(Photo: Solbad & Spa Schönbühl)

Too cold for the ski slopes? In that case, come to Schönbühl and relax Berne-style – in the largest natural saline spa in Switzerland and in the BEST WESTERN Hotel Grauholz!

It’s cold in Switzerland – so cold in fact just now that even hardened ski fans prefer to sit around the stove than endure numb fingers and cold feet on the chairlift. Luckily, there’s an alternative to activities on the slopes: Bathing in the thermal waters for example!

Warm water, cool head
With outdoor temperatures as low as these, a spell in the Schönbühl Brine Bath & Spa is a particular pleasure. The natural brine used there is pumped as naturally saturated brine from a depth of 140 to 400 metres at the Rhine Salt Works in Schweizerhalle. It is then transported to Schönbühl where it is added to the 35-degree warm water at the optimum concentration of 9 per cent.

(Photo: Solbad & Spa Schönbühl)

Bathe, dine in style, stay in sophisticated surroundings
There’s simply nothing more relaxing than floating gently in warm water while all around is bitterly cold and covered in snow. That’s what they thought at the BEST WESTERN Hotel Grauholz in Bern-Ittigen too: the hotel is situated just a stone’s throw from the Schönbühl Brine Bath and has come up with the thoroughly soothing “Relax Berne-style” package. Namely:

• 1 night’s accommodation in a double or single room
• generous breakfast buffet
• free admission to the Schönbühl Brine Baths
• exquisite 4-course menu in the beautiful Landgasthof country inn in Schönbühl
• free 24-hour buffet with hot/cold drinks and fruit
• free high-speed Internet connection in your room
• car parking space at the hotel
• Arrival days Thursday to Sunday
• Price: CHF 330.00 in a double room; CHF 205.00 in a single room

The BEST WESTERN Hotel Grauholz in Berne-Ittigen (Photo: Supplied)

Blossom sauna, lavender peeling & more
Bathing is not all there is to do at the brine baths. Blossom sauna, hot herbal steam bath with sea salt scrub, Vital algae wrap, earth-fire sauna, lavender-sea salt peeling, well-being oil massage… these and more can be enjoyed by spa guests on cold winter days in Schönbühl.

(Photo: Solbad & Spa Schönbühl)

By the way: for a cleansing ritual with a difference, try the ‘sensory experience routine’. It acts to purify and detox the body, stimulate the metabolism, boost the immune system and firm the skin. Is it any surprise that afterwards you feel as though you have been reborn…?

For further information:
- BEST WESTERN Hotel Grauholz
- BEST WESTERN Hotel Grauholz on Youtube
- Solbad & Spa Schönbühl
- Schönbühl Brine Bath on Youtube: Schoenbuehl Saltwater Spa (in english)