Grenzwandern @ AVIVA
18.05.2025 - 25.05.2025
AVIVA situated between the Bohemian Forest and the Czech Republic. Hiking in the most beautiful region. Hike together with many other singles through the marvellous landscape of the Mühlviertel!
Border Hiking Days at the AVIVA: a time to overcome your personal limits and gain new experiences.
You have decided to experience the border hiking days at the AVIVA. It is an exciting opportunity to explore your personal limits and take on new challenges. You arrive and immediately feel the energy and enthusiasm in the air.
AVIVA – situated at an altitude of almost 1000 metres – on the Mühlviertel plateau.
Between the Bohemian Forest and the Czech Republic. Hiking in the most beautiful area. Hike together with many other singles through the marvellous landscape of the Mühlviertel! Enjoy the fresh spring forest air on this hike and treat yourself to an active break in nature. Breathe in. Breathe out. Feel your own strength again.
Who else is taking part?
Just ask in the AVIVA make friends community who is taking part, get to know each other in advance and arrange to travel together🙂
The AVIVA inclusive services
- Overnight stay in a modern, south-facing multi-view room with a view of the Alps
- Free use of the AVIVA spa area & activity programme also on arrival & departure day
- Rich breakfast buffet with regional food from 7.30 am to 10.30 am (until 11.00 am at weekends)
- AVIVA Sweet & Sour Snack also on the day of arrival & departure with soups, various salads, hot snacks, cakes and tarts, coffee and fruit from 2.30 pm to 4.00 pm in the restaurant and on the hotel terrace in warm weather
- All-day fruit bar in the lobby and wellness area
- 6-course AVIVA make friends dinner with 3 different main courses to choose from, an extensive salad buffet and a cheese bar, as well as a weekly barbecue buffet with Austrian specialities at large communication tables with other guests.
- Various culinary highlights such as BBQ, street food, Mühlviertler Alm dinner, etc. at the themed events.
- Intolerances can be catered for by prior arrangement.
- Mainly regional food with a maximum transport distance of 50km
- Free use of the wellness & spa area on 2,000 m² on the day of arrival & departure: indoor pool, sauna area with earth sauna, Finnish sauna, soft sauna, infrared cabin, caldarium, relaxation room, tea, juice and fruit bar, as well as solarium (for a fee)
- Sauna infusions and steam bath peelings several times a week in the Finnish sauna, earth sauna
- Bathing bag with bathrobe, sauna towels and bath towels
- Modern fitness centre with Technogym equipment, including BodyCoach vibro, treadmill, spinning bike, ergometer and strength equipment
- bright vitality room equipped with various stretching, strengthening and fascia training machines
- Large wellness garden with loungers, swimming pond, outdoor whirlpool, relaxation and communication islands, beach volleyball court and table tennis table
- Get-together several times a week in the hotel’s various outlets
- Daily (except Sunday) varied indoor & outdoor sports programme, accompanied by a professional fitness trainer
- Use of the hotel’s own Nordic walking poles, mountain bikes (in summer) and cross-country skis, snowshoes and ice stock for the hotel’s own ice stock rink (in winter), as well as the option to hire modern e-bikes for a fee (subject to availability, please reserve in advance)
- Opportunity to take part in beer brewing and the brewery tour
- Dance club for partying with DJ from Thursday to Saturday
- Rustic alpine feeling on the AVIVA Alm on Tuesday and Thursday
- Broadband WLAN internet connection throughout the hotel, table football and darts
- free monitored car park directly in front of the hotel with 6 e-charging stations – 22kw/h with type 2 plug
- Low-cost shuttle 3 times a week – further details
- free carpooling platform for coordinating your own holiday arrival and departure with other guests – more details
- free participation in the AVIVA make friends online community – an online platform to stay in contact with other guests or to get to know them
- free participation in the AVIVA online guestbook – an online platform to see who else is staying at the hotel during your stay
- Extensive sustainability and energy-saving measures – further details
- a variety of measures for professional working conditions for around 80 employees
| 6 days / 5 nights for you (1 person) |
6 days / 5 nights for friends (2 people) |
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| AVIVA MehrBlick-room | from 705,- | from 568,- |
| AVIVA Sky on the 4th & 5th floor | from 785,- | from 648,- |
| AVIVA Suite 50m² | from 905,- | from 768,- |
- The daily updated prices can be found in the AVIVA online booking tool. Our tip: the earlier you book, the cheaper the price. Please note the early booking promotions and specials in the AVIVA newsletter.
- The price for you is valid for single occupancy, for friends for double occupancy per person.
- All prices are per person and stay and include the programme listed and all hotel inclusive services.
- The prices quoted are inclusive of VAT, plus the statutory local tax of 3.50 and a service charge of 3.50 per person per night.
- The AVIVA reservations team will be happy to answer your questions daily from 7 am to 8 pm.
Monday
- 10.00 – approx. 15.00 Wittingshausen Castle – approx. 20 km (via forest and meadow paths to the Czech Republic – visit to the castle 2.50 – refreshment stop)
Tuesday
- 10.00 – approx. 15.00 Hike to the ‘Iron Curtain Memorial’ Directly from the AVIVA, the route leads along forest paths towards the Guglwald border crossing. The path leads past various places of power. At the Guglwald border crossing, we visit the ‘Iron Curtain’ memorial. The Iron Curtain, which stretched from the Arctic Ocean (Norway/Finland-Soviet Union) to the Black Sea (Bulgaria) after the end of the Second World War until 1989, and the Berlin Wall (1961-1989) were militarily fortified border fortifications erected by the Warsaw Pact states against the neighbouring western-oriented countries and Yugoslavia. On 2 May 1989, Hungary began dismantling the ‘Iron Curtain’ on the border with Austria. On 11 December 1989, commandos of the Czechoslovak border troops began to remove the barbed wire entanglements of the Iron Curtain on the border with Austria everywhere between Bratislava and Wullowitz using wire cutters. (Approx. 17 km, 300 metres in altitude, walking time 4 hours)
Wednesday
- 11.00 – approx. 14.00 Hike via the Czech Republic to the ‘HOLY WATER’
- We walk along forest and meadow paths through the marvellously gentle hilly landscape of the Mühlviertel region via the Czech Republic to the holy water chapel in Hörleinsödt. Take a drinking bottle with you and see for yourself the special effect of this healing water. The first chapel was built around 1250 and the current one dates back to around 1470 (approx. 12 km, 300 metres in altitude, walking time: 3 hours).
Thursday
- 13.00 -14.30 Hike through the Bohemian Forest & the Mühlviertel region
Please do not forget your passport. Programme subject to change.
