After leaving Budapest yesterday we headed South toward Villany which is a wine region near the Croatian border. We tried a number of wines at the festival last week and were excited to visit the area. Needless to say, we have found a little slice of heaven, and I don't mind using the cliche.
We arrive in town around 6pm and drove right up to a hotel & spa run by the Gere Winery, one of the biggest wineries in Hungary. We knew this was going to be the "fanciest" and most expensive digs in town, but we didn't really expect much from the place. Oh lord, were we wrong.
We are currently staying in a 5 star resort in the middle of amazingly gorgeous wine country for a hundred bucks a night. This place pulls out all the stops and Jon can't stop commenting on the good quality of the construction materials. (Yes, he does that.) We had a welcome glass of wine, a king size bed with a candy on the pillow, quality furnishings, robust and beautiful landscaping, an outdoor patio off the room and a spa that rivals anything I've ever splurged to use. The spa itself deserves it's own posting, which I can do after the massage and facial I'll be getting tomorrow for a small fraction of what it would cost at home.
Welcome glass of wine on our patio in our robes.
The breakfast buffet which comes with the room, includes all you can drink champagne (both white and rose) from the winery and everything from fresh baked bread, an assortment of salami and cheese, cheesy eggs and bacon, crepes with jam, and yogurt and muesli. Plus nice dark coffee served in silver pitchers. Plop this place in Napa Valley and we'd be paying a very pretty penny.
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