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The Bešeňová water park is a great place where adults can relax and children can have fun, frolic and enjoy adrenaline adventures.
Whether you make a 1-day trip or a family holiday, everyone will enjoy their time to the fullest. The Bešeňová water park has a lot to offer 365 days a year: the sun overhead in summer and romance when snow falls around while you relax in a hot pool in winter.
Bešeňová water park: history
After the drilling in 1987, workers came across a source of geothermal water, which forms the basis of the water park. Hot healing water springs rise as deep as 1987 metres (which is interesting also due to the drilling process) and the water temperature reaches 60.5°C. The first public pools were opened in 1993 and after extensive investment in 2006, restaurants and accommodation facilities were added to the pools. In the summer of 2008, outdoor pools, slides and water slides were built. Currently, there are 18 summer pools in the Bešeňová water park – 7 of them with thermal water, and 9 year-round pools – 4 of them with thermal water.
In 2012, the Bešeňová Thermal Park was renamed GINO PARADISE Bešeňová. In 2017, the water park underwent a full rebranding and changed its name to Bešeňová Thermal Heart of Liptov. Currently, the park is known as the Bešeňová water park.
Bešeňová water park: pools
The Big thermal pool (BT5) is one of the most popular thermal pools where one can relax their body and mind. It is the warmest pool in Bešeňová, where massage jets relax stiff muscles. In the Relaxation pool with the Cosmopolitan pool bar, one can enjoy a drink at the pool bar while relaxing on massage bubble loungers.
Indoor pools all available all year round. Sea-like waves and the sound of the sea can be enjoyed in the Wave pool 10 minutes past every hour. The Children’s pool with water buckets, slides and a waterfall is ready to make children happy. The Fountain pool is popular with the smallest children as they can slide down a water slide there. The water park interior offers several relaxation and recreational pools as well, of course.
Interesting summer pools with even more interesting names: Bubble, Water Volcano, Rafting and Wild River promise a lot of amusement. The Bubble can be climbed through or to the top, and slid down into a landing pool. It’s great fun 😊. Or how about floating down a river with friends on an inflatable raft? The Water volcano is one of the best summer attractions. As the name suggests, water erupts from the water volcano and children can slide down from it. In the Wild river pool, you will be carried away by the flow of a wild river, or you can try swimming against the current.
Thermal water in Bešeňová: effects, composition
The thermal water of Bešeňová has positive effects on the musculoskeletal system all year round and on the respiratory system especially in spring, autumn and winter. It also has positive effects on human mental health and can relieve stress. And it helps treat urological problems.
It is typical for a reddish-brown colour. The hot water contains calcium, magnesium, sodium, potassium, iron, manganese, an exceptionally high amount of sulfates, bicarbonates, free carbon dioxide and other minerals.
The water temperature in Bešeňová is literally tailored
The Bešeňová water park is supplied with geothermal water from two wells ( 1,987 and 1,800 metres deep). The water temperature reaches 59-63°C, which is a high value for thermal pools, so it is adjusted in mixing tanks before being distributed to the pools. Here, geothermal water is mixed with cold technical water from the Váh river (technical water is treated to meet drinking water parameters). The mixing chambers are also filled with chilled geothermal water from engine rooms, where it transfers heat to heat exchangers. The transferred heat is used for heating spaces, domestic water and freshwater pools.
The chilled water in the mixing tanks is constantly chlorinated and substances preventing the formation of mineral deposits, which the geothermal water contains, are added to it. Subsequently, the water is pumped into the thermal pools by transport pumps. Almost the entire process is automated and supervised by a technology worker.
Bešeňová water park: map, webcams
To check the water park opening times and read more details about the pools, please visit the website of Bešeňová. And webcams will help you peek into Bešeňová also from home. You’ll see what it looks like there currently.
Bešeňová water park: season passes
Do you also love warmth, water and carefree summertime? And do you think that summer should last much longer and not just a few weeks every year? The water parks of Bešeňová and Tatralandia offer months of joy, relaxation and summer atmosphere – thanks to AQUA, SAUNA and MAXI season passes. Let’s look at the difference between them and what you can get with each.
AQUA Season Pass
So this season pass serves currently as a 1-day ticket to 3 parks – Bešeňová, Tatralandia and Zookontakt every day. And in summer 2024, it can be used in one water park and in Zookontakt on the same day. What’s more, the season pass offers flying in the Hurricane Factory. What is that? It’s a place where you can experience the free fall feeling in a safe aerodynamic tunnel under the supervision of professional instructors. More experiences = more memories.
SAUNA Season Pass
Those who know how good sauna bathing is and don’t want to limit themselves will enjoy the SAUNA Season Pass to the fullest. Two sauna worlds – Bešeňová and Tatralandia will open the doors to the world of relaxation and silence. Alternate in using them or choose your favourite sauna world.
MAXI Season Pass
Now this is a different level! The Maxi Season Pass is tailored for real bon vivants. Imagine a day like this: you wake up in the morning, pack your swimsuit and family and go swimming. When you’ve had enough, you wrap yourself in a towel and enjoy the peace and warmth of a sauna world. And if you still feel like you need more, you treat yourself to an animal company in Zookontakt. Zookontakt on the same day as one of the water parks new in the 2024 summer season pass offer. Nobody gets bored there and trusts us that after such a day, the kids will fall asleep on the way to their beds and you will be happy about the great day that you have spent. And with the MAXI Season Pass, you can have as many days like this as you want.
Harmónia Wellness & Spa Bešeňová and sauna rituals
Sauna worlds have an unmistakable atmosphere… the silence, warmth and darkness there relax the body and mind so that you feel like you’re in another world. And that’s exactly their goal. The Harmónia Wellness & Spa sauna world in Bešeňová will is a true oasis of relaxation, where heavy thoughts disappear like steam. It’s time for deep relaxation and body renewal. Sauna rituals which are regularly organised in the sauna world will also help you with this.
The sauna world in Bešeňová water park is a unique complex of 50 steam, water and massage baths, treatments and saunas. Let’s mention only some of them: the most modern dry sauna in Slovakia – Sauna temple, Sunrise sauna with salt therapy, menthol inhalation, Roman bath and outdoor whirlpools.
If you feel like trying something magical and experiencing a new dimension of sauna, try a Night of sauna rituals. What is it and what will you experience? Four hours of night sauna bathing are meant for keen sauna fans and only for adults older than 18 years. They include 11 unique sauna rituals, peels and treatments. A sauna master will accompany you all evening long and emphasise the atmosphere by swirling the air, pouring stones with aromatic essence and applying peeling on the skin.
Trip suggestions near Bešeňová
ZOOKONTAKT
A contact zoo and an amusement park in the region of Liptov in one. Unlike traditional zoos, in ZOOKONTAKT, you can pet, feed each animal and learn more about them. You will meet a group of cute rabbits, llamas, kangaroos, predators, parrots and birds of prey. Among other things, ZOOKONTAKT offers various attractions to entertain children – a water missile, a mini train or minigolf which is actually great for us parents too 😊.
Havránok open-air museum
Close to the Liptovská Mara reservoir, there is an archaeological site and a museum in nature. The Havránok open-air museum has been a national cultural monument since 1967 and its history dates back to the 1st century BC. Archaeologists discovered a Celtic fortification of the settlement of Kotín with a Druid sanctuary there. So if you like places where you can literally feel history, don’t hesitate to come.
Chočské vrchy Mts.
The mountain range is a nice trip destination. The view of Mt Choč – the dominant of the mountains, inspired well-known Slovak poet P. O. Hviezdoslav when writing poetic lines. And you can enjoy the same view from the garden of the Harmónia Bešeňová sauna world 😊.
Lúčky waterfall
The waterfall in the spa town of Lúčky is a true rarity. It is a national natural monument in the territory of the Tatra National Park and one of 5 Slovak waterfalls with this status. The Lúčky waterfall is 12 metres high and never freezes as warm mineral water springs there. It can be found very easily as it is located in the middle of the village.
