In February 2012 we were lucky enough to spend a week in the chic Italian resort of Madonna di Campiglio, a grand old resort set up in the spectacular Brenta Dolomites. We ended up booking a week in the Design Hotel Oberosler, situated literally steps away from the Monte Spinale lifts and just a minutes walk from the shops and café's of the resort centre. The resort was fantastic, the skiing was fantastic, even the February weather was fantastic, but did the hotel match up to the rest of the holiday ? Read on, for our review...
The first thing that hits you when you arrive somewhere is obviously what it looks like, and so when the taxi pulled up alongside it and we peered out of the windows up to it we were not disappointed. When you go somewhere new, you naturally find yourself going past hotels thinking "that looks nice", "that looks amazing!", or "please God, don't let him pull in here!", so it was nice for once to pull into the drive of a hotel that looked better than anything else you'd passed on the journey there. Yes, the Hotel Oberosler looks fantastic - a massive chalet-style building but with a few modern twists, such as the chrome balcony fittings and covered-walkway up to the hotel, the tower building at the side with the Ober-1 bar connected to it, and the stylish lighting that lit up the swimming pool through it's glass front on the ground floor.
Ok, so the outside of the hotel looks smart, what about the inside of it ? Well, similarly to the outside, it has a really smart, modern feel to it on the inside. Apparently it had been renovated before Christmas and so it had some wonderful bits of design in the main lobby area and the rooms that connect to it, such as the big dining room and a couple of separate lounge areas. The dining room is particularly pleasing in the morning, with it's sweeping full-length glass frontage you get a magnificent view over to the town and the 5-Laghi ski area above it.
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