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The most famous bath in town must be Gellért.
We would have loved to visit one of the two
baths near the 'Elisabeth bridge' 'Ersébet Hid'
but they are both closed for renovation.
Pitty , they got Turkish roots and are much
much older then the Gellért.
The water of the Géllert bath has been long known
before it opened in it's present appearance
in 1918. The entrance hall on the side is completely
in marble. You'll get in a luxurious mood
immediately.
Then you go changing clothes...they give you
a locker and and an amulet to prove that one
was yours. (don't forget your number!!!)
And there you are swimming in the famous
bathing room. You will have to wear a ridiculous
blue plastic thing in two layers on your head and
swim in circles in the right direction.
There is a lady on the head of the bath that
looks like the young Madeleine Albright who
is strangling a goose that has to bring you
in the right mood. :-)
Then we enjoyed an outside swim.
The large pool was a bit cold and desolated ,
but the warm small one was cozy. No stylish
architecture here. Just healing water.
(it had a strange smell.)
From Frederik's memory it has changed a
lot during the renovation. Some beautiful
things are gone. I don't know.
It is also the most expensive bath we visited.
Twice the price from the others.
If you got only time for one...I would choose
the Széchenyi bath in the parc.
If you have more time , don't miss it.
Wa were the last to leave and I made this
picture of a desolated bath. :-)
Now we are going for dinner at 'Articsoka' Leave a Comment Directions: Look for Hotel Gellert on St Gellert Square. Buses #7 7A 86 Teteny-busz and trams #18 19 41 47 49 118, stop Szent Gellert ter.
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There are many wonderful spas and thermal baths in Budapest, but the most beautiful one has to be the Géllert, attached to the hotel of the same name. Built in 1918 in Art-Nouveau, the main hall with glass roof and Roman-style columns is the most striking. Stick your head under one of the stone lions out of whose mouth water rushes out. There is a warmer thermal pool in the main hall, plus there is an outdoor wave pool and thermal pool, plus additional thermal baths as well.
Bring your swimsuit, towel, cap, and pool shoes, and you can get a locker or cabinet to store your clothes as well. These items can be rented as well. You'll notice that the pros know exactly when the bubble jets turn on periodically because they always get the best places in the pools! Leave a Comment Phone: +36 1 466 6166Directions: At the foot of the Szabadsag (Freedom) Bridge, you can take tram 18 or 19 there as well. The bath entrance is on the right side of the hotel.
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These famous Thermal Bath and Hotel, known world-wide and highly favoured by foreigners, built in a secession style. The interior is an Art Deco masterpiece, and just about every type of bath - hot, cold, therapeutic, etc. - that you can think of is on available.
The present building, with its glass dome, terraces, open-air pool and bathhouses, took six years to complete. The indoor and outdoor pools are supplied with water from a hot spring within Gellért Hill. Its chalky, slightly acidic, hydrogen-carbonate, radioactive water contains many minerals. The water surges from its source at a temperature of 43C°.
Believe it or not, the wave pool opened in 1927, followed seven years later by the effervescent swimming pool. Bathing here has been compared to going swimming in a museum or a church.
In summer a terrace buffet provides snacks, soft drinks and the ever popular bottles of beer from which some guests choose to slurp while in the thermal pool.
The latest reconstruction of the bath has been completed in the middle of April 2008.
Open daily, from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Entrance fee: http://www.spasbudapest.com/furdo.php?idx=5&menu=10 Phone: (36-1) 466-6166Directions: Look for Hotel Gellert on St Gellert Square. Buses #7 7A 86 Teteny-busz and trams #18 19 41 47 49 118, stop Szent Gellert ter. You can reach the Bath on foot in just a few minutes from the Vaci street pedestrian area.Website: http://www.gellertbath.com/
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My favourite Thermal Baths in Budapest: very beautiful and relaxing!
Budapest is “the City of Spas” (about 100 natural thermal springs).
In fact, in Budapest there are many wonderful thermal baths.I think, one of the most beautiful is Géllert Gyogyfurdo, attached to the hotel of the same name.
After eating a big piece of cake or after climbing the hills of Buda, you must go to a spa!
There are a lot of baths as the Szechenyi, Lukacs, Uj Kiralyi, but the most popular bath in town must be Gellért, near the 'Elisabeth bridge'.
The bath was built in 1918 in art nouveau style. The shallow pools are different temperatures but I think it is most famous among foreign visitors not for its waters but only for its superb Art Nouveau architecture and details (the main hall with glass roof, columns with an accurate manufacturing).
Don’t miss it! Directions: Look for Hotel Gellert on St Gellert Square. Buses #7 7A 86 Teteny-busz and trams #18 19 41 47 49 118, stop Szent Gellert ter.
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Located inside this beautiful Modernist Secession style building are the Gellert Baths. The Gellert Hills provide a great number of spring accesses, which supply the bath water. The spirngs are rich in magnesium, calcium, sulphate-chloride, hydrogen-carbonate, fluoride ions, and sodium and are suppose to hold medicinal healing properties.
The baths are separated into female and male baths. They are identical with each having a sauna, steam bath and three plunge pools with different temperatures. The pools are beautifully decorated with mosiac tiles.
There is also an outdoor wave pool and a hot pool with medicinal spa water. Leave a Comment Directions: Look for Hotel Gellert on St Gellert Square. Buses #7 7A 86 Teteny-busz and trams #18 19 41 47 49 118, stop Szent Gellert ter.
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In front of the Szabadsag hid there is one of the most bueautiful Thermal Bathes of Budapest: Gellert Gyogyfurdo.
In the 1300 in this place exixsted a thermal house and to do the therapeutic treatments it used the theramal water came from the gellert hill. During the Turkish occupation this place became a luxury thermal bathroom. In the 1911-1918, Armin Hegedus, Artur Sebestyen and Izidor Stark built the hotel with a Secessionist facade. Inside there are thermal bathrooms, sauna and much more. Leave a Comment Directions: Look for Hotel Gellert on St Gellert Square. Buses #7 7A 86 Teteny-busz and trams #18 19 41 47 49 118, stop Szent Gellert ter.
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Budapest, the City of Spas lays over 100 natural thermal springs. Many Hungarians as well as tourist come to visit the 12 Bath Complexes for relaxing and their medicinal healing power. The most famous, of the 16th century Turkish baths known as the Szechenyi, Lukacs, Uj Kiralyi and the Gellert Directions: Look for Hotel Gellert on St Gellert Square. Buses #7 7A 86 Teteny-busz and trams #18 19 41 47 49 118, stop Szent Gellert ter.
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The Gellért Hotel & Spa, built in a late secessionist style, is located right at the Liberty Bridge and at the feet of the Gellért Hill, a place, wich since the XIII.century is popular for bathing, since numrous thermal springs flow together. In the medieval there was a hospital here, and the first thermal bath was constructed in the XVI.century, when the turks were occupiing Buda.
The complex, that we see today was built according to the plans of Ármin Hegedűs, Artúr Sebestyén and Izidor Sterk, and it was opened on the 24 september 1918. In the second world war, the Hotel suffered some damages, but the Spa remained completely intact, and soon after the end of the war, also the hotel regained it`s previous splendour, and it was modernized as well. The stirring art noveau ornaments in the Spa are original and in 1993, the main staircase recieved a new decorated window, work of Bozó Stanisits. Directions: Look for Hotel Gellert on St Gellert Square. Buses #7 7A 86 Teteny-busz and trams #18 19 41 47 49 118, stop Szent Gellert ter.
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The Art Nouveau building was constructed between 1916 and 1918 and is shared by the 4-starred hotel and the famous Gellert Thermal Bath. It consists of several indoor pools and an outdoor pool. Leave a Comment Phone: (+36) 1 385 2200Directions: The Hotel Gellert is located at the foot of Gellert Hill near the Freedom Bridge (Szabdsag hid) on the Buda side of the Danube.Website: http://www.danubiusgroup.com/gellert
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The Gellert baths are widely considered to be some of the finest spas in the world.
Anybody can enter for under 3000 Ft, and they are small refunds available if you stay less than four hours in the complex. (FREE to guests of the Gellert)
The main main attraction is of course the swimming pool (a little on the chilly side) and the large hotpool. Whilst not especially hot, it can take 100 or so people in comfort.
The water is said to consist of sodium and calcium-magnesium-hydrocarbonates and sulphates, with significant fluoride contents.
That means nothing to me, but it is said to be good for, and I quote "Degenerative disorders of joints and the spine, chronic arthritis in the inactive stage, disorders of the vertebral disks, lumboischialgia, neuralgic pain, stenosis, peripheral circulation disorders, in the inhalatorium: treatment of asthmatic and chronic bronchitis."
Doesn't seem so enjoyable now does it ?
The tiling of the place is the other main attraction - it is quite stunning in the main lobby area especially and reflects a number of themes, often oriental.
Budapest maybe the city of Spas, but this is the Queen amnongst them. Leave a Comment Directions: Look for Hotel Gellert on St Gellert Square. Buses #7 7A 86 Teteny-busz and trams #18 19 41 47 49 118, stop Szent Gellert ter.
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