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Puchner Estate-Bikal (Puchner Castle Hotel**** and Renaissance Theme Park): The Puchner Estate is situated at the feet of the Mecsek Hills, and extends on an area of 14 hectares. The hotel awaits its guests with accommodation and restaurants in five different atmospheres, three wellness facilities and the first interactive adventure park of the country.
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It is a nice place to spend a couple of days, offering a really special atmosphere, I recommend it to everyone. We have stayed there several times, the only thing I would complain about is lunch, there is a small variety and the quality also needs improvement. Everything else - accommodation, facilities, programs - make it be worth staying. The moroccan bath is gorgeous, unfortunately is not adult only any more.
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Date of stay: November 2019
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The castle is in a huge park, where you can walk among the flowers, bushes, trees. Different types of clean accommodation, spacious rooms, excellent dishes, sports facilities, exciting programmes: Zina - whore course, historical village, open-air theatre with horses. Nice and helpful staff. I recommend it to anyone!!!
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Date of stay: July 2021
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Room Tip:Rooms in the Palace are quiet with a big balcony.
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We reserved a 3 day stay in this castle hotel. It is clean, lots of interesting programs. Very good for families with children. Programs are very interesting, also there is a very nice wellness section as well. Food is very delicius. Stuff very professional and kind.
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Date of stay: May 2022Trip type: Traveled with family
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Responded May 16, 2022
Dear Guest, Thank you for your feedback. We are glad that you had a good time with us, we hope to see you again in the future. Best regards: Mark Kollar Hotel director
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We have now been to the Castle Hotel 11 times. Every year our hearts draw us back, we love it so much. Last year was left out, due to the arrival of our baby, who visited us for the first time in Bikal. The environment is beautiful, constantly expanding and changing every year. It can be seen that they are trying to stand their ground in all areas and to innovate where necessary. The wellness departments are very special, it's really relaxing to be there. Very nice staff and it's a good feeling when we see familiar faces even after 11 years ❤️
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Date of stay: May 2024Trip type: Traveled with family
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Excellent Hotel, full of awesome experience. Delicious Hungarian dishes. Peaceful environment, marwellous countryside. Interesting programs inside not only wellness but also in the sport facilities and on cultural programs. Staff is helpful and kind. Suitable for couples and families too.
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Date of stay: October 2024
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The programs are excellent, the spas offer pampering relaxation! The place offers a wonderful, real medieval experience! The jousting is amazing, it's like it's real, maybe it is ;) It provides an unforgettable experience for both young and old! The staff is helpful and nice, we will definitely come back here!
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Date of stay: May 2023
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Room Tip:Borrow a medieval costume and dress up! Transform yourself into a knight, a noble or even a...
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Responded Jun 21, 2023
Dear Guest, Thank you for your feedback. We are glad that you had a good time with us, we hope to see you again in the future. Best regards: Márk Kollár Hotel director
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The hotel is located in the middle of nowhere so if you want to be entertained there aren't too many options outside the estate - which is surprisingly large and growing. The whole thing is some kind of a theme park dedicated to the medieval period. The design of the rooms and the interior of the public areas are trying to reflect the medieval/renaissance sytle. Except everything is fake here everything is staged, you sleep eat and spend your days in a painted theater scene. This is not neccessary bad, but not everyone likes it. And the worst part is the historical inaccuracy and the complete lack of any kind of sense of taste. I don't know if an interior designer was involved in the creation of this complex. You can't imagine how unstylish and low-quality are the decorations.
The theme park is a medieval village with a few houses high brick walls and an arena for jousts. In the village you can buy handicraft items and the kids can try to make their owns. This is the best part of the whole experience. Except the workshops are not allways open. If you are unlucky (and about 4 days of a week you are) the workshops are closed and you can't do enything else here than walking or chasing the geese in the yard area of the willage. It is going to be very boring on the second day :)
They keep jousts - but not every day. This attraction is good. Clearly and very visibly fake but kids can enjoy it. Well, it was a bit strange when a medieval-dressed courtesan (at least she was dressed... mostly) invited the audience for her 'special' lessons - with a little effort we managed to explain (or miss-explain) our little boy what that woman is talking about.
The spa area is poor - the family part of the spa at least. It is crowded and skimpy. The adults only part is not that bad but we couldn't enjoy it as a family. There were many problems with the spa I don't even try to enumerate them.
The food. For a four stars hotel it is ok but not good. Most of the offerings were edible some of them were fine. None of them were creative or interesing. It was like a huuuuge but still crowded countryside restaurant decorated with extremly bad taste by a scene designer.
Overall I got the impression that this hotel looks very ugly and only suitable for families with small kids and just for a couple of days, mostly during those days when the workshops are open - call and ask them before you book! Unfortunatley the hotel management tries to make this hotel desirable for as many kind of uses as they can. They are tring to make it a family hotel and a business conference hotel and an impish love hotel for couples at the same time. The result is a very strange hotel I never want to return.
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Date of stay: November 2013
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Imagine a big park in the center of a village. How you can use it ? This is, maybe, the story of this hotel.
They used European money to transform this big domain in a relaxing place, with few buildings decorated in different styles, with a little Moroccan & French spa with thermal water, a giant restaurant, organised tournaments with young knights and beautiful horses, and they also created a medieval style town and a village with few workshops and a small zoo. I really enjoyed the time spent there, to see few deers and domestic animals in a very paceful environment. What about your kids? They maybe will love to see them, and the knights, and horses, and the ladies, and to play in the thermal water also.
Let's be sincere, how many villages you have seen in your country have such nice spas ?
About the staff, we have to keep in mind that the people from the village are working in this place.
We went twice in this resort. Maybe it is not perfect, but we enjoyed the "standard" room with a big baldachin bed and the romantic atmosphere in the evening, in the Moroccan spa. Don't use this place, if you do not want to enjoy your time.
We will be back :)
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Date of stay: January 2014
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We stayed in the Hotel as a couple in a Guest House. The first impression at the reception was excellent. The lady (Renata) was really helpful and friendly with excellent customer service. BUT when we entered in our room all the positve feelings changed to negative. Dust everywhere for example: picture frames, glasses on the table, on the carpet in every corner, top of the BLACK fridge, and some dead mosquitos and other bugs in the wardrobe. Hairs in the bathroom. If anyone would like to try one of those ice creams in WATER glasses just forget it because they use probably the cheapest, tasteless ice cream and they charge too much for it. Same applies to the most expensive coffee (Irish). It was served in a cheap ugly glass which made the four different layers of the coffee not visible. Otherwise the breakfast and the dinner was very delicious with many variations. The pools are very enjoyable with nice design and with separated kids pool area. We would expect every single worker at a place like this wearing at least a shirt with the same company logo on, full uniform is not necessary. Don`t be surprised when they charge you for parking at the checkout, it is not expensive for a day but there is the possibility they forget to mention it at the check in. Overall the place looks nice with big green area and friendly polite staff. Excellent food. Cleanliness is very important and needs to be improved at this highly overrated place. If they improve these things the accomodations/stay will worth the price. At this stage the value/price ratio very bad and we would not go back.
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Date of stay: July 2013
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We stayed in the Hotel as a couple in a Guest House. The first impression at the reception was excellent. The lady (Renata) was really helpful and friendly with excellent customer service. BUT when we entered in our room all the positve feelings changed to negative. Dust everywhere for example: picture frames, glasses on the table, on the carpet in every corner, top of the BLACK fridge, and some dead mosquitos and other bugs in the wardrobe. Hairs in the bathroom. If anyone would like to try one of those ice creams in WATER glasses just forget it because they use probably the cheapest, tasteless ice cream and they charge too much for it. Same applies to the most expensive coffee (Irish). It was served in a cheap ugly glass which made the four different layers of the coffee not visible. Otherwise the breakfast and the dinner was very delicious with many variations. The pools are very enjoyable with nice design and with separated kids pool area. We would expect every single worker at a place like this wearing at least a shirt with the same company logo on, full uniform is not necessary. Don`t be surprised when they charge you for parking at the checkout, it is not expensive for a day but there is the possibility they forget to mention it at the check in. Overall the place looks nice with big green area and friendly polite staff. Excellent food. Cleanliness is very important and needs to be improved at this highly overrated place. If they improve these things the accomodations/stay will worth the price. At this stage the value/price ratio very bad and we would not go back.
Stayed July 2013, travelled as a couple
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Date of stay: July 2013
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Budapest, Hungary285 contributions69 helpful votes
Pár perc séta a reggeliző hely, a vacsora helye és a fürdőház is, amikor mi voltunk , este is jól ki volt világítva.Tavasztól őszig ez szerintem nem probléma, télies időben a fürdőházba menni nem lehet kellemes, ekkor a fürdőházba érdemes foglalni vagy a palotába, annak saját wellness részlege van.
Kedves Julcsi!
Megmondom őszintén, hogy mi a családdal a szobában társasoztunk és a wellness részleget használtuk. Csak felnőttek voltunk. De emlékeim szerint mézeskalácsot süthettek a gyerekek és karàcsonyfa díszeket készíthettek. :)
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PRICE RANGE
$113 - $161 (Based on Average Rates for a Standard Room)
LOCATION
HungarySouthern TransdanubiaBaranya CountyBikal
NUMBER OF ROOMS
120
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