Located just 6 km from Eagle’s Nest, 12 km from Salzburg, and 8 km to Lake Konigsee, this is the perfect place to stay in Berchtesgaden. It is subsidized by the US Army and used for “week long retreats” for military families with a common mission statement and purpose in mind for the week who come to be strengthened together. You book it one year in advance, and have to submit a request and purpose for the visit. Since all the Dad’s are in the medical field out of the 65 people there, our mission statement became: to come and Strengthen our families by having fun together and doing team building activities (making dinner for one another, going to Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest together, sliding down Salt Mine shafts together, screaming on the Alpine slides with each other, and hiking to Ice-caves! I would say the week was a screaming success! Unfortunately due to budget cuts this is the last year the Lodge will be available to Military families. We feel so lucky to have been able to experience it once! Oh and the best part…….get ready…….wait for it……..it is completely free to stay there for the ENTIRE WEEK.
The lodge itself has probably 14 rooms upstairs in dormitory fashion. Then a main level eating area with lots of tables, and a movie living room area just next to the eating area. Downstairs from that is a giant kitchen with walk in fridge, industrial size dishwasher and fully equipped with pots, pans, and cooking supplies. Then up the giant cement staircase outside just up from the lodge are four huge cabins available. That is where the larger families stayed….The Barclays, Johnsons, Chuggs, and Flakes. They turned out to be really great. They had 12 beds in them (bunk beds), a sink area, a fridge, and a big table for game playing at night. The only down fall was cohabitating with some little creatures occasionally, but we didn’t have one problem with that the entire week, thankfully. The poor Flakes had a terrible time of it and they were right next door! The other families that came were the Bowsers, Tintles, Prices, Turners and Kartchners.
This was our cabin: C for The Chuggs!!
Only a portion of the offspring of the many families who came. Pretty much all of my kids best friends were here, what could be better than this for a kid?
Oh how the kids had fun just running around and playing with each other. We love these families!
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