Thermal SPAs in Budapest

Budapest deserves the nicknames such as "Spa City" or "Spa Capital" because the Hungarian capital has the highest number of thermal springs (118) within the city limits in the world.

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The temperature of the water is between 21-76 °C and contains a range of minerals beneficial for different health problems, like arthritis, rheumatic problems.

In some baths, like the Lukacs or Szechenyi Baths you can have a drink from the medicinal waters.

Gellert Thermal Bath, Budapest

Open: Mon-Sun: 6.00-20.00
Prices : all day from 3600HUF

Gellert is one of the most famous bath in Budapest, located actually at the hotel of Gellert on the Buda site between the Elizabeth and Liberty bridges.

The full entrance price to both the swimming pool and the men's and women's thermal facilities is between 3600 and 3900 HUF (about 13-15 Euro), which also includes a cabin rental, where guests can change clothes.

If one leaves within 2 hours, 300 HUF (about1.2 Euro) will be refunded.

Multiple-use tickets can also be purchased (favorable for groups) - valid for 50 entries, giving close to 20% discount.

Children tickets (for ages 6-14) are offered a bit over half the adult price; children under 6 are admitted for free; children under 12 must be in adult company.

Services of Gellert Thermal Bath
Department ensuring complex thermal bath facilities (daytime outpatient hospital)
swimming pool
Gentlemen's and ladies' thermal bath pools
Gentlemen's and ladies' weight baths
Weight bath
Refreshing massage
Medical healing massage
Dry and steam saunas
Finnish sauna, with cold dive-pools
from 6.00 am until 8.00pm on each day of the week.

The sites can be made available for social events after opening hours as well, on demand.
Tickets are sold until 1 hour before closing, and guests should leave the pool areas 15 minutes before closing.

Carbonic acid tub-bath
Mud packing
Underwater water-beam massage
Foot massage
Physicotherapy
Healing gymnastics
Tooth-gum shower
Inhalation
from 6.30am until 7pm on weekdays, closing at 1pm on Saturdays, not open on Sundays.

Szechenyi Bath, Budapest

Open: Mon-Sun: 6.00-22.00
Prices : all day ticket from 3100HUF

The Szechenyi Bath is the one of the largest spa complexes in Europe. The Neo-Baroque building was established in 1913, it recalls the atmosphere of the Habsburg Monachy. The water supply comes from 1250 m depth.

The bath has a vast outdoor swimming area for both sexes, separate steam baths for men and women. The Szechenyi Bath offers various services and treatments like sludge, or carbonated bathing. 15 different pools and various sport activities awaits you inside. The Szechenyi Bath is perfect for a family afternoon splashing because everybody can find something to do and enjoy here.

Statues of dolphins and water gods surround the three outdoor pools:
the middle one is for swimming
a thermal pool with jet massaging, bubbling and....
a thermal bath for just soaking

I never miss the neck and back massaging showers in the outdoor pool when I came to relax in Szechenyi. The thermal pools operate throughout the year, so you can soak your body in the melting hot water in winter (if you're not afraid of coming out to the chilly air). Still peep in a cold day and you'll see some local bathing fanatics sitting around a floating chess table in the steaming water playing and chatting.

Services of Szechenyi Bath
fatburning, weight, body-toning gymnastics and aqua aerobic with trained instructors
fitness room
The fee of the above services is included in the bath entrance fee.

infrasauna
dry and steam saunas
Finnish sauna
Thai massage
foot massage
medicinal massage
weight bath
tub-bath traetment

Lukacs Bath, Budapest

Open: Mon-Sun: 6.00- 20.00
Ticket Prices: from 2800HUF, 10% discount with Budapest card (The discount is always on the full-price ticket with cabin rental. 10% discount on 20 and 30-minute aroma relaxing massage.)

The Lukacs has indoor thermal pools with bubbles and two outdoor swimming pools, sauna and sun terrace. The whirlpool is only for the adventurous types because it knocks you over.

Although the building dates from the 1920ies the baths were very popular in the middle ages when priests provided curative treatments here. It operated under the Turkish rule too, but late 1800s brought the real improvement. A spa hotel was built and a modern hydrotherapy deparment was established.

The drinking hall providing curative water dates from 1937. The sulphurous water is beneficial for digestive disorders (stomach, bile problems). People came to the Lukacs Bath to heal from all over the world. Read their praises on the marble tablet in the courtyard. You can get many different treatments today as well.