Thermia Palace EnsanaHealth Spa Hotel

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☀ The Ensana Thermia Palace Health Spa Hotel, the art nouveau jewel from 1912, is located in the southern part of the thermal island.

Location & Surroundings

Spa Piešťany is known for its unique sulfuric mud and thermal waters. Classic treatment programmes and spa services invite you to a relaxing and active holiday.

How You Reside

118 air-conditioned, elegant rooms and suites with bath or shower/WC, hair dryer, mini bar, satellite TV, telephone, internet, safe, bathrobe and mostly with balcony. Deluxe rooms (former superior) are larger including turn-down service and a welcome gift. Suites have separate living and bedroom area. Single rooms are double rooms with single occupancy. Internet terminal in the lobby, laundry.

Dining & Leisure

Breakfast buffet, also vegetarian food, reduction, gluten and lactose free, or diet. Café with terrace, wine shop.

Wellness & Spa

Emporium Wellness & Beauty (Mo.-Sa. 8 am - 7 pm, 1st floor in Irma). Baths and massages. Premier fitness center. From 2019 new indoor pool, sauna whirlpool, Finnish and infrasauna, tepidarium. Outdoor pool (approx. 32-33°C) in the garden.

Health & Treatments

Kur & Wellness Center Health Spa Irma is directly connected to the hotel (renovated in 2019). Luxurious spa area with more than 60 treatments with natural remedies. Sulphur tub bath, mud bath, mud packs, mirror bath, carbonic acid bath. Massages, lymphatic drainage, Scottish shower, underwater traction bath, alternating foot bath, diathermy, ultrasound, galvanisation, iontophoresis, galvanic 4-cell bath, Sollux quartz, diadynamic currents, acupuncture. Cryo-, electro-, magneto-, hydro-, heliotherapy, inhalation, medicinal gas injections, loop therapy. Swimming in thermal water. Special techniques: Mobilisation technique, facilitation, individual therapeutic gymnastics, gentle techniques, electrostimulation, vascular gymnastics according to Bürger, isometric exercises. 24 hours of medical on-call and nurse service. The doctors are famous for their qualifications and excellent medical services, as are the physiotherapists and masseurs. Some spa treatments are also carried out in the neighbouring Health Spa Napoleon.

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

Explore the Nordic walking and jogging trails around the island, visit jazz concerts, film festival and wine taverns in the surrounding area. The oldest 9-hole golf course in Slovakia with its centuries-old trees blends in beautifully with the island's surroundings.

An interesting excursion destination besides the capital Bratislava, which was the coronation place of 19 Hungarian kings, is the small Slovak "Rome", the town of Trnava (approx. 35 km), which, like Nitra (approx. 55 km), is one of the oldest towns in Slovakia due to its beautiful 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.

Getting There

Transfer Vienna Airport (return) € 229 per car (1-3 persons)
Bratislava Airport (return) € 122 per car (1-3 persons).
Railway station: Vienna (Westbahnhof), (VIE) approx. 140 km

NEW: cheap bus line "Piešťany Spa Express" regularly on Thursday and Sunday from 5.9.2019 to 31.10.2019 - The price: € 19.90 /one direction (contact on request).

Schedule of the line:

- Departure 9.30 am from Piestany, arrival 12.15 pm to Vienna main station.

- Departure 1.30 pm from Vienna main station, arrival 3.45 pm 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. 146 km / 102 minutes)
M. R. Štefánik Airport (BTS) : (approx. 86 km / 63 minutes)

Additional information

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

Parking: approx. €2/day.

Garage: approx.€5/day with prior notice.

Dogs: approx. €15/day, with prior notice.

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 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 spas Piestany & Smrdaky take all possible precautions and coordinate 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 countries already infected are subjected to a temperature check on entry. "Every passenger on board an aircraft from Italy (and other countries) to Bratislava must fill in a questionnaire, which we can use to identify and find 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, which is why there is a very low fluctuation of people at 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)

Medical studies on therapies at the Piestany Spa in the fields of balneology and rheumatology were carried out in close and intensive cooperation with the Faculty of Physiotherapy in Trnava and the Universities of Bratislava and Prague. All hotels have state-approved spa therapy departments. EurospaMED and TÜV quality certificates. 24-hour medical on-call service, dieticians.

Effect of a complex spa therapy proven by medical study.

"Complex spa treatment for 21 days resulted in the guests with knee and hip joint arthrosis having their pain and joint stiffness alleviated and their articular functionality increased".

Dr. Tamara Zimanová (chief physician at the Balnea Esplanade and Palace Hotel)