We stayed for 4 nights in the week before christmas. Upon arrival, the reception was great, luggage taken out of the car and brought to the room, car was taken care of by the staff, one of the receptionists walked with us to our room. The room was actually not a room but three rooms (because we needed space for our babies (21 and 4 months old)) cots were provided as were baby bathrobes.

After a short walk through the hotel (bar, restaurants, stubes, shopping mall, spa, pool area, fitness room etcetera, the hotel is big) we went for the afternoon cake which is served from 4 o'clock and had tea/coffee and cake.

The first night we had dinner in the gourmet restaurant (see separate review), the other nights in the regular hotel restaurant: the food was of really good quality too, choice of two menus (Vital menu with light healthy dishes and gourmet menu), both are really good.

The breakfast is certainly one of the best in a hotel ever. The hotel bar is nice, bartenders really helpfull and they remember your name and your favourite drink. Service around the hotel is perfect everywhere. In fact the staff everywhere is ready to make your stay perfect.

For the children there are several separate villa's where they are entertained from morning to evening (starting at an age of 3 years) with numerous activities. Ours were to young so the hotel provided baby sitters at a reasonable rate, so that we were able to dine without them in peace.

The pool area is like paradise: normal pool, jacuzzi, baby pool, saltwater indoor whirlpool, outdoor saltwater whirlpool (and several other outdoor pools that were closed in december), lounge chairs, pool bar and a really wel equiped fitness room.

The spa is good, clean and comfortable.

Every day there are activities: hikes, tours, wine tasting, readings, music etc.

In conclusion a stay in hotel Bareiss makes you forget all of your everyday worries and you feel relaxed and pampered.

Is there nothing to critisize?
Although the hotel is (near) perfect there is: our large room had just a small bathroom with an outdated decor and the showerhead almost did fall apart, secondly the hotel does not accept credit cards, which I think is really inconvenient and thirdly reservation of a certain room type is only garanteed from 4 night on. But we will certainly return to Bareiss

We stayed here for 1 night only on a trip through the Black Forest - we will be back. The staff is one of the friendliest we've ever encountered, can't describe how sweet they are. The food is exceptional and the hotel was beautifully decorated for the holidays. We did not have time to enjoy, but we took a peek at the spa and it was extremely nice, seem to offer anything you would need for a nice pampering. We will come back in the summer when we can enjoy a good hike on the nearby trails and then an even better pampering in the spa and pools.

+Huge Penthouse suite (Bareiss no1), wonderful modern bathroom, three balconies, jacuzzi, sauna, sun bed, a bit over the top.
+incredible staff. follow your every whine and wish. made a particular effort to speak french when they found out we were a french family, which was an amazing touch, i have to say.
+food is overall of great, great quality. the restaurant system is a bit weird but you quickly get used to it
+pool area was big and beautiful. sometimes a little too crowded but it was bearable. outdoor whirlpool (litteraly a reaal whirl pool) was fun and very warm, always good in cold weather
+plenty of activities meant we never got bored ! ride bikes, the sattelei chalet always very welcoming (excellent flammekuche!)

-the guests of the hotel seem to be very old. mostly big families (grand parents, parents, children, uncles, aunts) which gives a particular atmosphere to the hotel. we didn't have a problem with that, but i wouldn't go to this kind of hotel with friends or as a couple, it isn't very enticing.
-while walking around on our floor (all the penthouse suites are on the same floor), we realized our suite was one of three that haven't been (or didn't look like) they were renovated yet. we felt a bit cheated, indeed the room (except the bathroom) felt slightly dated and worn out.

overall, a good experience, the staff were really great, the property was well maintained. no big complaints.

The thing that most distinguishes the Hotel Bareiss from others of its league is the great pools.
The indoor pool is as one would expect in a good hotel. Then there's the shoulder-depth indoor pool in which I enjoyed the morning aqua aerobics / swim gymnastics class led by a very good staff fitness leader. An indoor relaxation pool.
Now, let's swim outside into the pool that had a central feature and jets that created a current taking people around and around, or giving a good test for strength swimming against it. It also had a bench on which to sit in the sunshine with bubbles streaming up.
Continue down into the garden where there was a mock-pond, which landings around it with sun lounges on each. And a standard laps pool. A waterfall.
Back inside into the inner wellness area. The usual saunas, dampfbads etcs, and two more pools: small outdoor ones.
All this makes for great unwinding after using the many walking paths in the area. (I've attached a photo taken on one of our walks, looking back down to the village with the hotel just shown, indicated by orange sunshades.)
The main negative for us of this hotel was the visual style which was was, to our eyes, excessively decorated. When we first walked into our room we wondered if we'd made a mistake choosing to stay there, it seemed so OTT to us. But no doubt it pleases many, especially given the other guests were almost all older than us (and we're not young). The furnishings were fresh, so this is clearly the hotel's chosen style.
Baiersbronn is only a few hours' drive from Frankfurt if, like us, you find a few days in a wellness hotel with good local walking and pool facilities a great way to get over jet-lag and start a holiday.