Apumare

Apumare is the open-air bath of the Stadtgemeinde Attnang-Puchheim in Upper Austria, at Badgasse 36 on the Spitzberg. The town describes it as an adventure bath and gives its layout as about 20,000 m² of lawn shaded by old trees, seven pools (sports, diving, relax and adventure pools among them) with a combined water surface of 1,149 m², water slides with timing, a naturist area, beach volleyball courts, a barbecue area, a buffet, a large car park and a bus connection. The grounds also include an adventure pool with a large slide and a wide slide, a children's pool with an elephant slide, a diving tower, the timed slides and a children's playground, and the naturist section has a swimming pool of its own. The operator gives no per-pool dimensions or water temperatures.

The open-air bath runs from May to September, daily from 10:00 to 19:30 in bathing weather and 10:00 to 11:00 only in bad weather, with the tills closing 60 minutes and bathing 30 minutes before closing. The town states plainly that there is no entitlement to the opening hours being kept and that the duty pool attendant decides on closure for meteorological reasons. From May to August the Proaktiv4D fitness studio runs AquaPower sessions in the water.

The same municipal leisure centre operates a sauna area at Badgasse 34 which is open all year. In the general area there are a sauna at 90 °C, a steam bath with brine misting, a bio-sauna (Sanarium), a Finnish sauna that climbs from 20 to 90 °C in 30 minutes, plunge and foot pools and rest rooms; in the women's area a sauna at 85 °C, a second steam bath with brine misting, plunge and foot pools and a rest room. An infrared cabin, indoor and outdoor loungers and an outdoor pool heated to 18 °C in winter complete the set; in summer the sauna lawn is the naturist area of the open-air bath. Sauna hours are Monday 17:00–21:00 (mixed only), Tuesday, Thursday and Friday 09:00–21:00, Wednesday 15:00–21:00, Saturday 12:00–20:00 and Sunday 09:00–18:00 (mixed only), closed on public holidays. A sauna ticket also admits the holder to the open-air bath during sauna opening hours. The water is ordinary heated pool water: the operator mentions no spring, thermal water or borehole, and the only brine on the grounds is the salt-brine mist in the two steam baths.