Therme Erding: The temperature is not changed

Created: 09/28/2022, 06:00

By: Hans Moritz

The oven stays on: Therme Erding is currently not planning any serious cuts in bathing and sauna operations.

However, it is possible that not all saunas are in operation throughout the day.

© Therme Erding

 Marcus Maier, authorized signatory at Therme Erding, follows the fill levels of the German gas storage tanks very closely - and is cautiously optimistic for the time being.

Erding - Because the thermal baths depend on gas in addition to geothermal heat.

"We are currently assuming that we will get through the winter reasonably well," says Maier in an interview with our newspaper.

"Our goal is to maintain the offer almost completely." That means: According to the managing director, there are no plans to lower the water and sauna temperatures, nor to shut down the sweat rooms.

“The only thing we are considering is not putting some saunas into operation in the morning during the week, but only in the midday hours,” suggests Maier.

However, the high temperatures were part of the DNA of the thermal baths, "we can hardly turn it around".

But the thermostat has already been turned once: "Our water is 34 degrees hot," explains Maier, "in the summer we dropped 1.5 degrees, but only because it was so warm outside.

No guest noticed that.”

It is also planned to only operate the wave system at longer intervals and not always have all the slides ready to go, especially in the morning or late in the evening.

"We will manage that as needed."

The thermal baths have better conditions than many other baths anyway.

As is well known, it is fed by the 63 degree Ardeo spring at a depth of over 2000 meters.

“We save quite a bit on heating costs.

In addition, we need relatively little fresh water, which we would have to bring to 34 degrees," explains Maier.

According to Maier, how normal operations will be in autumn and winter depends not least on the federal government.

"If the gas shortage rules that all swimming pools and leisure facilities have to be closed, we are powerless.

Then it would be all over," says Maier, remembering with horror the months of closures during the Corona lockdown.

In order to escape the energy crisis, the thermal baths want to become more self-sufficient, “even if we will never be able to do this 100 percent simply because of our size”.

By March 2023, a 120 KW photovoltaic system should be installed on the roof of the Victory spa hotel.

A 500 to 600 kW solar roof is also planned for the multi-storey car park.

The thermal baths cannot absorb the rapidly rising energy prices.

Maier announces an increase in admission prices for October – a moderate one, in his opinion.

The day pass for the thermal baths will then cost 44 instead of 46 euros, and for the entire facility 61 instead of 59 euros.

The weekend, public holiday and holiday surcharge will increase from four to five euros.

"In this way," emphasizes the general manager, "we are on the same level as the large ski areas in Austria".

After the Corona constraints, the thermal baths caught up in the summer, which caused even the management to be amazed.

"In August alone there were just over 200,000 visitors," says Maier - making it the best August in the history of the spa, which began in 1999.

September is also going very well.

You are again on record course.

He attributes the high demand to the catch-up effect of visitors and good advertising.

The partner hotels also had a good summer, says Maier - and points out the macroeconomic consequences of a ban on leisure facilities.

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