Esplanade Ensana Health Spa Hotel (Palace)

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☀ The Esplanade Ensana Health Spa Hotel (Palace) is located in a quiet environment in the middle of a well-tended park, in the northern part of the thermal island. The modern spa hotel is connected to the Ensana Splendid Health Spa Hotel and the Balnea Health Spa via heated corridors. The thermal mineral water and the unique sulphur mud Piešťanys are ideal for relaxing spa and active holidays.

Location & Surroundings

Piestany is the most important Slovak spa with its healing springs and sulphurous mud for the treatment of diseases of the musculoskeletal system, located in the picturesque Váh region in the south-western Slovakia. Along the left bank of the river Váh lays the spa and its landscaped parks in the open the Spa Island (access via bridges) with its thermal springs. The entire complex has been created exclusively for the thermal treatments. The beautiful spa park is perfect for long walks. Relax and unwind on the sun terraces of the luxurious spa hotel or at boardwalk concerts in the summer season.

How You Reside

198 non-smoking rooms, 6 junior suites with sofa bed (also disabled-friendly), bathroom or shower, separate WC, French balcony, air conditioning, satellite TV, Wi-Fi, safe, hairdryer, mini bar, telephone, bathrobe and lift.

Dining & Leisure

6 restaurants with Slovak and international cuisine, breakfast buffet, lunch and dinner buffet (stay à la carte), Thursday theme dinner. Also reduction-, diabetic-, separation-, light- and vegetarian food. Retrobar, Park Café with summer terrace. Bridge Club, library.

Wellness & Spa

Indoor pool (30-33°C) connected with outdoor pool, massage jets, whirlpool, steam bath, Finnish and infrared sauna. Solarium.

Health & Treatments

Health Spa Balnea, one of the most modern balnea centres in Slovakia with the latest medical standards. Mud and mirror bath department. The therapy is based on over 60 treatments with natural remedies such as sulphur baths, mud packs, inhalations, medicinal gas injections, massages. Manual lymphatic drainage, diathermy, acupuncture, ultrasound, galvanisation, Sollux quartz, individualised individual remedial gymnastics, mobilisation technique, water, cryo- and heliotherapy. 24 hours medical on-call and nurse service. Qualified team of doctors and therapists (also German speaking).

Outpatient dental clinic, beauty salon in the adjacent congress centre.

Indications: Diseases of the locomotor system, bones (osteoporosis) and joints, muscles and connective tissue, rheumatism, arthrosis, ankylosing spondylitis. Contraindications or symptoms of certain diseases: Infectious diseases, blood circulation disorders, severe arrhytmia, recurrent bleeding, tumor diseases, epilepsy, psychosis, drug addiction, chronic alcohol addiction, incontinence and pregnancy.

Free Time

An interesting excursion destination besides the capital Bratislava, which was the coronation place of 19 Hungarian kings, is the small Slovakian "Rome", the city of Trnava (approx. 35 km), which, like Nitra (approx. 55 km), is one of the oldest cities in Slovakia due to its wonderful sacral architecture.

Escape from the modern times and visit the ceramic manufactory in the wine town of Modra (about 58 km), the famous glass factory in Valasska Bela (about 84 km). The romantic castle "Bojnice" (ca. 90 km) from the 11th century in the style of the medieval French castles, the Gothic monuments of the towns of Kezmarok (ca. 270 km), Levoca (ca. 280 km) with the largest Gothic altar in the world and Spiš Castle (ca. 300 km), which is the largest in Central Europe.

For golf lovers the spa island offers the oldest 9-hole golf course in Slovakia.

Air Force Festival 8-10 May 2020: a rich programme will take place in the clouds and on the ground. The festival was founded in 2019 in honour of General Milan Rastislav Štefánik. You can look forward to an air show, street food festival, children's programme and much more.

Traditional folk handicrafts 22-24 May 2020: For the twelfth year the craftsmen on the spa island will spread their stalls. You will admire dozens of craftsmen from all over the world. You can buy original products from lace makers, woodcarvers, ceramics or blacksmiths.

City Fest 29-30 May 2020: for the 7th time the popular City Music Festival will be held on Freedom Square in Piešťany. The main attraction of the event will be the Kollar family. Residents and guests of Piestany can look forward to a great musical experience.

Getting There

Transer: Vienna Airport (return) € 229 per car (1-3 persons), Bratislava Airport (return) € 122 per car (1-3 persons).

JOINT TO railway station/airport: Vienna (Westbahnhof) (VIE), approx. 140 km, Bratislava, (BTS) approx. 80 km. Train and air fares on request.

NEW: cheap bus line "Piešťany Spa Express" regularly on Thursday and Sunday from 5.9.2019 to 31.10.2019 - The price: 19,90 EUR / one direction (contact and other appointments on request).

Schedule of the line:

- Departure 9:30 from Piestany, arrival 12:15 to Vienna main station.

- Departure 13:30 from Vienna main station, arrival 15:45 to Piestany.

The bus in Vienna stops at a bus stop Wien Hbf, Südtiroler Platz

Transfer from airport to main station. Vienna with City Airport Train in only 16 minutes (round trip approx. € 19, simply approx. € 11 per person). Alternatively by taxi approx. 17 km (city traffic 30') approx. € 50 easy.

Nearby Airports
Vienna International Airport (VIE) : (approx. 147 km / 104 minutes)
M. R. Štefánik Airport (BTS) : (approx. 87 km / 66 minutes)

Additional information

Local tax: approx. 1,50 €/day, per person, to be paid upon arrival.

Garage approx. € 6/day (by appointment).

Dogs: approx. € 15/day (by prior arrangement).

Obligatory supplement: Christmas 24.12. € 35, New Year's Eve 31.12. € 95 per person.

Surcharge SGL=DBL: € 40/day on SGL.

Please note from 19.11.2019

In order to increase the service quality and satisfaction of the guests, renovations and modernisations of the rooms and facilities will take place from 19.11.2019 to April 2020. Comfort rooms will be converted to the more comfortable premium category. New renovated rooms are expected to be available from April 2020. The renovation work will be closed down during Christmas and New Year's Eve. The Gallery Restaurant will be fully available during the refurbishment.

Good to Know

Information from Piestany AG on the current situation:

"There is currently no case of the corona virus COVID-19 registered in Slovakia. The local health authority has already tested more than 113 cases - but all of them were negative. The Ministry of Health in cooperation with the Office of Public Health (ÚVZ) SR recalls that it has continuously monitored the situation and taken far-reaching precautions".

"The Piestany & Smrdaky spas are taking all possible precautions and are coordinating them very closely with the local health authorities. Cleaning and disinfection in all hotel and spa areas have been increased as a preventive measure. We also ask all guests at check-in about their origin and their arrival route.

At Bratislava Airport, all persons arriving from already infected countries are subjected to a temperature test on entry. "Every passenger on board an aircraft from Italy (and other countries) to Bratislava must fill out a questionnaire, which we can use to identify and locate them if necessary after their arrival in Slovakia", said the Prime Minister.

Vienna International Airport is also taking all measures to prevent the COVID-19 virus.

It is important to mention that our guests prefer long-term stays, therefore there is a very low fluctuation of people in the spa Piešťany and Smrdaky. At present we do not have any guests from already infected areas. Moreover, almost all our clients are under constant observation of our spa doctors during their stay". (Spa Piestany 4.3.2020)

Effectiveness proven by medical study

"3 weeks of Complex Therapy led to an alleviation of pain and joint stiffness as well as an increase in articular functionality for guests with knee and hip joint arthrosis".

Dr. Tamara Zimanová (chief physician of the Balnea Health Spa)