The best wellness retreats in Merano

In the Wald SPA of the Viktoria Alpine Hideaway, right on the edge of the forest in Avelengo, a true dream destination opens up for anyone looking for a wellness hotel in Merano. Embedded in lush green in summer and dazzling white in winter, the Wald SPA of this elegant, freshly renovated 4****S hotel offers everything that people seeking peace and relaxation hold dear. The Wald SPA (adults only) lies by the hotel's large south-facing alpine garden, which besides plenty of loungers is home to a sensational 25 m infinity outdoor pool and a natural swimming pond with fresh spring water from Merano 2000. Around the Wald TeeLounge, the forest sauna area offers the 40 m², 95°C Haflinger Stadel Sauna (event sauna), the 45°C KräuterNebel herbal mist sauna, a 60°C stone sauna, an 85°C WaldDuft forest-scent sauna, the SeeBlick infrared lounge and, last but not least, a 100°C South Tyrolean parlour sauna, where various infusions, peelings and masks are offered. After sweating, an ice fountain, foot basins and the 'WaldRegen' Kneipp path are ready to cool you down. Like most of the saunas, most of the relaxation rooms also offer an open view of the green surroundings. WaldBeauty offers face treatments using effective natural ingredients, as well as body treatments, soft baths and a fine selection of soothing massages carried out by skilled staff.

If you want to be physically active on holiday, besides a myriad of outdoor options there is a bright, modern panoramic gym with the latest Technogym equipment, and every day a supervised fitness and activity programme as well as yoga sessions are offered under Sabrina's expert guidance.

With its last major remodeling and new construction, the hotel "Das Dorner" has catapulted directly into the heart of Wellenss lovers in the Merano region. The fascinating offer of rooms and suites in new design complements perfectly with the Aquana SPA (Adults only!), which is located in the heart of the house and under the direction of Carolin, one of the two daughters of the house is responsible for all matters in terms of wellness & relaxation. Thanks to a wide range of peelings and massages, you will want for nothing here, skillfully flanked by facials, makeup and cosmetics and care programs for hands and feet, also because you complete all treatments with true experts in their field. A special feature, which is also on the varied program, is the treatment method according to Harald Kitz: the "Haki method", which has won several awards, focuses on the shoulders, neck and head and provides relief in these areas, so that the body regains strength and mood.
3 saunas with relaxation rooms invite directly in the Aquasana SPA, to sweat and relax, landscape lovers meet in the new, large panoramic sauna in the Sky SPA, where also the Infinity Relax Pool is located. The latter, heated all year round, is one of the most beautiful and best located representatives of its category thanks to its location on the roof and the free 360 degree panoramic view.

Already in the green courtyard of the Ansitz Plantiz it is pleasantly quiet, it is even quieter in the directly adjacent wellness area, the "Golden SPA": Here 4 saunas await you in the spacious sauna area, another (textile sauna) is located by the indoor pool. An infrared cabin is used to prepare for soothing massages, 3 other saunas are used for sauna sessions at different temperatures. One of them is very large and even equipped with windows to guarantee a relaxed sauna session even for claustrophobics.
In turn, long-serving staff members take care of 7 treatment cabins for pleasant massages and professional beauty treatments. Each treatment room is adapted to its purpose and/or the type of guest.  The range of treatments is very wide and extends to the transdermal treatment with Seyo, which guarantees a lasting, natural lifting, and is offered in the Ansitz Plantiz as the only SPA in Italy.
Right next to it is the indoor pool, which is perfectly complemented by the new infinity pool in the garden. This is heated all year round to a comfortable 32 degrees.

The family-run 4**** Erzherzog Johann Hotel in Scena offers its guests not only a fantastic panoramic view from all areas of the house, but also a fine sauna world. This has been modernized again and again in the course of the last years and thus adapted to the demands of modern travelers. A Finnish sauna, a steam bath and a bio sauna await you in the basement of the house. In addition, there is a whirlpool with a great view and two relaxation rooms, one of which is equipped with waterbeds. In the in-house wellness and beauty department you will be pampered with natural products "from head to toe", a treat after an eventful day of biking or hiking in the mountains above Scena!

Just as new, chic and modern as the 2020 newly opened hotel on the sunny slope presents its wellness area. 3 saunas (Finnish sauna, steam sauna, infrared cabin), an air-conditioned fitness room, panoramic relaxation room and the brine pool are located in the Adults Only area of this family-run wellness hotel in Tirolo.  In the "Sun-Spa" area, soothing massages and beauty treatments are individually tailored to your wishes by trained masseuses and beauticians, and after the treatment you can ideally go to the sunny indoor-outdoor pool, which is heated all year round and entices you with an unobstructed view of Merano. The hotel on the sunny slope also offers a remarkably varied activity program on 5-6 days/week, which includes yoga sessions, guided hiking tours, joint jogging excursions and much more.

One hotel, 3 wellness oases? Yes, 3 wellness areas await you as a guest of the Hotel Terme Merano! The newly opened in 2020, green Garden SPA on the first floor of the house invites you to sunbathe on the palm meadow, to swim in the indoor or outdoor pool and to sweat in the textile outdoor sauna.
So pleasantly it is here, it is however the Sky Spa, which lets each Wellness Affecionado shine for joy. The entire roof area of the hotel is a huge wellness landscape-here you can bathe to your heart's content with a view over the rooftops of Meran, sauna, work out, relax with a soothing treatment or undergo a beauty treatment. High up, in the back of the magnificent Infinity Sole Pool, you are among yourselves here, so you can enjoy the sheer endless variety of possibilities without any disturbing influences. In addition to the aforementioned infinity pool, the facilities include a large, terraced relaxation room with a fireplace and an unobstructed view of the spa promenade, a bright fitness room with Technogym equipment, a yoga room for yoga and fitness classes. A beauty department with 12 cabins completes this wellness potpourri together with a Finnish sauna, bio hay sauna and steam bath.  The third wellness oasis is the Terme Merano itself, which can be reached in a few steps via the "bathrobe tunnel" for house guests.

In the heart of the green villa quarter lies the hotel Sonnenburg. The family-run 4-star house has recently completely redesigned it`s wellness area, wich rightly catapulted this house into the Olympus of the most popular wellness hotels in Merano. In noble ambience a large Finnish sauna, in addition bio sauna, herb sauna, steam bath, together with an elegant indoor swimming pool and an outdoor swimming pool in the large garden expect you. Particularly inviting in the Sonnenburg are also the new relaxation rooms with comfortable loungers and relaxation options. The house is located away from busy roads, but still centrally located at the intersection of Merano's city center and numerous attractions such as the botanical gardens, the Maiser Waalweg, but also the valley station of the cable car of Merano 2000. Thanks to this advantageous location, you can go here before or after a wellness session directly into the great outdoors without long detours.

The Hotel Golserhof is located in Tirolo, only a few minutes by car from the city center of Merano. Comfortably, this house, which is the smallest hotel of the 4**** superior category in Merano, can also be called a small but very fine wellness retreat. To the offer belong in the freshly rebuilt wellness facility 4 different saunas with separated sauna area, an indoor and an outdoor pool with sun terrace(s), as well as a magnificent Rooftop (access from 14 years) with three whirlpools, four-poster beds and lots of free view, surrounded by heavenly peace. In high quality equipped treatment rooms you will enjoy treatments like the sophisticated Vitalpina treatments using natural South Tyrolean products by long-time and qualified staff.

Already the premises for a relaxing wellness vacation in Merano are more than given in the hotel "Der Waldhof²". Located in the middle of a 30,000 m² forest park, high above Lana near Merano, the tranquility and the view that prevails in the park and at the natural pond would actually be enough to start the return to the daily work routine in a deeply relaxed manner. Far from it, because the Waldhof prepares itself to rise by current innovations to the best Wellness Resorts in Merano. This includes, for example, the new 22-meter infinity pool, which is unparalleled due to its cantilever construction, the equally new Wald-Event sauna with several infusions daily and the new relaxation room with a brilliant view of the Mayenburg and the valley.
In addition, there are two more steam baths, three more saunas and several dysentery rooms, including one with a view of the hotel's own forest. In the spa you can expect massages, beauty treatments, soothing baths with alpine ingredients and heavenly body wraps to pamper body and mind with relaxation and well-being.

The Aparthotel Vinea is a newly built aparthotel in Dorf Tirol, which thanks to its quiet and open location on the Segenbühel sits very idyllic directly above the roofs of Merano.
There are no treatments offered at Vinea, but you will find a sauna offer that is unparalleled for an aparthotel in Merano: 4 saunas await you here:
A Finnish sauna with dry heat (90°C), a steam sauna with 45°C and an infrared cabin are located near the 22-meter Infinty Pool on the first floor of the house, where there are also the 2 relaxation rooms with a view of Merano, as well as a Mediterranean lawn. Two highlights await you on the roof of the house: a panorama sauna with an unobstructed view of the entire surroundings, as well as a small but ultra-modern fitness room, which thanks to its glass front also offers a magnificent view of the surroundings. To relax and unwind there are four-poster beds and loungers on the sunny roof, where there is also a large platform for yoga sessions.

In addition to its particularly quiet location in Maia Alta, which can best be enjoyed on its rooftop, the Hotel Pienzenau am Schlosspark also offers a small but fine wellness area: on the first floor of the house there is namely a Finnish sauna, a steam bath and a heated whirlpool. The advantage for lovers of sauna and steam bath, which have it gladly somewhat more intimate, is obvious: The hotel is not a Wellnesshotel in Meran in the classical sense, accordingly quietly it goes here in the Wellness Area. Massages and treatments are of course also offered, for this the proven expert Rosi provides, which spoils the guests in the hotel Pienzenau already for years. Right next to the wellness area is the indoor and outdoor pool, which comes up with a torrent flow.