Tauern Spa Kaprun

TAUERN SPA Zell am See-Kaprun stands at Tauern Spa Platz 1 in Kaprun, in the Salzburg region of Austria, and combines a public bathing complex with a four-star-superior resort hotel. It is operated as part of the VAMED Vitality World group. The operator gives the size of the combined SPA water and sauna world as more than 20,000 m², containing twelve pools and ten saunas and steam baths together with a separate children's area and a treatment area, and states that the bathing world is open 365 days a year. The warm water surface alone is given as 2,100 m².

The water world is arranged as a series of differently staged basins across large indoor and outdoor sections, and the operator lists activity pools, relaxation pools, cascades and grottoes, with panorama windows facing the high peaks of the Hohe Tauern. A children's area, the Kinder SPA Kidstein, is separated from the rest of the complex; its main feature is a 127-metre enclosed tube slide, and it also has a children's activity pool, an outdoor playground and family lounge areas with beach chairs. A family quiet zone with screened alcoves, a dry "bear cave" and a three-dimensional climbing frame was added recently. Baby swimming courses are run on site by an outside swimming school.

The sauna world admits visitors from the age of fifteen only in combination with a water-world ticket. Rest rooms, a fitness area and several restaurants and bars are also available, and a Panorama SPA with a glazed skyline pool is reserved for hotel guests. The house holds regular sauna events, including a three-day programme of staged Aufguss ceremonies each autumn.

The water world opens from 09:00 to 21:00 and the sauna world from 10:00 to 21:00. The operator does not describe its water as thermal or medicinal.