Each night, the three outdoor pools of Szechenyi Spa Baths are open until 10pm – from Monday to Sunday, and in all four seasons. Note: the 15 indoor pools and facilities also close at 10 pm.
Yes, that is right: Szechenyi Bath nights with its open air pools open all year round – spending an unforgettable night in the outdoor pools (there are more than a dozen indoor pools too) is one of the best things to do in Budapest, not only in spring – summer – autumn, but also in winter time.
Late night opening hours mean that you can enjoy fantastic night baths in the open air pools, while enjoying romantic stargazing, or just watching from the warm waves how gently the snow is falling – through the warm steam pillow forming over the thermal pools.
Open Air Pools at Night
There are 3 pools of various sizes and temperatures, so you will not feel either too hot or too cold, no matter what the weather is like. The middle pool is the coolest, which is in fact a sports swimming pool, while the two pools on the wings, are natural hot water thermal pools: one of which is cooled down to 33 degrees Celsius and the other is 38 degrees Celsius.
Night Parties in Szechenyi Baths
In the summer season, every Saturday night you can join the world famous hip Szechenyi Bath spa parties, known as Szecska sparties, or the rarer and more spectacular peak summer parties called Water Circus parties, aka Cinetrip sparties.
Sparties are one of a kind all night pool parties in the 3 outdoor pools in Szechenyi Baths with laser shows, DJ and VJ electronic discos. Typically enjoyed by young people in their 20s, 30s and 40s.
Just like the day visits in Szechenyi Baths, the night parties are not nude parties, swimwear is compulsory, and you can bring floating toys, and other pool accessories.
Drinks are available at the parties, which take place every Saturday night in summer months (autumn, winter and spring bath parties are in Lukacs Baths)
A few years ago like about 15, I was at these baths, it was Soviet service from the queue to get the ticket to the baths, we were made to wait for more than an hour to get a ticket into the place.
When we did get in I was shown a locker I put my stuff in the locker it was a locker with a no key so I waited for the next step… no one appeared I went looking for someone and no one was around… in the end I left my stuff in the open locker and did the baths lucky nothing was missing when I got back…
The strange experience left me feeling like I wont come back to Budapest and sure enough it stayed off my radar until this weekend when I came back for dental reasons..
And so….. I’m planning to go again this weekend, saw that I can book online I got a cabin ticket so I have done that, let see if I get lucky this time and get a locker with some sort of key
I read in a Lonely planet guide somewhere that the procedure in some baths (possibly this one too) for the locker thing is that the locker guy locks the locker for you and walks off with the keys, you get then some sort of ticket which you use later to gain access again to the locker…. an oddly complicated process…
So I will report back after my experiences on Saturday Im hoping that things at the Baths have improved in 15 years..
Dear Mark,
thank you for contacting us.
Let me kindly inform you that the locker and cabin system has been completely changed.
When you check-in to the Baths, you will receive a waterproof wristband, which will serve as your key for the locker or for the cabin (depending on the ticket type you bought). Therefore no-one else has a key for your locker except you.
On top of that, you can also rent a safety box for your valuables if you wish.
We hope you will have a wonderful experience in Szechenyi Baths.
I read: “Each night, the three outdoor pools of Szechenyi Spa Baths are open until 10pm – from Monday to Sunday, and in all four seasons. Note: the 15 indoor pools and facilities also close at 10 pm.” But on several other pages I read that the thermal pools close at 7 pm.
Could you please clarify opening hours for December?
Thank you very much.
Nika
Hello Nika,
the indoor section is also open until 10 pm all year round.
Previously the indoor section was closed at 7pm, but it is open until 10 pm since last year.
Hope we can welcome you at Szechenyi Spa Baths!