The Hotel Elephant sits in the middle of Bressanone which like the hotel is nice but nothing special. The public rooms in the hotel are beautiful and it is nice staying in an authentically old inn. The public rooms are filled with interesting art and antique furniture.

The negative is that, like so many hotels, the bedrooms are dull and not interesting. They couldn't have been less imaginative in putting together their bedrooms.

The restaurant was surprisingly good serving Tyrolean cuisine. The gardens were nice but I would say that the swimming pool was like the bedrooms--not memorable and not a feature.

If you are coming from far away I would stay in Ortisei, not Bressanone or I would stay in a hotel like the Rosa Alpina instead of the Hotel Elephant. Again, it's not that the hotel is a charmless, unenjoyable place--it just isn't special.