Lukács Bath
Healing baths have stood on this Buda site since the Knights of Saint John settled here in the 12th century, and grateful guests left marble tablets of thanks on the courtyard wall. Three indoor medicinal pools run at 32, 36 and 40 °C, with an outdoor pool and a lazy river beside them.
Getting in
- Public transport
- Trams 4, 6, 17 and 19, buses 9 and 109, or the HÉV to Margit híd
- Address
- Frankel Leó út 25-29, 1023 Budapest
Entry, hours and rules
- Entry
- Adult ticket, Monday to Thursday (locker included)HUF 7,000about €19
- Adult ticket, Friday to Sunday and holidays (locker included)HUF 8,000about €22
- Hours
- Mon07:00-19:00
- Tue07:00-22:00
- Wed07:00-19:00
- Thu07:00-19:00
- Fri07:00-19:00
- Sat07:00-19:00
- Sun07:00-19:00
- Swimwear and rules
- Swimwear made for swimming only in the pools; swim cap required in the swimming pools. The sauna world is swimsuit-free.
- Minimum age
- 14 and over.
- Tickets
- Day ticket, no time slot
- Official site
- lukacsfurdo.hu
- Facilities
- Changing roomsLockersCaféSaunaSteam roomIndoor poolOutdoor pool
About Lukács Bath
The bath kept running through the Ottoman period, but the springs' power went mainly into making gunpowder and grinding wheat. After Buda was retaken it passed to the Treasury, and in 1884 Fülöp Palotay bought it and built a spa hotel and a hydrotherapy department. The drinking-cure hall dates from 1937, and in 1979 Lukács opened the first day hospital for complex thermal treatment in Budapest. A little-used mud pond in the swimming courtyard gave way in 1999 to the adventure pool, with its whirling corridor and water-jet massagers hidden in the seats.