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The Széchenyi Bath
The Széchenyi Thermal Bath in one of the largest spa complexes in Europe which was built in
1913. The bath was expanded in 1927 with a public bathing department for gentlemen and
ladies and a beach site. In the middle of the 1960s, a daytime hospital was built. The
reconstruction of the pools of the swimming section was completed in 1999. Further
reconstructions and product innovations were made during the last years.
The water of the bath contains calcium, magnesium, hydro-carbonate, sodium and sulphate,
with a significant content in fluoride and metaboric acid. Therapeutic is suggested for
degenerative joint diseases, chronic and sub-acute arthritis.
The bath has a swimming pool with water filtering and circulation device, adventure pool, and
thermal sitting pool, group thermal bath with adventure pool and group stream-baths. The
water temperature is between 27 – 38 ºC.
The tasks of marketing finance, controlling and administration are centralised, the bath is
responsible for the daily operation. The bath provides daily hospital, medical and wellness
services. There are two main target audience, the domestic and the international markets. In
the frame of the different investment plans 3.5 billion Hungarian forint was invested into the
renovation of the bath and the development of services. The guests are mostly satisfied with
the services. There are some fields which have to be developed. These are the level of
services and the foreign language knowledge of the personal.
The Lukács Bath
In the 12 th century, knights of the order of Saint John engaging in curing the sick settled in the
area of today’s Lukács Bath. The bath operated through the time of Turks but the energy of
the springs were used primary to produce gunpowder and for grinding wheat. The first
department to ensure complex thermal bath facilities, daytime hospital was established in
1979 in the Lukács Thermal Bath. The swimming pools were rebuilt and modernised from
1999 in more phases.
The hot spring water contains calcium, magnesium, hydrogen-carbonate and sulphate,
chloride, sodium and fluoride ions. Therapeutic is suggested for degenerative diseases,
chronic and sub-acute arthritis, spinal deformity, discus hernia, neuralgia and post-accident
rehabilitation. The bath has swimming pools, adventure pool, thermal bath and underwater
traction bath. The Lukács Bath profile is a medical bath.
In three beat between 2005 – 2009 all together 2,7 billion Hungarian forint was invested in the
development of the Lukács bath., which affected the daily hospital, the thermal bath, the sun
suit and the wellness services. The centralisation is the same than in the case of Gellért and
Széchenyi bath. The guest are coming mostly from the domestic market, the bath is not
familiar for the international guests. The guest’s satisfaction is lower in the Lukács bath as in
the Gellért and Széchény bath.
The Rudas Spa
The centrepiece of the bath today, the Turkish bath, was built during the 16 th century in the
period of the Turkish occupation. Below the 10 m diameter dome, sustained by 8 pillars, there
is an octagonal pool. The thermal bath has been visited from 1936 on exclusively by men. The
swimming pool, operating as a therapeutic swimming facility and with a sauna, was built in
1896.