This place is an attraction that has looked great in all the photos I’ve seen – I have literally felt the steam on my face. Apparently it was all in my imagination, because reality was quite different… After entering an anonymously looking building it was kind of survival of the fittest, because this place was cramped with people – tons! And it wasn’t even during a holiday or weekend. Schools had obviously decided this was the perfect day for an excursion. When walking through the museum what surprised me the most was the scale of it. From the outside you wouldn’t believe they were able to cram so much in-between the walls and the surrounding buildings. But even though there is much to have a look at, I didn’t find anything besides the main pool interesting, which by all means is a pleasant one. And to my surprise was outside. As a (nice) end to the visit you are able to taste the famous spa water. With a distant lingering smell of sulphur I just didn’t fancy a taste of the 43 curative minerals – I could taste the taste without tasting it, if you know what I mean 🙁 Yet if you fancy some kind of nutritious intake there is an on-site restaurant, which probably looked a lot more fancy than what it was – I headed off for some pub food instead 🙂
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Glad to see your review – I’m going to Bath Monday and was unsure if I want to actually look at the baths! Still seems like a maybe…
Even though I know what I now know, I still would have been torn 🙂
we’ve never been. But this certainly looks interesting. When we were in Iceland the showers smelled like sulphur. i could not get used to it. and it wreaks havoc on your hair.
They did? Don’t remember 🙂 Don’t know about sulphur, but hard water makes my hair go crazy 🙂 One of the things I never get used to when traveling.
LOL, I remember that smell from the baths in Budapest. Once you get past it however, it’s fabulous (the swim, not the smell, hehe)
😀 Here you’re can’t swim, even advised to not touch the water. Contaminated…
The smell of sulphur is not fun, but I did enjoy the architecture of the Baths when I visited. It’s interesting to see this historical building surrounded by a modern day town.
The smell didn’t bother me too much, just when I was thinking about drinking the water 🙂 I thought the whole town was in architectural sync. Liked Bath a lot!
You can hardly visit Bath and not see the Roman Baths but I agree with you that they are a bit of a disappointment.
True! Good – just not me then 🙂
I visited here just a few weeks ago but had better luck than you regarding crowd size. We arrived just after opening, and it wasn’t too bad. I DID taste the water. Not only did it taste bad, it was warm, too, which just made the experience that much weirder. We also skipped the fancy restaurant and got some takeaway elsewhere instead.
Glad you escaped the crowds! Kudos to you for trying the water 🙂
Oh ok
Interesting! Thanks for sharing this!…The main pool does look good…
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We were strongly advised against touching the water, far from clean…