Massive night beach holiday coming up in Hungary!
If you love a good beach time in this summer heat, you’ve come to the right place. At the initiative of the Hungarian Bathing Association (Magyar Fürdőszövetség), the Night of the Beaches will be held again this year on 29 July. On this day, Hungarian baths are expected to be full of people wanting nothing but a good cold bath. 2023 marks the 11th edition of the Night of the Beaches.
The 11th Night of the Beaches – 29 July, Saturday
Zoltán Balogh, the secretary general of the Hungarian Bathing Association told MTI, the Hungarian News Agency, that they are waiting for applications until mid-July from bathing establishments that can accommodate bathers until late at night. So far, a dozen spas have joined the programme.
Every year on the last Saturday of July, dozens of beaches, spas, thermal baths and aqua parks across the country offer extended opening hours and special programmes, he added.
Special beach programmes and discounts
Last year, tens of thousands of guests visited the more than 40 bathing establishments participating in the programme on the Night of the Beaches. Spas are free to organise local activities and offer discounts to guests. Each spa can adapt its own opening hours to its own timetable, and there is no charge for members of the association to join the programme, they said.
Excluding natural water beaches, there are about 200 thermal and leisure baths in Hungary, Pénzcentrum writes. You can find out about the participating spas and detailed programmes on the association’s website and on its official community page, the Csobbanj velünk Facebook page.
Water quality is excellent in Hungarian beaches
As we reported earlier this month, the water quality of most of the Hungarian beaches are of excellent quality. However, there are three that received the “objectionable” rating of the National Centre for Public Health (NNK) this year. These three are the Maros Adventure Beach (Maros Kalandpart) in Makó; the Vadkert Lake Baths (Vadkerti tófürdő) in Soltvadkert and the Tisza Beach (Tisza-parti strand) in Tiszakécske. However, fear not: most of the natural bathing areas near lakes of major tourist interest like Lake Balaton, Lake Tisza, Lake Velence, are still classified as excellent.