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The Thermal Baths of Budapest - Ahh, "The City of Spas"
Episode 1315th June 2021 • Virtual Vacation with Guidester • Motif Media Group
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This isn't your Hot Springs, Arkansas thermal bath area. Budapest is known as the city spas as it boasts more hot springs and medicinal baths than any capital city in the world!

[02:46] Bath Crazy "Budapesht" not Budapest.

[05:39] The Skinny on Thermal Baths

  • 120 Hot Springs
  • Romans and the Turks

[09:10] These are spas, but this isn't a Vic Tanney Health Spa - it's much much better!

  • Sparties
  • Rooftop Communal Hot Tub
  • Széchenyi Baths-18 pools, 15 of which are spring-fed thermal pools
  • Gellért Baths-most photographed spa in Hungary
  • Király Baths-officially the oldest, built in the second half of the 16th century
  • Rudas Baths-Turkish dome and octagonal pool

[16:11] How to bath in a culturally correct way

  • Shower, don't soak too long, shower, mineral baths, shower, sauna, shower, steam rooms, ice-cold pool, shower, do it again!

[22:15] Favorite Bath and the Cost $

[25:54] Family Friendly?

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