Dandár Thermal Bath — Attraction in Budapest

We enjoyed our morning here and definitely recommend it if you are looking to relax. Here is some information to help you plan your trip here. Things to bring: swimsuit, towel, credit card if you want to buy something from the little cafe there, flipflops, a little bag to carry things in and your phone with the QR codes on if you bought your tickets online. Some people bring a hat, reading material, sunscreen (for sun lounging after going in the pools, sunglasses, water bottle. We bought our tickets online at the site linked on this page as the official website. The price was 2900HUF per person. On the website it indicated that the inside pools (excluding the cold pool) were closed for renovation. This did not deter us. The tickets are emailed to you. Note that there is a message that says not to use Microsoft email addresses. Upon arrival we went up the stairs and found the ticket counter. She smiled and scanned the QR codes we received. We were then given a "watch" each. See photos. No deposit was asked for. To enter the changing area you need to go up the stairs. Here you use your "watch" to scan an electric turnstile. You enter. Also there is a friendly woman worker here who will assist you if you don't understand the technology (like me!)😅 You turn right and enter an area with lockers. Interestingly it is for everyone regardless of your sex. I found a room titled a "cabin". I used this room to change into my swimsuit. I then went and found a locker. You use your "watch" to lock your locker. There are pictures and some English here to help you along but we did have to intuit a bit too. And it worked like magic. There are washrooms here, a shower area.

You leave the changing area the same way you came. You go back down the stairs. The sauna was inside and it was open for use. We used the two outside pools. One was 36C and the other was 38C. There is an outdoor shower there as well. The atmosphere was very relaxing. There are sunbeds inside and outside. In view of both pools you will find an area to hang your bag and/or towel if you choose to bring anything with you. We left everything locked in the locker. The outdoor pools, the changing room upstairs, and the washrooms were very clean and in very good shape. You can use the spinner to help remove excess water from your bathing suit. There are small bags for you to place your wet suit in. After you leave the changing area you place your watch in a slot by the turnstile. This allows you to leave. Please don't worry if you don't remember all this. Everyone was friendly and helpful. There are a lot of signs that were in English as well...

The interaction happened in Hungarian but for the sake of foreigners visiting this place, I am writing this review in English.

Honestly, the place is super nice and the temperature of the outside pools are high enough. The staff is nice except for the lady from the tickets. When we were about to leave and took take a picture of ourselves (for memories). she started to shout in front of all the line of customers behind her (at least 10) trying to humiliate us (my partner & I) for taking pictures and blaming us for infringing the law. I told her I took pictures of my partner and I and she proceeded to shout and say “I saw you took pictures of the pool! You are infringing the law!”. Neither did she see what pictures I took as I have a private screen protection on my phone, but not is her remark relevant. Everybody takes pictures. Especially when they go to baths. I have never heard at Szechenyi baths for example (where I have been multiple times), that I would be infringing the law if I took a picture of the baths with people in it. Besides, the Facebook page of this Dandár bath has a profile picture with people in it (which can be questionable too, did those people consent to have their pictures taken, and to be featured on a Facebook profile picture?).

The colleague of the woman from the tickets saw the interaction and asked me “what is happening again?” With a tone that showed that this is not the first aggression the lady from the ticket did today. We had such a nice experience until we almost left.

The people from the changing rooms are very nice and also from the kitchen. Just the ticket woman is a lady who is looking to aggress the clients for whatever reason it may be.

Needless to say that I have a student card and I speak Hungarian so she was obliged to accept my student card, but the English-speaking people wanting to redeem their student card for a student ticket but couldn’t get a student ticket because the ticket woman didn’t want to accept it. Mind you, I also have a foreign (non Hungarian) student card, just as the English speaking students, but the difference is that I...

I only give this place 3 stars because it's the cheapest of the five baths I've been to (Rudas, Lukacs, Szechenyi and Gellert) the other four. It's Ok, but to be honest I would rather pay a bit more for better facilities. The Wellness Centre is poor in comparison to Rudas and there is no swimming pool. The three indoor baths have temperature of 20C, 35C and 38C, whilst the two outdoor baths have temperatures of 36C and 38C. I prefer hotter and colder eg. Gellert I recorded 44C and 13.5C. If you pay the additional amount of 700 huf on top of the 2700 huf, you get to use the steam room (circa 44C) and Sauna (circa 44C) the cold pool there I recorded at only 17C, I wanted colder. It's really popular with local Hungarian people, not many tourists here. But whilst I enjoyed my visit, I rank it last of the five. My No1 based on both price and facilities is Rudas,...