Tannenhof RelaxHotel

The staff were fantastic although you will definitely do better with German (but some room info is in English and some English is spoken). The room was a lovely old-style room overlooking the vineyards and mountains. They have themes, mine was lavender. The bathroom was modern but very small. The whole hotel is very rickety and moving around creates a lot of noise, so you have to go all in with the quiet enjoyment (e.g., they ban showers after 10pm). The hotel has a small indoor pool and a sauna and a lounge where you can have free coffee and cakes and get drinks from the fridge on an honour system, including local wines. The lounge has views but you can take drinks out to the nice terrace. The terrace is good for breakfast, which is a fairly simple continental spread. The hotel is a steep 1km+ walk from the centre of town (and what a darling town it is), which can be useful after the massive meals at the restaurants in town. It is close to walking paths, in particular, take the road going past Gästehaus Rösch (which may have better views as it looks all the way to the Rhine valley - although that might just remind you that you’re not really far from civilisation) and you will quickly reach the top of the waterfalls, from where you can start the 10km circle path around Sasbachwalden, or walk down along the waterfalls and the 13 bridges to the town centre. The Black Forest High Road is a short drive east - the Hornisgrinde is less than half an hour drive away. It really is a good place for a Black Forest escape and not even very expensive.