The Osthoff Resort♡

The Osthoff Resort is a great destination with much to offer!

10.0

The Osthoff Resort is a great destination...friendly staff, wonderful accommodations, amazing restaurant options, and located in a beautiful area with much to offer. Looking forward to our next visit!

Perfect Few Day Stay

10.0

Absolutely top notch service, wonderful room, and great location, all of which came together to be the perfect few day stay.

Just Great!

10.0

What a wonderful place and experience. John, Joel, and Jennifer, along with every employee we ran across were just excellent! Could not have asked for anything better. Can't wait to return soon. Highly recommended.

Great stay!

8.0

Clean and gorgeous room! Great views! Service was prompt, very clean every where we wondered. Excellent Christmas decorations!

Regular Customer that Won't Be Back

4.0

My wife and I have been going to the Osthoff for their Old World Christmas Market for about 7 years now - excluding the Covid years. We make a 3-Day weekend out of it and have always enjoyed our stay until last year and now, worse, this year. The Market - The Osthoff has made it so they are the sole providers of drinks and meals. Yes, you can purchase cookies and such from vendors but actual food no longer. Gluz Winery was there until 2024 when the Osthoff decided to push their wine exclusively. We miss Gluz. I normally walked out with a case of wine. The last couple years, I think I bought one glass total. We used to enjoy sausages and other things but now it's just the Osthoff food. The food is decent, not great, but I would appreciate a variety. I miss the variety. Parking - When you reserve a room for 3-4 days you kind of expect a place to park. Not this year. I actually got into an argument with the front desk as there were no places to park. I was told I could park on the street but I'd take a chance getting a ticket. So, I'd have to go back out ( -15F outside that day) before midnight and move my car. By that time the convention and other events would be finished. The manager had me park in the fire lane with a tag in the window and they'd keep the keys. They had to move my car for an emergency around 7am so when I was ready to leave, I had no idea where my car was. Apparently conventions, weddings and other events "pay a lot of money" and are more entitled to a parking space versus someone staying overnight. Dining - Wanted to have dinner at the Concourse restaurant one evening. It was frigid cold outside and didn't want to mess around moving the car (see Parking above). Got down to the restaurant and requested a table. Dining room was about 1/3 full and no "reserved" signs on empty tables. We were told they didn't have any room unless we had made a reservation. I looked around again and looked at the host and said: "Fine, I'll give my money to someone else then." Went to Otto's, that closed at 3pm. Went to the Elk Lounge and they had music and it was packed. So, out the door we went and had a wonderful meal at the Lake Street Cafe - would highly recommend that. Room - While clean there were oddities that plagued us. Turned on the fireplace and we could barely see the fire though the foggy glass. Guess no one had cleaned that in a few years. Bathroom fan. When it wasn't running it made a clanking sound like a metal cover was opening and closing independently. Try sleeping next to that. Ended up running the bathroom fan all night, which was okay as I like the white noise to dull the children running around in the hallway. Lastly the TV kept going out. We'd come back to the room and we didn't get any stations. We got on a first name basis with Shawn from maintenance. He had to come by twice for this issue. Add all this up and I don't think we'll be spending any more time at the Osthoff. Sad as we really looked forward to this annual getaway... until 2024 and 2025.

Holiday Girls Weekend

10.0

A complete girls weekend filled with horse drawn wagon ride, hot cocoa, Christmas Market, and matching Jammie’s! We danced the night away in the Elk Room with delicious holiday drinks. Couldn’t be more perfect!