Apres Ski and Spa

Thermal Spa

On Thursday (Day 5), the four of us headed to a cool 'Thermal Spa" for the entire night after skiing. It was called "Aqua Dome" and was completely marketed not only on our flight to Innsbruck but also all over the ski lifts and restaurants in Solden. It is a complex made up of mineral water from the mountains of the surrounding region of Tyrol. According to the Tirolean spa law, this sodium chloride sulphate spa is a mineral spring and it was approved as an official sulphur spa. The produced water has a temperature of 40°C. It was a short bus ride from our hotel and only £15 to spend a whole night in the thermal pools.
It was a very organised complex of different connected indoor and outdoor 'hot tubs', which is the best way to describe it. There was a huge jacuzzi tub with jets, and atrium with different water elements as well as an outdoor 'massage bowl' that spurts strong showers of sulphuric mineral water. The outdoor area was designed to look space-like and it certainly did! Our favourite pool was the salt water pool with rotating lights and soothing music underneath the stars. It was heaven.
Apres Ski
Mid week we hit a bar called Fire and Ice. It was a club designed to look like a cabin. We went at 9 pm but it was still rocking from 5 pm when people came off the slopes! Men and women alike were dancing (quite adeptly though drunk) in their ski boots - dancing and partying all night. We watched from the loft above and just laughed at the meat market of it all. The large shot glasses that we had flugerl in (cherry vodka and red bull shots) were quite nice so we asked the bar if we could take two home as souvenirs.

Our last night in Solden, Syd and I checked out 'the party haus" - which was a large club filled with crazy girls and cheap drinks. There was a ring set up in the middle of the bar where live boxing had just been occurring (we missed it). We people-watched for an hour or so while the dj spun some tunes then decided to explore. We somehow got into a VIP area where there were free wine tastings. We tried 3 wines. I wanted to buy the merlot and asked how much it was and they said £99. I don't think so! We exited the bar fairly quickly after that.

Heading Home...
On the plane home from Innsbruck I had the window seat and as we flew into the sunset, the vista was snow-tipped mountains and clouds as far as the eye could see...