La Posta Hotel – Terme Bagno Vignoni

What it is

La Posta, formerly Posta Marcucci, is the thermal hotel of Bagno Vignoni, in the Val d'Orcia. It was an inn on the Via Francigena, the pilgrim road to Rome, and today it is a family-run five-star hotel with 35 rooms. The thermal water gushes out under the hotel itself and fills three open-air pools in a tree-lined garden facing the Rocca d'Orcia, each at its own temperature: the first between 35 and 38 °C, the last between 28 and 32 °C.

The baths for day visitors

The pools are open to visitors who are not staying, from age 14, from 9:30 to 18:00. There are four slots:

• Full day, from 9:30 to 18:00: €55.
• Morning, from 9:30 to 13:30: €40.
• Midday, from 11:00 to 15:00: €40.
• Afternoon, from 14:00 to 18:00: €40.

The entry includes a towel and bathrobe; the cap, which is compulsory, and the flip-flops are bought there for €5. The indoor spa, with saunas, Turkish bath and salt grotto, costs €25 more. On Thursdays one of the three pools closes for cleaning. There are more complete packages: with a room for the day, from €199; with a massage or dinner, from €299; spa experiences with treatment, from €130 to €215; and the exclusive night spa, from €150 per person and a minimum of two, except Fridays and Saturdays. From 3 April to 31 October, on Fridays and Saturdays, the pools open at night from 20:00 to 22:45.

Staying

Whoever sleeps at the hotel has the pools and spa from 7:30 to 20:00 and a gym. Rooms are handed over at 15:00 and vacated before 11:00. There is private parking, dogs and cats are admitted if you mention it when booking and under-14s are not accepted, because there are no children's areas. From Sunday to Thursday there is a midweek stay offer, the Midweek Thermal Break.

Eating and booking

The restaurant La Rocca, with Tuscan cooking and views over the valley, is also open to those not staying, by reservation: from 12:30 to 14:00 and from 19:30 to 21:00. There is also a bar, Bar Verde, and a kiosk beside the pools. Day tickets, stays and treatments are booked on the website by choosing a date; treatments are best booked in advance. The website does not publish cancellation conditions: they can be consulted at [email protected] or on +39 0577 887112. The hotel is a few steps from the square with the great thermal pool of Bagno Vignoni.