 min à pied.