7 super wellness hotels where you can stop by for taking a sauna bath

With the onset of cold weather, we may find ourselves wishing to have a sauna bath more and more. Alternating hot air and cold water has been shown to refresh the body, stimulate the immune system, reduce muscle pain and post-exercise muscle soreness. You may wonder where you can find hotels where the feeling of relaxation, thermal water or wet experiences and sauna treatments are combined with a wonderful view and high quality service. We give you some ideas.

For those looking for active relaxation, the four-star sports and wellness hotel offers super relaxation, with a swimming pool for athletes and medicinal water for those looking for healing and relaxation, which has a beneficial effect on musculoskeletal complaints. The sauna world features Finnish and infrared saunas, a steam room and a salt room to help you recharge, as well as sauna sessions led by a sauna master. The nearby volcanic cone of Mount Ság offers a great excursion: it’s not every day you get to walk through the collapsed crater of an extinct volcano millions of years old! And in the Kemenes Volcano Park you can learn a lot about how volcanoes work.

The atmosphere of Bambara Hotel in Felsőtárkány is reminiscent of hot Africa, even on winter days. In addition to its unique ambience, exotic wellness services have also been accommodated within the four walls. The two-storey, more than 1,000-square-metre wellness empire also has a quiet, child-free area. Here you will find a mystical adventure bath, a meditation soul oasis, an African herbarium hut, a salt spray steam room, and a sauna made of floating wood, in addition to the traditional saunas. There is also a jacuzzi and special African massages are available in the spa area.

Situated near the legendary Siklós Castle, the family-friendly, four-star Hotel Castello is directly connected to the Thermal Spa in Siklós. The three-storey complex of more than 5,000 square metres offers a total of 12 pools for fun and relaxation. The range of thermal water-filled pools includes a Turkish bath, jacuzzi, whirlpool, chatting pool and children’s pool, made even more spectacular by crystal glass mosaics. For the entertainment of children, there are indoor slides. The sauna world includes two traditional Finnish saunas, two infrared saunas, a wood-fired Russian sauna, a steam cabin and an aroma cabin, and there are regular refreshing and relaxing sauna sessions. And while in the city, explore the exhibitions at Siklós Castle and reminisce about the Captain of Tenkes series set here.

Offering exclusive facial and body treatments, thermal water from a depth of 1,000 metres, indoor and outdoor pools and a slide experience, the modern four-star wellness hotel also offers a unique sauna experience. Completely renovated in spring 2021, the sauna world offers 50 square metres of Finnish sauna, a unique hay sauna, Turkish bath, Roman bath and Kneipp foot pool for total refreshment. Every day, the sauna masters take care of the sauna sessions, the refills, and the large glass surfaces let nature’s spectacle into the interior.

The hotel, which won the 1st place in the 2019 Hotel of the Year Quality Award, was built in the immediate vicinity of the Hajdúszoboszló Spa, with a view of the Aqua Palace Spa building from the terraces. The hotel’s 900-square-metre wellness area has a swimming pool, a medicinal water pool, an adventure pool and a children’s paddling pool, all lit from above by natural light, to help you relax. In the sauna world, you can relax in the Finnish sauna, infrared sauna, bio sauna, steam cabin, ice and salt cave, or take part in sauna sessions. Massages are also available in the wellness area. Just a few steps away, on can find the indoor adventure pools of Aqua Palace, which evoke different eras: from tropical baths to ice caves, from sea baths to Roman baths; here you can enjoy the beneficial effects of the world-famous medicinal waters of Hajdúszoboszló in countless themed pools.

Only 300 metres from the famous spa of Zalakaros, one of the most renowned spa towns in Hungary, lies the four-star hotel offering relaxation, gastronomic experiences and physical and mental rejuvenation. Those who prefer active relaxation can swim in the indoor or outdoor sports pools, those who want to refresh themselves can enjoy the world of massage and adventure elements in the adventure pools, and those who want to relax and unwind can relax in the jacuzzi. Apart from the Zalakaros spa, this is the only hotel in the town with its own thermal spring, whose sodium hydrogen carbonate thermal water, which rises from a depth of 1,000 metres, is available to guests in the pool and in the bathrooms of the hotel rooms. The sauna park features Finnish saunas, a sauna for advanced sauna users, a bio- and infrared sauna with light therapy, a steam room and an ice cave. Sauna sessions led by a sauna master are also popular.

There is nothing more beautiful than the sight of frosty winter mountains and forests – especially when you can enjoy it all from the warmth of pools and saunas. Hotel Ozon offers just this view from its panoramic spa, where you can warm up even after a hike in the woods. The more than 1,000-square-metre spa with indoor adventure pools, panoramic indoor and outdoor saunas, Finnish, aroma and bio sauna, steam room, salt and infra cave will help you relax. And after the spa, if you fancy a bit of a spin, you can continue the evening in the gambling room.