Overall the positive: The property is beautiful. The lobby and main areas are beautifully designed with great attention to detail. For me, that's great....
But, for some reason, they are so focused on conferences for it's main business that it's off-putting if you're not there for a conference. (We were were there for a getaway 3 day weekend from Germany, although we live in NYC.) Im a travel writer and travel a lot and most hotels make a large portion of their business on conferences, but they successfully integrate that fact it into their business—at Mooirivier, most of the signage is "conference- signage" and the layout didnt take "non-conference" patrons into consideration. Overall it would a great place if they were able to make the "conference-hotel theme" more subtle. For instance, to get to the rooms, you have to walk though a conference area and after the beautiful entrance, the long hallway of rooms feels like dorm rooms for a conference.
the rooms... they could easily make the conference areas more discrete.
We paid extra for a "comfort room." On arrival, the armoire is right in front of the entry door and the bathroom door hits the armoire and they cannot be opened at the same time. Comfort? The room was quite small considering it is in the countryside ( a city-room might be expected to be so tight). Comfort?
The bathroom: annoyingly, there was almost no place to put anything down. about a foot square to put some toiletries but no room for 2 dop-kits, no place to put your clothes down before taking a shower. There was 1 hook (for towels - no hook for clothes or a robe-- and the hook was in the shower so if you put your clothes there or a robe... they'd get wet. comfort? nope.) The hotel was billed as an eco hotel, so why were the 2 cups in the bathroom thin disposable cups?(not eco!) I placed my toothbrush in the cup and it immediately fell over into the sink. The comp. soap was a tiny aprox. 1' flat square of soap that dissolved before the shower was even over, leaving nothing to wash hands with later.... comfort? the bed was comfortable, but the bathroom discomforts and room size spoiled things for me.
One other lack of comfort: I suppose due to their focus on conferences, they weren't clear that we had to make a reservation for dinner every day or there was no dinner for hotel guests... We spent hours aimlessly driving around the surrounding towns looking for an open restaurant with someone eating in it. After the 2nd night we didn't bother making a reservation because we felt uncomfortable.
Overall, it is a very nice place, could be better if they considered the "non-conference" patron.