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Sole Felsen Welt (Sole Felsen Bad & Sauna)

Gmünd, Austria · from EUR 35.50

About

A brine bath and hotel by the Asangteich pond in Gmünd, in the Waldviertel, open every day of the year. The nude sauna area has seven saunas including a salt sauna, a steam grotto, a hammam, a snow shower and a brine lagoon that leads outdoors; tickets cover bath and sauna.

Facilities

Saunas and steam

  • Finnish sauna
    The classic dry sauna, usually 80–100 °C.
  • Bio sauna
    A gentler sauna of about 50–60 °C with more humidity, also called sanarium.
  • Steam bath
    Around 45 °C with nearly 100 % humidity.
  • Infrared sauna
    Infrared heaters warm the body directly while the air stays cooler.
  • Salt or mineral sauna
    A sauna with salt or mineral walls or salty air to breathe.
  • Outdoor sauna
    A sauna in its own cabin or with a door straight to the open air, so you step outside to cool off.
  • Aufguss (sauna ritual)
    A sauna master pours scented water on the hot stones and fans the heat through the room.
  • Hammam (Turkish or Moroccan bath ritual)
    The traditional ritual in stages: warm rooms or a heated marble slab, a body scrub with a kessa glove and a soap-foam wash, then rest.

Cooling down

  • Cold plunge (under 20 °C)
    A small pool of cold water, below 20 °C, to dip into after the heat.
  • Rain and mood showers
    Warm showers with changing temperature, light, scent or rain patterns.
  • Ice fountain
    Crushed ice to rub on your skin after the sauna.
  • Snow room
    A cold room with snow or ice, below freezing, for a quick cool-down.

Pools and baths

  • Brine pool (Sole)
    A pool with salty brine water (Sole).
  • Indoor pool
    An indoor pool to relax or swim in.
  • Outdoor pool (heated year round)
    An outdoor pool heated enough to use in winter too.
  • Bubble loungers
    Loungers under the water surface with bubbles rising from below.
  • Water slides
    Slides that end in a pool.

Relaxing

  • Indoor rest area
    A quiet room with loungers to rest between sauna rounds.
  • Outdoor rest area (garden or terrace)
    A garden, terrace or lawn with loungers, to cool down and rest in the fresh air.

Treatments and fitness

  • Massages
    Massages you can book, usually at extra cost.
  • Solarium
    Sunbeds for tanning.

Food and extras

  • Restaurant or bistro
    Somewhere to eat or have a drink, often one you can visit in your bathrobe.

The place

Setting
Town or village
Type of place
Thermal bath or wellness park

Getting there

Albrechtser Straße 12, 3950 Gmünd, Austria

Gmünd Sole-Felsen-Bad · about 1 min walk (50 m)

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