Unfortunately, the thermal baths have lost a lot o...

Unfortunately, the thermal baths have lost a lot of quality and relaxation. But gained in quantity - it remains to be seen whether this is what you want on your relaxing vacation . Unfortunately, only the guests are obviously asking this question.

We have been driving here - annually - for several years, because the offer was once the non-plus-ultra! You can tell that the spirit that made Bad Blumau what it was (a real dream) has dissolved. The point here is to squeeze as many people as possible into the thermal baths. What makes Rogner different from others, namely exclusivity, is no longer there.

There are 6 more beds in the sauna area than in the previous year. 6 doesn't read much at first glance, but it is enough to do more than disturb the peace and quiet: No matter how skillfully you do it, when you move you touch at least 2 other visitors. If you lie more in the middle, you touch everyone else in the row, it's become so tight.

In the hallway to the sauna area, there are suddenly also loungers, so that - and this is sheer madness - the legally prescribed passage width is more than half the size. It is particularly annoying when 2 visitors approach each other, because next to each other is no longer possible. Something like that I expect with a thermal bath that offers the corresponding prices. Bad Blumau is priced far above average, which we were always happy to pay because it offered real quality.

Coffee service is a joke. Since we have enjoyed coming here for years, we treated ourselves to something and booked Wolkenreich in the Ziegelhaus ( 35 per person per night more), partly because of this advertised coffee service. I had to ask at reception twice because at first I thought they were joking (the young man at reception was very friendly). The coffee service consists of a kettle and instant powder coffee. Ashamed to "offer" something like this to your guests. It's like when Audi suddenly starts installing engines from hotweels.

Breakfast until 10:30 - is on the website, in the hotel region and the staff explain it as well. The lettering is removed at 09:50 - so you can guess what to eat. Or does the question of waste no longer arise? Because this is to be assumed when guests are hungry but do not know what they are getting. At 10:10, 20 minutes before the end, it was cleared away.

We booked partner massage 2 months in advance, as a thank you for the early booking we received a 5% discount and thus paid a total of 174. On site at the thermal baths, the same offer for 74 per person. Sorry, I can t think of anything else.

There are also many smaller details such as: incense sticks are no longer lit by the day (that kills the charm of the whole facility more drastically than you think), the nice fire bowls are only sporadically heated at night, instead of Coke you no longer get ONLY Pespi, but, worse, their syrup, and much more. Simply a lot of little things that, taken together, made the Rogner Bad Blumau what it was: an incomparable arsenal of chamre and well-being, an attitude to life that carries no price tag. Whatever it turns out to be, I don't know if I'll do this to myself again and expose my wallet to unearned prices for longer.

I would love to. Sometimes a price increase does more than entertain even more paying masses.