It was very hard to find the perfect title for this review. Initially, I was thinking of something like: "Making the impossible possible", but it seemed not to be enough.
Why? Because what the people there achieved is not only changing from impossible to possible, but also creating the best environment for the customer to feel safe. And this, today, is quite something.
When all over the Europe finding a place to ski is almost a dream, they made it true. The only thing they could not manage it is to drop the snow from the sky, but in the end, this issue was also solved. Naturally.
I will start with the rooms. We got upgraded for free (thank you!) from the booked deluxe rooms to deluxe rooms with balcony. Since the restaurant was forcedly closed (of course, the pandemic), the hotel changed the rules. For each room, an extra room was offered for room service and work from home purposes. In our case, we've got four rooms... There was a room service for breakfast and dinner. This, in our case, at least, was perfect. First of all, you save a lot of time! A lot! I am aware that this is once in a life time experience, therefore we enjoyed it as much as possible. And being a family, we tried to reduced the staff effort by using only one extra room. It seemed fair not to add extra...It was very hard to find the perfect title for this review. Initially, I was thinking of something like: "Making the impossible possible", but it seemed not to be enough.
Why? Because what the people there achieved is not only changing from impossible to possible, but also creating the best environment for the customer to feel safe. And this, today, is quite something.
When all over the Europe finding a place to ski is almost a dream, they made it true. The only thing they could not manage it is to drop the snow from the sky, but in the end, this issue was also solved. Naturally.
I will start with the rooms. We got upgraded for free (thank you!) from the booked deluxe rooms to deluxe rooms with balcony. Since the restaurant was forcedly closed (of course, the pandemic), the hotel changed the rules. For each room, an extra room was offered for room service and work from home purposes. In our case, we've got four rooms... There was a room service for breakfast and dinner. This, in our case, at least, was perfect. First of all, you save a lot of time! A lot! I am aware that this is once in a life time experience, therefore we enjoyed it as much as possible. And being a family, we tried to reduced the staff effort by using only one extra room. It seemed fair not to add extra workload if there was a chance to do it. Even so, the fourth room was always available to use.
Both meals - breakfast and dinner - were more than sufficient. Tasty, a lot of options for the morning buffet, tea, coffee, soft drinks... You name it. The dinner, three main courses plus dessert. The main dish is a choice from four possible entries, one of them vegan. And every single evening was perfect.
The rooms were spacious, nothing to complain. Maybe a minor issue with the pillows, and the bed frames (wonder why the designer consider the metal instead of wood?), but manageable. Interesting dressing design, enough space for two people, considering you have a lot of equipment. A proposal, a good idea would be to build some storage space over the heater, you need such kind of thing when you are coming home from the ski slopes.
The storage room (for the skis and boots) was interesting, a heated locker for each room, amazing for drying the boots or the helmets.
One of the slopes was right in front of the hotel, which was one of the reasons we initially selected the hotel. Big parking, but even so, in the last day was full.
Extremely helpful and nice staff (I would actually like to nominate Petra from the reception, as we discussed a lot of time about different points of my interest and she always found a solution for everything). They organized the covid-19 antigen testing, they took care of the skipasses.
The inside playground and the wellness area were closed due to pandemic.
We enjoyed everything so much that we even extended our stay with one day! It was the first time doing something like that, and we're happy we did it in Hotel Grand Jasna!
I would recommend it, no doubts about that! More, I would happily get back there at any time.
PS: Unfortunately, the resort was closed on Jan. the 1st, one day after our departure, due to the escalation of new covid-19 cases in Slovakia. But to be honest, I never felt so protected as I was in Jasna. Not only in the Grand Hotel Jasna, but everywhere there.More
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