The hotel itself was lovely, and a perfect location. We thought we would try to avoid some of the christmas market crowd by coming on a sunday, but so much for that. I wish someone would have told us how insane the christmas market crowd would be, as we would have not come at all. An otherwise quaint and beautiful little Alsacian village completely engulfed by a throbbing mob of sticky, loud, rude, cigarette smoking, mouth breathing humans. Disgusting. Felt like pushing through a crowd at a music festival or mardi gras. Couldnt get anywhere. Couldnt get close enough to a booth to even see what was for sale. Stood in line for a half hour for food at a cart and was told we were in the drink line and we had to stand in the OTHER line for ANOTHER half hour for food. Absolute nightmare of a side trip from an otherwise wonderful Swiss holiday.