Thermal pool Transcarpathia

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Rating 3110

24 february 2016Travel time: 17 june 2015
The pool with thermal water is located on the territory of the sanatorium "Transcarpathia". It was built back in 1967. In Soviet times, athletes were trained here. The length of the pool is 50 m and the depth is 3 m.
The mineral composition of the water is very unique. In just three other places on the globe: in New Zealand, Iceland and the Kuril Islands, similar thermal water was found. The mineralization of water is 24%. (And with such mineralization, all microbes die in it) Water is supplied from a well 1.5 km deep and at a temperature of 50 degrees, in the pool it is cooled to 33. If you dive with your eyes open, you will feel that the water does not sting at all. But you can't see anything : )
If only the water itself was evaluated, I would give it 10. But there are a lot of "buts".
1. As I wrote above, the pool was built for athletes, and not for relaxation and health improvement.
On a tiny patch, where it is not deep, it is always crowded, people stand like in a trolleybus at rush hour (not everyone knows how to swim). In the rest of the pool, you can catch on the curbs or plastic pipes stretched along the pool (which, with a large number of people, drown). Here you will inevitably have to become an Olympic athlete : ))
2 Showers - 8 pieces (in the sense of watering cans in one small room) in the female half, but why wash? Microbes still die : )) True, the tiles of the 60s have already been changed in the showers and toilets.
3. Toilet - 1 pc "female", 1 pc "male". Always in the women's queue ...And don't expect, young ladies, to get into the men's line without a queue, because everyone is in the corresponding shower room. Cleanliness in the toilet is not higher than 3.
4. Dressing rooms. As in a joke: There is a bathhouse - a dressing room across the road. The lockers are key locked. I don’t even know how to squeeze outerwear in there in winter, the wardrobe was not observed.
5. Sun loungers. Ltd...
civilization, and then a bummer. Sun loungers near the pool are paid. Go back to the locker room, take the money, pay for the sun lounger. Well, if you don't want civilization, you can lie on your towel on the grass.
6. And finally, the pool itself. Tile? What is the tile in the pool? What did you come up with? Everything is whitewashed with lime to the water level, and then, as you remember, microbes do not live.
7. For fans of extreme sports. Come to the opening of the pool and you will get a unique opportunity to hustle in the queue of those hurrying to take the best place in the "trolleybus". (see above)
6. And finally, from the benefits of civilization, there is a small bar in the lobby (tea, coffee, water, chips). I didn’t try anything there (didn’t want to), so I won’t say anything about the quality.
I am an optimist at heart, and I hope that I will live to see the time when this water pearl will be surrounded, if not with gold, but at least with a silver frame.
Translated automatically from Russian. View original

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