What our customers say
I had read some mixed reviews on this hotel but seeing as a) it suited our budget and b) all the hotels in Soldeu seem to get mixed reviews, we booked a week's half board accommodation there from 11-18 March 2007.
The best piece of advice I can give anybody visiting the Sport Hotel is to ignore the 4 stars on the door. It's not a 4-star hotel by any rational yardstick - no bar fridges in rooms, no fluffy robes, slightly worn furnishings, terrible soundproofing. It is, however, a three star - so if you go with that expectation in mind, you'll feel better already. Our room was large by European standards and (more by luck than anything else) faced directly up the pistes - it was always a pleasure to come back to the room at lunchtime or the end of the day and enjoy the view, either from our bed or our balcony. However, I imagine that if we'd had a room facing the back I would have felt differently. The room was very clean though, and there was space to spread our stuff out. The valence/night frill on the bed was, however, missing which made the room look more run-down than it actually was. I don't know if they just decided to ditch all valences, but it is pretty poor for a "4 star" hotel! But that was a minor quibble.
The bed was comfy with nice linen, but the pillows were not at all comfy (one too hard, one too soft). The downside of facing the mountain was the road noise - lots of trucks and buses and our double glazed door didn't seal properly, so you heard each and every one. Also, as other reviewers have said, the doors/walls are thin and you can hear every sound in the passage, although as we were at the end of a passage this really didn't bother us. Our room tended to get rather hot at night, but you can turn the radiator off, so this wasn't a big problem. There were very few kids in the hotel, which is nice if you don't have kids yourself.
I was pleasantly surprised at the food. It's a buffet for a mass of people, so do not arrive expecting Gordon Ramsay. But for what it is, I think they do a great job. There is a large selection (3 types of soup, vegetarian salads, fishy salads, cold meats and cheeses, various breads, a roast carvery, a speciality dish like tortilla or paella, grilled meat and fish (different every night) stew, vegetables etc
Jeanne Horak-Druiff , London, England