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Grand Resort Bad Ragaz Celebrates175 Years of Thermal WaterAward-winning resort launches Blue Gold Packageand commemorative 175 Years – 175 Rooms – 175 Swiss Francs special

Bad Ragaz, 29th January 2015 – This year, Europe’s leading wellbeing and medical health resort, Grand Resort Bad Ragaz , is proud to celebrate the 175th Anniversary of piping the natural healing waters from Switzerland’s famous Tamina Gorge directly to the resort. To celebrate this milestone occasion, Bad Ragaz has created a bespoke Blue Gold package which includes a new, invigorating Thermal Water Massage based around the excellent healing powers of this warm water. The award-winning resort will also be offering a fantastic discount to all guests in light of the 175 year Anniversary: 175 rooms priced at 175 Swiss Francs per room, available online from 2nd February 2015.

„175 Years . 175 Rooms . 175 CHF“ „Blue Gold“

1 night including generous buffet breakfast,36.5 wellbeing package, CHF 175 per person in a

double room; CHF 275 in a single room.The offer can be booked for a maximum of 2 nights between 2nd

February and 31st March 2015. The package is limited to a jubilee-contingent of 175 rooms; extra nights optional bookable, half board optional bookable for CHF 70; the offer cannot be cumulated with

other offers;

3 nights including generous buffet breakfast,36.5 wellbeing package, thermal water welcome

drink,daily 4-course lunch or dinner, 1 thermal water

massage (50 min.),1 thermal water farewell gift. Prices from CHF 753

per person and night in a double room.

First discovered by Benedictine monks in 1242, people in the mountain town of Bad Ragaz and further afield have harnessed the naturally warm water of the Tamina Gorge for centuries. The first pipeline of clean fresh spring water, directly running from the Tamina Gorge to Grand Resort Bad Ragaz originated on the 31st May 1840, and 175 years later still provides guests and locals alike with unrivalled access to pure, fresh mountain spring water.

Recognising how the healing waters of the Tamina Gorge play a crucial role in the everyday functioning of both the resort and the surrounding town of Bad Ragaz, the Grand Resort Bad Ragaz is delighted to launch a new pampering Blue Gold package. Designed to honour the resort’s unique relationship to the Tamina

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Gorge, guests can experience a radical new Thermal Water Massage treatment as part of this new package, which has been carefully created by the forward thinking spa therapists at Bad Ragaz.

The Thermal Water Massage treatment begins with massaging and washing of guests’ feet, where they are encouraged to leave behind everyday worries and soothe themselves with the sounds of trickling water, before enjoying a full 50 minute body massage using replenishing, warm herbal oils. Guests are encouraged to use this time to reflect and let their bodies fully rejuvenate.

The Tamina Gorge fresh water can be enjoyed in the resort’s luxurious 36.5° Wellbeing & Thermal Spa area, as well the much-loved publicly accessible thermal spa, the Tamina Therme. Guests staying in the exclusive Spa Suites can even benefit from having thermal water pumped directly through every tap in their bathroom, sauna and steam room.

Grand Resort Bad Ragaz prides itself on its longstanding connection to the natural phenomena that is the Tamina Gorge and is delighted to mark this by launching both the new Blue Gold package and the 175 Years – 175 Rooms – 175 Swiss Francs special. Enjoyed by guests and locals alike, the high quality spring water can be used for drinking and bathing purposes, as well as for relaxation, therapeutic and health reasons, and as a result this award-winning resort continues to draw in guests from all over the world.

Nightly rates at Grand Resort Bad Ragaz start from CHF 490 staying in a double room. Rates include breakfast, welcome aperitif, use of the 36.5° Wellbeing & Thermal Spa area and Tamina Therme, fresh fruit and Ragaz water each day and daily fitness and relaxation lessons as well as VAT.

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Media contact:Martin Leiter, Director of PR & Corporate CommunicationsGrand Resort Bad Ragaz, CH-7310 Bad RagazTel.: +41 81 303 27 16 E-mail: Further information:

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1,200 characters about the Grand Resort Bad RagazNestling amid mountain scenery, the Grand Resort Bad Ragaz is situated in the Heidiland holiday region of Eastern Switzerland, just an hour’s drive from Zurich. It is regarded as Europe’s Leading Wellbeing & Medical Health Resort and was awarded the accolade of “Winner Best Medi Spa” in 2013 by the Spa Guide published by the prestigious travel magazine Condé Nast Traveller (UK). The resort, which dates back to 1242 when a body-temperature thermal source was discovered and which has been honoured as “Switzerland’s Best Wellness Hotel” (SonntagsZeitung, 2014), offers an extraordinary and authentic spa experience in the 36.5° Wellbeing & Thermal Spa. With a total of 58 GaultMillau points and 1 Michelin star, the eight restaurants provide first-rate culinary delights. In addition to 267 rooms and suites, the resort also offers two golf courses, the Kursaal Business & Events Center, a broad range of cultural activities, the public Tamina Therme thermal spa and its own casino. Complementing the wellbeing and recreational facilities is the internationally renowned Medical Health Center, a byword for diagnostics, preventive care and rehabilitation of the highest order, as well as the Swiss Olympic Medical Center. In 2014, the outpatient medical facilities were expanded to include an inpatient rehabilitation clinic.

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