ALMGUT Mountain Wellness Hotel

The ALMGUT is at Liftstraße 166, in the hamlet of Oberbayrdorf in the municipality of St. Margarethen im Lungau, in the province of Salzburg, at a little over a thousand metres of altitude, in sight of the Preber mountain and a few steps from the lifts. It is a family-run four-star superior hotel that welcomes children of every age, with family rooms and hotel life open to all. The division, a sharp one, concerns the wellness side only.

The rule that concerns adults

In its answers to frequently asked questions the house writes that the Adults Only Wellnessbereich, from the age of 16 upwards, with nine different saunas, relaxation rooms and the reading lounge, awaits the guest every day from 11 to 19. The same threshold applies to massages and beauty treatments, normally booked between 8 and 19 and likewise from the age of sixteen. In the department's list the property then draws an explicit distinction between a nude sector and a swimwear sector, because one of the two infrared cabins is in the one and the other in the other: the sauna world reserved for adults is the nude sector, where swimwear is not worn, as is customary in Austria.

What there is in the ALMSPA

The indoor area measures a thousand square metres, with the garden on top of that. There are nine cabins. The ALMSAUNA is an open-air hut between eighty-five and ninety degrees, with mountain hay infusions. The Stollensauna, between eighty and eighty-five, is built like a mine tunnel and tells the mining history of the Lungau. The herbal sauna sits between sixty-five and seventy degrees and uses alpine herbs dried in house. There are then the Swiss pine sauna, the salt grotto at sixty degrees, the aromatic steam bath at forty-two degrees with a view of the Prebersee, two infrared cabins and the vitamin D station. Resting is entrusted to the silence rooms, the sleeping berths, the reading lounge and two tea corners.

What stays open to children

The water belongs to everyone: the infinity pool is indoor and outdoor at once, joined by sliding doors, with a ceiling installation that reproduces a Swiss pine wood and, outside, the view of the Preber. There are also the outdoor whirlpool, the wellness garden and the Kneipp circuits. Next to the pool the house keeps a swimwear infrared sauna, which it describes as the warmth recharging station welcome also to children who have stayed in the water too long: that is the part of the department families use together.

Practical information

Dogs may be brought by booking the Arnika, Bärenkopf, Schwalbennest and Waldhorn categories, at twenty-five euros a night. The hotel car park is free, a place in the underground garage costs ten euros a day. The rooms are ready from 15.