Haus Sonneck - Alpine chalet with a fantastic panoramic mountain view

We spent a very nice week in Haus Sonneck, enjoyed breakfasts and barbecues on a well accomodated terras with probably the nicest view we ever had at a holiday rental. The house is charming, decorated and maintained with respect for originality, all necessary support available and functional. The location is splendid for walking and visiting villages. Really a place to recommend and to return to in the future

Wonderful chalet - nice spot over Schruns with amazing view! ideal location for enjoying skiing (less than 30mn drive to Montafon ski resort) but also nice walkings around.... just be prepared, it is rather steep.... The chalet is very well equiped and very nice decorated. We just loved it and our vacation have just been a dream. Martha was really very nice and helpful.... except for the tv.... would really be nice to have very clear instruction / operative memorandum!!! a big thank you to Jan's father who picked up the phone wenn needed!!! I am sure it would hjave been great to share a bier or a piece of christmas cake with him! A big thank you from Corinne, Laurent Claire Laure Vincent Arthur !!!MFG

Panoramastraße lives up to its name, except when it rains. We had mixed weather, as you must expect in the mountains, which didn’t spoil things at all. In winter this is ski territory so summer, when we were there, is off-peak, but there is plenty to do. You are at 1100 metres: Schruns, which has shops and restaurants and a funicular and trains, and a small market on Thursdays, is a kilometre away, but half of that is vertical so it’s actually four kilometres by road. The bus to Schruns stops outside the house but as it happened a temporary road closure made it no good to us. However, ten minutes level walk away is the Bärger Lädili (Austrian German is a wonderful but sometimes puzzling thing), an excellent village shop and café. This will supply most things, including good bread and largely local vegetables, sausage and honey. A little farther on is a hotel with a good restaurant, of the usual Austrian type but unproblematic for vegetarians. The church is a minor Baroque masterpiece inside. The house is well equipped (if there is an iron, we didn’t find it), although it may take a while to work out how to plug the washing machine in. I also had to resort to Google (good wifi, code on router) to find out how the induction hob works, but it’s quite simple really. You press the on button for a few seconds first. The view of the Rätikon is simply spectacular and unless you are strong-minded you will spend quite a lot of time just looking at it. If you are strong-minded there is plenty of good walking nearby. Be prepared for thunderstorms, and learn how to say “goedemorgen” because for some reason most of the foreign visitors here are Dutch. Bludenz, twenty minutes by train from Schruns, is a pleasant larger town but remarkable mainly for smelling of chocolate (there is a Milka factory shop there). Bregenz and Lake Constance are easily reached by car or train: Vaduz, in Liechtenstein, though nearer, is fractionally harder to reach, but we do recommend the modern art gallery. Zurich and Innsbruck are further away than you think. The practicalities all worked well. The owners had changed their plans slightly to accommodate ours, which were inflexible: many thanks! Local support came from an agent/housekeeper in Bludenz: a phone call to her quickly resolved the only minor problem we encountered (a tripped fuse). We didn’t test her English but we are sure she would have coped if we hadn’t spoken German. Overall, completely satisfactory.

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