The spa in Zalakaros is one of the youngest ones in Hungary located in the south-west of the country, 30 km off the Balaton. Its name became widely known with the discovery of a hot spring of 90 Celsius during the 1962 test drillings. The history of the bath with the sixth biggest attendance of Hungary dates back to 1962 when as a result of a hydrocarbon prospecting drilling instead of oil 96C° water gushed forth to the surface from a depth of more than two thousand meters. Following the chemical analysis of the resurgent water with a mineral salt content of 13000 mg/l and the determining of its medical effects a thermal bath was established in 1965. In the then Zalakaros Beach Bath a 333 m2 water surface thermal pool and a 60 m2 children’s pool awaited the guests to which three years later a sport swimming pool was added. The covered bath which included the therapies too was opened in 1975, and then the following twenty years were marked by a continuous development. In 1978 the “acknowledged medicinal water” bath was officially pronounced a thermal spa by the Ministry of Health. Since then and currently our corporation is the only one that owns medicinal water in Zalakaros!
