VitalHotel Ascona

• Use of the spa area with indoor pool, saunas and fitness equipment
• Use of a spa kit with bathrobe, sauna towel and slippers
• Wi-Fi
• Bicycle hire, subject to availability
• A complimentary transfer from Bad Bevensen railway station may be available, subject to staff availability and advance booking by 3:30 pm. This is not an included service.

Optional meal plans are available, payable locally: half board approximately £26 (€30) on top of bed and breakfast; full board approximately £35 (€40) on top of bed and breakfast, or £9 (€10) on top of half board.

Minimum stay 3 nights: 5 nights: 23/12/2026 – 01/01/2027

Mandatory supplements for Christmas (25/12 – 26/12) and New Year's Eve are already included in the displayed price.

• 1 Ascona cocktail
• 1 basic facial treatment: cleansing, exfoliation, moisturising ampoule, facial massage and mask (55 minutes)
• 1 hot stone back massage or 1 classic back massage (20 minutes each), subject to availability

• Use of the spa area with indoor pool, saunas and fitness equipment
• Use of a spa kit with bathrobe, sauna towel and slippers
• Wi-Fi
• Bicycle hire, subject to availability
• A complimentary transfer from Bad Bevensen railway station may be available, subject to staff availability and advance booking by 3:30 pm. This is not an included service.

Also available to book at weekends in a double room

Please note: appointments may begin early on your arrival day.

Full board is available as an optional extra, payable at the hotel: approximately £9 (€10) on top of half board.

Mandatory supplements for Christmas (25/12 – 26/12) and New Year’s Eve are already included in the displayed price.

• 1 Ascona cocktail

• Use of the spa area with indoor pool, saunas and fitness equipment
• Use of a spa kit with bathrobe, sauna towel and slippers
• Wi-Fi
• Bicycle hire, subject to availability
• A complimentary transfer from Bad Bevensen railway station may be available, subject to staff availability and advance booking by 3:30 pm. This is not an included service.

Full board is available as an optional extra, payable locally: approximately £9 (€10) on top of half board.

Treatments take place at the spa centre.

If your outpatient preventive treatment has been approved, please send a copy of the spa doctor's certificate to the hotel so that your appointment with the spa doctor can be arranged in good time. Please present the original certificate on arrival.

Mandatory supplements for Christmas (25/12 – 26/12) and New Year's Eve are already included in the displayed price.

Alongside programmes intended to detoxify and cleanse the body, such as Schroth treatment programmes, fasting programmes and alkaline fasting, there are also straightforward, traditional approaches to weight loss. A reduced-calorie diet can offer a simple start to changing your eating habits. Together with your nutritionist, you will decide how many calories a day are right for you, usually around 800 or 1,200. A detailed introductory consultation helps you make the best possible start to your diet, supported by carefully presented, flavoursome and balanced dishes.
Improve your quality of life and support your health, with a little willpower along the way.

• Reduced-calorie diet with approximately 1,000 or 1,200 kcal (including water and a tea station in your room)
• Introductory consultation and tips for afterwards
• Participation in the fitness and activity programme

• Use of the spa area with indoor pool, saunas and fitness equipment
• Use of a spa kit with bathrobe, sauna towel and slippers
• Wi-Fi
• Bicycle hire, subject to availability
• A complimentary transfer from Bad Bevensen railway station may be available, subject to staff availability and advance booking by 3:30 pm. This is not an included service.

Please take note of the contraindications for a fasting programme.

Arrival Sunday to Thursday

The hotel asks that you provide your planned arrival time before travelling so that your introductory consultation can be scheduled.

Liver fasting follows clearly structured phases: an intensive phase to quickly ease the demands on your metabolism, followed by a rebuilding phase in which a balanced diet is gradually reintroduced.

The programme is supported by consultations, exercise and nutritional guidance, helping you make a fresh start for your health and wellbeing and develop healthy eating habits for the long term. The liver is one of the body's most important organs: it detoxifies, regulates metabolism, produces bile and plays a central role in processing sugar and fats. Yet an unhealthy diet, stress, lack of exercise and excess weight can place it under considerable strain. Liver fasting offers an effective way to ease that strain and improve liver function over the long term. It is a scientifically grounded nutrition programme designed specifically to help the liver regenerate, reduce its fat content and ease the demands on your metabolism. Dietary changes are introduced to stimulate fat burning and reduce the burden on liver cells, with protein-rich meals, high-quality nutrients and a significantly reduced carbohydrate intake.

• All liver fasting meals and fasting drinks
• Water and a tea station in your room
• Participation in the fitness and activity programme

• Use of the spa area with indoor pool, saunas and fitness equipment
• Use of a spa kit with bathrobe, sauna towel and slippers
• Wi-Fi
• Bicycle hire, subject to availability
• A complimentary transfer from Bad Bevensen railway station may be available, subject to staff availability and advance booking by 3:30 pm. This is not an included service.

Please take note of the contraindications for a fasting programme.

Arrival Sunday to Thursday

With intermittent fasting, the fasting rhythm comes first. The fasting phase allows the body to burn fat continuously without a constant supply of food. The most popular approach is the 16:8 method: within an eight-hour window, you eat healthy, sugar-free, protein-rich food with plenty of vegetables and low-sugar fruit. This is followed by a strict 16-hour fast, ideally beginning at 6pm. Plenty of sleep and drinking water and tea are important. Unsweetened black coffee is also recommended for its appetite-suppressing effect. Exercise and movement support this form of fasting too. Intermittent fasting is a true fountain of youth, slowing the ageing of body cells and having a positive effect on blood pressure, blood sugar and cholesterol levels.

• Reduced-calorie or alkaline diet following a 16:8 intermittent fasting schedule
• Water and a tea station in your room
• Introductory consultation and tips for afterwards
• Participation in the fitness and activity programme

• Use of the spa area with indoor pool, saunas and fitness equipment
• Use of a spa kit with bathrobe, sauna towel and slippers
• Wi-Fi
• Bicycle hire, subject to availability
• A complimentary transfer from Bad Bevensen railway station may be available, subject to staff availability and advance booking by 3:30 pm. This is not an included service.

Please take note of the contraindications for a fasting programme.

Arrival: Sunday to Thursday

Therapeutic fasting is a natural approach to preventive medicine.

In its method, "Fasting for Healthy People" differs from Buchinger therapeutic fasting only in who takes responsibility (the individual or a doctor), the aim of the intervention (promoting health or treating illness) and the duration of the fast. This gentle liquid-based programme for weight loss, cleansing and detoxification involves strictly abstaining from food and stimulants for a limited period. After a bowel cleanse, plenty of fluids are provided in the form of water, tea, vegetable broths and juices. To support circulation, walks and hikes are recommended, alternating with periods of rest and relaxation. Towards the end of the fast, food is carefully reintroduced. Fasting may help relieve symptoms of rheumatism, gout, diabetes, and skin and bowel conditions, while providing a foundation for greater enjoyment of life, increased vitality and a stronger immune system.

• Fasting plan with vegetable broth or vegetable juices (including water and a tea station in your room)
• Introductory consultation and tips for afterwards
• Preparation and refeeding days
• Daily liver compress, with guidance for the first application
• Final consultation
• Participation in the fitness and activity programme
• Detox package for fasting programmes (foot bath with brine on loan, raw silk glove, fermented plum, black sesame sample and Hormonizing Oil)
• Shuttle on request

• Use of the spa area with indoor pool, saunas and fitness equipment
• Use of a spa kit with bathrobe, sauna towel and slippers
• Wi-Fi
• Bicycle hire, subject to availability
• A complimentary transfer from Bad Bevensen railway station may be available, subject to staff availability and advance booking by 3:30 pm. This is not an included service.

Please note the contraindications for a fasting programme.

A medical certificate confirming that your heart and circulatory system are healthy is required. This certificate must be no more than 6 months old. Alternatively, you may undertake the treatment programmes at your own responsibility, in which case a written liability waiver is required.

Arrival from Sunday to Thursday

The hotel asks that you provide your planned arrival time before travelling so that your introductory consultation can be scheduled.

It's all about balance. Alkaline fasting is not a fasting programme, but an enjoyable way of eating that is easy to follow in everyday life. Acid-forming foods and drinks such as meat, sausages, eggs, full-fat dairy products, sweets and alcohol are deliberately avoided.

Instead, the diet features alkaline-forming foods such as fruit, vegetables, herbs, shoots, mushrooms, sprouts, sunflower and pumpkin seeds, almonds and high-quality plant oils. Water and tea are the drinks of choice. A targeted programme of activity and relaxation helps restore acid-base balance quickly. This approach to reducing acidity and cleansing may help with rheumatic conditions, skin problems, migraines and reduced performance, and improves general wellbeing.

• Alkaline full-board diet with approximately 1,000 kcal (including water and a tea station in your room)
• Introductory consultation and tips for afterwards
• First liver compress included
• Participation in the fitness and activity programme
• Detox package for fasting programmes (foot bath with brine on loan, raw silk glove, fermented plum, a sample of black sesame and Hormonizing Oil)

• Use of the spa area with indoor pool, saunas and fitness equipment
• Use of a spa kit with bathrobe, sauna towel and slippers
• Wi-Fi
• Bicycle hire, subject to availability
• A complimentary transfer from Bad Bevensen railway station may be available, subject to staff availability and advance booking by 3:30 pm. This is not an included service.

Please note the contraindications for a fasting programme.

Arrival from Sunday to Thursday

The Schroth programme is a naturopathic treatment designed to strengthen the body's self-healing and immune defences.

Fasting is a key method in longevity medicine. Its success rests on four pillars: diet and nutrition, wraps and detox, drinking and dry days, and rest and exercise. The Schroth diet is low in calories (approximately 800–850 kcal), predominantly alkaline and gentle on the digestive system. For the Schroth wraps, you are wrapped in cool, damp sheets with several hot-water bottles. This induces a therapeutic fever intended to flush out metabolic waste. The body's defences are strengthened and the skin is conditioned to support detoxification. The spa physician determines the drinking and dry days to further support the skin's drainage function. On drinking days, a therapeutic wine is permitted alongside water, tea and juices. Drinking days are for sport and exercise, while dry days are dedicated to rest, relaxation techniques and massages.

• Schroth programme diet including treatment drinks
• 5 Schroth wraps per week, including the wrap practitioner's fee and materials (Monday to Friday)
• Support from the Schroth wrap practitioner
• Participation in the fitness and activity programme (subject to availability)
• Shuttle on request

• Use of the spa area with indoor pool, saunas and fitness equipment
• Use of a spa kit with bathrobe, sauna towel and slippers
• Wi-Fi
• Bicycle hire, subject to availability
• A complimentary transfer from Bad Bevensen railway station may be available, subject to staff availability and advance booking by 3:30 pm. This is not an included service.

Please note the contraindications for a fasting programme.

A certificate confirming that your heart and circulatory system are healthy is required. You can obtain this from your GP or from the local spa doctor, payable locally. Alternatively, you may undertake the treatment programmes at your own risk, in which case a written liability waiver is required.

For stays of 14 nights or more, an outpatient preventive treatment is also available, with the doctor's services and any massages billed via a spa doctor's certificate.

Arrival Sunday

Bookable in the Single Occupancy Double Room, South-facing, Single Occupancy Standard Double Room, North-facing, or Comfort Double Room.

For greater quality of life, wellbeing and enjoyment of mindful living. Enjoy a break that brings together wellbeing, movement and good food in a distinctive way. The "zuckerleicht" Vitality Week is designed for people with diabetes, prediabetes or metabolic syndrome, as well as anyone wishing to take an active approach to their health. Enjoy delicious food designed to support stable blood sugar, inspiring health insights, gentle exercise and restorative wellness moments in a relaxed setting.
The benefits of a blood sugar-friendly diet include:

• more stable blood sugar levels
• feeling fuller for longer and fewer cravings
• more energy and improved performance
• support with weight management
• improved insulin sensitivity
• lower risk of complications for people with diabetes
• support for cardiovascular health
• a balanced intake of fibre, vitamins and minerals
• improved concentration thanks to more consistent energy levels
• greater enjoyment of fresh, varied and nutrient-rich foods

• Diabetes-friendly vitality full board, including lemon and orange water with meals
• Personal support and individual advice
• Health talks and practical workshops
• Water and a tea station in your room
• Participation in the activity programme, including Nordic walking, aqua aerobics and back exercises

• Use of the spa area with indoor pool, saunas and fitness equipment
• Use of a spa kit with bathrobe, sauna towel and slippers
• Wi-Fi
• Bicycle hire, subject to availability
• A complimentary transfer from Bad Bevensen railway station may be available, subject to staff availability and advance booking by 3:30 pm. This is not an included service.

Arrival: Sunday to Thursday