Outdoor experiences in Salzburg
Sportive and active in the natural environment
The Amadeus Hotels are an ideal starting point for an interesting and eventful active holiday in Austria. The fascinating surroundings of the city of Salzburg with its amazing mountain, rivers and lakes offer a unique combination of activities and excursions during your holiday. Within 15 to 40 minutes, more than 40 adventure tours can be reached.
Outdoor sports
The range of offers stretches from easy and comfortable tours to sportive and challenging activities. This allows a holiday and leisure programme designed to meet your individual wishes. An outstanding tourist infrastructure provides a holiday, break and event programme like nowhere else!
The main sportive activities in and around Salzburg are rafting, canoeing, canyoning and paragliding. On request mountain biking, climbing, mountain and hut hikes as well as cave tours, kayaking, sailing, water ski, kite-surfing, horseback riding and cross-country carriage rides, rock climbing or climbing in the high rope course, balloon rides, etc. are also offered.
Water sports in Salzburg
The crystal-clear lakes with drinking water quality in the Salzkammergut as well as the white waters and rivers in the Salzburg Land offer various activities like rafting, canoeing or canyoning. Experienced guides are on your side while you paddle through the Salzburg Land or fight rapids with your team. A fascinating range of ravines and caves in the Salzburg Land offer great conditions for canyoning.
Dash down in the hydro-speed white water brooks or reach a speed level of 40km/h during your tubing experience.
Mountain sports in Salzburg
The Salzburg mountains and the Berchtesgadener Land and Salzkammergut summits offer beautiful challenges for mountaineers in winter and summer: in the summer via ferratas and climbing tours await you in the incredibly beautiful nature worlds, in winter free-skiing and ski hiking in the panoramic areas with guaranteed snow await you as well as indoor climbing facilities in the city.
If you don't want to miss out on the feeling of unlimited freedom during your stay in Salzburg, then experience Salzburg from above with paragliding from Gaisberg.
Cycling in Salzburg
Close to the limit on the mountain or in one of the many bike-parks in the Salzburg Land: bikers will find the challenges they are looking for in Salzburg. The region around the city of Mozart offers everything you need for a road racing holiday. The world-famous Salzburg mountain scenery makes it quite obvious: mountain bikers will also find a diverse range of tours in Salzburg.
Hobby bikers find a perfectly developed cycling network in Salzburg city and its close vicinity.
City of sports – Salzburg
Salzburg is not only a city of culture and music; sports enthusiasts will also find a great range of outdoor and fun sports opportunities in the historic city. The city break in the heart of Austria will become an adventurous and physical challenge for adventure-seekers.
Salzburg's unique location, embedded in the middle of the natural adventure playground for sports enthusiasts, makes for the special charm of this popular sports metropolis in Austria.
Everyone who stays in one of the Amadeus Hotels will conveniently and quickly get to various outdoor sports areas from Salzburg.