Hungarian Baths

Okay, we have been back for ages but we are continuing our play by play posting about our most recent trip. We better hurry up because we have another long weekend coming up soon. I don't really know what I've been doing with my time (besides working and sleeping) because I don't seem to get that much knitting done either. Hmm...

Anyway, while in Budapest, we decided that we needed to check out a bath because the city is on a fault line. So, we consulted our Lonely Planet guide and chose the only one listed that said men and women could come on the same day. The guidebook also said that the Gellert was like taking a bath in a cathedral! So, after the art museum, we headed onto the baths. When we got off the tram, the adventure began.

First, we ended up walking around most of the building because we couldn't find the entrance. We eventually found the entrance. When we walked in, we saw the lines to get tickets and the information booth. We stood in line, looked at the prices, discussed what we were going to do, and then asked a couple questions at the information desk. We then got back in line and I thought of another question and asked it while John waited. Meanwhile, we saw people wandering around in bathrobes and entering from a different entrance. We got our tickets and still didn't really understand what we paid for because you could get treatments such as massage but also there appeared to be different tickets for the warm and cool water areas. They told us that our ticket got us into both. So, we got our ticket and then handed them to the person checking them. He told us to both go the same way. No word on where the changing rooms were. We eventually found where to get towels and they told us where each changing area was (hallway to change into). Eventually, we got changed and then met up and found a bath. In that room, there is one cool water and one warm water pool.

After being done with these two pools, we decided to wander around a bit because we thought that there had to be more. And there was. We found two more pools. One was warmer than the other and we went into the warmer one and relaxed. We stayed in this pool until our fingers were all shriveled. Then we wandered some more and decided that was all there was for us. I then began my adventure of getting back to my changing area. Luckily for me, a guy noticed that I was confused/lost and told me how to get back to my changing area. After getting changed, we headed out and saw a bunch of people with guidebooks all looking disappointed because the bath stopped allowing in visitors before it closed...

Oh, and this ends the tour of Budapest. Next stop: Vienna