Post Hotel

We are getting closer on finding a house to move to in Utah (we got pre-approved for our financing over the weekend), but still nothing really exciting to share. So this feels like a great time to post the pictures from when Jared and I stayed at the Post Hotel in Leavenworth to celebrate our 10/11 year anniversary. (Technically it was our 11 year anniversary, but we went fancier on the hotel than we normally would because we didn't do anything for our big 10 year anniversary.) 

^^We started our trip with the 2-3 hour drive up into the mountains to the Bavarian town of Leavenworth. When Jared went to check in at Post Hotel they gave him two glasses of their "signature welcome drink" for us to sip. It was some kind of ginger lemonade. Really tasty. 

^^Every inch of the hotel was beautifully designed. Most of the walls appeared to be plaster.

^^Our room, with a balcony view of the river behind the hotel. I think Jared is getting ready to change into his swimming suit here, sorry😅

^^Our cute balcony. After this we immediately changed and spent the rest of the afternoon at the hotel's pool and spa rooms that they are most known for. No cameras allowed, so I'll grab some pictures from their website of their pool area so you can get an idea:

^^I won't share a picture of every single one of their "wellness rooms" that are included with the price of stay, but this one was our favorite. The chairs were made of solid marble and the room was filled with steam and the smell of fresh eucalyptus. Each chair had a handheld sprayer next to it so you could spray yourself down with cool water if you got too warm. There were also several wet and dry saunas with varying aromas, steam baths, cold plunges, scented showers, reflexology stepping stone pools, and Jared's favorite, an onyx "cooling room" infused with cool mist. The entire experience was giving "Harry Potter Prefects' Bathroom" in the best possible way. That's actually the whole reason I wanted to stay at this hotel in the first place😂 and it didn't disappoint. 

There are few enough guests at the hotel that we could always find at least one room that didn't have anyone in it, so whenever we were in a room we had it all to ourselves. We basically spent the majority of our stay lounging/reading by the pool, hopping in the infinity pool overlooking the river, rotating through the various wellness rooms, rinsing and repeating.

^^There was also this designated "nap room" right next to the pool where we took the loveliest little nap. There was meditative music and I think the mattresses were water beds? Would have been weird in any other situation but was actually perfect in this setting. The pool area also had fruit-infused water available to drink at all times, and those are two things I want to incorporate into our future home one day: a fruit-infused water dispenser always at the ready, and a nap room (would probably have to double as a guest room). The other inspiration we took was our favorite lounging corner outside, tucked into a corner of the building and surrounded with lavender.

^^Breakfast and lunch were included in the price, but for dinner we ventured into Leavenworth for some German food. Afterward we took the hotel's cute bikes out for a little ride by the river.

^^Heading back to our hotel. You guys. Big-time Hogwarts vibes. Luxury Hogwarts Bavarian Spa vibes haha

^^In the evening we checked out one of the hotel's games (Boggle) and played a few rounds on their balcony.

^^A cute Bavarian horn dude playing every hour on the balcony of one of the neighboring hotels. Leavenworth itself is a little on the cheesy touristy side, and it's really just one or two streets of Bavarian buildings, but the setting is gorgeous and it's worth a visit.

^^The hotel also offered complimentary mini golf at this cute real-grass mini golf course.

^^Felt like our honeymoon in Lauterbrunnen behind this mini golf waterfall. 

^^Our view when we woke up in the morning.

^^Our breakfast on the balcony. It was SO good and felt like our hotel breakfasts in Europe on our honeymoon. They had incredible entrees and an incredible breakfast buffet. I got an omelette and some really incredible breads and yogurts. The quality tasted closer to European than American.

And that was our little stay at the Post Hotel! We had  only two regrets from our trip:

1. Not staying for a second night. We just booked one night because it's a pretty expensive hotel and we wanted to be sure it would be worth it, but in hindsight, since we were celebrating our 10-year anniversary, we definitely should've splurged for the second night. It just didn't feel like enough time to do everything we wanted to and also have time to sleep in and just lounge around. Since check-in was at 3:00 in the afternoon and check out was at 11:00 the next morning (and then we ate lunch there before leaving), we really wanted to use every minute enjoying the pool and wellness area. Which we did, but left wanting just a liiiittle more. Three nights wouldn't have been necessary, but two would be perfect. We've sworn we'll come back one day for a proper two-night stay.

2. Not throwing our inflatable paddle board in the trunk to have some extra fun after we were kicked out of the hotel. We were out of the hotel by a little after noon on our second day of our trip, but instead of enjoying the rest of our anniversary trip, we didn't really have a plan in place for anything to do so we just kind of meandered our way back  to Jared's parents home to grab the kids. I was a little bitter that we didn't take advantage of the rare, much-needed time away together playing at a lake or something. We tried a hike but it was over 100 degrees and so a water activity was the only thing that sounded fun, but we were tired and didn't have any of our water stuff. Next time I'd have our paddle board on standby to play at Lake Wenatchee on our way home. Small complaints though--we really had the best time! 5 out of 5 stars, would absolutely recommend Post Hotel for a very fancy, splurge-worthy occasion.