Carman Guest House

This little hotel is very easy to get to, from Ljubljana you pass through the town of Bled and the hotel is overlooking the lake. It sits on the street so there is no real area to pull in to offload luggage, especially when there is a lot of traffic on the road (which is all the time). But the hotel does offer a car park option a couple of minutes walk away, although it is uphill There is no elevator in the hotel, but there aren’t too many steps. Our room was a standard double room, it was quite small but did have a good size double bed, small table and chairs at the bottom of the bed, but there was no room on either side to put suitcases. There was a kettle in the room, but no fridge or microwave and the tea & coffee supplies were located outside the room on the landing. There are no blackout blinds so you might get woken up early in the morning with the sun. There is air conditioning in the room which worked well. There was also a flatscreen TV on the wall but we couldn’t get it to work The bathroom was a good size with a nice big shower which had good pressure. Wifi was available and it worked quite well The restaurant downstairs does a lovely dinner although I would advise booking during the busy times as there is not that many places within walking distance. You do get a view of the lovely sunset over the island on the lake so it is worthwhile getting a table at the windows. Breakfast is available in the same restaurant for €15 per person, there was an OK selection but not sure that it was value for money. The second morning we went over to the supermarket beside the hotel and bought croissants, pastries, yoghurt, fruit and then made coffee in the room for a lot less The hotel does offer row boat rental for €25 for a hour, and as we were staying in the hotel they gave us an extra hour for free which was great. The walk around the lake is quite nice and is only 6km and the walk into Bled town is only 25-30 mins. Watch parking in Bled though as we parked in a parking lot and went onto the parking app to pay and it all seemed to go through OK and money was taken from my card, but we still got a parking ticket on our car – not sure what happened Overall this hotel is in a fantastic location, it is very comfortable and the staff were so friendly and helpful that I would definitely come back again