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Transfers from Innsbruck and flights are quoted separately.",{"supervision":604,"team":605,"consultations":606},"Physicians trained in modern Mayr medicine alongside internists, with diagnostics and laboratory work carried out on site.","Every stay opens with a medical examination and the diet is prescribed from it. Manual abdominal treatment runs through the cure.","An opening examination, regular medical reviews through the cure and a departure consultation with a protocol for home.",{"amount":549,"currency":34},{"amount":551,"currency":34},{"slug":424,"name":610,"resortSlug":195,"modalitySlug":112,"hook":611,"intention":73,"concerns":612,"nights":613,"groupSize":41,"intensity":614,"overview":615,"suitedTo":618,"notSuitedTo":623,"phases":627,"dayShape":648,"sampleDay":649,"included":672,"excluded":676,"departures":678,"faqs":689,"image":696,"imageAlt":697,"bands":698,"durations":713,"counted":727,"priceIncludes":741,"care":742,"price":746,"singlePrice":747,"resortName":196,"resortCharacter":174,"destinationSlug":109,"destinationName":110,"country":92},"The metabolic week","The most clinical Mayr week available, at roughly half what the flagship houses charge.",[218,225,73,274],10,"moderate",[616,617],"A diagnostic and metabolic week built on the Mayr method: bloods, body composition, cardiovascular assessment and a graded diet, with unhurried physician consultations that are the reason people choose this house over its glossier neighbours.","At roughly 900 m above Innsbruck, with the graded walking the cure depends on directly outside the door — prescribed rather than suggested.",[619,620,621,622],"A metabolic baseline you will actually act on — insulin resistance, lipids, visceral fat","Anyone who wants the medicine without the destination-spa dressing","Guests comparing Mayr houses on clinical quality rather than architecture","A first cure, where value matters",[624,625,626],"Any history of an eating disorder","Anyone expecting a luxury hotel — it is a comfortable Alpine house and no more","Pregnancy, and diabetes on insulin without your own doctor’s written plan",[628,635,642],{"title":629,"days":452,"body":630,"points":631},"Baseline","Physician examination, full metabolic bloods, body composition and cardiovascular assessment, then a diet assigned from the findings.",[632,633,634],"Metabolic blood panel","Body composition","Cardiovascular assessment",{"title":459,"days":636,"body":637,"points":638},"Days 4–8","Manual abdominal treatment, graded diet, magnesium and prescribed daily walking on the hill, with a mid-week physician review.",[639,640,641],"Daily manual treatment","Prescribed graded walking","Mid-week review",{"title":643,"days":644,"body":645,"points":646},"The protocol","Days 9–10","Repeat bloods, a written protocol covering eating rhythm, exercise and anything needing your own doctor’s attention.",[472,515,647],"Referral letter where indicated","Three hours are fixed. The consultations are unhurried, which is the main reason regulars choose this house.",[650,652,655,659,661,664,665,668,670],{"time":477,"what":651},"Wake, weigh, and bloods on assessment days",{"time":653,"what":481,"note":654},"07:45","Graded to your assignment; chewing training from day one.",{"time":656,"what":657,"note":658},"08:45","Physician consultation","Unhurried — twenty minutes, not five.",{"time":660,"what":489},"09:30",{"time":662,"what":663},"10:30","Prescribed walk on the hill",{"time":496,"what":497},{"time":500,"what":666,"note":667},"Rest or diagnostics","Cardio-pulmonary testing and body composition fall here.",{"time":503,"what":669},"Treatment or the thermal suite",{"time":506,"what":671},"Supper, and the eating window closes",[673,674,512,513,514,675],"Ten nights, at the occupancy you are quoted for","Full diagnostic panel on arrival and departure","Written protocol and referral letter where indicated",[517,518,677],"Imaging beyond the standard assessment",[679,682,685],{"start":524,"end":680,"note":681,"places":41},"2026-09-30","Autumn",{"start":683,"end":684,"note":529,"places":41},"2027-05-09","2027-05-19",{"start":686,"end":687,"note":688,"places":41},"2027-07-04","2027-07-14","High summer walking",[690,693],{"q":691,"a":692},"Is this really \"longevity\"?","It is metabolic medicine, which is the part of the longevity conversation that has evidence behind it. Nobody here will sell you an infusion or a cell therapy, and if that is what you were looking for we would rather lose the booking.",{"q":694,"a":695},"Lanserhof or Park Igls?","Park Igls if you want the most clinical tone and the best value; Lanserhof if you want the diagnostics and the architecture and do not mind paying for both. We will tell you plainly which one your answers point at.","photo-1520769945061-0a448c463865","An Alpine meadow above the Inn valley",[699,703,708],{"band":545,"label":546,"months":547,"sharing":700,"single":701,"note":552},{"amount":114,"currency":34},{"amount":702,"currency":34},5190,{"band":554,"label":555,"months":556,"sharing":704,"single":706,"note":561},{"amount":705,"currency":34},4900,{"amount":707,"currency":34},5880,{"band":563,"label":564,"months":565,"sharing":709,"single":711,"note":570},{"amount":710,"currency":34},5680,{"amount":712,"currency":34},6860,[714,717,720,724],{"nights":573,"label":574,"factor":715,"note":716},0.74,"The house's short cure. Real, and the physicians will tell you what it cannot do.",{"nights":613,"label":718,"factor":41,"note":719,"recommended":365},"The metabolic cure","Long enough for the laboratory work at the end to mean something against the work at the start.",{"nights":434,"label":721,"factor":722,"note":723},"The fortnight",1.34,"The classical length, and what we would book given the choice.",{"nights":581,"label":582,"factor":725,"note":726},1.88,"For long-standing metabolic presentations.",[728,731,734,737],{"value":729,"label":588,"detail":730},"10","In stages, from the medical examination, revised as the cure progresses.",{"value":732,"label":592,"detail":733},"5+","With laboratory work at the start and the end, so the result is measured rather than felt.",{"value":735,"label":596,"detail":736},"8+","Abdominal treatment, the core of the method.",{"value":738,"label":739,"detail":740},"1","genuine single-room house","A large proportion of the rooms here are real singles rather than doubles sold for sole use — which for a solo guest is a material difference in the price.","Per person for ten nights, including the room, the prescribed Mayr diet at every stage, medical examinations and diagnostics, manual abdominal treatment, the movement programme and the sauna and pool. Transfers from Innsbruck and flights are quoted separately.",{"supervision":743,"team":744,"consultations":745},"Physicians trained in modern Mayr medicine, with diagnostics and laboratory work on site and therapists for manual abdominal treatment.","The medical density here is comparable to its better-known neighbours; the difference is in the building, not the medicine.","An opening examination, reviews through the cure and a closing consultation with laboratory work repeated.",{"amount":114,"currency":34},{"amount":702,"currency":34},{"slug":425,"name":749,"resortSlug":125,"modalitySlug":11,"hook":750,"intention":751,"concerns":752,"nights":581,"groupSize":394,"intensity":435,"overview":753,"suitedTo":757,"notSuitedTo":763,"phases":769,"dayShape":805,"sampleDay":806,"included":839,"excluded":850,"departures":857,"faqs":874,"image":884,"imageAlt":885,"featured":365,"bands":886,"durations":907,"counted":920,"priceIncludes":936,"care":937,"price":941,"singlePrice":942,"resortName":126,"resortCharacter":127,"destinationSlug":6,"destinationName":7,"country":8},"Classical Panchakarma","The full five-action sequence with a proper two-week rebuild behind it, at the house that invented the format.","cleanse",[218,242],[754,755,756],"Panchakarma means five actions — five procedures for removing accumulated waste from the tissues. Almost everything sold internationally under that name is the massage that precedes them. The procedures themselves take a day each at most. What takes three weeks is the preparation before and the rebuilding after, and neither is padding: they are where the result is made and kept.","A physician examines you on arrival and writes a prescription that is revised every morning for twenty-one nights. Oil internally and externally, a narrowing diet, and a body deliberately loosened before it is emptied — then twelve days of putting you back together, which is the part guests remember fondly and the part five-night versions leave out entirely.","Cliff-top gardens above Chowara beach, with the treatment wing separate from the rooms. Classified under the Kerala Tourism Ayurveda scheme, with resident BAMS physicians and an on-site pharmacy compounding the preparations rather than buying them in.",[758,759,760,761,762],"You can genuinely clear twenty-one nights, plus two quiet days at home afterwards","You are in reasonable general health and want a deep reset rather than treatment for one acute problem","You have done a shorter Ayurvedic programme before, or have read enough to know what virechana is","Long unstructured afternoons sound restorative rather than alarming","You can come between June and September, or accept a less effective fortnight for better weather",[764,765,766,767,768],"Pregnancy, breastfeeding, or trying to conceive this cycle","Active treatment for a serious illness — rejuvenation is the correct programme and we need your doctor’s letter","Anyone looking for a holiday with treatments attached. There is nothing to do here and the food is medicine","A history of an eating disorder. The dietary restriction is not appropriate and we will decline","Anyone who needs to work during it. Guests who try last about four days",[770,779,788,797],{"title":771,"days":772,"body":773,"points":774},"Purvakarma — preparation","Days 1–8 · the loosening","Snehana and swedana: oil taken internally in rising doses, oil applied externally in long daily massage, herbal steam afterwards. The object is to move waste out of the deep tissues and into the digestive tract where it can be removed. The internal ghee is the part nobody warns you about — unpleasant, brief and central.",[775,776,777,778],"Daily abhyanga, two therapists, 60–75 minutes","Rising doses of medicated ghee on an empty stomach","Diet narrowing to kitchari by day six","Practice reduced to breathing and walking",{"title":780,"days":781,"body":782,"points":783},"Pradhanakarma — the actions","Days 9–11 · the difficult days","Which of the five you receive is decided by your physician on the evidence of the first week, not in advance. For most guests it is virechana — a measured purgation over one supervised day — often with a basti series either side. You will be in your room, checked hourly, and you will not want company.",[784,785,786,787],"One supervised purgation day, with the two days after cleared","Basti series where indicated, on alternating days","Nasya for head and sinus complaints","No practice, no walking, no visitors",{"title":789,"days":790,"body":791,"points":792},"Paschatkarma — the rebuild","Days 12–19 · rasayana","Diet widens one item at a time, in a specific order — samsarjana krama — and it matters more than most guests expect. Therapies turn nourishing rather than mobilising. Practice returns gently. Sleep, for most people, changes in this week and is the first thing they notice.",[793,794,795,796],"Structured re-feeding over six days","Rejuvenating therapies and rasayana preparations","Yoga returns, quietly, from day fourteen","Two teaching sessions on continuing at home",{"title":798,"days":799,"body":800,"points":801},"Departure and after","Days 20–21, and the six weeks that follow","A closing consultation with a written protocol: three months of preparations, a daily routine you can keep, and the specific things to avoid while digestion is still rebuilding. A follow-up video call at six weeks is included and is, in our experience, the difference between a good fortnight and a changed year.",[802,803,804],"Written protocol and three months of preparations to take home","Follow-up consultation at six weeks, included","Direct line to the physician for three months","About five hours of the day are fixed; the afternoon is deliberately empty and guests find that the hardest part of the fortnight.",[807,811,815,818,822,825,828,831,835],{"time":808,"what":809,"note":810},"05:45","Wake, before the light","Warm water, tongue scraper. Nobody is cheerful about this on day one; everybody is awake before the alarm by day nine.",{"time":812,"what":813,"note":814},"06:15","Pranayama and a slow practice","Forty minutes. During purification weeks the physician often replaces asana entirely with breathing and a walk.",{"time":480,"what":816,"note":817},"Consultation","Pulse, tongue, sleep, digestion, mood. Ten minutes with the vaidya, every morning. Today's prescription is written after it, not before.",{"time":819,"what":820,"note":821},"08:00","Breakfast, and it is soup","Rice gruel with ghee and rock salt. It tastes better by day four. It genuinely does.",{"time":660,"what":823,"note":824},"Therapy — the long block","Two to three hours. Abhyanga with four hands, then swedana, then whichever action your week calls for. You rest afterwards; resting is prescribed.",{"time":496,"what":826,"note":827},"Lunch — the largest meal","Eaten when digestion is strongest and at the same hour daily. Six tastes on the plate, cooked for your constitution.",{"time":500,"what":829,"note":830},"The empty afternoon","Unprogrammed on purpose. Read, sleep, walk, sit.",{"time":832,"what":833,"note":834},"16:30","Yoga nidra or a herbal steam","Whichever the morning consultation decided.",{"time":836,"what":837,"note":838},"18:30","Dinner, then dark","Light, early, finished by seven. Lamps down at nine.",[840,841,842,843,844,845,846,847,848,849],"Twenty-one nights in a garden room, at the occupancy you are quoted for","All consultations — daily with the physician, plus arrival and departure examinations","Every prescribed therapy, typically 2–3 hours daily, with a dedicated therapist pair","All medicines and preparations during the stay","Three months of prescribed preparations to take home","All meals, individually adjusted, plus herbal teas","Yoga, pranayama and yoga nidra where prescribed","Return airport transfer from Trivandrum","Laundry, including the treatment linen you will get through","Follow-up video consultation at six weeks",[851,852,853,854,855,856],"Flights — quoted separately by our own flight desk and held with the programme","India e-visa","Travel and medical insurance, which we require you to hold","Tips for the therapy team — budget US$60–95 for three weeks, paid in local cash","Pathology tests ordered on arrival","A companion staying without a programme",[858,862,866,870],{"start":859,"end":860,"note":861,"places":23},"2026-07-04","2026-07-25","Monsoon · best season",{"start":860,"end":863,"note":864,"places":865},"2026-08-15","Karkidakam · best season",6,{"start":867,"end":868,"note":869,"places":396},"2026-09-05","2026-09-26","Post-monsoon",{"start":871,"end":872,"note":873,"places":42},"2027-01-09","2027-01-30","Dry season · premium",[875,878,881],{"q":876,"a":877},"Is twenty-one nights really necessary?","For classical Panchakarma, yes. Internal oleation alone takes three to seven days depending on how you respond, and the rebuilding phase is where the benefit is consolidated. Fourteen nights is our absolute floor and it compresses the rebuild. Anything shorter is a different product wearing this one’s name.",{"q":879,"a":880},"How bad is the purgation day, honestly?","Unpleasant and entirely manageable. You take the preparation in the morning and spend the day in your room within reach of a bathroom, checked hourly. Most people report cramping, tiredness and a strange clarity by evening. Nobody enjoys it. Very few regret it.",{"q":882,"a":883},"Is it safe with my medication?","Usually, with adjustment, and it must be declared. Anticoagulants, thyroid medication, diabetes drugs, lithium and immunosuppressants all change the plan. Nobody here will ever suggest stopping something your own doctor prescribed.","photo-1512290923902-8a9f81dc236c","A guest receiving a warm-oil head treatment",[887,893,900],{"band":545,"label":546,"months":888,"sharing":889,"single":890,"note":892},"June to September",{"amount":223,"currency":17},{"amount":891,"currency":17},344000,"The monsoon — and in Kerala the monsoon is the treatment season. Humidity keeps the channels receptive to oil, the air is cool, and the houses are empty. The cheapest months are also the most effective ones, which almost never happens.",{"band":554,"label":555,"months":894,"sharing":895,"single":897,"note":899},"October, November, April and May",{"amount":896,"currency":17},325000,{"amount":898,"currency":17},390000,"Post-monsoon October and November are excellent and busier. April and May are hot enough that we would steer you elsewhere in the year unless the dates are fixed.",{"band":563,"label":564,"months":901,"sharing":902,"single":904,"note":906},"December to March",{"amount":903,"currency":17},377000,{"amount":905,"currency":17},455000,"Dry, bright, and what the brochures photograph. It is a perfectly good fortnight and it is a less effective one, at about a quarter more.",[908,912,915],{"nights":434,"label":909,"factor":910,"note":911},"The floor",0.72,"A compressed course. Preparation and purification are complete; the rebuilding phase is shortened, which is where the benefit is consolidated. We sell it and we will tell you what you are giving up.",{"nights":581,"label":913,"factor":41,"note":914,"recommended":365},"The classical course","Preparation, the actions, and a full eight-day rebuild. This is what Panchakarma means and it is the length the house was built around.",{"nights":916,"label":917,"factor":918,"note":919},28,"Karkidaka Chikitsa",1.3,"The traditional twenty-eight-day monsoon course, taken in Karkidakam. Guests who have done twenty-one nights and want the whole thing.",[921,925,929,933],{"value":922,"label":923,"detail":924},"48+","hours of therapy","Two to three hours daily with a dedicated therapist pair, rising through the preparation phase and falling during the actions.",{"value":926,"label":927,"detail":928},"21","physician consultations","Every morning: pulse, tongue, sleep, digestion, mood. The day's prescription is written after it, not before.",{"value":930,"label":931,"detail":932},"3","months of preparations","Dispensed from the on-site pharmacy to take home, which is where a fortnight becomes a year.",{"value":738,"label":934,"detail":935},"follow-up at six weeks","A video consultation with the house, included. In our experience it is the difference between a good fortnight and a changed year.","Per person for twenty-one nights, including the room, all meals cooked to your prescription, every prescribed therapy, all medicines during the stay, three months of preparations to take home, return airport transfers and the follow-up consultation. Flights are quoted separately and we can hold them with the programme.",{"supervision":938,"team":939,"consultations":940},"A resident BAMS physician — five and a half years of training including a clinical internship, registered with a statutory council — examines you on arrival and reviews you every morning of the stay.","Two therapists work on you together and are assigned for the whole stay rather than rostered daily. The fourth abhyanga with someone who knows your body is a different treatment from the first.","Daily, plus arrival and departure examinations, and a video follow-up six weeks after you get home.",{"amount":223,"currency":17},{"amount":891,"currency":17},[944,998,1046,1100],{"slug":192,"name":193,"destinationSlug":109,"area":945,"country":92,"opened":946,"modalities":947,"character":174,"knownFor":948,"why":949,"signature":954,"typicalNights":955,"priceNote":956,"accolades":957,"honest":960,"relationship":128,"confidence":563,"image":541,"imageAlt":542,"greatFor":961,"whoShouldGo":966,"team":967,"roomTypes":968,"facilities":978,"dining":984,"activities":988,"arrival":994,"destinationName":110,"programmeCount":41,"fromPrice":997},"Lans, above Innsbruck",1984,[112],"The mother house of the Lanserhof group — the property that turned the F. X. Mayr gut cure into a luxury medical category.",[950,951,952,953],"Opened in 1984 as the original Lanserhof, and the house from which the entire Modern Mayr Medicine category was exported.","The smallest and most clinically intimate of the Lanserhof houses, which is exactly why regulars keep choosing it over the newer flagships.","A genuine medical intake: physician examination, blood work, manual abdominal treatment and a graded diet, with diagnostics rather than a spa menu.","At altitude above Innsbruck with graded walking prescribed as part of the cure rather than offered as an activity.","The classic Mayr cure — seven to fourteen nights of medically supervised digestive rest with daily physician review.","7–14 nights","Indicative and season-dependent; the group prices by programme and room category. Confirm in writing.",[958,959],"The original Lanserhof, opened 1984","The house that made Modern Mayr Medicine an international category","The first seventy-two hours are genuinely miserable — headache, fatigue and hunger while caffeine and sugar come out — and the houses are candid about it. The evidence base is also thinner than the clinical presentation implies: supervised caloric restriction, chewing training and a strict eating rhythm plausibly explain most of the benefit, while the diagnostic claims made for abdominal palpation are not well supported.",[962,963,964,965],"Modern Mayr medicine","Gut health","Diagnostics","A properly medical fast","Somebody whose problem is digestive, metabolic or inflammatory, and who is prepared to be genuinely hungry for a fortnight in exchange for a properly medical answer. Modern Mayr medicine is a real diagnostic and dietary discipline and this is one of the houses that developed it.","Physicians trained in Mayr medicine alongside internists, with diagnostics, laboratory work and manual abdominal treatment as standard. Every stay opens with a medical examination and the diet is prescribed from it — there is no menu to choose from.",[969,972,975],{"name":970,"note":971},"Comfort room","The standard category, alpine-modern, quiet.",{"name":973,"note":974},"Superior room","Larger, with a balcony over the Inn valley.",{"name":976,"note":977},"Suite","For longer stays and accompanying guests.",[979,980,981,982,983],"Medical diagnostics and laboratory","Manual abdominal treatment rooms","Indoor pool, sauna and thermal area","Fitness, movement and physiotherapy studios","Extensive walking terrain from the door at 900 m",[985],{"name":986,"note":987},"The dining room","The prescribed Mayr diet — small, precise, and chewed at length, which is a technique rather than a joke. What arrives is decided by the physician.",[989,990,991,992,993],"Guided alpine walks","Nordic walking","Innsbruck and the Nordkette","Movement and breathing classes","Very little else, because you will be tired",{"airport":995,"code":115,"transfer":996},"Innsbruck","Twenty minutes up the hill to Lans",{"amount":549,"currency":34},{"slug":195,"name":196,"destinationSlug":109,"area":999,"country":92,"modalities":1000,"character":174,"knownFor":1001,"why":1002,"signature":1007,"typicalNights":955,"priceNote":1008,"accolades":1009,"honest":1012,"relationship":128,"confidence":1013,"image":1014,"imageAlt":1015,"greatFor":1016,"whoShouldGo":1020,"team":1021,"roomTypes":1022,"facilities":1031,"dining":1035,"activities":1038,"arrival":1043,"destinationName":110,"programmeCount":41,"fromPrice":1045},"Igls, above Innsbruck",[112],"The most clinically serious and least resort-like of the famous Austrian Mayr houses — and consistently the best value among them.",[1003,1004,1005,1006],"A genuinely medical tone: unhurried physician consultations, real diagnostics, and none of the spa-hotel dressing that the flagship houses carry.","At roughly 900 m above Innsbruck, with the graded walking the cure depends on directly outside.","Materially less expensive than Lanserhof or the VIVAMAYR houses for a comparable, arguably more rigorous, medical week.","Small, family-run in feel, and repeatedly recommended by people who have done the cure at more than one house.","Modern Mayr medicine delivered with a clinical rather than a hotel emphasis, over one to two weeks.","The best value of the famous Austrian Mayr houses; low and high season differ substantially. Indicative.",[1010,1011],"Listed in the Sunday Times World’s Top 50 Spas 2025","The least expensive of the famous Austrian Mayr houses","It looks like a comfortable Alpine hotel rather than a destination spa, and guests expecting Lanserhof’s architecture are briefly disappointed. Then the medicine turns out to be at least as good and about half the price. If you want to be photographed, go elsewhere; if you want the cure, this is the one we would take ourselves.","medium","photo-1439853949127-fa647821eba0","A mountain lake in the Tyrolean Alps",[962,1017,1018,1019],"Value against its neighbours","Metabolic health","Repeat cures","Somebody who wants the same Mayr discipline in a quieter, less designed, less expensive house — and who would rather the money went on the medicine than the architecture. It is the connoisseur’s choice in the Tyrol and it has the returning guests to prove it.","Physicians trained in modern Mayr medicine with diagnostics and laboratory work on site, plus therapists for manual abdominal treatment. The medical density here is comparable to its more famous neighbours.",[1023,1026,1029],{"name":1024,"note":1025},"Single room","A large proportion of the house is genuine single rooms rather than doubles sold for sole use — which for a solo cure guest is a material difference in price.",{"name":1027,"note":1028},"Double room","Standard and superior categories, most with balconies.",{"name":976,"note":1030},"The larger rooms, for longer cures.",[979,489,1032,1033,1034],"Indoor pool and sauna world","Physiotherapy, gym and movement studios","A park on the Igls plateau at 900 m, with walking from the door",[1036],{"name":986,"note":1037},"The prescribed Mayr diet, in stages, decided at the medical examination and revised through the cure.",[1039,990,1040,1041,1042],"Guided walks on the plateau","The Patscherkofel cable car","Innsbruck old town","Talks on the Mayr method",{"airport":995,"code":115,"transfer":1044},"Twenty minutes up the hill to Igls",{"amount":114,"currency":34},{"slug":130,"name":131,"destinationSlug":6,"area":1047,"country":8,"modalities":1048,"character":127,"knownFor":1049,"why":1050,"signature":1055,"typicalNights":1056,"priceNote":1057,"accolades":1058,"honest":1061,"relationship":128,"confidence":1013,"image":1062,"imageAlt":1063,"greatFor":1064,"whoShouldGo":1069,"team":1070,"roomTypes":1071,"facilities":1077,"dining":1085,"activities":1089,"arrival":1095,"destinationName":7,"programmeCount":41,"fromPrice":1099},"Kollengode, Palakkad district",[11],"A NABH-accredited Ayurvedic hospital inside a restored 200-year-old Vengunad palace — nineteen rooms, twelve treatment rooms, and nothing shorter than a fortnight on sale.",[1051,1052,1053,1054],"NABH accreditation — the Indian national hospital accreditation board — is a clinical standard rather than a tourism one, and very few Ayurvedic properties hold it.","It refuses short stays outright: programmes run from fourteen days onwards, which is the clearest possible signal that the programme is the product and the palace is the setting.","Run by CGH Earth, a group with a long record in Kerala and a house style of understatement — no alcohol, no meat, no mobile phones in public areas.","The building is a genuine 200-year-old palace of the Vengunad chieftains, restored rather than themed — nineteen guest rooms and a twelve-room clinic.","Classical Panchakarma from fourteen days onwards, with a strictly vegetarian, individually-prescribed diet and no à la carte anything.","14 or 21 nights","The property prices by programme and season. Our research could not verify a published rate — we quote only what the house confirms in writing.",[1059,1060],"NABH accredited (Indian national hospital accreditation)","19 rooms and a 12-room clinic in a 200-year-old palace","This is close to a monastic experience. No alcohol, no meat, no coffee, no phones in the public rooms, and a fortnight is the shortest stay you can buy. Guests who wanted a palace hotel with treatments are unhappy within a day; guests who wanted the treatment tend to come back.","photo-1593693411515-c20261bcad6e","A houseboat on the open Kerala backwaters",[1065,1066,1067,1068],"Serious Panchakarma","Digital silence","Clinical accreditation","Fourteen nights and up","Somebody who wants a hospital that happens to be a palace, and who will not mind being told no. There is no alcohol, no meat, no leather and no mobile phone in the public rooms, and nothing shorter than a fortnight is sold. Guests who understood that before arriving tend to describe it as the best thing they have done.","NABH-accredited, which is the Indian national hospital accreditation standard rather than a tourism grade — very few Ayurvedic properties hold it. Resident physicians, an in-house pharmacy, and nineteen rooms against twelve treatment rooms, which is a ratio no resort can match.",[1072,1075],{"name":1073,"note":1074},"Palace room","Nineteen rooms in the restored two-hundred-year-old Vengunad palace. High ceilings, dark timber, no television. Category names vary by wing; all are quoted within the programme.",{"name":976,"note":1076},"A handful of larger rooms in the older part of the building, with a sitting room.",[1078,1079,1080,1081,1082,1083,1084],"Twelve treatment rooms against nineteen guest rooms","In-house pharmacy","NABH hospital accreditation","Yoga hall in the old durbar room","Temple and meditation courtyard","Library","No alcohol, no meat, no leather on the estate",[1086],{"name":1087,"note":1088},"The palace dining room","One kitchen, no menu, and a plate written by your physician each day. Sattvic vegetarian throughout, and it changes as the programme changes.",[1090,1091,1092,1093,1094],"Yoga and meditation","Temple visits","Talks on Ayurvedic philosophy","Kalaripayattu demonstrations","Nothing else, on purpose",{"airport":1096,"code":1097,"transfer":1098},"Coimbatore","CJB","Ninety minutes by road; Kochi (COK) is two and a half hours. Included.",{"amount":234,"currency":17},{"slug":179,"name":180,"destinationSlug":84,"area":1101,"country":86,"modalities":1102,"character":167,"knownFor":1103,"why":1104,"signature":1109,"typicalNights":1110,"priceNote":1111,"accolades":1112,"honest":1114,"relationship":151,"confidence":1013,"image":1115,"imageAlt":1116,"greatFor":1117,"whoShouldGo":1122,"team":1123,"roomTypes":1124,"facilities":1133,"dining":1140,"activities":1147,"arrival":1153,"destinationName":85,"programmeCount":42},"The end of the colonnade promenade",[81],"The grand hotel at the head of the Karlovy Vary promenade — the town’s social centre for two centuries, and its most recognisable building.",[1105,1106,1107,1108],"It anchors the colonnade walk that IS the drinking cure: the whole town is arranged around walking between springs, and the Pupp sits at the end of it.","A spa wing offering the classical Karlovy Vary treatments — carbon-dioxide baths, peat, and the mineral-water protocols — alongside the hotel.","It is the practical base for a three-week cure for anybody who does not want a socialist-era sanatorium, which is the town’s other main option.","Its film-festival association keeps it in international view in a way no other Czech spa hotel manages.","A base for the classical drinking cure, with the colonnades and the Vřídlo geyser a short walk away.","7–21 nights","Mid band by European spa standards; the medical cure is priced separately from the room. Indicative.",[1113],"The defining building of the Karlovy Vary promenade","The hotel is not the cure. The medicine here belongs to the spa physicians and the springs, and a grand hotel room does not make the water work better — several plainer houses in town deliver the same prescribed course for a fraction of the price. Book the Pupp because you want to be comfortable for three weeks, not because you think it is the treatment.","photo-1541849546-216549ae216d","Rooftops and towers of a Bohemian spa town",[1118,1119,1120,1121],"The Bohemian spa tradition","Grand architecture","The drinking cure","A cultural stay","Somebody who wants the classical Central European spa town experience — colonnades, mineral water, a grand hotel with two hundred years behind it — rather than a clinical programme. The medical cure in Karlovy Vary happens at the sanatoria; the Pupp is where you stay while you take it.","A spa and balneology department in the hotel, with the town’s medical spa physicians available for the classical prescribed drinking cure. The serious cure is a doctor-led course at a sanatorium and we will book that separately where it is what you need.",[1125,1128,1131],{"name":1126,"note":1127},"Classic room","In the older wings, and the reason to stay here.",{"name":1129,"note":1130},"Deluxe room","Larger, on the river or the forest side.",{"name":976,"note":1132},"The grand categories, several of them with their own history.",[1134,1135,1136,1137,1138,1139],"Balneology and spa department","Pool and thermal area","Grand ballroom and concert hall","Casino","The Diana funicular a short walk away","On the Teplá river in the middle of the colonnades",[1141,1144],{"name":1142,"note":1143},"Grandrestaurant","A nineteenth-century dining room and a menu to match. Formal, and the correct thing to do once.",{"name":1145,"note":1146},"Café Pupp","The spa wafers, the coffee and the Becherovka.",[1148,1149,1150,1151,1152],"The colonnade drinking circuit","Moser glassworks","The Diana tower","Loket castle","The film festival in July",{"airport":1154,"code":88,"transfer":1155},"Prague (Václav Havel)","Two hours by road on the D6",1788864741639]