Having friends or family visit is always a great excuse for us to head out and find a new thermal spa or two to visit, we have the Mother of my wife visiting this week and our second spa visit of the week was to the Kumania Thermal Spa, Kisujszallas.
Location: Kumania Thermal Spa, Kisújszállás
Kisújszállás is a relatively large town, well for this part of Hungary anyway and it boasts a population of around about 12,500 people, which is more than large enough to justify having a thermal spa, it’s a town I really do not know a great deal about other than it has a thermal spa and it is a transfer stop for us when we get the train for a rare visit to Budapest.
From what I can gleam in the spa is named after the Kumania region that the Kun people called home during the early 13th Century prior to the Mongol invasion, however my Hungarian History is very poor. As you can see from the photograph below the architecture of the new build is rather spectacular, much more so than the typical thermal spa that you typically encounter in this region… As a side note I love living somewhere that mean you can refer to a ‘typical thermal spa‘!
Kumania Thermal Spa Interior
The photograph above is certainly not my regular sort of image, it is actually a montage of 60 images, taking interior architecture photographs is challenging at the best of times, but even more so when you have a huge internal space and massive windows. I was glad I took my tripod along I took a series of bracketed photographs for each image in the sequence of the panorama (it typically needed 7 or 8 to capture the entire dynamic range). Then I ran them through a HDR program before stitching the 7 of them together to create this panoramic image.
Main Thermal Pool, Kumania Thermal Spa
 Main Outdoor Pool, Kumania Thermal Spa |
The key difference between this spa and the other half dozen or so that are close to is that the main thermal pool is indoors and I not sure I enjoy that as much although it may be a relief in winter… Having said that, there is nothing as ‘cool’ as heading out in daytime temperatures of -10°C wearing half of your wardrobe, only to change into your swimmers and floating around in naturally heated thermal water!
As with most of the newly refurbished spas there are saunas, steam rooms, whirlpools and jacuzzi pools, you can even have a long range of ‘treatments’, however I am a simple chap with simple needs, all I am interested in is floating around in a pool of mucky looking naturally heated water and so long as I am not driving, a well stocked bar and I am in ‘happyland’. I would certainly not entertain anything as daft as a water slide or a game of tennis on the new tennis courts and heaven forbid, swimming a few lengths in the pool!
I think the only way to ascertain whether I like it or not is a return visit 
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