Alpine Fitness & Wellness Week in South Tyrol: Daily Classes, Guided Walks and a Full Spa

Preidlhof sits in Naturno, a village in the Vinschgau valley in South Tyrol, northern Italy, where the orchards meet the mountains. The place is run as a five-star DolceVita resort, and the 'Fit & healthy' programme is its standing weekly offer — you don't join a specific group or retreat cohort, you simply book a stay and the full activity timetable is open to you. That means classes run every day of the week, led by a qualified female well-being instructor, and you choose what you turn up to.

The activity list is long and genuinely varied. Aqua aerobics and other water workouts take place in the pool; yoga workshops and chakra meditation run regularly; Callanetics, Pilates and EnerChiStretching cover the slower, controlled work; and BodyART, FUNctionalFIT, Total Body Workout, Six Pack and TRX suspension training handle the harder conditioning side. There are also more unusual sessions you won't find in most hotel programmes: ToeGa (foot and toe mobility work), barefoot walking meditation, fascia release with a band, Breathwalking, and sound healing with a gong. ShoulderFree focuses on neck and shoulder tension — useful if you spend your working life at a desk.

The walking side is taken seriously. Guided walks go out three to four times a week, including a 90-minute morning hike that leaves from the hotel, plus vital walking and Nordic walking. The hotel lends Polar heart-rate monitors free of charge so you can train at the right intensity, and running, hiking and walking trails start directly from the property. The hotel also runs dedicated 'Walking & well-being' weeks several times a year if you want the walking to be the main event rather than one part of the schedule.

What separates this from a typical fitness retreat is the food and the spa. Dinner is a genuine choice between four menus — health, well-being, wholegrain or a seven-course gourmet — every evening, and the kitchen accommodates specific dietary requirements. The spa is on the scale of a destination spa rather than a hotel add-on: seven saunas, a tropical water world, a beauty farm, an outdoor pool and extensive gardens. So you can train hard in the morning, walk in the afternoon, then spend two hours moving between saunas before a seven-course dinner.

Accommodation is in the resort itself, in rooms and suites across the property, with half board as the standard rate — breakfast plus the afternoon health buffet and the evening menu. The whole programme runs on a weekly cycle, so a seven-night stay gives you the complete timetable. Because it's a hotel rather than a fixed-date retreat, you can arrive on the day that suits you and stay as long as you like, though the full benefit comes from a full week.

What's included

- Daily access to the fitness area and gym (7:00-23:00) - 4-8 fitness and sports sessions per day with professional trainers - Yoga classes several times a week with a certified yoga instructor - Aqua aerobics, Pilates, Callanetics, chi gong, BodyART, TRX, functional training and more - Guided walks 3-4 times a week, including a 90-minute morning hike - Free loan of Polar heart-rate monitors - Afternoon health buffet from 2-5 PM (with half board) - Choice of health, well-being, wholegrain or 7-course gourmet menu at dinner - Teas and juices all day in the sauna area and water world - Access to the 'Tropical Garden' water world and sauna area - Access to the outdoor swimming pool, park and rose terrace - Towels, drinks and disinfection stations in the fitness area

What's not included

- Flights and travel to South Tyrol - Airport or station transfers - Travel insurance - Personal training sessions - Nutrition consultation session - Treatments at the Jungbrünnl beauty farm - Spa and beauty treatments - Drinks outside those listed as included - Personal expenses