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Spa & Thermal Resorts
A city of Baths: Budapest
The Gellért is the finest of all the great bath houses in Budapest. Its main swimming pool is perhaps the best example of Neo-Classical architecture in Hungary and is certainly the ideal place to enjoy Budapest's warm therapeutic water. The Turks preferred this bath as it was warmer and larger than others in Buda. Today Gellért offers a comprehensive range of medical services and boasts an outpatient section offering inhalation therapy and complex balneotherapy.
The complex, one of the largest in Europe, boasts the usual network of hot tubs and steam rooms, but the outdoor pools in the enormous neo-Baroque courtyard are the main attraction, and are particularly atmospheric in the winter months. At the ivy-covered walls of the pool complex you can watch dedicated chess players intent on their floating cork chess boards.
Budapest's first grand bathing complex attracted poets, writers in the past. More functional than the extravagant Széchenyi or Gellért baths, the Lukács is less frequented by foreign tourists.
Arslan, the Turkish Pasha of Buda, began constructing this bath in 1565 and it was completed shortly afterwards by his heir Sokoli Mustafa. The Király Medicinal bath has never had a direct source of thermal water - it was built far from the springs to ensure the Turks had somewhere to bathe inside the city walls in times of siege. The water is supplied by pipes from the Lukács Bath nearby. The building was seriously damaged during World War II but was completely restored in 1950.
The backbone of the present day spa was built during the Turkish occupation of Hungary in the 15th century. The bath was formerly open to men only, but now admits women on alternate days.
Situated in the idyllic Margaret Island and is connected to its distinguished peer, the nearby Danubius Grand Hotel by an underground corridor. Its thermal pools are fed by medicinal water tapped from deep under the city. The hotel also offers state of the art therapeutic packages for the treatment and rehabilitation of acute and chronic locomotive disorders.
This spa is one of Hungary's most spacious and attractive medicinal baths. The waters contain alkaline hydrogen carbonate and are also rich in calcium, magnesium and fluoride. The spa offers therapeutic relaxation and active leisure all year round.
This bath in the southern area of the Great Plain is a renowned destination for foreign tourists with medical conditions. The open air bath and medicinal spa is set in a 200 year old Mansion.
The medicinal lake in Hévíz is the largest biologically active natural thermal lake in the world. The healing water and therapeutic mud originates from what was, thousands of years ago, the Pannon Sea. It is effective in complex physiotherapy and the treatment of all forms of rheumatic and locomotive disorders.