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A delightful add on to a city break in Graz is to visit the 4* Quellenhotel and Styrian Spa - just 40 minutes away in the southern hills. Best visited in the summer by eco friendly health lovers. Organic food, thermal water pools and health farm style treatment facilities blend with hiking and biking through sunflowers, vineyards and fruit trees. There is also golf, tennis and cultural visits to medieval castles amongst other things to do.
Quellenhotel, Thermenstrasse 111, A-8271 Bad Waltersdorf, Austria. Contact details on www.quellenhotel.at
Hotel transfer will pick up from Graz but car hire recommended for those wanting to tour the countryside.
A five-star hotel in a good location. The hotel was very inexpensive for five-star and it was located very near all the sites in Graz. The breakfast buffet was good and the staff very helpful.
Grieskai 4, Graz, 8020 Austria; tel: 43 316 7066 0 www.weitzer.com/en/wiesler
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