There are over 9,000 bathing establishments in Germany, to which millions of people flock every year.
What is surprising, however, is that the prices vary greatly depending on the city and region.
For many, a visit to a thermal bath is a little wellness break from everyday life.
In winter you can be pampered with an infusion in the sauna and in summer you can explore the world of slides with the family.
In thermal baths and bathing places in this country there are often so many attractions that you could spend hours there.
But that also costs money.
Indoor and thermal pools without saunas in the cost check: In the Ruhr area you can relax cheaply
You pay significantly less in indoor pools in many places.
Although they don't have that many offers, the average entrance fee here is only 5.23 euros.
Bathing spots in Essen and Dortmund are particularly cheap.
Entry to the indoor pool there costs just 3.95 euros.
This is what the holiday home
provider Belvilla by OYO
found out in an analysis of the 220 most popular thermal baths and indoor pools in the 20 largest German cities.
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Thermal baths are particularly popular in the winter months.
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Duisburg, Bonn and Münster follow in second place with four euros.
With a price of 4.50 euros, Bochum, Wuppertal and Stuttgart also make it onto the podium of the cheapest swimming offers nationwide.
This means that seven of the eight cheapest indoor swimming pools in Germany are in North Rhine-Westphalia.
Swimming in Nuremberg is more than twice as expensive as in Dortmund and Essen: a day ticket costs 8.50 euros here.
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It is a bit cheaper for water lovers in Hamburg - you can go swimming between the port, Elbphilharmonie and Reeperbahn for an average of 7.80 euros.
Dresden and Munich share the third place of the most expensive indoor pools with 6.50 euros.
Thermal baths: Bathing and saunas are cheap in Bavaria
In contrast, you have to shell out quite a bit more for a visit to a thermal bath with sauna and brine bath - in Germany it is an average of 26.48 euros.
On the other hand, if you only want to swim there with young and old, you will have to pay an average of around 16.62 euros.
The bathing fun is most expensive near Berlin: In the well-known Tropical Island in Krausnick, the day ticket costs 47 euros and 61 euros if you also want to go to the sauna.
The water park offers a real South Seas atmosphere with a beach and palm trees and a slide paradise not far from the capital.
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It is also surprising that the two cheapest thermal baths are in Bavaria: In the Sonnen-Therme in Eging am See near Passau, you only pay 13 euros for a four-hour bathing and sauna session, and every additional half hour costs one euro.
You can also relax in the Aquella Ansbach thermal baths for little money.
There you only pay 13.80 euros for a whole day of relaxation.
But also in Hesse, Thuringia and Baden-Württemberg there are other inexpensive bathing and sauna landscapes that are worth discovering.
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