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 ...

Nothing makes me happier on vacation than being surrounded by the grandeur of the mountains. And I had landed in heaven in ...

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 ...

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 ...

Following a multi-million-euro renovation in 2019, the hotel’s Green Spa Resort now houses state-of-the-art facilities. At its core is a sprawling complex featuring five saunas (including one made of ...

There's something about Austria in winter. The sugar-dusted mountaintops offer food-for-the-soul views and the traditional towns look like something from a Christmas card. Throw in advent markets, ...

It’s 8.30am and -110C and I’m stomping around to “Pump Up the Jam”, wearing a bikini, trainers and a woolly hat and gloves – like someone who expected beach and got ski. I love a sharp hit of cold, ...

Heated chairlifts add warmth and comfort to the experience in Stubai. (Michaela Urban - Michaela Urban) The new restaurant Ice Q offers high-end dining on the Sölden Glacier summit.(Michaela Urban) If ...

Sign up for the best picks from our travel, fashion and lifestyle writers. In the Tyrolean hills lies Stanglwirt. A 400-year-old, charmingly eccentric, family-run ...

I HAVE been in many saunas during my life, but never one that doubles up as an oven for baking bread. But that’s exactly why the Eurothermen Spa in Bad Schallerbach, Austria, is so unique. Perched on ...