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About the Hotel
Hotel Restaurant Bistro Raffel is a country restaurant-with-rooms in Jennersdorf in southern Burgenland, the eastern tip of Austria where the country meets Hungary and Slovenia. The property was built in 1887 and runs primarily as a restaurant (two on-site) with hotel rooms upstairs — a working family business rather than a corporate hotel.
The wellness floor is small but proper: a sauna and a steam room for hotel guests, alongside spa services and a banquet hall used for weddings and family events. The kitchen leans on Burgenland's mixed Pannonian-Austrian cooking, and the property is adjacent to a local golf course, with mountain biking, hiking and biking trails on the doorstep.
Southern Burgenland is Austria's thermal-bath country: Rogner Bad Blumau (Hundertwasser's spa village) is roughly 30 km north, and the Hungarian and Slovenian borders are a short drive — useful for day trips. Pannonian wine villages, the Raab nature park and a quiet rural pace make this a calmer base for guests who want sauna and good food without an Alpine ski-resort price tag.
