Tauern Spa Kaprun

Tauern Spa Kaprun news update

Location map of Kaprun and Zell am See in the Salzburgerland area of Austria, Tauern Spa Kaprun is to be located between the two localities, close to the 36 hole Championship golf course.

Wellbeing and relaxation are many holidaymakers priorities. In Zell am See / Kaprun facilities are being expanded in the area with the construction of new Tauern Spa Kaprun, once built it will meet the demands of holiday makers throughout the year.

The new wellness resort from its opening in November 2010, offers, nearly everything to guarantee a perfect relaxing wellness spa break. It will be possible to treat visitors to an unforgettable spa treatment experience in the area of the Kitzsteinhorn and the Hohe Tauern mountain range.

At the Tauern Spa Kaprun, it is a large / gigantic wellness centre, which will have something in store for most peoples every liking. With panoramic saunas, a brine salt pool, a glazed exterior pool, an aroma steam bath, adjacent is a 320 bed luxurious 4* Tauern Spa four-star hotel, complete with restaurant and bar areas and roof top infinity pool!

Spa News Update Kaprun

The new spa complex in Kaprun has recently released its price list for entry into the pool and sauna areas. There are concessions for families senior citizens and for the disabled. The full price list can now be found via this link.

The Tauern Spa World Kaprun website recently been launched, the web site is marked as "still under construction" but it does give a good indication of the facilities that this new spa will have to offer. Details provided on the site indicate that the 80 - 90 million Euro Spa complex is now ~~expected to~~ open in November 2010, a month earlier than originally anticipated. Stop Press opened on 8th November 2010

The business address is given as

TAUERN SPA WORLD
Tauern Spa Platz 1
5710
Kaprun

With the web link given as www.tauernspakaprun.com/

The Tauern Spa world brochure can been downloaded by clicking here a German version of the brochure is also available for Tauern Spa world and can be found via this link.

http://www.tauernspakaprun.com/de/resort/index.htm

The Spa will be located between Kaprun and Zell am See with views across the valley

to the Kitzsteinhorn Glacier.

The spa and hotel facility consists of:-

1) 4* Hotel of the superior standard consisting of 160 rooms and suites, all with private panoramic balcony, lobby with library, hotel bar with live music, restaurant and tavern, splendid terraces, spacious seminar and conference area, children's playground.

2) Hotel spa, indoor pool, outdoor pool, glazed, panoramic saunas, steam baths, rest and adventure areas, fireplace lounge.

3) Spa Water World Indoor. Activity pool, relax pool, upland basin with water cascade, a place to rest with various staged zone mattresses.

4) World of Water outdoor spa. Solo resting pool, activity pool, 25-meter Olympic size pool.

5) Spa Kidstein. Indoor and outdoor pools, kiddie pool, play park, 2 slides, games, creative and multi-media room, outdoor water park and volleyball court.

6) Spa cuisine, market, restaurant, sauna, bistro, summer bar, a café in the foyer.

7) Spa Saunas:- finnish sauna, oven-sauna, herbal sauna, bio sauna, brine bath, aroma steam bath, spacious relaxation areas, saunas liquor in the garden.

8) Spa Treatment. 17 rooms for pampering body and facial treatments such as beauty treatments, traditional massage, massage with herbs, wrap packages, and nourishing bath.

9) Spa Sport and fitness:- gym / fitness area with cardio and strength building equipment.

Based on the other spas in the Salzburg area, Tauern Spa World Kaprun promises to be something very special and will be worth visiting, and be an enhancement to any holiday in the area.

If you are looking for somewhere to stay in the Kaprun area then please consider staying Austria holiday apartment, it sleeps from 3-9 in comfort and has the benefit of 3 bath / shower rooms, and is conveniently close to the centre of Kaprun, brochure for the holiday accommodation can be found here

View from Austria Holiday Apartment in Kaprun of the Kitzsteinhorn Glacier

Tauern Spa Hotel, Kaprun 4* now open

Tauern Spa Kaprun Kaprun

The Superb Tauern Spa Kaprun

It is said that:-

This incredible Tauern Spa Hotel will be the area's flagship hotel boasting beautiful architecture and high quality facilities within sprawling grounds, linking into the surrounding countryside with stunning mountain views. The extensive spas include indoor and outdoor pools showcasing panoramic views of the amazing Hohe Tauern National Park landscape. A ski bus stops close to the hotel takes guests to the center of Kaprun, the foot of its ski area and the Kitzsteinhorn glacier. With modern / contemporary surroundings and facilities for guests of all ages, this quality hotel is sure to set the benchmark for luxury winters ports holidays.

Guests staying in the hotel can enjoy the following features

Free use of 2,100m² Tauern Spa Kaprun with
Indoor/outdoor pools
Brine / salt swimming pool
11 saunas
3 steam baths
Heated water beds
Relaxation area
Hot tub, massage, beauty center
Fitness room
3 lounges (1 with open fire)
5 restaurants
Bar
Wine cellar
Café

New Spa Kaprun now open (taken October 2010)

For Families

Children’s pool with 2 slides
Children’s entertainment/supervision programme open 7 days a week (3yrs+)

Accommodation in Tauern Spa Hotel consists of sleeping accommodation for up to 220 persons with rooms for 2-4 People, elegant, modern rooms have a double bed, Wi-Fi, en suite bathroom and balcony.

Cost

Half Board - Breakfast buffet and evening meal with hors- d’oeuvres, salad & dessert buffet.
The cost of half board accommodation in the winter starts at around £1099 per person for a week. It looks to be fantastic hotel and spa facility in a superb location.

Spa Day Day Tickets are available for the visitor by the day or hour, ticket prices start at 16 Euros for a visit.

Alternative Accommodation

There is lots of accommodation in and around the Kaprun and Zell am See area, and the local tourist board is able to offer assistance.

For those looking for 3 bedroom, 3 bath / shower apartment accommodation for 3 to 9 persons in Kaprun please take a look at www.austria-holiday-apartment.com

Kaprun holiday rental apartment, ready for your stay, all year round.

Kaprun Spa World Tauern update

NOW OPEN

Tauern Spa Kaprun, due for Completion November 2010

Work continues apace in the construction of the new spa and wellness complex as it slowly rises up from the ground, will testify that the sighting of the spa is an excellent choice and it is starting to take pride of place in the valley bottom. It nestles between the village of Kaprun, in the other directions there is Kaprun castle, and in another direction the 36 hole championship golf course of Zell am See or to give its full title the golf club of Zell am See - Kaprun

Sallbach-Hinter

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Beyond the immediate landscape the spa centres its attention on the mighty Kitzsteinhorn 3000 metre+ mountain famous for its glacier, where it is possible to ski all year around.

Vamed Vitality World who will be the operating company for Tauern-Spa World, have produced a 3 page fact sheet on the new spa complex in Kaprun and it gives further information on what the site will consist of.

Adjacent to the spa complex will be a new 4 * hotel, 160 room / 320 bed hotel, with the facility to host conferences / weddings of up to 200 people.

For the Kaprun spa it is planned that there will be 17 treatment rooms, 9 massage rooms and 5 beauty in addition to the Saunas, steam rooms and spas.

Along with additional facilities for children which will include children's play area and slides. The date for opening is scheduled for November 2010, ( brought forward from December) and with the Austrian's thoroughness this is the expected earlier date.

Gastein Valley Spas

For those who can't wait until then the Spa complexes in the nearby Gastein valley come highly recommended. There is the ski and Mountain spa Gastein in the interesting town Bad Gastein, which can be visited by train.

Alpentherme in the Gastein valley well worth a visit

Further down the Gastein valley there is the neighbouring sister spa of Bad Hofgastein of Alpentherme which boasts the following facts: opening in December 2003, the Architect was Martin Kohlbauer, total area 32,000 sq. m with an indoor area: 14,000 sq. m, outdoor area 18,000 sq. m, total water surface: 1,500 sq. m. Consists of 10 pools and basins and different temperatures of 24°, 36° and 33°. A visit visit to any of the spas will give you some indication for what is in store in Kaprun with the new Spa /Wellness complex.

If you are looking for somewhere to stay in the area, please consider staying at:-Austria holiday apartment, it will sleep a family / group of 3-9 persons in luxury and comfort and has the benefit of 3 bath / shower rooms.

Austria-Holiday-Apartment.com 3 bedroom 3 bath / shower accommodation in Kaprun

Decking out Ceremony marks the half way stage

"Tauern Kaprun SPA World"

The construction of the site in Kaprun have so far moved 55,000 cubic meters of excavation (which is about the excavation of 65 single-family homes), 45,000 metres drilled holes, 25,000 cubic meters of concrete used and 120 km cables installed.

The construction of Spa-world-kaprun has so far involved the removal of 55,000 cubic meters of excavation, which is the equivalent of 65 single family homes, 45,000 metres of holes have been drilled, 25,000 cubic meters of concrete laid, and over 120 KM of cables laid.

With the “Decking out Ceremony” it marks the half way stage of the construction process, with the spa due to be completed by December 2010. A 4* luxury hotel is also being constructed adjacent to the wellness and spa complex.

For further photographs on the decking out ceremony see the attached link

14 things to do in a Spa! - Kaprun Tauern Spa

What are Spas and Spa Holidays all about? ( or 15 things to do at a spa).

Spas, and Spa holidays mean different things to different people, but the wellness concept can include:-

Enjoying the liberation of being naked, in an Austrian Spa.
Dipping into an indoor pool, exercising and stretching.
Swimming in an outdoor pool and taking in the views, and loving the contrast of the cold and heat.
Loosening up with a variety of massage techniques, getting rid of those aches and pains.
Enjoying a beauty treatment, a facial, a pedicure, a manicure, a back or face scrub.
Letting the body purify itself with a body wrap treatment.
Topping up your sun tan in the sun or in a solarium.
Relaxing and snoozing on heated stone beds.
Relaxing and unwinding with an aromatherapy treatment in a Sanarium.
Warming the muscles in a infra-red heat cabin.
The cleansing affect of the steam room, taking in the varied aromas.
Relaxing in Cleopatra's bath!!
Sweating it out in a Finnish Sauna at different temperatures.
Find relaxation and wellness in the recovery area, while reading a book.
Dipping into a ice cold pool to feel the contrast of heat and coldness.

To sum up Austrian spas and wellness allow you the opportunity, to relax, unwind, recuperate, to de stress and look after your self. Not all spas offer all facilities, but as part of the concept of wellness is going to different spas is all part of the joy of an Austria spa holiday.

Tauern Spa World in Kaprun is scheduled to open its doors in November 2010 and it will have worth the wait?

Tauern Spa Kaprun will be worth a visit all year round from November 2010

Austrian Media and Internet Coverage Kaprun Spa World.

With the completion date just over a year away, there is the start of media publicity for the new spa, roads have been renamed, street signs have been erected, showing the locality, tourist maps of the area now show the locality of the spa world. From the internet there is publicity surrounding the "topping out" ceremony, the link gives an explanation in German.

Tauern Spa World Kaprun (Pinzgau "topping out" German article)

-->In the meantime if you are looking to stay in the area? please consider staying in Kaprun at austria holiday apartment. from 3-9 guests with the benefit of 3 bedrooms and 3 bath / shower rooms.

Spa World Kaprun update

Progress on the construction of the new Spa-World Kaprun complex continues at a pace as the picture demonstrates, it planned cost comes in at around 85-90 million Euro to build, and promises to be something very special. It nestles in the bottom of the valley close to Zell am See and Kaprun. It is a dazzling setting looking out on the Kitzsteinhorn where its glacier glacier, and mountain restaurant standing at over 3000 metres in height can be clearly seen. The area forms part of the largest nature reserve in the Alps National Park Hohe Tauern.

Adjacent to the site in a gorgeous setting is the golf course of Kaprun and and Zell am See , across the valley watching the the activities in the valley is Kaprun Castle or in German Burg Kaprun It is worth a visit in its own right, and events and activities are held throughout the year.

The Tauern spa world complex is due to be completed ready for Christmas in 2010, and will enhance the facilities offered by Kaprun and Zell am See even more, making it even more of an all year round resort.

To find out more about Zell am See and Kaprun please see our sister blog about Zell am See and Kaprun click on the link. For starters there is an article 30 reasons to visit Zell am See, which gives you some idea on what the area has to offer.

If you are looking for somewhere to sleep please consider for your holiday staying at www.austria-holiday-apartment.com, the apartment consists of 3 bedrooms can sleep 3-9 in luxury and comfort and has the added benefit of 3 bath and shower rooms. The apartment is only a 10 minute level walk from the village centre of Kaprun.

Krimml Waterfalls declared a Health Spa!

A visit to Krimmler Waterfalls stimulates a sustainable, functional, symptomatic and immunological improvement in people who suffer from asthma, this clinical study is based on 1803 findings!

Dr Paul Oberlechner, the then chief medical officer of Zell am See, described the waterfalls as follows:-

"The Krimmler Waterfalls as a remedy for city life and sensibility"

.... because the spa surpasses all the medication under the sun for nervous debility, caused by city life, sedentary habits, headache, stress, grief, strong coffee, excessive medication or bloodletting, poor diet, insomnia, abstinence of meat dishes, strict diet, pubescent or excessive lust, self abuse and menstruation, where reading novels and sensibility arise. Those who love simplicity will find the health spa a worthwhile experiment – and anyone not familiar with it should visit at the first opportunity. Here you can experience weak and strong forces, the gentle and the powerful, yes, and I would even say, the mild and the radical, which not only serve to alleviate the previously mentioned nervous symptoms, but also act as a source of healing in the case where such debilities are, in part or full, the result of some mechanical cause". (Source: Salzburger Landes¬chronik).

For the full story please see the attached link

The Krimml waterfalls are still worth visiting, and claim to be one of the highest waterfalls in Europe.