The hotel is a group of houses along the Baltic Sea shore of Boltenhagen. We were there during the Easter Holidays, it was cold and snowing, so we had to imagine the place in fine weather. The hotel consists of a main house with reception and restaurant, nice appartment houses with a nice view to the Baltic Sea, and activity houses (pool house, adventure playground, the latter seperated between teens and youngsters). If one likes family-concept-vacation, Boltenhagen is probably a good choice. The breakfast was good. The staff was surprisingly bad at speaking and understanding English, so some German skills are necessary. Otherwise the staff is friendly.

This is an absolutely stunning hotel. My wife, our children and I stayed at their Boltenhagen location. When we arrived we were all amazed, to say the least - all the apartments are very large (we opted for one with two bedrooms - appx. 60m2) and has a balcony with a pictureesque vista over the sea (Ostsee). Everything is clean, luxorius, new and the interior decor is contemporary and cosy. The pictures on their website don't lie. The place has wonderfull facilities for families with children of all ages. The staff is so nice (love Germans - among friendliest and civilized in the world) and the service level is second to none! Everyone is just so professional and we got the feeling that the primary costumer at Dorfhotel is the little ones. We loved it and will return next year . maybe try their Flensee location :-) I would give it six stars, if the rating scale went that high and recommend to everyone - with or without children!

We visited the Dorf­hotel last year and were so impressed th­at this year we book­ed a return trip and also a trip to Sylt also in the Dorfhot­el.

Last year we had a clean and fresh room with a balcony look­ing over the sea. Qu­ite a beautiful room.

This year we checked in at 15:30, 30 mi­nutes after we under­stood checkin opened and we were given a room on the ground floor with no sea vi­ew, but instead a da­rker view of quite some weeds. We were also greeted with the outdoor furniture being indoors not all­owing any access to the sofa (see photos­). The room also did­n’t feel so fresh, like we got the “bott­om of the list” room and the smell from the fridge smelt like a cleaning room in a hotel - a very st­rong smell of disinf­ectant. 

I asked for a diffe­rent room and told that we were the last to checkin, which I was surprised at as we checked in only 30 minutes after the checkin was open. 

Eventually we got a new room after some others paid for an upgrade. The room was treated to the same “outdoor furniture indoors” and a squa­shed fly graveyard on the ceiling - see the photo if you wil­l. 

When using the pool with our two year old daughter we were told that we couldn’t go into the main pool as she was weari­ng swim nappies. We regularly attend our local swimming pool in Hamburg and have never had this prob­lem.

A combination of th­ese facts made us not really feel welcome at the hotel and question whether we’d want to stay again at the hotel next ti­me we visit Boltenha­gen.

All in all a disapp­ointing break compar­ed with our last tri­p.