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Aquabasilea

Pratteln (BL), Switzerland · from CHF 38

About

A large leisure pool and sauna complex in Pratteln near Basel, with water slides for families and a big sauna area. Sauna-goers get Aufguss sessions, a Russian banya, a hammam, a snow room and an outdoor sauna, plus separate women's and men's areas.

Facilities

Saunas and steam

  • Finnish sauna
    The classic dry sauna, usually 80–100 °C.
  • Bio sauna
    A gentler sauna of about 50–60 °C with more humidity, also called sanarium.
  • Steam bath
    Around 45 °C with nearly 100 % humidity.
  • Salt or mineral sauna
    A sauna with salt or mineral walls or salty air to breathe.
  • Banya sauna
    A Russian-style steam sauna, often with whisking using birch or oak branches.
  • Outdoor sauna
    A sauna in its own cabin or with a door straight to the open air, so you step outside to cool off.
  • Aufguss (sauna ritual)
    A sauna master pours scented water on the hot stones and fans the heat through the room.
  • Hammam (Turkish or Moroccan bath ritual)
    The traditional ritual in stages: warm rooms or a heated marble slab, a body scrub with a kessa glove and a soap-foam wash, then rest.

Cooling down

  • Cold plunge (under 20 °C)
    A small pool of cold water, below 20 °C, to dip into after the heat.
  • Snow room
    A cold room with snow or ice, below freezing, for a quick cool-down.

Pools and baths

  • Whirlpool or jacuzzi
    A warm pool with jets of air and water bubbling around you, usually for several people.
  • Indoor pool
    An indoor pool to relax or swim in.
  • Outdoor pool (heated year round)
    An outdoor pool heated enough to use in winter too.
  • Water massage (jets and neck showers)
    Underwater jets and strong streams of water that massage your neck, back or feet.
  • Bubble loungers
    Loungers under the water surface with bubbles rising from below.
  • Water slides
    Slides that end in a pool.

Relaxing

  • Indoor rest area
    A quiet room with loungers to rest between sauna rounds.
  • Salt or brine inhalation room
    A room with salt walls or salty air, for breathing and resting.
  • Outdoor rest area (garden or terrace)
    A garden, terrace or lawn with loungers, to cool down and rest in the fresh air.
  • Foot baths
    Basins of warm, or hot and cold, water for your feet, often used between sauna rounds.

Treatments and fitness

  • Massages
    Massages you can book, usually at extra cost.
  • Beauty treatments
    Facials, manicures and other beauty treatments, usually at extra cost.
  • Spa day packages (with treatment or meal)
    A day package that adds a treatment, a meal or both to your entry, at a higher price.
  • Aqua gym
    Exercise classes in the water.
  • Gym
    A gym with equipment for training.
  • Solarium
    Sunbeds for tanning.

Food and extras

  • Restaurant or bistro
    Somewhere to eat or have a drink, often one you can visit in your bathrobe.

The place

Setting
Town or village · Forest
Type of place
Thermal bath or wellness park
Practical
No time limit
Private
Can be rented privately

Getting there

Hardstrasse 57, 4133 Pratteln (BL), Switzerland

Pratteln, Kästeli · about 7 min walk (390 m)

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