Family wonderland
Family wonderland
Family wonderland
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Salzburger Land<br />
<strong>Family</strong> nights<br />
Even babies are catered for with baby massage<br />
(every parent knows a contented baby is a quiet<br />
baby), and walking trails suitable for prams.<br />
Take just a couple of these experiences.<br />
A night hike in the mountains, for example.<br />
Wrapped up warm and under the auspices of<br />
an experienced guide, and armed with torches,<br />
you’ll set out on a path that may seem familiar<br />
by day but seems thrillingly mysterious by<br />
night. Creatures rustle and scuttle – was that<br />
an owl up there? A marmot zipping across the<br />
path in a black blur?<br />
High up, an eerie glow rises up just above<br />
the distant mountaintops. What would that<br />
be, do you think, the guide asks. A UFO? A<br />
lost city on top of the mountains? No, it’s the<br />
glow of moonlight on the glaciers up there,<br />
where it’s light as day at midnight on a clear<br />
summer’s night. And then there are the stars,<br />
revealed without their blanket of cloud or<br />
10 a u s t r i a ’ s hi d d e n t r e a s u r e s<br />
pollution, clearer still because of the altitude:<br />
they spot Jupiter, and maybe Venus, and is that<br />
Saturn? These are real planets, not games, and<br />
the childrens’ imaginations are ablaze.<br />
All the hotels have professional childcare<br />
services and access to guides for their activities,<br />
which means you will also be able to spend<br />
some blessed ‘grown up’ time together – or<br />
maybe just time on your own. And don’t worry<br />
about leaving the monitor/changing mat/milk<br />
bottle at home; they’ll always have one for you.<br />
And when your children have partaken of<br />
all these activities, after a few days, it might<br />
Facts & Figures<br />
salzburger land<br />
l Salzburg<br />
For more information please contact:<br />
Salzburger Land Tourismus<br />
Wiener Bundesstrasse 23, P.O.Box 1<br />
A-5300 Hallwang bei Salzburg<br />
Tel: +43 (0) 662 66880<br />
Fax: +43 (0) 662 668866<br />
Email: info@salzburgerland.com<br />
www.salzburgerland.com<br />
NEArEST AirPOrTS<br />
Salzburg local<br />
Linz 75 miles (121 km)<br />
Munich 116 miles (188 km)<br />
be time to visit Schnitza’s Holzpark. This is a<br />
new adventure park with an Austrian twist;<br />
everything revolves around a wooden theme,<br />
with wood carving (including huge wooden<br />
animals), wooden bowling, a wooden<br />
balancing course…<br />
Or for older children, there’s the famous<br />
(or is that infamous?) Wagraini’s Grafenberg, a<br />
water and mountain adventure park with one<br />
of the highest swings in the world, 9m tall, and<br />
a panoply of jungle ropes, balance challenges,<br />
enormous slides, a 25m rope suspension<br />
bridge and numerous other devices carefully<br />
crafted to wear your children out and give you<br />
a good night’s sleep.<br />
And at the end of your holiday, prepare<br />
yourself for a very strange noise: the sound of<br />
your children rejecting the electronic devices<br />
they used to use for recreation and asking<br />
when they can come back and do everything<br />
they have just experienced all over again… ■A<br />
ANd ANOTHEr THiNg...<br />
Kinderhotels is the ultimate<br />
hotel group for families,<br />
operating all over Austria.<br />
Holidays are tailored<br />
with children in mind with<br />
every childcare facility at your<br />
disposal, from equipment to<br />
healthy ‘baby food buffets’,<br />
and lots of adventure and play<br />
areas and fun parks.<br />
www.kinderhotels.co.uk<br />
ÖsterreicH Werbung / bArtl; robert HArding