Chochołowskie Thermal Baths

Six slides, with the lengths written down

Chochołowskie Thermal Baths in Chochołów keeps six water slides inside the pool zone. The July 2026 slide regulations name them and give a length, a gradient and a landing depth for each. The blue pontoon slide is the long one: 165.81 metres, an 8.92 percent drop, graded medium, outdoors, into a landing pool 0.3 metres deep. Riders use a pontoon, one person or two. The green pontoon slide is also outdoors, but it is shorter and steeper: 80.12 metres, a 17.12 percent drop, graded difficult, with the same 0.3-metre landing.

The trap-door slide is the outdoor drop. It runs 61.67 metres at a 20.51 percent gradient, graded difficult, into a 0.3-metre landing pool. The regulations set a minimum height of 130 cm and a weight band of 40 to 130 kg, and they allow only a single rider, lying flat with arms crossed on the chest. One person at a time on the start platform. The silver slide, also outdoors, is the short steep one: 12.60 metres, a 22 percent drop, graded easy, landing in 20 cm of water. Its rules allow several people to ride side by side.

Two indoor slides are twins on paper. The family slide and the trough slide are each 9.10 metres long, with a 7.11 percent drop, graded easy. Both land in water 110 cm deep, and both are single-rider only. After dusk, the regulations note, some stretches of the outdoor tubes are dark. Every slide is closed when a chain, rope or barrier is across the stairs.

How deep the hall actually is

The pool-zone rules split the water by depth, with the figure marked on the basin. A paddling pool goes to 0.3 metres. The non-swimmer zone goes to 1.2 metres, and non-swimmers are limited to that water. The swimmer zone goes to 1.8 metres. Separate from those bands, the lap pool on level -1 is 1.40 to 1.80 metres deep. It is only for people who swim on their own, or for a swim school with an instructor. Traffic in the lanes keeps to the right. Swimming across the lanes is banned. At most six people may share one lane, and at most 50 people may be in that pool at once. Water volleyball is not allowed there. Starting blocks are for dive practice only after the lifeguard on that pool agrees.

An infant pool sits in the children's area of the same zone. It is for babies and young children from 3 months to 3 years, with a parent or guardian in the water the whole time. The regulations set the water at 30°C to 32°C and say the chlorine is lower than the standard used elsewhere in the complex. A single stay is capped at 30 minutes, and the child is not left in the basin alone.

Sulphur barrels and the brine pool

The treatment area is inside the pool zone, not a separate building. It holds thermal barrels of raw sulphurous water at 36°C and a thermal pool of iodised brine at 32°C. You enter and leave a barrel by the steps or ladder provided. Standing in a barrel is banned, and so is putting your head or face under. Someone leaving the barrel has priority on the steps. The chemical makeup of both waters can mark jewellery and clothing. The same regulations print a list of conditions that rule a bather out, brine and sulphur separately, and they treat use against that list as a breach.

Lifeguards in the pool zone wear a uniform with the word RATOWNIK. A run of short sound signals is the alarm to leave the basin. A long signal ends the session. A short one means listen to the next instruction. The zone rules also mark a sauna area beside the pools: phones and tablets are banned in the pools, on the slides and in that sauna area, and cameras are banned in the pools and on the slides.