Hotel review for Hotel Rovanada

Hotel

Clean, big with a choice of mainly 2 restaurants in the half-pension, good breakfast included, architecture friendly, for people who can walk stairs because no elevator/lift. Wellness center with warm pool, sauna. Dogs seemed to be accepted. Not far from the bus station and from the thermal baths

Location

2. 5 hours from Zürich Main Station with the train and additionnaly 30 min with the bus. The hotel area is very quite with a little river nearby. No traffic noises. Free parking. 100m from the bus station and from the thermal baths. Nice flat little walk to the quaint village center. Cable car till a pic where you can walk and go down to a boom with a beautiful blue lake. Near the boom, scooters are available for location at the good Zervreila restaurant for a beautiful easy downhill to Vals (8km). Shuttle or bus go also up till the Zervreila restaurant. No shopping center, only little discounters and bakery.

Service

Extremly friendly team. French is not good spoken, german and english are prefered. Wellness center with pool and sauna and private whirlpool sections, no massages on Friday. Information is kindly provided at the reception desk. A book lays in the room. Special bath linens for the wellness area are provided in the room. Outside the hotel, area for kids with slide and so on. They sell also bakery specialities, diverse wellness and first necessity products.

Gastronomy

2 Restaurants and one bar. Very good food in both of them. One is merely swiss traditional (meats, vegetables, ... not inevitably cheese fondue !!) with also possibility for eating pizzas and the second is like "mongol" : You choose in the fresh buffet what you want to be cooked and once it's done you go to a big heated stone where your plate's content is cooked in front of you. They make their own Bio-breads and they most cook with Bio products. Atmosphere is warm. Prices are ok.

Sport & Entertainment

Wellness center in the hotel. Warm indoor pool inside a sun lounge with access to a sauna. Massages are also available but not on friday. Internet access is provided.

Room

We had a small new clean mansard room with 2 chairs, a desk, a double comfortable bed with 2 naps, a small TV with less than 15 channels and only 2 were in French. Garderobe with a safe. Clean bathroom with shower, hair dryer, mirrors and linens. Quite area with small river sound. Towels replaced on demand to be nature friendly in not using too much laundry soap. At least one power access was available. It was a middle cost room.

Tips and recommendations

Alternative if no rooms available : Hotel Therme, Vals. Mobile phone reception. Best time to go : Summer or winter, but we enjoyed a lot the sight in autumn. The end of october is the last moment to go in Vals for walking (then the altitude restaurants are closing and snow falls). For the thermal baths you can go whenever you want. Take with you, even in summer, a good warm jacket and good walking shoes. If you decide to ride a scooter, be careful not to wear a beautiful jacket or shirt because when the road is wet your back gets grimed thank to the back wheel.