Eger Termál

Eger Termál Kft. is the company that runs Eger's public baths, five minutes' walk from the basilica, next to the Érsekkert, the archbishop's former garden. It runs two different houses that connect with each other: the large outdoor and indoor thermal spa, and the Turkish bath from the Ottoman period.

The spa in the park

The Termál- és Strandfürdő opened in 1932 and occupies a 5-hectare park with ancient trees. The most famous is a protected oriental plane tree of over 250 years, which was Hungary's Tree of the Year in 2012 and Europe's in 2013. It has 13 pools, indoor and outdoor, sports courts and a children's area with a baby pool. It is divided in two: the northern part is quiet and focuses on medicinal water, with radioactive water and sulphurous thermal water; the southern part is for family bathing, beach-style.

From 1 September 2026 it is open every day from 9:00 to 18:00; the ticket office closes at 17:00 and you must leave the water at 17:30. Maintenance days are announced on its website. You enter through the Érsekkert, all year, or through Petőfi tér, in summer only.

The Turkish bath

The Török Fürdő, on Fürdő utca, preserves the Turkish pool built between 1610 and 1617, during the Ottoman occupation, fed by springs that well up beneath the mosaic floor. Its dome was renovated in 1980 and is covered with about 200,000 gold tesserae. The house says it is the only Turkish bath that survives in rural Hungary.

Today it has six pools 90 cm deep: three of radioactive water at 30 °C, among them two mirror pools of 1742 and 1795, and others at 38, 36 and 28 °C. It adds a sauna, infrared sauna, steam bath, aroma cabin, hammam with massage and a rest room. In the morning, on weekdays, it is given over to medical treatments by appointment; the wellness area opens in the afternoon on weekdays (from 16:30 on Mondays and Tuesdays, 15:00 on Wednesdays and Thursdays and 13:00 on Fridays) and from 9:00 to 21:00 at weekends and on public holidays.

Tickets

The day ticket to the spa costs 4,600 Ft for adults and 3,700 Ft for children from age 4, students and pensioners; from 15:00 there is an afternoon ticket for 3,000 Ft. There are family tickets from 11,800 Ft for two adults and one child, multi-visit passes and a 10% discount for groups of 20 or more. Discounts are verified with photo ID and cannot be combined. From the spa you pay a supplement of 3,600 Ft to go through to the Turkish bath.

Tickets are bought at the ticket office or online at ticket.egertermal.hu, which avoids the queue. The website is in Hungarian, with automatic translation into other languages; it does not publish cancellation conditions.