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Just a few minutes away from the zoo there
is the 'széchenyi fürdo'.
I think it is the most beautifull bath in Budapest.
It has a large open air section with 3 pools.
One is quit hot , 40°. That is the one where
they play 'chess in. It is great to watch them.
In the middle there is the coldest one.
You need to wear something on your head if
you want to go swimming. Don't forget.
It is also meanth for swimming , not for floating.
Then the last one is the one with what I call
'recreation'. It has some massage options.
You can swim really fast in the whirlpool
in the middle. Do some exploring here.
And watch the other people very closely...
it has some surprises here and there.
On the inside there is a sauna , a steambath
and some other health baths. Enjoy them.
Maybe this bath is among the most touristy.
I think it is the nicest one.
If you can only got to one - choose this one.
If you want a special treatment , you'll have
to pay for it in advance. Swimming itself and
using the baths is very affortable.
There are many entrances but if you want
to pay with a credit card. Use the head entrance.
' the nicest thing' is of course you got the
feeling of swimming in a castle that is made
by the bakery around the corner. Leave a Comment Phone: +36 1 363-3210Directions: Next to Millennium Underground Railway (metro M1) station Szechenyi furdo; also accessible by trolley-bus #72 from Arany Janos utca metro M3 station or Nyugati pu. - get off at Szechenyi furdo stop.Website: http://www.budapestgyogyfurdoi.hu
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Perhaps the most popular swimming and bathing area in the city being opened all year round. The water supply of the bath is provided by St. István spring, from a depth of 1256 metres. The spring with its temperature of 77 °C is one of Europe's warmest springs.
The in-door complex offers five mixed curative baths, four women's pools and three men's pools. A complete medical team is also on hand for advice and therapy.
The open-air swimming pool with a temperature of 27 °C is huge, and there is a wide range of activities on offer, e.g. underwater gymnastics.
The fancy bath (32-34 °C ) includes a sweeping-corridor.
The banks of the sitting pool (38 °C) are featuring many interesting services, such as neck shower, water beam back massage, underwater effervescence production.
The roof is for sun-seekers and offers men's, women's and mixed nude sunbathing.
Széchenyi bath's significance is not merely on the basis of its medicinal water, the sculptures and glass mosaics decorating the building are creations of Hungary's most considerable artists.
Prices: http://www.spasbudapest.com/furdo.php?idx=14&menu=10 Phone: +36 1 363-3210Directions: Next to Millennium Underground Railway (metro M1) station Szechenyi furdo; also accessible by trolley-bus #72 from Arany Janos utca metro M3 station or Nyugati pu. - get off at Szechenyi furdo stop.Website: http://www.budapest.com/budapest_thermal_baths/szechenyi_thermal_bath.en.html
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The Szechenyi Baths are where the locals do their dipping and have a choice of indoor or outdoor with multiple pools in each location. We did not venture into the inside pools but to the three outdoor. I was reminded of the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears. One pool is too cold, one is too hot and the other just right. Actually they are different in ways other than temperature. On one end is the fun pool with lots of jets and a center section with a strong current you can ride. It is a comfortable temp of about 86 F. The middle pool is more for serious swimmers doing laps, etc. It is the coolest. The pool on the other end is quite warm and where you find the plump old men in speedos with their floating chess boards.
The admissions and refunds are a bit complex, but if you do not stay for the full time purchased you get money back. We paid about $6 or $7 each to enter and then got back about $1.
We put this in the ‘must do’ category as our VT friend Bonso wrote that she would hit ‘hard’ anyone who went to Budapest and did not get in the water. Didn’t want to risk a knot on my head.
You can rent swimsuits but that did not appeal to us. Of course I had forgotten to bring one but there are vendors in the park outside selling swimsuits, flip flops, etc. at pretty reasonable prices. Towel rentals inside are also available. Leave a Comment Phone: +36 1 363-3210Directions: Next to Millennium Underground Railway (metro M1) station Szechenyi furdo; also accessible by trolley-bus #72 from Arany Janos utca metro M3 station or Nyugati pu. - get off at Szechenyi furdo stop.Website: http://www.budapestgyogyfurdoi.hu
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The Széchenyi Thermal Bath is one of the biggest spas in Europe. It was also the first thermal bath of Pest.
In 1881 on Vilmos Zsigmondy's initiative they started deep borings, and found thermal water in the city park. After a 1st temporary bath in 1913 on Gyozo Czigler's plans the city built the Szechenyi Bath and then expanded it again in 1927.
In the middle of the 1960s, further transformations took place, including the creation of a group thermal section as well as a daytime outpatient hospital (complex physiotherapy department).
The reconstruction of the pools of the swimming section, their equipment with water filtering and circulation devices was completed in 1999.
There is also a so-called fancy bath which includes a whirling corridor, underwater effervescence production, neck shower, water beam back massage installed in the sitting banks and many other services.
It has histrory and tradition, but it's also a lot of fun and a good opportunity to relax! Try the outside pools and the inside ones, and go to the steam cabin as well!
Once in Budapest, you have to try a bath, and this is one of the very best! :) Leave a Comment Phone: +36 1 363-3210Directions: Next to M1 (yellow) underground station Szechenyi furdo; or by trolley-bus #72 from Arany Janos utca metro M3 station or Nyugati pu. - get off at Szechenyi furdo stop. Or just walk from Hosok tere to the city park and then turn left.Website: http://www.spasbudapest.com/tartalom.php
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Summertime in Budapest can get quite steamy, we had two days over 30C so we decided to head to one of the baths in the late afternoon on a weekday.
Although Gellert is the more widely known, we headed to Szechenyi on the recommendation of some fellow travelers.
The beautiful gold painted building is visible when you exit the metro station. After paying the admission charge head into the locker room, change clothes and then head out to the pools. There are 3 central pools outdoors, one hot, one cool for swimming or doing laps, one warm with a circular pool that's sort of like a wave pool (current pushes you in a circle).
And don't miss the indoor pools as well, rooms and rooms filled with pools of varying temperature and mineral content. There are also Thai massages for an extra fee and a fitness room but we didn't use either.
Admission is currently 2000ft for unlimited admission, slightly more if you want a cabin. If you stay less than 4 hours, you get a partial refund so make sure you retain your receipt.
I'm sure the times vary during the year but in August the baths stayed open until 10 pm, all of the guidebooks said it closed at 6 pm.
What to bring with you? A bathing suit, of course, and it's also useful to bring a swim cap if you want to go in the lap pool (or you can buy a very stylish shower cap for for 50 ft), flip flops if you have a thing about foot hygiene, a towel unless you are a very quick dryer and shampoo/soap if you want to rinse off afterward. There are hair dryers for public use and a locker is included with the rate. Leave a Comment Phone: +36 1 363-3210Directions: Next to Millennium Underground Railway (metro M1) station Szechenyi furdo; also accessible by trolley-bus #72 from Arany Janos utca metro M3 station or Nyugati pu. - get off at Szechenyi furdo stop.Website: http://www.budapestgyogyfurdoi.hu
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firstly - get a cabin it's easier. Next remember the number of the cabin, no one else will!
Unlike baths I've used before you have no locker all your things get locked in the cabin. take flip flops we didn't and got odd looks.
Try the two hot outdoor spas (the one in the middle is for swimmer and you need a cap - don't bother) look for the doors leading up and down into the saunas and steam rooms and indoor areas - explore are 2 doors at either end. Be brave - use the ice to get you r blood pumping afgain when you have been in the sauna! ENJOY Leave a Comment Phone: +36 1 363-3210Directions: Next to Millennium Underground Railway (metro M1) station Szechenyi furdo; also accessible by trolley-bus #72 from Arany Janos utca metro M3 station or Nyugati pu. - get off at Szechenyi furdo stop.Website: http://www.budapestgyogyfurdoi.hu
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A must do when in Budapest is to visit one of the many thermal baths. As Budapest lies in a geological fault there are many hot springs. The Szechenyi baths were built, and extended, in 1909 - 1926. Here you will find many pools with water of different temperatures. Beside each pool there is a sign telling the temperatures of the pools.
I liked the outdoor pools very much. As the air was much colder than the water, steam was rising from the water, and with the sun shining behind it was a very nice view. I wish I had got the camera with me. In one of the outdoor pools there is a jacuzzi and a stream. Going from the outdoor pool to the inside you will in winter have time to get cold and it is then nice to go straight to the sauna and sit there for a while.
As you arrive to the baths you pay for what you want to do, only bath, pedicure, massage etc. Then a woman will give you a locker room where to change and leave your stuff. You will have one key and the women will keep the key for the second lock.
The price is different depending on what time you are visiting and how long you will stay.
The entrance a Tuesday afternoon was 2300 ft. If you stay less than three hours you will get 400 ft back (I got 400 ft back, but my sister who were ready a few minutes after me didn?t get money back). Leave a Comment Phone: +36 1 363-3210Directions: Next to Millennium Underground Railway (metro M1) station Szechenyi furdo; also accessible by trolley-bus #72 from Arany Janos utca metro M3 station or Nyugati pu. - get off at Szechenyi furdo stop.Website: http://www.budapestgyogyfurdoi.hu
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Located in the Varosliget, the Szechenyi Gyogy-es Strandfurdo, the Szechenyi Bath, are a very nice bath. They were built in a neo-baroque style in the 1909-1926 and they use a solforous termal spring with watar at 74°C. This bath is very good to cure orthopaedic illnesses, stomach and intestine troubles, dysfunctions of the Cistifelea, illnesses of the respiratory apparatus. Leave a Comment Phone: +36 1 363-3210Directions: Next to Millennium Underground Railway (metro M1) station Szechenyi furdo; also accessible by trolley-bus #72 from Arany Janos utca metro M3 station or Nyugati pu. - get off at Szechenyi furdo stop.Website: http://www.budapestgyogyfurdoi.hu
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One of two most famous baths in Budapest (another is the Gellert). There are three pools, each of them has a different temperature (cold, warm and middle). Spa facillities are also available - they are located in a neobaroque buildings surrouding the pools.
Open: 6 a.m.-7 p.m. Open-air pools run also during winters!
Entrance: 1600 forints for 5 hours. If you are there for a shorter time, you can get back your change.
Info in English is available. Leave a Comment Directions: Near City Park and Heroes Square
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I reckon this is the best place to have a thermal bath!
This Széchenyi Thermal baths complex lies in the northern corner of City Park (next to the Zoo) and can be reached by foot from the Hosok Tere. It is an unusual for three reasons; 1. It is huge! It has dozen thermal baths and three swimming pools 2. Its clean and bright appearance. 3. The water temperature (up to 38C) There are pools and baths indoors and outdoors. There are a cool and warm baths outside, and a regular swimming pool in between them. Mind to wear a bathing-cap if you wish to have a proper swim! I think this is the place to be in the summer because you'll get a nice tan in the same time too :)
They are open to both men and women at all times, and what makes this place funny, is that you get back 800/500/200ft on your deposit if you leave within two/three/four hours before 3pm and 600/300ft if you exit within two/three hours after 3pm. Normally, in other places, you just pay the ticket and that's it.
HELPFUL ADVICE: learn basic hungarian lines and words before you enter, because NO ONE who works there speaks english. (They are mostly elderly ladies) Leave a Comment Phone: +36 1 363-3210Directions: Next to Millennium Underground Railway (metro M1) station Szechenyi furdo; also accessible by trolley-bus #72 from Arany Janos utca metro M3 station or Nyugati pu. - get off at Szechenyi furdo stop.Website: http://www.budapestgyogyfurdoi.hu
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