“Thermal bath occupancy: 100 percent – free sun loungers: zero – area fully occupied, no admission”: Anyone planning a spontaneous visit to the thermal baths during the holidays needs a bit of luck at peak times to even get into the comfortably warm water. The larger thermal baths in Upper Austria – the Eurothermen with its flagship Bad Schallerbach and the two smaller locations Bad Hall and Bad Ischl as well as the Therme Geinberg – are currently being stormed and have to turn visitors away again and again.
Allotments fully booked
Pictures on social media show long queues at the cash registers that extend to the forecourt of the thermal baths, and the websites point out that no new visitors can be admitted to the thermal baths at the moment. If you want to secure a ticket online in advance, you will see red: the contingents for the coming days are fully booked. For example, the next free tickets for the Aquapulco will be available on Monday, January 9th – when the holidays are over.
Up to 6000 guests per day
“Christmas holidays are always high season for us,” says Eurothermen Managing Director Patrick Hochhauser, who speaks of “peak occupancy”. The location in Bad Schallerbach alone, with the pirate world for children, the Tropicana thermal baths and the Auszeit sauna world, is currently visited by up to 6,000 people per day. “We’re working at full capacity, but that’s a completely normal situation at this time of year,” says Hochhauser. The number of visitors is similar to the years before Corona. However, there is no data on whether more people than usual have to be turned away at the checkout.
Alternative to skiing?
The bad to non-existent snow conditions in the ski areas may have favored the influx to the thermal baths and baths. In Upper Austria, for example, several smaller ski areas had to temporarily close for lack of white splendor. As reported, operations were stopped in the Sternstein ski area, in Kirchschlag and on the Hansberg.
Season break for Upper Austria’s small ski areas
Video: A report from the Eurotherme Bad Schallerbach
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