Obir Tropfsteinhöhlen

The tickets are pricey and theres not a lot to see to be honest.You are not allowed to take pictures there but when you exit it they want to sell you the pictures on a usb.The tour guide was really nice and talked a lot about the past of the cave and the stalactites.

The caves themselves show some of nature's awesome sights. our guide was fairly knowledgeable, but it did feel a bit like he was tired of repeatedly running the same story. The caves themselves are rather cool so better wear a light jacket! Note that you're not allowed to take fotos in the caves! Additionally, our kids loved the transfer up to and down from the caves entrance: this was an attraction in itself.

It was a spectacular cave. Very friendly guide. However, the cave has a lot of stairs up and down, so it is not suitable for wheelchair users or people who have a hard time doing stairs. Inside it is quite cold, even in the summer. So it's a good idea to wear warm clothes. The last part of the tour is a small walk back down through a forest path. It's worth wearing proper shoes both for the warmth and for the walk. Bare in mind that it is not allowed to take photos inside the cave.

A very nice change in scenery for the children. The tour is nice, though it's in German. If you want to here it in English, you have to buy the audio guide, which is, to be honest, quite useless, but add to the experience. The tour takes about Two hours. Now that inside the cave is a little cold, so take a sweatshirt or a light coat.

Mixed feelings about the experience: The flowstone parts of the cave are very nice to look at, the lighting is well done and playing Bachs Toccata and Fugue in D Minor to demonstrate the perfect acoustics is a stroke of genius. If you have never been to a flowstone cave, I think it will be a tremendous thing. But: The major part of the underground network of tunnels is the old ore mine - to advertise it mainly as a flowstone cave is rather far fetched. It is the other way round: It is mainly a mine complex that touches a cave system of which you can see some small chambers. The underground "lake" as it is advertised does indeed also look quite nice, but it is a rather tiny affair - you have to kneel down and put your head to the side to sneak a peak at the relatively tiny pool of water a few centimeters deep and stretching visibly only a few meters into the rock. Explaining that and the discrepancy to the image they are implicitly creating at the ticket booth to the visitors was perceptibly a rather awkward moment for the guide. The advertising pictures have probably been made by a very experienced hotel pool fotographer: They also make the tiniest pools appear like a mid-size ocean. ;-) The guided tour in itself is a bit of a rush, the guide has all in all not very much to say. For all that the tickets are quite expensive. Had it not rained on the day of our visit and had I known beforehand what I would get to see, I wouldn't have spent the money. We've been to caves in Germany, Slovenia and Croatia that are indeed flowstone caves only: Larger, much more impressive, better tour guide concept, more information, cheaper ticket prices. And no necessity to drive two times 25 minutes around in a bus to get to the cave and back.

They have a very good marketing but the cave it self is not a waw. The round trip by bus until there is around 1 hour and half and the cave another 1 1/2 hours. There are a few nice cave chambers but you spend a lot of time on the mine galleries between them.

Very cool place, both literally and figuratively ;) When we visited, it was about 30 °C outside and around 8 °C in the caves. I recommend bringing along a sweater, especially for children! Tip: Make your reservation in advance! Notice: Not wheelchair accessible!

Lots of stairs. Probably 400 or so. There are different rooms with light show and music. You can't park directly there. There is parking in bad Eisenkappel and a coach goes from the centre there. The return ticket fee for the coach is about 3.50 euro. This is not stated clear enough on their website though