The three-star hotel offers single, double, triple and family rooms. All air-conditioned rooms have bathroom with shower or bathtub, minibar, telephone, television and safe. The rustic atmosphere of the hunting-style rooms perfectly complements the feeling of being in the countryside and the quiet tranquillity. And from the rooms with balconies, the view of the Zselic Starlight-Park after dark is a unique experience.
We hope that our website will attract your interest in our hotel and that you will personally see for yourself how much we can offer you for your relaxation, recreation or event in the quiet and peaceful forest environment.
Kardosfa - the former Esterházy forest lodge and later hunting lodge - is located in the 8,300 hectare hunting area of SEFAG Erdészeti és Faipari Zrt., in the Zselic Hills, in the Zselic Landscape Protection Reserve, 20 km from Kaposvár.

The forests are rich in wildlife, including the mouflon, a special mammal of the Zselic forests. The lucky ones can also watch from the nearby hunting blind as a specimen walks through the trees. And despite the small differences in altitude, you can feel as if you are hiking in the mountains rather than on hills.
The name of Kardosfa appears in few written records, but rather in oral tradition. Legend has it that it was named after the swords found under the roots of a fallen old tree, or after the trunk of the old tree in which the swords of the revelling outlaws 'rested'. According to legends from the time of the conquest, a sword-making workshop may have been based here, but another story has it that the site was a strategically important checkpoint, so it may have been named after the sentinels who always carried swords.
A very simple explanation is that a settlement called ‘Kardos-falva’ was created in the course of history, which later became Kardosfa by a shortcut.
In 1982, SEFAG converted the forest keeper's office into a hunting lodge, which could accommodate 21 people and provide them with comfortable accommodation. It served this function until the spring of 2006, when the construction of the Hotel Kardosfa*** began.