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Flights quoted separately.",{"supervision":593,"team":594,"consultations":595},"Resident BAMS physicians, with the programme led by one qualified in prasuti tantra and stri roga — the obstetrics and gynaecology branch of Ayurvedic medicine.","A dedicated female therapist pair for the whole stay, which for this programme is not a preference but a requirement.","Daily, with arrival and departure examinations and a six-week video follow-up.",{"amount":252,"currency":17},{"amount":545,"currency":17},{"slug":424,"name":599,"resortSlug":136,"modalitySlug":11,"hook":600,"intention":601,"concerns":602,"nights":436,"groupSize":528,"intensity":603,"overview":604,"suitedTo":607,"notSuitedTo":612,"phases":616,"dayShape":640,"sampleDay":641,"included":672,"excluded":679,"departures":681,"faqs":695,"image":702,"imageAlt":703,"featured":365,"bands":704,"durations":726,"counted":739,"priceIncludes":754,"care":755,"price":759,"singlePrice":760,"resortName":137,"resortCharacter":138,"destinationSlug":20,"destinationName":21,"country":8},"Ayurvedic rejuvenation","Rebuilding rather than purifying, on a palace estate above the Ganga — the gentlest serious programme in the Himalaya.","rebuild",[230,236,247,259,73],"gentle",[605,606],"Rasayana is the branch of Ayurveda written for depletion — after treatment, after a hard birth, after a long illness, after three years of sixteen-hour days. Nothing is removed and everything is rebuilt: medicated ghee, gentle daily therapy, a widening rather than a narrowing diet.","It runs on a hundred-acre palace estate at a thousand metres with the valley below, which matters more than it sounds: guests who cannot face an austere clinic will actually complete a fortnight here.",[608,609,610,611],"Recovery after illness, surgery or a difficult birth — with your doctor’s letter","Long-term exhaustion that sleep no longer touches","Anyone who has done a cleanse before and found it took more than it gave","Guests over sixty, for whom purification is often the wrong tool",[613,614,615],"Anyone in active treatment — come when the acute phase has finished","Anyone whose real goal is weight loss","Guests who want to feel that something dramatic is happening",[617,625,633],{"title":618,"days":619,"body":620,"points":621},"Assessment and stabilising","Days 1–4","A slower start than any other programme we sell: bloods, a long history, and four days of eating and sleeping to a schedule before therapy begins in earnest.",[622,623,624],"Full history and pathology","Sleep re-anchored first","Light abhyanga only",{"title":626,"days":627,"body":628,"points":629},"Nourishing","Days 5–11","Daily therapy chosen for building rather than moving — pizhichil, navarakizhi, medicated ghee — with a diet that adds rather than subtracts.",[630,631,632],"Pizhichil and navarakizhi","Rasayana preparations","Walking, never training",{"title":634,"days":470,"body":635,"points":636},"Carrying it home","A three-month protocol written with your actual life in it, and two follow-ups built in.",[637,638,639],"Three-month written protocol","Six-week and three-month follow-ups","Preparations shipped at week ten","Three to four hours are fixed. This is the least demanding schedule on the site, deliberately.",[642,645,648,651,655,658,662,665,668],{"time":479,"what":643,"note":644},"Wake","No bell, no obligation. Depleted guests are allowed to sleep.",{"time":646,"what":647},"07:15","Gentle hatha or a valley walk",{"time":649,"what":650},"08:30","Breakfast on the terrace",{"time":652,"what":653,"note":654},"09:30","Consultation and therapy","Physician first, then two hours of pizhichil or navarakizhi.",{"time":656,"what":498,"note":657},"12:30","Prescribed, but generous — this programme adds rather than subtracts.",{"time":659,"what":660,"note":661},"14:00","Free","Most guests sleep. That is the intention.",{"time":663,"what":664},"16:00","Vedanta or meditation session",{"time":666,"what":667},"17:30","Second treatment, or the spa",{"time":669,"what":670,"note":671},"19:00","Dinner","Light, early, and the valley goes dark below you.",[673,674,512,675,514,676,677,678],"Fourteen nights, palace estate room","Daily physician consultation","Three months of preparations, shipped","Yoga, meditation and Vedanta sessions","Transfers from Dehradun","Two follow-up consultations",[517,518,680],"Spa treatments outside the prescribed programme",[682,686,691],{"start":683,"end":684,"note":685,"places":14},"2026-10-05","2026-10-19","Autumn, clear air",{"start":687,"end":688,"note":689,"places":690},"2026-11-09","2026-11-23","Cool and dry",6,{"start":692,"end":693,"note":694,"places":528},"2027-03-08","2027-03-22","Spring",[696,699],{"q":697,"a":698},"Do I really need a letter from my doctor?","Yes, and we will not book without one if you are within a year of treatment for a serious condition. The physician needs to know what was done, what you are taking, and what your own team wants avoided. It is the one piece of paperwork we never waive.",{"q":700,"a":701},"Why is this so much more expensive than Kerala?","Because you are paying for a hundred-acre palace estate as well as the medicine. The clinical content at Somatheeram or Kalari Kovilakom is comparable and costs substantially less. What Ananda adds is comfort — and for a depleted guest, comfort is sometimes what makes a fortnight possible at all.","photo-1506905925346-21bda4d32df4","Himalayan peaks above a wooded valley",[705,712,719],{"band":540,"label":541,"months":706,"sharing":707,"single":709,"note":711},"May, June, July and August",{"amount":708,"currency":17},436000,{"amount":710,"currency":17},525000,"Too hot for a full schedule in May and June; landslide season in the hills in July and August. We sell these months only to people who ask for them.",{"band":548,"label":549,"months":713,"sharing":714,"single":716,"note":718},"December, January and September",{"amount":715,"currency":17},495000,{"amount":717,"currency":17},594000,"Cold clear mornings and unheated halls in midwinter; September is still emptying out after the monsoon.",{"band":557,"label":558,"months":720,"sharing":721,"single":723,"note":725},"February to April, October and November",{"amount":722,"currency":17},574000,{"amount":724,"currency":17},693000,"Warm days, cold nights, and a river running green. The months to come, and priced accordingly.",[727,732,735],{"nights":728,"label":729,"factor":730,"note":731},7,"The week",0.55,"Enough for a genuine rest and a proper consultation. Not enough for rejuvenation in the technical sense, and the page will not pretend otherwise.",{"nights":436,"label":733,"factor":41,"note":734,"recommended":365},"The fortnight","The length at which rasayana therapy actually does what it is named for.",{"nights":570,"label":736,"factor":737,"note":738},"Three weeks",1.44,"For guests who have done the fortnight, or where the physician recommends it after the arrival examination.",[740,743,746,750],{"value":741,"label":577,"detail":742},"26","Ayurvedic and cleansing therapies across the fourteen nights, in a spa of about twenty-five thousand square feet with twenty-four treatment rooms.",{"value":580,"label":744,"detail":745},"hours of personal sessions","Yoga, pranayama and meditation one to one, in addition to the group timetable.",{"value":747,"label":748,"detail":749},"8","hours of consultation","Ayurvedic assessment, an emotional-healing session, nutrition and the departure protocol.",{"value":751,"label":752,"detail":753},"100","acres of sal forest","With walking trails, meditation pavilions and the Ganges valley below.","Per person for fourteen nights in a valley-view room, including all meals from the wellness kitchen, the prescribed therapy hours, daily yoga and Vedanta, consultations, use of the hydrotherapy facilities and return airport transfers from Dehradun. Flights quoted separately.",{"supervision":756,"team":757,"consultations":758},"Ayurvedic physicians on site, with yoga and Vedanta teachers alongside. Every programme opens with a physician's assessment and the prescription is revised through the stay.","A large treatment team across twenty-four treatment rooms — the house does not thin out in high season, which is where smaller properties quietly drop to one treatment a day.","An opening assessment, mid-programme review and departure consultation, plus daily contact with the therapy team.",{"amount":708,"currency":17},{"amount":710,"currency":17},{"slug":425,"name":762,"resortSlug":146,"modalitySlug":11,"hook":763,"intention":202,"concerns":764,"nights":728,"groupSize":528,"intensity":603,"overview":765,"suitedTo":768,"notSuitedTo":773,"phases":777,"dayShape":801,"sampleDay":802,"included":830,"excluded":835,"departures":837,"faqs":844,"image":848,"imageAlt":849,"bands":850,"durations":870,"counted":881,"priceIncludes":897,"care":898,"price":902,"singlePrice":903,"resortName":147,"resortCharacter":138,"destinationSlug":28,"destinationName":29,"country":30},"The sleep reset","A circadian reset at altitude in the Sri Lankan hill country, with cool nights doing half the work.",[202,208,247],[766,767],"Altitude changes the proposition entirely: cool nights, no coastal humidity, and walking that is a pleasure rather than an ordeal. The programme is built around light exposure, a fixed eating window and Ayurvedic treatment for the nervous system.","It is short by the standards of this site, and deliberately so — a week is enough to move a sleep pattern, and the rest of the work happens at home with the protocol you leave with.",[769,770,771,772],"Broken sleep rather than an absence of it","Anyone with a week rather than a fortnight","Guests who want a modern building and a design-led setting","A first Ayurvedic experience",[774,775,776],"Diagnosed sleep apnoea, which needs investigating at home first","Anyone wanting a classical Panchakarma — this is not that","Guests who dislike a winding three-hour transfer from Colombo",[778,786,794],{"title":779,"days":780,"body":781,"points":782},"Measuring","Days 1–2","Consultation, a sleep history, and two nights simply observed before anything is changed.",[783,784,785],"Sleep history and consultation","Baseline observation","Eating window set",{"title":787,"days":788,"body":789,"points":790},"Resetting","Days 3–6","Morning light exposure and walking, shirodhara and abhyanga in the late afternoon, dinner finished by seven and lamps down early.",[791,792,793],"Morning light and walking","Daily Ayurvedic treatment","Fixed early dinner",{"title":795,"days":796,"body":797,"points":798},"Home","Day 7","A written evening routine built for your actual household, and a six-week follow-up.",[799,800],"Written protocol","Six-week follow-up","Under three hours are fixed. Light exposure and the eating window do most of the work.",[803,807,811,814,816,817,819,822,826],{"time":804,"what":805,"note":806},"06:15","Wake and out into daylight","Morning light is the intervention; the treatments are secondary.",{"time":808,"what":809,"note":810},"06:45","Walk in the tea terraces","Forty-five minutes, outdoors, whatever the weather.",{"time":812,"what":813},"08:00","Breakfast — the eating window opens",{"time":493,"what":815},"Consultation or free",{"time":656,"what":498},{"time":659,"what":818},"Free — and genuinely so",{"time":820,"what":821},"16:30","Abhyanga or shirodhara",{"time":823,"what":824,"note":825},"18:30","Dinner — the eating window closes","Twelve hours after breakfast, without exception.",{"time":827,"what":828,"note":829},"20:30","Lights warm and low","No overhead light in the rooms after this hour.",[831,832,514,833,834],"Seven nights","Daily consultation and treatment","Daily yoga and guided walks","Transfers from Colombo or Kandy",[836,518],"Flights, ETA and insurance — flights quoted separately",[838,841],{"start":839,"end":527,"note":840,"places":14},"2026-11-14","Hill-country season",{"start":842,"end":530,"note":843,"places":528},"2027-02-06","Dry and cool",[845],{"q":846,"a":847},"Seven nights for a sleep problem — really?","A week moves a pattern; it does not fix a disorder. If you have been sleeping badly for years, this is a start and a protocol, not a cure — and if there is any suggestion of apnoea we will send you to a sleep clinic at home first.","photo-1470071459604-3b5ec3a7fe05","Green hill country at dusk",[851,857,864],{"band":540,"label":541,"months":852,"sharing":853,"single":854,"note":856},"May to September",{"amount":33,"currency":34},{"amount":855,"currency":34},2630,"The southwest monsoon on this coast. Rain comes in bursts rather than all day, the sea is rough, and the rates fall by a third. For a treatment stay this matters far less than it sounds.",{"band":548,"label":549,"months":858,"sharing":859,"single":861,"note":863},"April, October and November",{"amount":860,"currency":34},2480,{"amount":862,"currency":34},2980,"Inter-monsoonal and changeable. Warm, green, and quiet.",{"band":557,"label":558,"months":559,"sharing":865,"single":867,"note":869},{"amount":866,"currency":34},2880,{"amount":868,"currency":34},3470,"Dry, calm sea, and the coast at its best. Book early — the good rooms at the good houses are gone by September.",[871,874,878],{"nights":728,"label":872,"factor":41,"note":873,"recommended":365},"The reset","Enough to break a pattern and go home with a protocol.",{"nights":437,"label":875,"factor":876,"note":877},"The extended reset",1.36,"Where sleep has been broken for years rather than months.",{"nights":436,"label":733,"factor":879,"note":880},1.84,"The version that changes the baseline rather than the fortnight.",[882,886,889,893],{"value":883,"label":884,"detail":885},"7","nights of sleep tracking","The programme is built on your own data rather than a questionnaire, and it is revised mid-stay on what the data says.",{"value":887,"label":577,"detail":888},"16+","Ayurvedic and physiotherapeutic, chosen from the assessment.",{"value":890,"label":891,"detail":892},"0","clocks in the rooms","Deliberate. The single most effective intervention in the programme costs nothing.",{"value":894,"label":895,"detail":896},"500","metres of altitude","In a tea valley above Kandy — several degrees cooler than the coast, and it matters for sleep.","Per person for seven nights in a chalet, including all meals from the single kitchen, the sleep assessment and tracking, all prescribed therapies and physiotherapy, the movement timetable and return transfers from Colombo. Flights quoted separately.",{"supervision":899,"team":900,"consultations":901},"An integrated team — Ayurvedic physicians alongside western-trained doctors, physiotherapists, nutritionists and yoga teachers. That combination is unusual in Sri Lanka and is why the sleep programme here is more than a spa package.","Sixteen chalets in total, so the assessment is genuinely individual.","An opening assessment with sleep tracking, a mid-stay revision and a departure protocol.",{"amount":33,"currency":34},{"amount":855,"currency":34},[905,970,1048],{"slug":133,"name":134,"destinationSlug":6,"area":906,"country":8,"modalities":907,"character":127,"knownFor":908,"why":909,"signature":914,"typicalNights":915,"priceNote":916,"accolades":917,"honest":920,"relationship":128,"confidence":921,"image":922,"imageAlt":923,"greatFor":924,"whoShouldGo":929,"team":930,"roomTypes":931,"facilities":944,"dining":952,"activities":959,"arrival":965,"destinationName":7,"programmeCount":41,"fromPrice":969},"Mararikulam, Marari beach",[11,12],"A large beachfront Ayurvedic resort on the Alappuzha coast, recognised as much for its environmental design as for its treatment.",[910,911,912,913],"Named by Forbes among wellness retreats for renewal in 2017, which put it on the international map.","Beachfront on Marari rather than inland, which makes a long programme easier for anybody bringing a non-treating companion.","Resident physicians and a full therapy wing, with programmes running from a week to a full Panchakarma.","Recognised for its energy and water conservation design — unusual to see taken seriously at this scale in Kerala.","Panchakarma and rejuvenation programmes of 7 to 21 nights, with a beach to walk on between them.","7–21 nights","Indicative; the resort quotes by programme and season.",[918,919],"Forbes, \"5 Top Wellness Retreats for Ultimate Renewal\" (2017)","Recognised for eco-design and conservation","It is a resort with an Ayurveda hospital inside it rather than the other way round, and that is the trade: more comfort and more people, slightly less of the clinical austerity that makes Palakkad work. For a first Kerala programme that trade is usually the right one.","medium","photo-1596178065887-1198b6148b2b","Palms leaning over the Kerala backwaters",[925,926,927,928],"A first Ayurveda","Couples where one is treating","Beach and treatment together","Shorter stays","Somebody who wants real Ayurvedic treatment without the monastic register — a house where the programme is properly supervised and there is also a beach, a pool and a companion who is not in treatment at all. It is the softest landing on this coast and it is not a compromise on the medicine.","Resident BAMS physicians and a therapist team large enough that the twice-daily treatment schedule holds in high season, which is where lesser houses quietly slip to once a day.",[932,935,938,941],{"name":933,"note":934},"Deluxe room","Garden-facing, in the low blocks around the grounds.",{"name":936,"note":937},"Premium room","Larger, closer to the sea, with a balcony.",{"name":939,"note":940},"Suite","A separate sitting room — the sensible choice when one of two guests is on a full programme and the other is not.",{"name":942,"note":943},"Villa","Private plunge pool and garden, for longer stays and families.",[945,946,947,948,949,950,951],"Dedicated Ayurvedic treatment block","On-site pharmacy","Yoga shala","Swimming pool","Gym","Beach access","Ayurvedic kitchen separate from the à la carte one",[953,956],{"name":954,"note":955},"The Ayurvedic dining room","Prescribed, constitution-specific, and the only food guests on a full programme eat.",{"name":957,"note":958},"The multi-cuisine restaurant","For companions not in treatment. Its existence is exactly why this house suits couples, and guests on a programme do not use it.",[960,961,962,963,964],"Yoga twice daily","Cookery classes","Beach walks","Backwater and Kochi excursions","Kalaripayattu",{"airport":966,"code":967,"transfer":968},"Trivandrum","TRV","Ninety minutes by road, included",{"amount":252,"currency":17},{"slug":136,"name":137,"destinationSlug":20,"area":971,"country":8,"opened":972,"modalities":973,"character":138,"knownFor":974,"why":975,"signature":980,"typicalNights":915,"priceNote":981,"accolades":982,"honest":986,"relationship":128,"confidence":557,"image":702,"imageAlt":703,"gallery":987,"greatFor":994,"whoShouldGo":999,"team":1000,"roomTypes":1001,"facilities":1021,"dining":1030,"activities":1037,"arrival":1044,"destinationName":21,"programmeCount":23,"fromPrice":1047},"Narendra Nagar, Tehri Garhwal",2000,[11,12],"India’s first destination spa, on the Maharaja of Tehri Garhwal’s palace estate above the Ganga valley — and for twenty years the most decorated wellness address in Asia.",[976,977,978,979],"Named the world’s number one destination spa by Condé Nast Traveler readers repeatedly between 2005 and 2020, and by Travel + Leisure in 2008 — a run of recognition no other property in this atlas matches.","Roughly a hundred acres of palace estate at around 1,000 m, with a Viceregal Palace building added in the 1910s and views down the valley to Rishikesh.","It runs genuine programme structures — Ayurveda, yoga, detox, weight, stress — with physicians and a consultation on arrival, rather than a spa menu.","It is the property that made \"wellness\" a luxury category in India, and everything built since has been measured against it.","Programme-based stays of 7 to 21 nights combining Ayurveda, yoga and Vedanta with a Western spa infrastructure.","Among the higher price bands in India, varying widely by season and programme. Indicative only.",[983,984,985],"Condé Nast Traveler Readers’ Choice — world’s No.1 destination spa (2005, 2006, 2007, 2012, 2019, 2020)","Travel + Leisure — No.1 destination spa (2008)","India’s first destination spa (opened 2000)","It is a luxury hotel that does wellness extremely well, not a clinic. If you want a medically austere Panchakarma with nothing else in it, Palakkad is the more honest answer and costs a good deal less. What Ananda gives you that Palakkad cannot is comfort, a view and a properly run spa — and for many people that is what makes a three-week programme survivable.",[988,991],{"src":989,"alt":990},"photo-1439853949127-fa647821eba0","A still lake in the foothills",{"src":992,"alt":993},"photo-1447452001602-7090c7ab2db3","A figure holding tree pose at sunrise",[995,996,997,998],"Ayurveda with hotel standards","Yoga and Vedanta","Weight and detox","First-timers who want comfort","Somebody who wants a serious, supervised programme and is not prepared to give up a properly made bed to get it. Ananda is the point where a five-star hotel and an Ayurvedic clinic genuinely meet, and it is the house we send people to when the medicine matters and so does the plumbing.","Ayurvedic physicians, yoga and Vedanta teachers, and a large treatment team across a spa of about 25,000 square feet with twenty-four treatment rooms. Every programme opens with a physician’s consultation and the prescription is revised through the stay.",[1002,1006,1009,1012,1015,1018],{"name":1003,"size":1004,"note":1005},"Deluxe palace-view room","about 45 sqm","In the Maharaja’s palace grounds, looking back at the building.",{"name":1007,"size":1004,"note":1008},"Deluxe valley-view room","The Ganges valley and Rishikesh below. The room most programmes are quoted in and the one to take.",{"name":1010,"note":1011},"Deluxe suite","A separate sitting room and a larger terrace.",{"name":1013,"note":1014},"Garden and Ananda suites","The larger categories in the main building.",{"name":1016,"note":1017},"Viceregal suite","The palace’s grandest room, with the history to match.",{"name":1019,"note":1020},"Ananda villas","One and two bedrooms with private pools, in the sal forest.",[1022,1023,1024,1025,1026,1027,1028,1029],"A spa of about 25,000 sq ft with twenty-four treatment rooms","Hydrotherapy pools and thermal suite","Outdoor heated lap pool","Two yoga pavilions","Fitness centre","Six-hole golf course","Meditation pavilions in the sal forest","A hundred acres of estate",[1031,1034],{"name":1032,"note":1033},"The Restaurant","Calorie-counted, dosha-appropriate wellness cuisine, with the prescription driving the plate. The kitchen will build to a programme rather than offer a menu.",{"name":1035,"note":1036},"The Tea Lounge","Himalayan teas and the between-meal preparations, in the old palace drawing room.",[1038,1039,1040,1041,1042,1043],"Yoga, pranayama and Vedanta talks daily","Guided treks in the sal forest","Rafting on the Ganga in season","Ganga aarti at Rishikesh","Cookery demonstrations","Golf",{"airport":1045,"code":26,"transfer":1046},"Dehradun (Jolly Grant)","About an hour by road, included",{"amount":25,"currency":17},{"slug":195,"name":196,"destinationSlug":109,"area":1049,"country":92,"modalities":1050,"character":174,"knownFor":1051,"why":1052,"signature":1057,"typicalNights":1058,"priceNote":1059,"accolades":1060,"honest":1063,"relationship":128,"confidence":921,"image":989,"imageAlt":1064,"greatFor":1065,"whoShouldGo":1070,"team":1071,"roomTypes":1072,"facilities":1081,"dining":1087,"activities":1091,"arrival":1097,"destinationName":110,"programmeCount":41,"fromPrice":1100},"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.",[1053,1054,1055,1056],"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.","7–14 nights","The best value of the famous Austrian Mayr houses; low and high season differ substantially. Indicative.",[1061,1062],"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.","A mountain lake in the Tyrolean Alps",[1066,1067,1068,1069],"Modern Mayr medicine","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.",[1073,1076,1079],{"name":1074,"note":1075},"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":1077,"note":1078},"Double room","Standard and superior categories, most with balconies.",{"name":939,"note":1080},"The larger rooms, for longer cures.",[1082,1083,1084,1085,1086],"Medical diagnostics and laboratory","Manual abdominal treatment","Indoor pool and sauna world","Physiotherapy, gym and movement studios","A park on the Igls plateau at 900 m, with walking from the door",[1088],{"name":1089,"note":1090},"The dining room","The prescribed Mayr diet, in stages, decided at the medical examination and revised through the cure.",[1092,1093,1094,1095,1096],"Guided walks on the plateau","Nordic walking","The Patscherkofel cable car","Innsbruck old town","Talks on the Mayr method",{"airport":1098,"code":115,"transfer":1099},"Innsbruck","Twenty minutes up the hill to Igls",{"amount":114,"currency":34},1788864741863]