Hotel Erzsebet

Hotel is very central. Hotel had to be paid twice, once to ******* and once right at the hotel. I am still waiting for the refund.

The location is perfect if you want to go to Hévíz lake, a 2-min walk. Food is OK but nothing special. The staff is very slow and not too helpful, they always seemed grumpy. There is a bar where you can have a drink if you are lucky. We weren't because the receptionist saidt here was nobody to serve us. Thank you. The next day we got a coffee which was horrible so I left it there.I complained about it and the waiter said I was right, the coffee tasted pretty bad. I was wondering how he knew about the bad taste of MY coffee... So it was OK because we spent the minimum in the hotel

Hévíz (literally: "Hot Water") is a spa town, about 8 km from the SW corner of Lake Balaton. It is a haven for people with rheumatism and a host of other illnesses that the town's hot springs are thought to help. It has a distinct retiree community feel, most tourists / vacationers are 65+, mainly Russians and (eastern) Germans. Erzsébet (Elizabeth) is overpriced (we paid almost 95EUR for a pretty horrible room, more about that later) and seriously undermanaged. Upon entry you are struck by the ubiquitous tired oil smell of restaurants below a certain technical standard--likely because the foyer of the hotel and the restaurant are essentially one space. The entire hotel is outfitted as a "luxury" establishment a la 1975, with all the positive and negative sides of that. Dark soft wood wall coverings everywhere, the stinking poliutherane-filled furniture, the whole feel. They also charge your room cost to your credit card before checking out, a major no-no in my book. The room we got looks like a storage facility for unused furniture. Absurd is the word. Two rather tight rooms with furniture designed for twice the space. Curtains that seem to. have been washed last in the 20th century. No water heater for tea (in a hotel that caters for Russians.) Oyy. Anyway, the room also had the feeling that we are not the only inhabitants. I personally collected four flying stinky bugs (and released them to the wild through the window). Here is how you do it: Take a glass from the bar (yes, there is a bar in the room) and a postcard or a sheet of paper. Cover the bug with the glass, slide the paper underneath. Release the creature to nature through the window. DO NOT STEP ON THEM as they really stink. The windows of the room we got, btw, open to the back, you have the view of a small industrial establishment, with trucks, construction materials, all the good things you'd like to look at when you wake up. Speaking of sleep, the bed is way soft for comfort, but this is 1975, as I said, what to do. This is all fun, especially for those who are interested in holidays that involve hunting for flying animals. I don't. The booking forced us into "half board", i.e., not only breakfast but also dinner was mandatory. The dinner was also designed in around 1975, oil, grease, all the schmeer you'd want to have before you go out to face nature, do some early dawn fishing or go out to shoot other, slightly larger flying members of the animal kingdom. I'm not sure you get the picture. We didn't enjoy this hotel, in spite of the remarkable kindness of the staff, both in the reception and the restaurant.

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