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What you can't miss as you check-in, is that you are surrounded by water, not only the Ziller River that meanders its way through the grounds of the hotel, but the impressive 360-degree rooftop pools. We could immediately tell that ZillergrundRock was serious about this relaxation business. Pleasant surprise number one? We have been allocated one of the many rooms with its own private sauna. This is great news for my son as the saunas here are 'textile free zones' and you have to be 16 to enter. So while he is enjoying the peace and quiet of his in-room spa, I get to experience the Event Sauna with its impressive views of the valley below. Markus, the resident Sauna Master, lulls you into a false sense of security with his calm and gentle manner, then he ups the heat and starts waving a huge sauna fan, and suddenly the temperature turns nuclear. This is all I need to justify 'a little lie down'. But, if you are more of a heat-head, you can do a sauna crawl round the hotel, stopping off at the outdoor Finnish Sauna in the log cabin and then onto the BIO Swiss Pine Sauna for mild heat and its body cleansing pine aroma. The Pfister family's love of saunas is matched only by their love of food, and from sea bream with fennel to sour cherry
I t seems like a world away, but it's really only an hour in a taxi, before we escape the hustle and bustle of Innsbruck and arrive in the popular Tyrolean town of Mayrhofen, where we’re planning a much needed bonding trip for me and my 14 year old son. Top of our list is fresh air and a rest from the relentless noise of life for our busy family, and the first thing we noticed when we drove up to ZillergrundRock Hotel, was the brilliant blue sky overhead and air so crisp and clear we had forgotten what it was like to breathe in such freshness. The hotel itself is nestled snuggly into the Ziller Valley landscape and its striking architecture and eco credentials are the culmination of the work of five generations of the Pfister family. Take your teen to the Tyrol in summer for fresh air, spectacular spa pools and the thrill of e-biking down the mountains of Zillertal. Emma Kirkham
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