Oberwaid hosts seminars, workshops and presentations for up to 122 people in five meeting rooms, with a four-star superior hotel and a spa on the same site. It stands on the edge of St. Gallen, on Rorschacher Strasse, with a wide view over the Lake Constance region.
Seminars and company events
The hotel presents itself as a quiet place for meetings, seminars, workshops and talks, close to the city but set in a park. All five meeting rooms have daylight, modern conference technology and views of the grounds. Partition walls can be removed to join the two largest rooms.
Packages are built around the room. The half-day package includes the room with standard technology, Wi-Fi and mineral water during the session, one coffee break with snacks and a three-course meal at lunch or dinner. The full-day package adds a second coffee break. A third version includes one night in a single room with breakfast buffet and free access to the Tau Spa and gym.
Organisers can add health-oriented programs around the event. The ReSeT Akademie runs workplace health management coaching and seminars, and the SMART Cuisine Kitchen Club is a cooking workshop on healthy eating for teams. The Oberwaid also runs a rehabilitation clinic on the same grounds, so the site is shared with patients and house guests.
Rooms and capacities
Baldegg is the main room, with 86 square meters, 65 seats in theatre style, 45 in classroom style and 27 in a U shape. Guggeien covers 36 square meters for 27 in theatre style. With the wall removed, Baldegg and Guggeien form one room of 122 square meters, with 122 seats in theatre style, 72 in classroom style and 39 in a U shape.
Bodensee covers 59 square meters, with 30 in theatre style and 20 in a U shape. Heinrich Thorbecke covers 28 square meters for 18 in theatre style or 12 around a block table. Dr. Theodor Hahn is the smallest at 18 square meters, a boardroom for 8.
Accommodation
The hotel is rated four-star superior. Rooms run from the 34 square meter Superior room, also offered with a lake view, to the Junior Suite at 53 square meters, the Suite at 78 square meters and the Oberwaid Suite at 110 square meters. Every room has a large balcony facing the lake region, the park or the foothills of the Alpstein, wooden furniture, parquet floors and a large bathroom. The site does not state the total number of bedrooms.
Guests can use the Tau Spa, the indoor pool, a hamam and a Private Spa suite of 70 square meters that can be booked for two people. The lobby bar has live piano in the afternoon, and the house has a library of more than 400 books, a smoking room and a quiet room. Pets are not allowed.
Catering
The Seeblick restaurant is open to house guests, their relatives and visitors, and to seminar participants. Seminar packages include a three-course meal with mineral water, at lunch or dinner.
History and setting
The Oberwaid combines a hotel with a clinic for psychosomatic, cardiological and orthopedic rehabilitation. The grounds cover 3 hectares of landscaped park with perennial borders and wide lawns, and the stock of old beeches, plane trees and a large linden is described by the hotel as among the oldest in St. Gallen.
Getting there
The address is Rorschacher Strasse 311, 9016 St. Gallen. The hotel lies on the edge of the city and states that it is easy to reach by road. It offers a shuttle service, with the price listed on its access page.
