Das Bayerwald S


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A vibrant programme of relaxation, rejuvenation in the spa area, hikes in the enchanting landscape, and calming, soothing treatments awaits you!
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- Access to the spa area
- Aqua fitness and yoga class once a week
- GUTi - the guest card
- Wi-Fi
Buchinger Therapeutic Fasting
Therapeutic fasting involves abstaining from solid food and stimulants for a limited period. This ancient practice aims to "purify" and rejuvenate the body. When done correctly, therapeutic fasting does not cause hunger, and full physical and mental performance is maintained. Fasting reduces the body's energy consumption and breaks down proteins in the muscles for energy, which daily exercise can counteract!
Therapeutic fasting, as per the Buchinger method, can be used as a treatment for diseases such as metabolic disorders like diabetes mellitus, lipid metabolism disorders, joint diseases, skin diseases, constipation, circulatory disorders, bronchial asthma, and chronic intestinal diseases.
- On arrival day, an introductory talk with all the information about fasting therapy
- Optional consultation with the therapy doctor (please book in advance)
- Preparation day with Epsom salts, water, lemon juice, peppermint tea
- Morning fasting tea (prepared by the naturopath), water, honey (as needed), midday freshly pressed fruit and vegetable juices, evening homemade vegetable broths
- Mineral water and tea in the room
- Daily liver compress with hay flower sachets
- Participation in the active and relaxation programme
- Breaking the fast on the last day
- Use of bathrobe and wellness bag
Additionally included for SpaDreams guests
- Access to the spa area
- Aqua fitness and yoga class once a week
- GUTi - the guest card
- Wi-Fi
Booking information
Please be aware of the contraindications associated with fasting therapy.
bookable until 7 December 2025 / 3 January - 7 December 2026
The introductory consultation takes place on the day of arrival, so please ensure you arrive by 2 p.m.
Upon request, the hotel can provide an enema kit for approximately €18 (approx. UK £16 / USD $19).
Upon request, the hotel can arrange appointments at the Physiotherapy Plötz (lymphatic drainage and massage, also available on prescription) and with a naturopath, including eye or iris diagnosis and urine analysis, approximately €50 per hour (approx. UK £44 / USD $54). Payment is made on-site! The hotel can also organize transfers upon request.
Schroth Therapy
- Schroth breakfast, consisting of tea, wholemeal rolls, and fresh fruit. Served lunch, plus a plum soup, light dinner. From the last dinner, the build-up phase begins, acclimatizing the body to "normal food".
- Drinking plan alternating between drinking and dry days: on drinking days from 3 p.m., water, dry therapy wine, or tea. On dry days, a glass of tea before the Schroth's pack, breakfast tea, a glass of orange juice, and a juniper schnapps at dinner.
- Mandatory initial medical examination.
- Use of bathrobe and wellness bag.
Additionally included for SpaDreams guests
- Access to the spa area
- Aqua fitness and yoga class once a week
- GUTi - the guest card
- Wi-Fi
Booking information
Please note the contraindications associated with a fasting therapy.
Treatment package fee is mandatory: approximately €15 per package, administered in the early morning hours, payable on site!
Mandatory initial medical examination: payable on site, can be billed through the health insurance card. The doctor may prescribe massages and mud packs. The hotel can arrange a transfer.
bookable until 7 December 2025 / 3 January - 7 December 2026
Das Bayerwald in Detail
Your Health Hotel
The Bayerwald hotel complex, nestled in a park-like wellness garden, offers tranquility, security, and warm family hospitality. The complex consists of several buildings, with the main building, Haus Frieda, and the wellness area in the swimming pool house interconnected by a bathrobe corridor, while Haus Ulrich is located about 70m away, also within the hotel garden. The hotel is only about a 5-minute walk from the train station and about a 10-minute walk from the town centre. The energy of nature and the soothing warmth provide a unique foundation for your fasting experience.
Location & Surroundings
The spa town of Lam in the Upper Bavarian Forest Nature Park captivates with its central location along the mountain chains of Arber, Osser, and Hohen Bogen. The Lamer Winkel region, with a marked network of approximately 300 km of trails, serves as the ideal starting point for nature lovers, hikers, Nordic walkers, and trail runners. Experience the scenic diversity and harmony in tune with nature. Explore the peaks and enjoy the expansive views from the numerous mountain huts and isolated farms of the forest farmers.
Dining & Leisure
Experience Bavarian hospitality and internationally inspired cuisine in our cosy restaurant or garden room. Our dishes are crafted from fresh, regional ingredients. Our pampering board includes a generous and varied breakfast, coffee and cake or ice cream in the afternoon, and in the evening, a 4-course half-board menu awaits you with soup or starter, salad plate, a choice of five main courses, and various desserts.
The hotel specializes in Buchinger fasting and Schroth treatments, which can counteract body acidification.
Wellness & Spa
The wellness area (7 a.m. to 8 p.m.) features an indoor pool spanning nearly 100 sqm, with ample relaxation loungers for unwinding. Find tranquility in the quiet room, while a lounging lawn in the wellness garden offers expansive views of nature for rejuvenation.
In the sauna area (from 2 p.m.), you can boost your immune system and regenerate your body. From the Finnish log cabin sauna (90°C) in the wellness garden, enjoy unobstructed views of nature. The bio-sanarium (65°C) with light therapy stimulates and relaxes both body and mind, while the warm mist of the steam bath provides delightful relaxation for body and soul. The infrared heat cabin has regenerative effects. For refreshment afterwards, sensorial showers and invigorating alternating showers with the Kneipp shower are available. Experience a fantastic fresh kick in the plunge pool and foot bath.
The Kastlmühlerbacherl stream, flowing through the wellness garden, not only soothes the soul with its gentle murmur but can also be used as a natural plunge or Kneipp pool.
In the fitness room with modern cardio equipment, you can get your physical fitness back on track.
Soothing and beneficial treatments such as singing bowl, brush, and deep cleaning massages, cocoa power treatment, and various facial treatments are available in the beauty area.
The Physiotherapy Practice Plötz is located in the neighbouring building, about 50 meters away. The practice is well-frequented, so there may be slight delays in scheduling appointments! Please make an appointment about 2-3 weeks before arrival via the reservation/reception or directly at the practice at Tel. 09943 903155 or info@physio-ploetz.de.
The practice of the spa doctor is in the neighbouring town of Arrach or in Bad Kötzing, and the hotel can organize a transfer.
Fasting, Detox & Cleansing
Fasting is the most potent appeal to the natural self-healing powers of humans, both physically and mentally. (Dr. Heinz Fahrner).
In everyday life, we often forget to take care of ourselves - through poor diet, insufficient exercise, and the worries of daily life, we often become lethargic and unmotivated.
Therapeutic Fasting According to Buchinger - Fasting for a Limited Time
During therapeutic fasting, you abstain from solid food that burdens the body and provide your body with liquids in the form of vegetable broths, juices, water, and teas. In addition to cleansing the body, increasing performance, weight loss, improving blood flow properties, and micro-macro circulation, there is a harmonization of mood and an increase in quality of life and vitality. The desired detoxification and purification process aims to help you achieve new well-being and zest for life.
Ideal for: Heart and vascular diseases, back and joint diseases, obesity, chronic diseases of the digestive tract, high blood pressure, immune weakness, lack of drive, and depressive moods.
Longevity with Schroth Therapy - Not Starving, But Healthy Fasting
The Schroth therapy combines four important pillars.
1. The Schroth Diet
The diet consists of a calorie-reduced, predominantly alkaline diet without animal protein and fat. This relieves the metabolism and promotes self-healing.
2. The Schroth Drinking Regulation
The rhythmic alternation of drinking and dry days gives the body and the self-healing process an additional impulse and thus supports the "tissue drainage" in the organism. Therapy drinks can include mineral water, tea, and even a dry therapy wine.
3. The Schroth Wrap
In the early morning hours, a full-body wrap is administered to the therapy guest. This promotes the breakdown of metabolic waste and toxins by increasing peripheral circulation and stimulating metabolism.
4. Rest and Movement
An appropriate balance of rest and movement, preferably in nature, helps to optimally regenerate body and mind. Ideal activities to stimulate metabolism include hiking, , swimming - while massages, relaxation techniques, and other wellness treatments provide rest and relaxation.
Free Time
The Lamer Winkel is the ideal area for cycling & biking and hiking. The most spectacular scenic tour takes you around the surrounding Eight Thousanders from Arber to Eck. But there are also opportunities for relaxation at the Osserbad or the two Badessen. In winter, the ski resorts Großer Arber, Eck-Riedelstein, and Hohen Bogen await you with alpine descents, two cross-country skiing areas at altitudes of 850 m to 1,200 m, as well as snowshoeing and winter hiking. Excursions to Passau or Prague are also recommended. Your personal key to the region is GUTi - the guest card, available in paper or digital form.
Getting There
Nearby Airports
Munich International Airport (MUC): (aprox. 171 km / 122 minutes)
Transfer not bookable, we recommend a taxi
Nuremberg Airport (NUE): (aprox. 176 km / 132 minutes)
Transfer not bookable, we recommend a taxi
Additional information
Your GUTi - the Guest Card for the Lamer Winkel includes: Use of public transport (bus and train) in the districts of Cham, Regen, and Freyung-Grafenau, participation in the guided Lamer Winkel hiking programme with over 300 hikes annually, one trial entry from 5 p.m. to the Osserbad (indoor pool, outdoor pool, steam bath, sauna), use of the prepared cross-country skiing trails, parking at the Lohberg-Scheiben cross-country skiing centre, admission to the Crafts and Minerals Museum at Drexlerhof in Arrach, book borrowing at the Lam municipal library, Lamer Winkel leisure magazine - "Temporary Homeland." Additionally, discounts on hiking maps, mountain railways, animal parks, distilleries, museums, treetop paths, and much more.
Tourist Tax: approx. 2,00 €/day, per Person, payable locally.Dogs (all sizes) are permitted with prior notice, approx. 8,00 €/day, to be paid at the hotel.
Do you want to travel with your children? We would be happy to check availability and price for you. Simply enter the age of the children at the time of travel in the comment field next to your specific travel request.
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Hotel rooms at a glance
A total of 48 rooms and apartments await you, designed for your comfort. Both double and single rooms are decorated in bright and welcoming colours. The bathrooms are equipped with either a bathtub or shower, hairdryer, and a vanity mirror. The rooms feature a desk or a seating area, radio, TV, telephone, some with a fridge, and many offer beautiful views from a balcony or terrace. Single rooms are double rooms for single use. Bathrobes can be rented for a usage fee of 3€ (approx. UK £2.60 / USD $3.20), but are provided complimentary during fasting treatments.
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Customer ratings for Das Bayerwald
11 verified reviews by travelersOnly customers who have traveled with us are allowed to leave a review
4.6 Outstanding
100% recommend the hotel to others
- 'well-maintained hotel'
- 'friendly staff'
- 'quiet location'
- 'large garden'
- 'clean sauna'
- 'excellent fasting options'
- 'rich breakfast'
- 'beautiful spa area'
- 'comfortable rooms'
- 'professional service'
Rotraud R.
August 2025
9 - 11 days
Hotel
A somewhat outdated, but very well-kept and well-equipped hotel with sauna, swimming pool and a wonderful large garden with old trees
Service
Very nice staff everywhere
Treatments
there was only one aqua gym session and one yoga session, both were ok
Board type
Since I was there for fasting, I can't rate the gastronomy, but everything there was for fasting, broth, delicious juices and teas, was very good
Wellness area
Valentin M.
October 2025
solo | 50 to 59 years | 4 - 8 days
Hotel
The hotel is a little outdated, so the ambience is not the most modern. The location with beautiful walks in the surrounding area makes up for it...
Service
The staff are very friendly, but I would have liked more support with therapeutic fasting. There was an initial consultation, after which I was on my own until the end. At least there could have been a final consultation with recommendations on how to continue with the diet...
Treatments
Board type
I can't give a rating here as I was here for therapeutic fasting.
Wellness area
The spa area is very nice, clean and large: 3 saunas and an infrared cabin, whirlpool and large swimming pool. One star deduction for accidentally locking up half an hour before closing time.
Hans P.
August 2025
solo | 70 to 79 years | 4 - 8 days
I recovered very well, the fasting program was great, the overall ambience impressed me very positively,
Hotel
Very tidy rooms, good mattress, very friendly staff, very good location with large park, very quiet, very well maintained swimming pool and sauna, I had a great rest,
Service
Very friendly staff, very helpful with information, very professional
Treatments
Unfortunately, treatments were not possible due to illness, but as someone who is not fasting for the first time, this was not a problem
Board type
the fasting offer was naturally limited, the freshly squeezed daily fruit/vegetable juices were excellent
Wellness area
Swimming pool and sauna very clean and well maintained, suitable for very good relaxation