There was a similar set-up in Bad Gastein itself at the Felsentherme thermal baths near the railway station.

They say first impressions matter, and my goodness, Bad Gastein certainly makes a great first impression. When approaching the resort, visitors are met with what at first glance, looks like a Wes ...

Every day, upwards of 1.3 million gallons of fresh thermal water, fortified over millennia with low-levels of radon, gushes out of the Hohe Tauern Mountains and pools below in Bad Gastein. Those ...

The thermal baths are obviously a given as well - try these at either Felsentherme Hot Springs opposite the train station (where you can enjoy a rooftop sauna looking over the snow-capped ...

Known for its healing hot springs, this picturesque village in the Austrian Alps draws thousands of travelers every year who come to soak up its thermal waters.

Where? Bad Gastein is a historic spa town set within a glacial valley an hour-and-a-half south of Salzburg. The Gastein Valley includes the resorts of Bad Gastein, Bad Hofgastein, Dorfgastein and ...

The appeal of the waters of Bad Gastein is that they contain low levels of radon, a radioactive element that, while dangerous when inhaled, is also used — in small, supervised doses — to treat ...

However, Gastein's secret weapon in the Bad wars is the gas that you can pay to breathe in its caves, advertised unapologetically on the Web as a cure for everything from "sclerodermatitis" and ...