Hotel Jungfrau half board

We have not stayed at Hotel Jungfrau; in Mürren we generally to book apartments for our family. But fro shorter stays in Switzerland and the Dolomites we do generally take the half-board option and the food is usually very nice. I do not know anything specific about Hotel Jungfrau other than the location, which I think is excellent!

I would not recommend booking half board there unless you just don’t care about experiencing food anywhere else. Their restaurant is fine, but there are many other places to try in Murren that are less than a 5 minute walk from Hotel Jungfrau, as well as on hikes and outings that I don’t think it would really be worthwhile to be eating at the same place every morning and night. Breakfast would be convenient to have.

We haven't booked the Hotel Jungfrau, but in that area and the Dolomites we do the same as Lola: book half-board.

Is this the package you're referring to?

https://hoteljungfrau.ch/en/3-days-hiking-package/#

Includes:

• Dinner in hotel restaurant
• Breakfast at the Piz Gloria restaurant (presumably on one of the three days—would a ticket to get up there be required?)
• Free entrance to the indoor swimming pool at the Alpine Sports Center. Note: This is included with the Mürren Guest Card, which you’ll receive regardless of which hotel you stay at. You can learn more about what the guest card includes here:

https://muerren.swiss/en/services/guest-information.html

Hopefully, someone who has purchased this package can provide more insight. You could also compare the individual costs to evaluate the package's overall value.

If the package SwissNomad has referenced is the one being considered, it really
says nothing about hiking. So I suppose it is really a hotel for 3 nights in an area
that you can go hiking, with some extras thrown in?

I tend to agree with wanderweg; half board is a convenience. If you think you'll
be doing strenuous hikes every day and not want to bother with exploring places
to sup, it's a good thing. If you're on your own and want a nice place to dine
solo, it's a good thing, as the restaurant staff will probably take good care of you.
If you're a foodie wanting in indulge, it's not the best way to go.

After all that, I notice the OP is asking about experience with booking the
package. Is the booking process the question here as opposed to the package
itself?

Thank you all for the replies! I was comparing the Hotel Jungfrau, which offers the hiking package referenced above, to the Hotel Alpenblick which has no package. The Jungfrau is a better value with no worries about reservations, but after reading the above I would rather experience other area restaurants.

Any thoughts on Jungfrau vs Alpenblick? Both look nice.

Thank you!

I see the Hotel Jungfrau restaurant now offers a Malaysian menu. I remember seeing the signs pointing to this when we were in Mürren last September, but did not follow them up to see where it is. Is it any good? We have in the past enjoyed a few take-out items from Tham’s, but would not go there for a sit-down dinner.

In pre-pandemic visits, when we wanted to go out for dinner in Mürren, we would head to the Hotel Bellevue and sit in the Stübli, which specialized in fish and game dishes. Our first time there, in 2002, I ordered the pistachio-encrusted halibut, which was delicious. Now the Hotel Bellevue has become the Hotel Drei Berge, under new ownership, and the menu has totally changed, and not for the better. Although the restaurant webpage claims to offer dishes “combin[ing] Swiss, Japanese, Italian, and Asian inspirations”, the menu itself is mostly pizza and pasta. There are only 3 choices listed under Hauptspeise (mains): Ossobuco (with French fries of all things), Bratwurst (also with French fries), and Fondue (without the French fries, mercifully).

https://dreibergehotel.ch/en/restaurant/

Is this sort of “dumbed-down” menu now typical of Mürren restaurants? We looked at several last September for a nice dinner with our family our last night there, and could not find any that looked appealing, apart from Hotel Eiger, which is very expensive (Hauptspeise for 40-60 CHF).

So we ended up going to celebrate at the Eiger’s fun little Tächi bar, where the bar a made impressive mocktails for the kids and adult versions for the rest of us. And then we went back to our apartment and I made a classic Shrimp Scampi with the 2# bag of nice frozen prawns I found at the Coop.

Alpenblick is owned and run by locals who live in Murren and lovingly put their heart into it. The food there is also great. I would choose to spend my $ to support this amazing village, personally.

Wow. Thank you for that information—-I am sure it will resolve the question for the OP.

I note that the Hotel Jungfrau has no information on the website about the Gastgeber or Gastgeberfamilie-——that is something I always look for when I book a hotel in a small Swiss village.

@Lola - since you asked….the new owners of the “Drei Berg” are also foreign investment owners. I can say that atleast they've put forth effort to make it nice and “intentional” unlike the scheme going on at Hotel Jungfrau (really frustrating to look at every day), but I think the menu issue you’re seeing at the Drei Berg is a focus from the owners on international, as opposed to Swiss focused. They own a high end apparel store in Paris, etc….

We always eat at the Alpenblick our first night as a family tradition. They are local and support local farms, etc.

Thanks for this information, I definitely want to support local.
The RS community is a great resource!

It sounds like small Swiss hotels in popular locations like Mürren may have fallen victim to the private equity scorpions. They are buying up profitable business opportunities like veterinary practices, dermatology practices, anesthesiologists, and others here in the US. The results are not good.