Tölgyes Strand

The Tölgyes Strand, styled by its operator the Tölgyes Gyógyvizű Strandfürdő és Kemping, is a medicinal-water lido with an adjoining campsite at Gyöngyvirág utca 22 and 24 in Jászapáti, a small town in Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok county on the Great Hungarian Plain. The bath was built in the early 1960s around a sodium-hydrogen-carbonate water and is described by the operator as one of the town's notable features. Its water comes from a well 805 metres deep, listed in the national well cadastre as B-15. The National Directorate of Spa Resorts and Medicinal Baths recognised it as a mineral water in April 2001 and certified it as gyógyvíz, medicinal water, on 8 April 2002.

The published analysis gives sodium at 250 milligrams per litre, hydrogen carbonate at 756, calcium at 22.2, chloride at 9, magnesium at 5.7, potassium at 3.8 and iron at 0.14, with a pH of 7.5 and total mineral content of 1,110 milligrams per litre. The operator gives two water temperatures: 49.0 °C in the analysis and 45 °C for the well water. The bath cites a clinical study of the water's effect on knee and hip osteoarthritis in which 88 of 170 examined patients from Jászapáti, Jászivány and Jászkisér completed a three-week bathing cure, reporting improvement in most measured parameters that persisted at three months. The operator recommends cure-style rather than occasional bathing, at a minimum of two twenty-minute baths a day over two weeks, and notes that a bathing reaction of mild nausea, dizziness or increased pain may appear between the fourth and sixth day.

In a normal summer season the bath operates five pools: a therapy pool at 37–39 °C of 71.4 m², a thermal pool at 35–37 °C of 160 m², a teaching pool at 28–30 °C of 240 m², a large swimming pool at 25–27 °C of 525 m² and 2.1 metres deep, and a children's pool at 28–30 °C of 150 m² and 40 to 60 centimetres deep. There is also a water slide. Therapeutic services are subsidised by the national health insurer and cover balneotherapy, medicinal massage, mud treatment, underwater group physiotherapy and remedial swimming for under-eighteens; medical prescription is required for the subsidised course, while massage and mud treatment can be taken without one. Mud is applied at 42 °C for about twenty minutes. The campsite alongside has 240 places on grass, is rated three stars and is popular with foreign visitors; four three-person cabins, two two-person stone rooms and a sixteen-person lodge can be rented.

The bath is closed and no reopening date has been published. The operator states that the Tölgyes Strandfürdő is still closed, that an official licensing procedure is in progress and that it has no precise information about when the season will open. The bath's telephone number is given as unavailable. Only the campsite is open.