Széchenyi Bath
We offer entrance tickets for the two most elegant thermal baths of Budapest: Széchenyi bath and Gellert bath. You can book directly at the reception of your hotel, at your guide, at the Tourinform and ticket offices, and with our representatives on the most frequented spots in Budapest.
By booking your tickets in advance, you will avoid the often long-time waiting in the queue in front of the bath. Fast & easy entrance through our separate Welcome-desk!
The Széchenyi Bath is largest thermal spring bath complex not only in Budapest, in but Europe as well. It's also the first thermal bath of Pest.
It owes its existence to Vilmos Zsigmondy, a mining engineer. On his initiative, successful deep borings had been performed in the City Park, where later, in 1881 already an "Artesian bath" was in operation. The Széchenyi Thermal Bath was built in 1913 in neo-baroque style on the basis of plans composed by Gyozo Czigler. At that time it had private baths, separate men and women steam-bath sections, and different men / women "public baths".
The complex was expanded in 1927, and it still have 3 outdoor, and 15 indoor pools. After its expansion, the thermal artesian well couldn't fullfill its purpose, so a new well was drilled. The second thermal spring was found in 1938. Its depth is 1256m ( 4 120 ft ), and its temperature is 77 °C ( 170.6 °F ) and it supplies 6.000.000 litres ( 1 585 032 US gallons) of hot water daily.
The complex was damaged during the second world war, and was reconstructed in many steps till 1952, when the daily hospital service opened foro people who needed physico therapy treatment.
The reconstruction of the pools of the swimming section, their equipment with water filtering and circulation devices was completed in 1999. The so-called fancy bath includes a whirling corridor, underwater effervescence production, neck shower, water beam back massage installed in the sitting banks and many other services.
Its thermal spring is one of the deepest and warmest in the city. The bath is situated in the City park, opposite of the City Circus and it can be reached by subway line No. 1 (station of the same name: Széchenyi fürdő).
Links:
http://travel.yahoo.com/ideas/10-hot-springs-worth-traveling-for.html
Reviews
http://www.getyourguide.com/en/tours/hungary-budapest/szechenyi-spa-fast-easy-entrance/?id=4139
“Die Buchung war perfekt.”
So wird das Urlaubserlebnis sehr besonders. In Ruhe zuhause gebucht, vor Ort Zeit gespart.
Sehr zu empfehlen.
March 13th, 2012
“Altes schönes Thermalbad- viel Liegefläche outdoor”
Wenig Liegeflächen indoor, aber Ambiente beeindruckend im Außenbereich- gute schöne Lage- neben vielen weiteren Sehenswürdigkeiten...auf jeden Fall einen Besuch wert!
February 11th, 2012
Wer in einem von den Bädern in Budapest gehen möchte, der sollte ins Szechenyi-Bad gehen. Es ist ein wirklich schönes Bad mit vielen Wellnessbecken drinnen und draußen. Was sehr streng genommen wird ist die Badehaube fürs Schwimmerbecken. Das ist das einzige Becken was etwas kühler ist, aber ohne Badehaube darf man dort nicht seine Bahnen ziehen. Viel Spaß dort
July 19th, 2011
