Kathryn Lowe

Review of arlberg hotham

Obviously you do get what you pay for and Arlburg ...

Obviously you do get what you pay for and Arlburg is cheaper than others at Hotham. The website says parking out front to unload your gear and a private tunnel straight to reception. That is fairly misleading as they forgot to mention that you have to carry your gear up two significant flights of stairs to get to reception. They have trolleys at reception for your gear but when we got there we were told that the second lift was broken and we had to trolley our gear up to level 5 and then unload the trolleys as there were two more sets of stairs to get to our room! 6 people, 2 of them children and 2 of them older people have a lot of gear when skiing for a week! Needless to say, by the time we'd carried all the gear up the 2 flights of stairs then unloaded all the gear and carried it up more stairs, along a corridor and down another flight of steps while wrangling a toddler, we were tired and angry. The rooms are standard, nothing flash but comfortable enough. Just don't fall for the line on their website about it being an effortless place to stay!