After a couple of days vacationing in Barcelona or the Costa Brava seaside resorts head west to the village of Santa Coloma de Farners for a household day on the Magma Thermal Leisure Middle in Catalonia, 20km south of Girona.
Located on the base of a significant mountaineering space lies a protracted two story constructing, glossy in structure each in and out and immaculately clear and pristine. Opened in 2002, the thermal leisure space’s grand area is very large with it is two story glass home windows overlooking a grassy meadow, chestnut, oak and occasional beech timber, and the Guilleries mountains. Visiting the thermal waters gives a soothing and playful break from the hustle and bustle of Barcelona and has one thing for everybody from infants to seniors.
The leisure middle, 870 sq. meters of thermal water floor and 45,000 sq. meters of backyard, features a central spa with a temperature of 36C with a counter present river, pressurized water cascades, hydromassage benches, bubble basin and hydromassage beds all specified by a spiral-like pool 1.5 meters deep. Set above the central spa are two hydromassage jacuzzis for 8 folks with a temperature of 35C. Set under is a toddler’s playground set in a pool 5 meters vast and 30 cm deep in addition to a 4 lane 25 meter swimming pool at 28C.
For the evenly temperate local weather a water passage leads exterior to a big chilly water out of doors swimming pool and heat water spa with jet sprays and mushroom cascades. If this is not sufficient anybody over 16 can benefit from the 20 individual steam baths, Finnish sauna, eucalyptus steam room, contrasting showers, ice pit and heated mattress relaxation space.
Whereas your partner is downstairs swimming with the children, meander to the higher ground the place the Magma Spa membership is situated and indulge your self in an anti-wrinkle facial or particular black pearl powder facial. Manicures, pedicures, peels, hair removals, and an assortment of massages are all out there at cheap spa costs. Then change and let your partner take pleasure in the advantages of the recent stone remedy therapeutic massage or designer women and men therapies. In the meantime the children can be turning into fish swimming the river, tickling themselves on the hydromassage benches and bouncing from one cascade to a different.
A small snack bar is accessible in addition to a lunch buffet restaurant serving Catalonian specialties for 18 Euro, 1 to 4pm or dinner buffet Friday-Sunday from 8:30-10:30. The important thing nonetheless is to e-book your entry into the spa earlier than or after lunch as swimsuits will not be permitted within the restaurant.
At first look studying the laws of the spa and following the strict orders of the locker room attendant makes you are feeling like a faculty little one. Nonetheless, as soon as you might be inside you notice how their strict self-discipline of no footwear, calm voices, no consuming or consuming, and entry showers retains the place trying prefer it was constructed yesterday. Upon getting into the reception space you might be given an digital bracelet which accounts on your time spent and is magnetized to open and shut your locker. The Magma spa limits the variety of folks to enter so it by no means appears crowded and costs for a 3 hour block of time (not together with spa providers) at 27 Euro in excessive season. Every hour after is an extra 24 Euro, dissuading folks from staying longer.
Passing by means of an digital turnstile you enter the altering rooms and safe a slim non-public e-book with two doorways; one to go in and one to exit of. Slipping into our bathing fits we giggle on the sanitized technique they’ve created for getting into the spa. Instantly upon exiting our sales space we enter into the locker and bathe room lined with double story orange lockers, sinks, open showers and personal rest room stalls. Promptly an attendant wearing nursing whites greets you, reminds you when you have flip-flops on that no footwear are allowed, and reveals you which ones locker to make use of and methods to use the magnetic bracelet to make sure it’s safe. Returning to her squeeging of the already pristine ground she factors us to the glass enclosed entry bathe resulting in the central spa space. By no means fairly having understood the logic of getting to bathe earlier than you enter a pool, we place our rented tub towels on the dry shelf and run by means of the showers barely getting our shoulders moist.
Immersing ourselves within the thermal water we soak into oblivion listening to a wide range of music from Italian Opera to simple listening piped in by means of the cutting-edge sound system. Like little penguins we transfer in a pack attempting out the hydromassage benches, the water cascades and the wave like jacuzzi. Each fifteen minutes the cascades cease and part of the large basin turns right into a flowing river through which you flip over in your again and float away your worries. As twilight seems within the sky, the spa’s temper lightening within the swimming pools creates an impact of floating in area, soothing the soul much more.
After a swim within the lap pool take a tour of the hamman (dry steam), moist steam, and various showers, wrap your self in a towel and lounge on the swing chairs dealing with the gardens and mountains within the distance. It is time to immerse your self in an excellent e-book or simply shut your eyes and really feel the winter solar shine by means of the glass home windows warming your face. What a greater place to be than inside a contemporary spa on a fall or winter’s day in Catalonia.
Costs and Reservations;
E-book a spa or magnificence therapy and buffet lunch or dinner by calling Magma Reserving line at +34 972843535 and in addition ask for entry to the Thermal Spa space. Charges run from 24 Euro in off-season to 27 Euro in excessive season for a 3 hour go, Youngsters and seniors are barely decrease at 19.20 Euro. Particular charges and a number of entry and season passes may also be bought. Reservations are advisable due to its restricted capability. Bookings for the Thermal Leisure Space solely could be made by way of the ServiCaixa system, +34 903 33 22 11 or a journey company. Magma is open all yr from 11 am to 10pm in the course of the week and 11pm on weekends, however closed on Tuesdays and different designated closing days all year long.
Staying Close by:
Throughout the highway from the Magma Thermal Spa is the Balneari Termes Orion Lodge and Restaurant, and is the supply of the thermal waters. A prestigious institution of 70 rooms with up to date services set in a historic constructing surrounded by pure woods and gardens is an ideal alternative for a peaceable keep. This Lodge affords an in depth program of customized thermal cures below medical supervision. This resort additionally has a small spa and swimming pools and entry is offered to the Magma Spa at a reduction.