Wellness & health

Wellness with a view at Wellnesshotel Linde

Recharging your batteries and giving yourself a treat: the health and wellness hotels in the Bregenzerwald create the right atmosphere for holidays that help you feel good. With subtle architecture, well thought-out offers and attentive hospitality.

Those wanting to give their bodies, minds and souls a treat while on holiday will certainly find what they’re looking for in the Bregenzerwald. Well-being is ensured by medically sound programmes, classic wellness offers, finely adapted menus and the appropriate ambience. Most health and wellness hotels are distinguished by their architecture and high-quality furnishings. Many bathing and sauna worlds have been newly built or modernised in the style of contemporary Vorarlberg (timber) architecture in recent years. Nice and bright, with views into natural landscapes, built with such natural materials as wood and stone.

Spas and therapies

The programmes that are available at the health hotels range from supervised fasting and detoxification weeks to packings and baths with, for example, freshly cut moor. The most traditional is Gesundhotel Bad Reuthe, which also offers medical and physio-therapeutic care.

Relaxation and refreshment

The wellness hotels offer a wide range of activities – from fitness programmes and yoga retreats to massages and cosmetic treatments. Hotel Post by Susanne Kaufmann even treats visitors to the hotelier’s own line of high-quality natural cosmetics. Several other wellness hotels also use the Bregenzerwald’s own care products – for instance, the whey-care line by the Metzler family from Egg or the Werbina honey-care line by Bentele Genuss.

Well-being days: swimming and sweating

Several health and wellness hotels open their swimming and sauna areas to visitors who just want to spend the day or a few hours there. (→ page 105)

Hotel Adler Au**** Family-friendly hotel, 700 m2 of wellness area with spectacular 18-metre infinity pool, panoramic saunas and massages. Au, T +43 (0)5515 2264 www.adler-au.at

DAY SPA

11 a.m. – 8 p.m., one day admission to the SPAradies (11 a.m. – 7.30 p.m.), incl. wellness bag with bathrobe, bathing shoes, towel and a sweet afternoon snack. Price per person: € 45

Hotel Post Bezau by Susanne Kaufmann ****S A place of beauty, relaxation and holistic well-being. Bezau, T +43 (0)5514 22070 www.hotelpostbezau.com

Discovery Day Spa

Breakfast, holistic use of the wellness area, participation in the activity and sports programme, back massage, Alkaline Detox Signature Treatment. Price per person: € 172

Landhotel Hirschen*** Nature experience days, intuitive painting, days of spiritual magic, Moon week, base and therapeutic fasting according to Dr Buchinger, Sound therapy, herbal tea hour, own herb garden. Hittisau, T +43 (0)5513 2320 www.landhotel-hirschen.at

Wellness day

1 massage of your choice, 1 sound therapy on the sound lounge, 1 colour light therapy, use of the sauna, steam bath and wellness oasis. Price per person: € 130 – 150 Sonne Lifestyle Resort****S Modern-yet-cosy Superior and penthouse rooms, 1,500 m² of Spa area Mellau, T +43 (0)5518 20100-0 www.sonnemellau.com Day spa available for non-residential guests from 16 years of age from Mondays to Thursdays or on inquiry: Bathing area from 7 a.m., nudist area from 11 a.m. (in summer as required); treatments from the spa programme available. Please book in advance.

The perfect feel-good day

8 a.m. – 4 p.m., breakfast buffet, bathrobe, slippers and bath towels, voucher € 80 applicable to all spa treatments, Wälder Late Lunch, Tea & Juice Corner. Price per person: € 149

Gesundhotel Bad Reuthe**** Applications using mud, wellness and beauty package deals. Lovely bathing house with a sauna and wellness complex and pool in the garden (open to the public). Tip: it is recommended that you make a reservation by telephone. Reuthe, T +43 (0)5514 2265-0 www.badreuthe.at

Relax day

1 mud pack with freshly cut natural mud or herbal bath, 1 all-over body massage, 1 facial exfoliant and mask, including day ticket to the thermal bath and sauna and wellness world, fi tness room. Price per person: € 135

Pool at Fuchsegg Lodge in Egg-Schetteregg

Hirschen Wohlfühlhotel****S Informal establishment, adventure swimming pool with panoramic view of the countryside. Schoppernau, T +43 (0)5515 21150 www.hirschen.at

Breakfast & Wellness

8 a.m. – 5 p.m., feel-good breakfast (8 a.m. – 10.30 a.m.), feel-good bag with bathrobe, bathing shoes and towel, relaxing in the outdoor whirlpool and new wellness area, dive into the panorama adventure pool, € 10 voucher for SPA treatments, voucher for an alcohol-free cocktail Price per person: € 75 Wellnesshotel Linde**** Wellness and golf hotel with elegant Sunset spa (open to the public). Sulzberg, T +43 (0)5516 2025 www.wellnesshotellinde.at

Wellness day

1 pack of fresh hay flowers, 1 back massage, day ticket to the Sunset spa with wellness pool, sauna complex, fitness room. Price per person: € 89.90

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