Day 62 HUNGARY Andrassy Kuria Spa Resort

Sadly, we have left Romania and
crossed the border into Hungary. This is the route via Slovakia into Poland by car. The alternate route which was shorter would have been through Ukraine. However that wasn't an option. As we didn't purchase a vignette permit into Hungary, we drove on the no toll, no motorway roads. It took us through a little restaurant in the middle of the forest about 11mins outside Debrecen where we stopped to have brunch. We had an unusual popular cold soup that tasted like melted berry icecream. It had some unusual items on the menu. ( look in photos). We settled for wild boar with porcini mushrooms and sheep curd noodles.

We have been in budget to average accommodations so far with a few exceptions, namely Piatra Crailui, the other Spa resort in Gura Humorului. This one is our special treat for one night.

We arrived at this very highly rated, Michelin recommended Andrassy Kuria Spa Resort.

Apparently we could have left our bags in the car and the luggage service would deliver it to our room. That was just too difficult a concept for us, so we carried our one little duffle bag into a splendid lobby to check in, with welcome champagne at the salon and macarons in our room. In some accommodations we weren't even provided with shampoo or shower gels. Here we had L'Occitane products, a fancy Nespresso machine and mini bar.

We spent an entire three and the half hours in the spa today. We went from a cave bath with seated booths of different jets and hydro massage, to three different types of saunas, steam room, salt room and jacuzzi.

We have had a rather adventurous holiday. First we hired a car and drove for the first time in Europe. We've had hikes in snow with the threat of bears and wild boars. We had driven in all sorts of road conditions even in rather remote areas of both Bulgaria and Romania, but this was the most exciting adventure today.

We had the experience of Adventurous Showers( actually labelled so) with our Spa. There was rainforest shower, Niagara Falls shower and tropical storm shower, where water came from the top, the side, the bottom and the most adventurous shower of all was one button did all nozzles and jets of various intensities. Water came from everywhere. There were lights that mimicked lightning, birds chirping like in rain forest...

After a totally relaxing afternoon we were treated to a three course meal as part of the package. Having food coma and totally relaxed from all the jets, heat and infrared red sauna, we collapsed and melted into a luxuriously large bed with six pillows.Read more