I will be travelling with my husband to Alsace as part of our honeymoon, at the end of October. We would like to be in or near a cute town such as Colmar, and will have a car. We like nice, larger hotels. I don't think I want to stay in Strasbourg. I have narrowed our options to:

Chateau de L'ile
http://www.grandesetapes.com/en/cast...ile-strasbourg

5 Terres Hotel and Spa
http://www.sofitel.com/gb/hotel-A7F3...el/index.shtml

Domaine du Moulin
http://www.hotel-domainedumoulin-als...m/uk/index.php

Resort Barriere
https://www.hotelsbarriere.com/fr/ri...re-balneo.html

Other suggestions welcome.

Hi, as someone who dislikes large hotels it has been eye opening to see what others like, so thank you.

What is interesting from the web sites is I find it hard to work out where they are, the websites are full of pretty pictures but are very hard to use. This despite the fact I regularly tavel to Alsace.

Using google maps I've hunted them down and if you have an interest in wine the only one I would consider is the Ribeauville one and even that is not great.

I guess the problem is these places are very big and use up a lot of land which in the wine growing areas are just too valuable to become hotel space.

Have you considered Chateau D'isenbourg which is actually amongst the vines? I've not been in but the position is lovely, Rouffach is fine, not my favorite village but fine none the less and Clos St Landelin is just at the end of the village, so I assume you can taste these at the hotel.

Interestingly the website of the restaurants are only in French and do not offer a wine list (on the website)

Have fun and tell us what you decided on.

I've now dug a bit deeper and withdraw the Ribeauville recommendation, none of your hotels are in the wine area to any extent. Only D'isenbourg is really "there". It looks nice enough.

Have lovely time, the main harvest should be over but the more specialist harvests for the sweet wines will be in debate, the recent wet weather will not have helped.

I recommend a walk or bike ride in the back roads, vinyard roads etc around there. You will also find some lovely places to visit up on the Vosges especially the castles.

I have no opinion on the locations as I've never stayed out in the country around there, but often stay in Mercure/Sofitel hotels and think they have agood standard. I don't find anything difficult to use about that website (the 5 Terres) and it shows you exactly where the hotel is on a map, and includes the address, of course. Yes, the map they show you is a Google map, but I don't see that as a problem.

The first one shows you exactly where it is, also.
http://www.grandesetapes.com/en/cast...map-and-access

Christina, you are right, I had to dig a bit and finally I found it, but only thanks to your guidnce. I guess I expect location to be better placed.

Now I can see on their own website I certainly wouldn't want to holiday there, there are so many nicer parts of Alsace to stay, but each to their own. Ostwald is not as nice as the wine growing area, but you can get into Strasbourg easily. I believe Strasbourg deserves at least 4 hours to visit and you could stretch it to 8 if you like to shop

Nothing wrong with Mecure or Sofitel, I think I'm still an account owner just not very excited by large hotels.

Thank you so much for the responses. I ended up booking 5 Terres, Barr, the town in which it's situated, looks lovely.