Nagyszénási parkfürdő

The Parkfürdő sits in the centre of Nagyszénás, a village on the southern Great Plain, and is run by the municipality itself, at Táncsics Mihály utca 1 (email parkfurdo@nagyszenas.hu). It is a modest, quiet, family-scale place rather than a resort, and it stays open through the year in outdoor swimming and thermal-water basins. Two open-air pools are given over to the thermal water, and a separate outdoor paddling pool for the youngest children runs only in the summer season, from May to September.

The water is the reason the bath exists. It rises from close to three thousand metres below the village at 96 °C, and is described as an alkaline hydrogen-carbonate hot water rich in dissolved hydrocarbons that also carries fluoride and iodide ions. The operator publishes no bathing temperatures for the individual pools and no water analysis table, so it does not say how far the 96 °C source water is cooled before it reaches the basins.

Alongside the water the bath keeps a purpose-built Finnish sauna held at 90 °C with room for fifteen people, and hands out a sauna towel with every session; it runs on its own timetable, from 13:00 on weekdays and from 10:00 at weekends, closing with the bath at 19:00. A fitness park in the shade of lime trees offers five pieces of outdoor exercise apparatus covering most muscle groups, and there is a beach volleyball court on the grounds. Massage is available Tuesday to Sunday, mornings and afternoons, in a separate room: a classic refreshing massage in full or partial form, foot massage, and a range of oil and aromatherapy treatments from grape-seed and lavender to peppermint-rosemary and coconut. A pedicure service runs on Monday afternoons.

Swimming courses are offered for adults and children, and a sunbed can be hired by the day. The bath is open from Monday to Sunday, 09:00 to 19:00.