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The specific concentrations quoted online could not be substantiated, so we do not publish them.","It is a medical facility with a referral pathway, not an attraction — the operator specifies eight to ten sessions of about an hour, with a medical consultation first.","The galleries have been in therapeutic use for more than seventy years, in collaboration with the Gastein research institute of Paracelsus Medical Private University, Salzburg.","Austrian, German and South Tyrolean statutory insurers cover the course where it is medically justified.","A prescribed course of gallery entries for ankylosing spondylitis and rheumatic disease, under medical supervision.","A course of 8–10 sessions, staying in the valley","The gallery course is priced separately from accommodation and is part-reimbursable for insured Austrian and German patients.",[423,424],"In therapeutic use for over seventy years","Reimbursed by Austrian, German and South Tyrolean statutory insurers","Radon is a Group 1 human carcinogen and the therapeutic case rests on a contested low-dose hypothesis. Older controlled trials suggested a real analgesic effect; the prospective placebo-controlled RAD-ON02 trial did not confirm it. Entry is by referral, dose-controlled, and excluded in pregnancy and under eighteen. If that balance sits badly with you, take the thermal course in the same valley instead — we will not push the galleries.","high","photo-1520769945061-0a448c463865","An Alpine meadow below high peaks",[430,431,432,433],"Ankylosing spondylitis","Rheumatic pain","A prescribed medical course","Alpine walking either side","Somebody with a diagnosed inflammatory rheumatic condition who has read what the therapy is and wants to try a course of it under supervision. It is a medical facility inside a mountain, reached by a small train, and it is not a spa. Everybody else should go to the valley for the walking and the thermal water.","Physicians and medical staff at the gallery itself — every course begins with a medical examination and is prescribed as a course of sessions rather than sold as a single treatment. The facility is a recognised medical one and is reimbursed by some European health systems.",[],[438,439,440,441],"The healing gallery itself, entered by narrow-gauge train into the mountain","Medical examination and supervision on site","Rest and recovery rooms","Accommodation is in the village and booked separately — we arrange it",[443],{"name":444,"note":445},"No dining","The gallery is a treatment facility. Meals are at your hotel in Bad Gastein or Böckstein.",[447,448,449,450],"The Gastein waterfall walk","Alpine thermal baths in the valley","Stubnerkogel and the high ridges","Skiing in winter",{"airport":452,"code":94,"transfer":453},"Salzburg","Ninety minutes by road or rail to Bad Gastein, then a few minutes to Böckstein",{"slug":192,"name":193,"destinationSlug":109,"area":455,"country":92,"opened":456,"modalities":457,"character":174,"knownFor":458,"why":459,"signature":464,"typicalNights":465,"priceNote":466,"accolades":467,"honest":470,"relationship":128,"confidence":426,"image":471,"imageAlt":472,"greatFor":473,"whoShouldGo":478,"team":479,"roomTypes":480,"facilities":490,"dining":496,"activities":500,"arrival":506,"destinationName":110,"programmeCount":41,"fromPrice":509},"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.",[460,461,462,463],"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.",[468,469],"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.","photo-1501785888041-af3ef285b470","An Alpine lake below the Tyrolean mountains",[474,475,476,477],"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.",[481,484,487],{"name":482,"note":483},"Comfort room","The standard category, alpine-modern, quiet.",{"name":485,"note":486},"Superior room","Larger, with a balcony over the Inn valley.",{"name":488,"note":489},"Suite","For longer stays and accompanying guests.",[491,492,493,494,495],"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",[497],{"name":498,"note":499},"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.",[501,502,503,504,505],"Guided alpine walks","Nordic walking","Innsbruck and the Nordkette","Movement and breathing classes","Very little else, because you will be tired",{"airport":507,"code":115,"transfer":508},"Innsbruck","Twenty minutes up the hill to Lans",{"amount":510,"currency":34},8620,{"slug":195,"name":196,"destinationSlug":109,"area":512,"country":92,"modalities":513,"character":174,"knownFor":514,"why":515,"signature":520,"typicalNights":465,"priceNote":521,"accolades":522,"honest":525,"relationship":128,"confidence":526,"image":527,"imageAlt":528,"greatFor":529,"whoShouldGo":533,"team":534,"roomTypes":535,"facilities":544,"dining":549,"activities":552,"arrival":557,"destinationName":110,"programmeCount":41,"fromPrice":559},"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.",[516,517,518,519],"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.",[523,524],"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",[474,530,531,532],"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.",[536,539,542],{"name":537,"note":538},"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":540,"note":541},"Double room","Standard and superior categories, most with balconies.",{"name":488,"note":543},"The larger rooms, for longer cures.",[491,545,546,547,548],"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",[550],{"name":498,"note":551},"The prescribed Mayr diet, in stages, decided at the medical examination and revised through the cure.",[553,502,554,555,556],"Guided walks on the plateau","The Patscherkofel cable car","Innsbruck old town","Talks on the Mayr method",{"airport":507,"code":115,"transfer":558},"Twenty minutes up the hill to Igls",{"amount":114,"currency":34},[561,735],{"slug":562,"name":390,"resortSlug":192,"modalitySlug":112,"hook":563,"intention":225,"concerns":564,"nights":565,"groupSize":41,"intensity":566,"overview":567,"suitedTo":570,"notSuitedTo":575,"phases":580,"dayShape":605,"sampleDay":606,"included":639,"excluded":646,"departures":651,"faqs":664,"image":471,"imageAlt":472,"bands":671,"durations":697,"counted":711,"priceIncludes":728,"care":729,"price":733,"singlePrice":734,"resortName":193,"resortCharacter":174,"destinationSlug":109,"destinationName":110,"country":92},"lanserhof-mayr-cure","Medically supervised digestive rest at the house that invented the category — and the first three days are genuinely miserable.",[218,225,242],14,"demanding",[568,569],"A medical intake with blood work on arrival, then a graded and deliberately dull diet — beginning for most guests with broth and a stale roll you are taught to chew thirty times — with manual abdominal treatment, magnesium, and nothing to eat after early evening.","The point is a digestive rest with a doctor watching. Days two and three are unpleasant for almost everybody as caffeine and sugar come out, and the house says so before you book rather than after.",[571,572,573,574],"Bloating, reflux and functional digestive complaints already investigated and found structurally normal","A metabolic reset — insulin resistance, visceral fat, weight that will not move","Anyone whose eating rhythm has drifted into late nights and grazing","Guests who want a genuinely medical fortnight with diagnostics attached",[576,577,578,579],"Any history of an eating disorder — the restriction and the weighing are inappropriate and we decline","Pregnancy and breastfeeding","Type 1 diabetes, and type 2 on insulin or sulfonylureas, without your own doctor’s written plan","Anyone underweight, or over seventy without a cardiology review",[581,589,597],{"title":582,"days":583,"body":584,"points":585},"Intake","Days 1–3","Physician examination, bloods, body composition and a diet assigned. Then the hard part: caffeine and sugar come out and most guests have a headache by the second evening.",[586,587,588],"Medical intake and bloods","Diet assigned individually","Chewing training begins",{"title":590,"days":591,"body":592,"points":593},"The cure","Days 4–11","Manual abdominal treatment daily, a graded diet that widens slowly, magnesium, and prescribed graded walking on the hill outside.",[594,595,596],"Daily abdominal treatment","Graded diet","Prescribed daily walking",{"title":598,"days":599,"body":600,"points":601},"Rebuilding","Days 12–14","Food is reintroduced on a schedule, with a written eating protocol for the three months that follow and a repeat blood panel.",[602,603,604],"Structured reintroduction","Repeat bloods","Three-month written protocol","Three hours are fixed, and the walking is prescribed rather than offered. The rest of the day is quiet by design.",[607,610,614,618,621,625,629,632,635],{"time":608,"what":609},"07:00","Wake, and weigh",{"time":611,"what":612,"note":613},"07:30","Breakfast","Broth and a stale roll, chewed thirty times. It takes twenty-five minutes and it is meant to.",{"time":615,"what":616,"note":617},"08:30","Physician contact","Brief, daily, and it changes the day's diet.",{"time":619,"what":545,"note":620},"09:00","Twenty minutes, and the part guests are most sceptical of before and most attached to after.",{"time":622,"what":623,"note":624},"10:00","Prescribed walk","Graded by the doctor. The hill is part of the treatment.",{"time":626,"what":627,"note":628},"12:30","Lunch","The largest meal, which is not saying much in week one.",{"time":630,"what":631},"14:00","Rest, or a diagnostic appointment",{"time":633,"what":634},"16:00","Second treatment or the sauna",{"time":636,"what":637,"note":638},"18:00","Supper — and nothing after it","The eating window closes here. This is non-negotiable.",[640,641,642,643,644,645],"Fourteen nights, at the occupancy you are quoted for","Full medical intake, bloods and closing panel","Daily physician contact and manual treatment","All meals on the prescribed diet","Guided graded walking","Written protocol",[647,648,649,650],"Flights or rail — both quoted separately, and we book European rail","Insurance","Diagnostics beyond the standard panel","Any food not on the prescribed diet — there is none available",[652,656,660],{"start":653,"end":654,"note":655,"places":41},"2026-09-06","2026-09-20","Late summer",{"start":657,"end":658,"note":659,"places":41},"2027-05-16","2027-05-30","Alpine spring",{"start":661,"end":662,"note":663,"places":41},"2027-06-13","2027-06-27","Long light",[665,668],{"q":666,"a":667},"How bad are the first days?","Headache, fatigue and hunger, peaking on day two or three. Taper caffeine at home for a fortnight beforehand and it is markedly easier. Everybody who has done it says the same thing about day four.",{"q":669,"a":670},"Does the theory hold up?","Partly. Supervised caloric restriction, chewing training and a strict eating rhythm plausibly explain most of the benefit, and those are well supported. The more specific diagnostic claims made for abdominal palpation are not. Go for the structure and the supervision.",[672,680,689],{"band":673,"label":674,"months":675,"sharing":676,"single":677,"note":679},"low","Low season","November to February",{"amount":510,"currency":34},{"amount":678,"currency":34},10390,"Short days and snow. Both Mayr houses run all winter and it is the least expensive time to take a cure — which, given you will be indoors and fasting, is worth thinking about seriously.",{"band":681,"label":682,"months":683,"sharing":684,"single":686,"note":688},"shoulder","Shoulder","March and April",{"amount":685,"currency":34},9800,{"amount":687,"currency":34},11760,"The thaw. Changeable föhn weather, and the quietest weeks of the year at both houses.",{"band":426,"label":690,"months":691,"sharing":692,"single":694,"note":696},"High season","May to October",{"amount":693,"currency":34},11370,{"amount":695,"currency":34},13720,"Alpine walking from the door, long light evenings, and the months everybody wants. Book six months out.",[698,703,706],{"nights":699,"label":700,"factor":701,"note":702},7,"The week",0.56,"The shortest cure the house takes. Enough to be uncomfortable, rarely enough to be changed.",{"nights":565,"label":704,"factor":41,"note":705,"recommended":365},"The classical cure","The length modern Mayr medicine is written around, and the one the physicians will recommend.",{"nights":707,"label":708,"factor":709,"note":710},21,"Three weeks",1.42,"For metabolic and inflammatory presentations, and where the diagnostics find something worth working on.",[712,716,720,724],{"value":713,"label":714,"detail":715},"14","days of prescribed diet","In stages, decided at the medical examination and revised through the cure. There is no menu and nothing to choose.",{"value":717,"label":718,"detail":719},"6+","medical examinations","Including diagnostics and laboratory work on site, at the start, through and at the end.",{"value":721,"label":722,"detail":723},"10+","manual treatments","Abdominal treatment is the core Mayr technique and it is a physician's or therapist's hands, not a machine.",{"value":725,"label":726,"detail":727},"900","metres of altitude","On the Lans plateau above Innsbruck, with walking from the door — which is prescribed rather than offered.","Per person for fourteen nights, including the room, the prescribed Mayr diet at every stage, the medical examinations and diagnostics listed below, manual abdominal treatment, the movement programme and use of the thermal area. Transfers from Innsbruck and flights are quoted separately.",{"supervision":730,"team":731,"consultations":732},"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":510,"currency":34},{"amount":678,"currency":34},{"slug":736,"name":737,"resortSlug":195,"modalitySlug":112,"hook":738,"intention":73,"concerns":739,"nights":740,"groupSize":41,"intensity":741,"overview":742,"suitedTo":745,"notSuitedTo":750,"phases":754,"dayShape":775,"sampleDay":776,"included":799,"excluded":803,"departures":805,"faqs":816,"image":427,"imageAlt":823,"bands":824,"durations":839,"counted":853,"priceIncludes":867,"care":868,"price":872,"singlePrice":873,"resortName":196,"resortCharacter":174,"destinationSlug":109,"destinationName":110,"country":92},"park-igls-metabolic","The metabolic week","The most clinical Mayr week available, at roughly half what the flagship houses charge.",[218,225,73,274],10,"moderate",[743,744],"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.",[746,747,748,749],"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",[751,752,753],"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",[755,762,769],{"title":756,"days":583,"body":757,"points":758},"Baseline","Physician examination, full metabolic bloods, body composition and cardiovascular assessment, then a diet assigned from the findings.",[759,760,761],"Metabolic blood panel","Body composition","Cardiovascular assessment",{"title":590,"days":763,"body":764,"points":765},"Days 4–8","Manual abdominal treatment, graded diet, magnesium and prescribed daily walking on the hill, with a mid-week physician review.",[766,767,768],"Daily manual treatment","Prescribed graded walking","Mid-week review",{"title":770,"days":771,"body":772,"points":773},"The protocol","Days 9–10","Repeat bloods, a written protocol covering eating rhythm, exercise and anything needing your own doctor’s attention.",[603,645,774],"Referral letter where indicated","Three hours are fixed. The consultations are unhurried, which is the main reason regulars choose this house.",[777,779,782,786,788,791,792,795,797],{"time":608,"what":778},"Wake, weigh, and bloods on assessment days",{"time":780,"what":612,"note":781},"07:45","Graded to your assignment; chewing training from day one.",{"time":783,"what":784,"note":785},"08:45","Physician consultation","Unhurried — twenty minutes, not five.",{"time":787,"what":545},"09:30",{"time":789,"what":790},"10:30","Prescribed walk on the hill",{"time":626,"what":627},{"time":630,"what":793,"note":794},"Rest or diagnostics","Cardio-pulmonary testing and body composition fall here.",{"time":633,"what":796},"Treatment or the thermal suite",{"time":636,"what":798},"Supper, and the eating window closes",[800,801,642,643,644,802],"Ten nights, at the occupancy you are quoted for","Full diagnostic panel on arrival and departure","Written protocol and referral letter where indicated",[647,648,804],"Imaging beyond the standard assessment",[806,809,812],{"start":654,"end":807,"note":808,"places":41},"2026-09-30","Autumn",{"start":810,"end":811,"note":659,"places":41},"2027-05-09","2027-05-19",{"start":813,"end":814,"note":815,"places":41},"2027-07-04","2027-07-14","High summer walking",[817,820],{"q":818,"a":819},"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":821,"a":822},"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.","An Alpine meadow above the Inn valley",[825,829,834],{"band":673,"label":674,"months":675,"sharing":826,"single":827,"note":679},{"amount":114,"currency":34},{"amount":828,"currency":34},5190,{"band":681,"label":682,"months":683,"sharing":830,"single":832,"note":688},{"amount":831,"currency":34},4900,{"amount":833,"currency":34},5880,{"band":426,"label":690,"months":691,"sharing":835,"single":837,"note":696},{"amount":836,"currency":34},5680,{"amount":838,"currency":34},6860,[840,843,846,850],{"nights":699,"label":700,"factor":841,"note":842},0.74,"The house's short cure. Real, and the physicians will tell you what it cannot do.",{"nights":740,"label":844,"factor":41,"note":845,"recommended":365},"The metabolic cure","Long enough for the laboratory work at the end to mean something against the work at the start.",{"nights":565,"label":847,"factor":848,"note":849},"The fortnight",1.34,"The classical length, and what we would book given the choice.",{"nights":707,"label":708,"factor":851,"note":852},1.88,"For long-standing metabolic presentations.",[854,857,860,863],{"value":855,"label":714,"detail":856},"10","In stages, from the medical examination, revised as the cure progresses.",{"value":858,"label":718,"detail":859},"5+","With laboratory work at the start and the end, so the result is measured rather than felt.",{"value":861,"label":722,"detail":862},"8+","Abdominal treatment, the core of the method.",{"value":864,"label":865,"detail":866},"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":869,"team":870,"consultations":871},"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":828,"currency":34},[875,1007],{"slug":90,"name":91,"place":876,"country":92,"countryCode":877,"cluster":79,"fame":41,"modalities":878,"hook":879,"caseFor":880,"hardFacts":885,"caveat":891,"season":892,"seasonName":893,"seasonNote":894,"practical":895,"figures":907,"faqs":920,"image":427,"imageAlt":927,"gallery":928,"coords":938,"gateway":941,"tempC":962,"climateNote":968,"leisure":969,"extensions":994,"resortCount":41,"programmeCount":42},"The Gastein valley, Salzburg","AT",[81],"The only place in Europe where the primary therapy is a train ride two kilometres into a mountain.",[881,882,883,884],"The Gasteiner Heilstollen is a genuine medical facility: patients are carried into a former gold-mining gallery in the Radhausberg and lie in hot, humid, mildly radon-rich air under a strictly dose-controlled protocol, on referral, principally for ankylosing spondylitis and rheumatic disease.","It is the most institutionalised alternative-adjacent therapy in European medicine — in therapeutic use for over seventy years, run in collaboration with the Gastein research institute of the Paracelsus Medical Private University in Salzburg.","Austrian, German and South Tyrolean statutory insurers cover the course where it is medically justified. That is a level of institutional seriousness no spa resort can imitate.","The valley also has seventeen thermal springs delivering roughly five million litres a day at up to 45.8 °C, so a course here works perfectly well without the galleries at all.",[886,887,888,889,890],"The Gasteiner Heilstollen runs about 2.5 km into the Radhausberg; therapy conditions are roughly 37–41.5 °C at 70–100% humidity, in mildly radon-rich air. The specific radon concentrations that circulate online could not be substantiated, so we do not publish them.","The operator specifies a course of eight to ten gallery sessions of around an hour, with a medical consultation beforehand and supervision throughout.","The galleries have been in therapeutic use for more than seventy years, and the site collaborates with the Gastein research institute of Paracelsus Medical Private University, Salzburg.","Costs are covered, where medically justified, by Austrian, German and South Tyrolean statutory insurers.","Seventeen thermal springs deliver roughly five million litres a day, at temperatures reaching up to 45.8 °C.","Radon is a Group 1 human carcinogen, and the therapeutic case rests on a contested low-dose hypothesis rather than settled evidence. Older meta-analyses of controlled trials suggested a real analgesic effect; the prospective placebo-controlled RAD-ON02 trial did not confirm it, and the operator itself describes only “a small amount” of radon. The dose is measured and capped, the exposure is medically supervised, and it is excluded in pregnancy and under eighteen. If that balance sits badly with you, take the thermal course in the same valley and skip the galleries — the fortnight works without them, and we will say so rather than sell you the radon as the headline.",[23,23,23,42,42,41,23,23,23,41,42,41],"Kur-Saison","Gastein is a genuine two-season alpine resort. Deep winter pairs the thermal baths with the Ski amadé area; high summer opens the Hohe Tauern hiking that the doctors prescribe as the other half of the cure. April to May and November are the classic Alpine Zwischensaison, when half the valley closes.",[896,899,902,904],{"label":897,"value":898},"Getting there","Salzburg (SZG) then ninety minutes by train — the line runs into the valley and the station is in the town. Munich is about three hours by rail.",{"label":900,"value":901},"The galleries","Entry is by medical referral, dose-controlled, and excluded during pregnancy and under eighteen. A standard course is around ten sessions.",{"label":648,"value":903},"Austrian and German statutory insurers part-reimburse an accredited Kur with a prior referral. Obtain it before travelling.",{"label":905,"value":906},"Language","German. English is spoken at the properties and by the Kurärzte; the paperwork is in German and we translate it.",[908,911,914,917],{"value":909,"label":910},"2.5 km","Into the mountain",{"value":912,"label":913},"70+ yrs","In therapeutic use",{"value":915,"label":916},"to 45.8 °C","Spring temperature",{"value":918,"label":919},"Insured","Part-reimbursable",[921,924],{"q":922,"a":923},"Radon. Should I be worried?","It is a fair question and the honest answer depends on your risk tolerance. The exposure is measured, capped and medically supervised, and there is a reasonable older evidence base for symptomatic relief in ankylosing spondylitis — but the best-designed recent trial, RAD-ON02, did not confirm the effect. It is still ionising radiation. If that sits badly, take the thermal and walking course instead; it stands on its own.",{"q":925,"a":926},"Is the winter or the summer course better?","For the galleries it makes no difference — they are inside a mountain at a constant temperature. For everything else, summer, because the graded walking is prescribed and the Hohe Tauern paths are open.","An Alpine meadow below high peaks in Austria",[929,931,933,935],{"src":471,"alt":930},"An Alpine lake below mountains",{"src":427,"alt":932},"The valley from the ridge above it",{"src":527,"alt":934},"A mountain lake in the high Alps",{"src":936,"alt":937},"photo-1571896349842-33c89424de2d","A lit thermal pool at dusk",{"lat":939,"lng":940},47.11,13.13,{"airport":452,"code":94,"city":942,"routings":943,"transfer":960,"flightNote":961},"Salzburg — 90 minutes north by rail or road",[944,948,952,956],{"from":945,"how":946,"time":947},"London & the UK","Direct to Salzburg, heavily seasonal — winter has many more flights than summer.","2 hours",{"from":949,"how":950,"time":951},"Continental Europe","Munich is two and a half hours by rail and often the better gateway; Vienna is three hours on a direct train.","2.5–3 hours",{"from":953,"how":954,"time":955},"The Gulf & India","Direct to Munich or Vienna, then rail.","6–8 hours flying",{"from":957,"how":958,"time":959},"North America","One stop through Munich, Frankfurt or Vienna.","10–12 hours","90 minutes from Salzburg. The train comes into Bad Gastein station in the middle of the village and the mountain railway is a beautiful hour and a half.","Take the train from Salzburg or Munich rather than a car. The Tauern line runs into the valley floor, the village is walkable and vertical, and a hire car spends the week in a garage.",[23,13,963,394,964,965,966,707,964,397,967,23],8,17,20,22,6,"An alpine valley at 1,000 m. Snow from December to March, wildflowers in June, and a shoulder season in November when much of the village closes.",[970,976,981,987,991],{"name":971,"kind":972,"duration":973,"note":974,"when":975},"The Gastein waterfall","nature","90 minutes","The Ache falls through the middle of the village in three stages, floodlit at night. The marked path down beside it is the best short walk in the valley.","any",{"name":977,"kind":978,"duration":947,"note":979,"when":980},"The Böckstein Montanmuseum","culture","The gold-mining history that produced the healing gallery — the tunnels were dug for ore and the therapeutic use came afterwards, by accident.","rest-day",{"name":982,"kind":983,"duration":984,"note":985,"when":986},"Stubnerkogel and the suspension bridge","active","Half day","Cable car to 2,300 m, a 140 m suspension bridge, and high ridge walking in summer. Altitude on a radon-therapy day is not advised — take it before or after the course.","before",{"name":988,"kind":983,"duration":989,"note":990,"when":975},"Skiing, from the village","Full day","Two hundred kilometres of piste across the Gastein valley, lift-linked, and the lift station is a walk from most hotels.",{"name":992,"kind":978,"duration":947,"note":993,"when":975},"The Belle Époque walking tour","The great abandoned hotels of the 1900s, several now half-restored, in the strangest architectural landscape in the Alps.",[995,999,1003],{"name":452,"nights":996,"note":997,"side":998},"2 nights","Ninety minutes down the line: the Altstadt, the fortress, and the Festival if the dates fall right.","either",{"name":1000,"nights":996,"note":1001,"side":1002},"The Grossglockner road","The high alpine road over the Hohe Tauern, open May to October, and the finest drive in Austria.","after",{"name":1004,"nights":1005,"note":1006,"side":1002},"Vienna","3 nights","A direct train east, and the coffee houses are the correct end to a fortnight of abstinence.",{"slug":109,"name":110,"place":1008,"country":92,"countryCode":877,"cluster":79,"fame":41,"modalities":1009,"hook":1010,"caseFor":1011,"hardFacts":1016,"caveat":1022,"season":1023,"seasonNote":1024,"practical":1025,"figures":1036,"faqs":1049,"image":427,"imageAlt":823,"gallery":1055,"coords":1062,"gateway":1065,"tempC":1079,"climateNote":1083,"leisure":1084,"extensions":1101,"resortCount":23,"programmeCount":23,"fromPrice":1110,"minNights":740,"maxNights":565},"Lans, Igls and the Inn valley above Innsbruck",[112,81],"Where the Mayr cure became a medical category — and where “going to Austria for your gut” came from.",[1012,1013,1014,1015],"This is the birthplace of the modern F. X. Mayr cure as an international product. Lanserhof opened at Lans in 1984 and turned a nineteenth-century digestive cure into a rigorous, doctor-led programme with diagnostics attached.","The tone is genuinely clinical rather than resort. A Mayr house runs a medical intake, blood work, manual abdominal treatment and a graded diet — and the well-known Austrian houses are unusually candid that the first three days are unpleasant.","It sits at altitude above Innsbruck with graded walking on the doorstep, which the doctors prescribe rather than suggest, and it is two hours from most of Europe.","The competition between the Tyrolean houses is real and useful: Lanserhof, Park Igls and the VIVAMAYR group have pushed each other on diagnostics for four decades, and the least resort-like of them is usually also the best value.",[1017,1018,1019,1020,1021],"Lanserhof Lans opened in 1984 — the original house of the group that made Modern Mayr Medicine an international category.","The cure derives from Franz Xaver Mayr (1875–1965), an Austrian physician whose diagnostic and dietary system underpins every house here.","Lanserhof Tegernsee (2014) and Lanserhof Sylt (2022) are the group’s later flagships, in Germany.","Park Igls sits above Innsbruck at roughly 900 m and is consistently the most clinically-toned and least expensive of the famous Austrian Mayr houses.","A standard Mayr course is 7 to 14 nights; the houses themselves recommend 14 for a first cure.","The Mayr cure is not a spa week and the first seventy-two hours are genuinely miserable — headache, fatigue and hunger while caffeine and sugar come out. The evidence base is also thinner than the clinical presentation suggests: supervised caloric restriction, chewing training and a strict eating rhythm plausibly explain most of the benefit, and the more elaborate diagnostic claims made for abdominal palpation are not well supported. Go for the structure and the supervision, not for the theory.",[41,41,41,41,23,23,23,23,23,41,42,41],"May to September is the window, because the graded walking that the doctors prescribe needs open paths and long light. November is the Alpine Zwischensaison and much of the valley closes. Winter courses run and work perfectly well — you simply do the walking on cleared paths in the cold.",[1026,1028,1031,1033],{"label":897,"value":1027},"Innsbruck (INN) is twenty minutes away; Munich is two hours by road or rail and often better connected.",{"label":1029,"value":1030},"The first days","Expect headache and fatigue on days two and three. Taper caffeine at home for a fortnight beforehand and it is markedly easier.",{"label":648,"value":1032},"Austrian and German insurers occasionally contribute where a medical indication is documented. Ask before travelling; it is never automatic.",{"label":1034,"value":1035},"What to bring","Walking shoes. The prescription includes the hill, and the houses check that you are using it.",[1037,1040,1043,1046],{"value":1038,"label":1039},"1984","Lanserhof Lans opens",{"value":1041,"label":1042},"900 m","Park Igls altitude",{"value":1044,"label":1045},"7–14","Nights, standard course",{"value":1047,"label":1048},"3 days","Before it gets easier",[1050,1053],{"q":1051,"a":1052},"What actually is a Mayr cure?","A medically supervised digestive rest: a graded, deliberately dull diet, trained slow chewing, manual abdominal treatment, magnesium, and a strict eating rhythm with nothing after early evening. Diagnostics and blood work sit around it. It is dull by design and that is most of why it works.",{"q":1054,"a":822},"Which house should I take?",[1056,1057,1058,1059],{"src":471,"alt":930},{"src":427,"alt":932},{"src":527,"alt":934},{"src":1060,"alt":1061},"photo-1476231682828-37e571bc172f","Alpine forest from above",{"lat":1063,"lng":1064},47.23,11.41,{"airport":507,"code":115,"city":1066,"routings":1067,"transfer":1077,"flightNote":1078},"Innsbruck — the clinics are in the hills immediately above it",[1068,1070,1073,1075],{"from":945,"how":1069,"time":947},"Direct to Innsbruck, heavily weighted to the ski season; Munich is the year-round alternative, two hours by road.",{"from":949,"how":1071,"time":1072},"Direct to Innsbruck or Munich, or the rail network through Munich and Zurich.","2–4 hours",{"from":953,"how":1074,"time":955},"Direct to Munich or Vienna, then rail or road.",{"from":957,"how":1076,"time":959},"One stop through Munich, Frankfurt, Vienna or Zurich.","20 to 30 minutes up the hill from Innsbruck airport to Lans, Igls and the Hungerburg. Two hours from Munich.","The Innsbruck approach is a valley one and winter weather diverts it to Munich or Salzburg more often than any other alpine airport — the airline buses you on, but it adds three hours. If your programme starts the next morning, fly the day before.",[13,370,1080,393,965,395,1081,1082,965,393,963,14],11,25,24,"A sheltered alpine valley at 600 m, with the clinics 300 m above it. Föhn winds make spring changeable; September and October are the settled months.",[1085,1088,1091,1094,1097],{"name":1086,"kind":972,"duration":984,"note":1087,"when":975},"The Nordkette by cable car","From the middle of Innsbruck to 2,300 m in twenty minutes on a Zaha Hadid funicular and two cable cars. The city is directly below your feet at the top.",{"name":1089,"kind":978,"duration":947,"note":1090,"when":980},"The Goldenes Dachl and the old town","Maximilian’s golden roof of 1500, the Hofburg and the Hofkirche with its twenty-eight bronze mourners — the finest Renaissance monument north of the Alps.",{"name":1092,"kind":978,"duration":984,"note":1093,"when":980},"Swarovski Kristallwelten","Twenty minutes east at Wattens. Divisive, spectacular, and the André Heller chambers are far stranger than the shop suggests.",{"name":1095,"kind":972,"duration":989,"note":1096,"when":975},"The Zillertal and the Achensee","A steam railway up the Ziller valley, or the lake steamer on the Achensee. Tyrol at its most postcard, an hour away.",{"name":1098,"kind":1099,"duration":984,"note":1100,"when":1002},"A mountain hut lunch","food","Fifty minutes up on foot to a Jausenstation for Kaiserschmarrn and a view. On a modified-fasting programme this is a genuinely bad idea and we will say so — take it after.",[1102,1104,1107],{"name":452,"nights":996,"note":1103,"side":998},"Two hours by rail, and the natural pairing with an Innsbruck stay.",{"name":1105,"nights":1005,"note":1106,"side":1002},"The Dolomites","Over the Brenner into Alto Adige — Alpe di Siusi, Ortisei and the best mountain food in Europe.",{"name":1108,"nights":996,"note":1109,"side":986},"Munich","Two hours north, and often the gateway anyway. 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