The 6 best addresses for your thermal and marine treatments
Great holiday combined with health care in the Basque Country
Our beautiful Basque Country offers countless sporting, cultural and culinary opportunities, a unique architectural heritage, exceptional landscapes and a mild climate.
But did you know that the French Basque Country has a beautiful thermal spa and several excellent thalassotherapy centres? Follow me on a journey of discovery.
- A. The thermal bath in Cambo-les-Bains
Thermal baths have a long tradition. Numerous healing springs were already used by the Romans. The specific composition of the water ensures that thermal baths treat numerous ailments.
Just 10 minutes away from BaskoParadis is a magnificent thermal spa in Cambo-les-Bains.
On your way to the thermal spa, you will first notice the exceptionally beautiful park. Our mild climate ensures that the park's vegetation is lush and often exotic (there are a large number of stately palms, for example). The gardeners are constantly very dedicated, so that the garden is a feast for the eyes all year round. Incidentally, the city offers guided tours of the park by appointment.
The thermal bath has been restored in the original Art Deco style and decorated with oriental elements and beautiful neo-Byzantine mosaics in blue and gold. The complex is very well maintained and all facilities are exceptionally clean. The staff (over 100 employees) is very attentive and friendly.
The thermal spa offers around a dozen spa treatments.
The medical conditions treated in the three-week cures financed by French health insurance alleviate rheumatology and respiratory complaints. In addition to these cures, there are also special cures for breast cancer follow-up, tinnitus and mental health. Mini cures, which treat back pain, for example, and last 6 days, round off the offer.
If you choose to take a cure at the Cambo thermal spa, you will relax in a magnificent large swimming pool with medicinal spring water and its powerful, invigorating jets, and the heavenly white kaolin bath, where you will feel like Cleopatra. The cure is a moment that belongs only to you, a time of well-being in which you are completely focused on yourself.
The therapeutic properties of Cambo's medicinal spring water are manifold:
- Muscle strengthening thanks to magnesium
- Anti-inflammatory and analgesic due to sulphur
- Healing effect on mucous membranes and epidermis due to silicon dioxide
- Antiseptic for the respiratory tract due to copper and zinc
To complement your cure, there is a fitness area offering supervised physical activities or water sports.
In the attached beauty studio you will be pampered and beautified with a rich and varied offer.
And you can attend workshops such as relaxation techniques, Pilates, Qi Gong, breathing school, stretching or yoga to do something good for your health.
To give you the opportunity to discover the spa live, discovery days are offered (in French), which are free and for which you must register in advance.
- B. The Thalasso Therapy
Thalasso refers to the treatment of diseases with cold or heated seawater, sea air, sun, algae, mud and sand.
Thalassotherapy is recommended for reducing stress, increasing well-being and relaxation, rheumatism, back tension, general exhaustion, sleeping problems and it helps to purify and lose weight.
As many as five thalassotherapy centres are located in the Basque Country and offer their curative services.
- 1. Thalassotherapy & Spa ATHLANTAL in Anglet
The Atlanthal is a thalassotherapy centre offering hydrotherapy treatments over an area of 350 m2 with seawater heated to 33 °C.
In the spa you can relax in complete privacy. Three fitness areas with Aqua'Sport in a heated indoor and outdoor seawater pool, sauna and steam bath, counter-current swimming, bubble seats and loungers and whirlpool await you.
- 2. Thalassotherapy & Spa LOREAMAR in Saint-Jean-de-Luz
The Loreamar Thalasso & Spa is located in the beautiful pink Grand Hotel right on the bay and has 1000 m² of space dedicated to your relaxation and well-being.
The heated seawater pool with water jets offers a beautiful view of the bay of Saint-Jean-de-Luz. Steam bath and sauna, salt grotto, relaxation area with a wall of Himalayan salt, contrast shower, cardio and strength training room. Undoubtedly a luxurious moment of relaxation.
- 3. Thalassotherapy & Spa THALAZUR in Saint-Jean-de-Luz
This thalassotherapy institute is ideally located on the Atlantic Ocean and overlooks the beach. It has many facilities (hydromassage bath, hydrojets, swimming corridor, waterfalls, etc.), and a 300 m² seawater pool. A steam bath, sauna and fitness area complete the offer.
- 4. Thalassotherapy & Spa RELAIS THALASSO in Hendaye
In a refined setting, Relais Thalasso Hendaye offers a wide range of facilities entirely dedicated to well-being and health: seawater pools, cabins for pressure therapy, osteopathy, cabins with hydrojet loungers, sauna, steam bath. There is also a fitness area.
- 5. Thalassotherapy & Spa THALMAR in Biarritz
Overlooking the beach, the Thalmar offers you its wellness and beauty expertise in a cocooning ambience and refined decoration. The 350 m2 therapy area with three successive seawater pools offers underwater jets, bubble seats, hydrotherapy treatments such as multi-jet baths or affusion showers, sea mud applications or special treatments, and a beauty studio for your facial and body treatments. There are also water gymnastics classes, jacuzzi, sauna and steam bath.
Conclusion
You spend your holidays in the Basque Country at any time of the year because you are looking for exceptional holiday experiences: breathtaking landscapes, sporting activities on land and by the sea, villages and towns with strong character, a lively culture and language with a strong identity, varied cuisine of excellent quality, an exceptional architectural heritage, the Atlantic Ocean, the Pyrenees,...
And while you're exploring the Basque Country, you can recharge your batteries, relax and boost your health by indulging in the healing spring and sea waters.
Would you like to experience an eventful holiday and look after your health at the same time? Then the Basque Country is your destination.