Chateau Du Sureau

Hotel Description

On the edge of one of America's most beautiful natural landmarks, lies the perfect European chateau hotel run by a warm-hearted Viennese woman, Erna Kubin-Clanin. The hotel is a time capsule of stone on six manicured acres, the living room a Hapsburg salon with its elaborate detailing and its burgundy walls. The gardens are dramatic in a continental manner with an enormous chessboard in the center that will make you feel like Alice in Wonderland. Beds are swathed in canopies, Oriental carpets cover the dark wood floors, headboards are Victorian and even the glass in the windows is 19th century. Fireplaces are stone and keys are heavy and silver with thick silk tassels.

Service is appropriately chivalrous. Maids scurry in ruffled aprons, to dust, stoke the fire, and bring you finger sandwiches and mulled claret in the evenings. The newly built Villa Sureau, a white and gold wedding cake of a building separate from the main house, includes a butler, along with two bedrooms and a study, Empire period chaise lounges and commodes and free use of a Jeep. And the butler has plenty to do; unpack, press trousers and schedule engagements, as well as make sure your bath is drawn, your pillows are plumped, and your crystal decanter of port on the sideboard is filled.

Then there is the food. Chateau Sureau is the only place for miles that you can get a decent meal. Frau Kubin-Clanin takes a hearty Bavarian approach to the appetite. At Sureau, there are at least five meals a day. Even breakfast is a two-course affair and dinner, nothing less than poached quail eggs, black truffles, and grilled beef tenderloin.

Hotel Facilities

• Restaurant
• Pet friendly
• Internet access
• Business center
• Accessible facilities

Leisure Facilities

• Spa
• Swimming pool

Room Facilities

• Accessible facilities