Gellért Thermal Bath
City: Budapest
Area: District 11.
Phone: 466-6166
Fax: 466-5747
We find records about the "miraculous" springs spurting up on the territory of the Bath from as early a date as the 15th century. These springs were later favoured by the Turks as well, as they were larger and hotter than the Buda baths of the period. In the 17th century, the site was named Sárosfürdő (Mud bath) because of the fine spring silt that was pushed up together with the spring water and settled at the bottom of the pools.
Opening hours
| Facilities | Weekdays | Saturday | Sunday |
| Thermal bath pool, weight bath and healing massage | 6.00 - 19.00 | 6.00 - 17.00 | 6.00 - 17.00 |
| Swimming pool | 6.00 - 19.00 | 6.00 - 17.00 | 6.00 - 17.00 |
| Mud package | 6.00 - 19.00 | 6.00 - 17.00 | 6.00 - 17.00 |
| Carbonic acid tub-bath | 6.30 - 19.00 | 6.30 - 13.00 | Closed |
| Thermal tub-bath | 6.30 - 19.00 | 6.30 - 13.00 | Closed |
| Underwater water-beam massage | 6.30 - 19.00 | 6.30 - 13.00 | Closed |
| Medical healing massage | 6.30 - 19.00 | 6.30 - 13.00 | Closed |
| Thermal bath pool, weight bath and healing massage | 6.30 - 19.00 | 6.00 - 17.00 | 6.00 - 17.00 |
Bath Units
Number of pools: 13
| Effervescent bath section (2) | water temperature | water depth | water surface area |
| Effervescent bath pool | 26 °C | 246 m2 | 0,8-2 m |
| Sitting pool | 30 °C | 60 m2 | 1,05 m |
| Outdoor pools (3) | water temperature | water depth | water surface area |
| Wave bath pool | 26 °C | 500 m2 | 0,40-2,75 m |
| Sitting pool with fancy facilities | 30 °C | 94 m2 | 1,0 m |
| Children's pool | 30 °C | 56,4 m2 | ave.0,4 m |
| Thermal Baths (8) | water temperature | water depth | water surface area |
| Thermal pools | 26-38 °C |
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Water composition
Water supply to the Bath is ensured by the spring accesses established inside the Gellért hill. The water is a hot spring water with calcium, magnesium and hydrogen-carbonate as well as sulphate-chloride, also containing sodium and with a significant content of fluoride ions.
Therapeutic proposals
- degenerative illnesses of joints
- illnesses of the vertebral spine
- chronic and semi-acute arthritis
- pains of the intervertebral disc
- neuralgia
- aortic stenosis
- blood circulation problems
- in the Inhalatorium: treatment of asthmatic, chronic bronchitic complaints
Services
- Department ensuring complex thermal bath facilities (daytime outpatient hospital)
- Gentlemen's and ladies' thermal bath pools
- Gentlemen's and ladies' weight baths
- Carbonic acid tub-bath
- Medical healing massage
- Refreshing massage
- Underwater water-beam massage
- Foot massage
- Dry and steam saunas
- Finnish sauna, with cold dive-pools
- Mud packing
- Physicotherapy
- Tooth-gum shower
- Inhalation
- Healing gymnastics
- Bathing suit rentals
- Custody of garments and valuables
- Exchange of foreign currerncy
- Hairdresser's shop
- Cosmetics
- Solarium
- Manicure
- Foot care
- Buffets
- Dental surgery
- Ladies' and group naturists' sunbath premises
- Provision of sites for social events after opening hours, on demand with use of bath as well
Prices
Entrance tickets from 2800 Ft -
We issue entry tickets until one hour before closing. Guests must leave pool areas 15 minutes before closing.
Accessibility
By public transportation: tramways 18, 19, 47 and 49, buses 7, 7A and 86.
The Gellért Thermal Bath is located in the centre of the city, on the right bank of the Danube, at the bridgehead of the Szabadság Bridge
