After the completion of the overall reconstruction of the five-star Thermia Palace hotel and its re-opening on December 20, 2006, Irma Health Spa, connected by a corridor with the Art-Nouveau hotel, started providing all available treatments. Its interiors were restored to highlight the beauty of individual ceramic details, mascarons (grotesque faces used in wall and façade decorations) and other elements of Art Nouveau architecture. Irma Health Spa offers more than 60 treatments for both health and beauty in amazing, esthetically furnished interiors which offer our spa guests discretion, luxury and comfort.
The unique idea of Ľudovít Winter to connect his hotel Thermia Palace with Irma Health Spa has not been surpassed yet, not even by the new millennium. Irma Health Spa, which carries the name of the dexterous countess Erdödy, boasts an admirable mud pool which is the only one of its kind in Europe. It was as early as in 1912 that the specialists in Irma Health Spa started using the most modern novelty techniques – Swedish gymnastics, with Zander apparatuses, electrotherapy, Doctor Schnéc d´Arsonvalance’s four cell baths, inhalatorium and many others. And today, after a complete reconstruction – realized by the Piešťany based Raving, a. s. company – and almost one hundred years after its first opening, Irma Health Spa has introduced several new features.
Besides offering all the traditional treatments of our spa – the Mirror Pool, the Mud Pool, water treatments, tub baths, and massages - Irma Health Spa introduced a new traction pool and a rehabilitation department which provides reflex massages, electrotherapy, magnetic therapy, dry carbon bath, dry tractions, Terapi Master apparatuses and other. A new section of the health spa now houses a brand new fitness center with state-of-art equipment and a sauna. There is also a new department of special tub baths and massages where you can choose from various massages, such as the Delux bath with a herbal pack, Royal Irma Deluxe massage, hot stone massage, Irma “tip-of-the-toe to root-of-the-hair” massage, Irma Supreme four-hand massage, and almost 20 other massages. We prepared special treatment packages for our guests. The first package is our Perfect relaxation for ladies package which consists of Clarins multi-intensive care, Mirror Pool bath with a dry pack, and Schwarzwald stimulating massage. Our second package is called Anti-stress and among its procedures you will find a Mud and a Mirror Pool bath with a dry wrap, refreshing aromatic massage and reflex foot massage.
On the first floor of Irma Health Spa you can find our brand new Beauty Emporium with the Clarins Beauty parlor offering body and skin cosmetics for both ladies and gentlemen. Come and try our Pro-active face treatment, lightening care, sensitive skin care, multi-regeneration treatment and a special line of skin care for men, Clarinsmen.
Famous Guests
After their opening in 1912, the fame of Thermia Palace and Irma Health Spa spread like fire thanks to the praise received from numerous prominent guests and celebrities, especially if those celebrities came to the Spa in a wheelchair and walked away on their own two feet. Many of them autographed their crutches and left them behind to be displayed in the showcase of the small Museum of Crutches in the hallways of Irma Health Spa. The crutches are now placed in the deposits of the Museum of Balneology.
Among the many guests who came for treatment or relaxation before World War I and in the period between the two world wars were German singer Richard Tauber, who left without his wheelchair and his crutch; German actress Henny Porten; star of the American silver screen Lilian Gish; Swedish writer and Nobel Prize for Literature winner Selma Lagerlöf; painter Alphonse Mucha; Czech comedian Vlasta Burian; politicians Andrej Hlinka and Jan Masaryk; president Edvard Beneš with his wife; Dwight Davis, the founder of the Davis Cup tennis competition, with his daughter; petrol king Sir H. Deterding; British physician Sir Thomas Spencer Wells; Russian aristocrat Olga Romanova; Indian maharajahs; and many others. They were attracted not only by the hotel but also by the events taking place in the town and the Spa – golf tournaments, international chess, fencing and swimming competitions, beauty pageants, and Concours d´Elegance automobile contest. Lounge Ferdinand became a place for important social, governmental and international meetings. Its walls saw a meeting of the leading figures of CEI (Central European Initiative); they welcomed ambassadors and diplomats from various countries from all over the world. Thermia Palace has started writing its fifth guest book, the first of the guest books proudly carrying the name of the Bulgarian tsar Ferdinand as the hotel’s first guest in 1912.
Since its reopening in December 2006, hotel Thermia Palace has already welcomed Slovak actress Marína Kráľovičová, a long-time visitor to the Piešťany spa, with her family; European Parliament representative for the Republic of Poland Professor Grabowska; Czech actor Otakar Brousek with his wife, former prima ballerina Leda Brousková; Slovak writer Libuša Friedová; Doctor Varvara Kühnelt-Leddihn, former aristocrat, the daughter of Professor Isačenko, a professor at the Department of Russian Studies of the Philosophical Faculty of the Comenius University in Bratislava; and many others.
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