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Here, privacy isn’t a perk – it’s the entire philosophy. Each of the Geinberg5 villas comes with its own thermal spa suite: Finnish sauna, steam bath, outdoor whirlpool filled with geothermal water, ...

For every leg-aching mountain pass and ski run, there is a glorious spa – Roman, arty, framed by the Alps, Austria has it. Austria is a steam-cleaned dream of a country. For every leg-aching mountain ...

The initial reaction when you walk into a room and find 40 naked strangers staring at you is to turn the other way and run. And so that's what I did, ignoring the puzzled looks from the 40 starkers ...

Sound off and share your travel tales from the road. Submit your story (200-800 words) to us for publishing consideration. Maybe I'm a prude. But, like most North Americans, nakedness is something I ...

Recently Radek and I enjoyed our first childless-getaway in over a year by spending two-nights at an Austrian lázně (spa), just across the border from the Czech Republic. Although we’d originally ...

FORGET Bath - there's an even better water attraction with thermal spas and heated pools just a few hours from the UK. Despite hot summer days in Europe slowly coming to an end, there are still ...

It takes me less than 20 minutes to transfer myself from the slopes to the sauna – including the time required for that never-elegant style of walking that goes hand-in-hand with wearing ski boots.

It’s midwinter, and I’m doing lengths in a rooftop infinity pool in the Austrian Alps. The steaming stretch of water is 80ft long, set at eyeballing level with the craggy Leogang Rockies. It’s the ...