Health Benefits of Hot Springs Of Mexico
The health benefits of Mexico's hot springs and hot pools are well-documented. My own experiences with the healthy benefits of the hot springs of Mexico are that soaking in some hot springs cured my arthritis when I was forty years old. I am now nearly sixty. My psoriasis goes into remission after one day at certain hot springs in Mexico. I know people whose general health and well-being benefit with a stay at many hot springs of Mexico. An insomniac who had not slept a full night in ten years slept soundly each night she stayed at one Mexican hot spring - year after year. You can order my book by clicking on it or here.
Mexican hot springs have been estimated at 576. Some say there are more than 1,000 Mexican hot springs. I believe there are too many hot springs to count in Mexico. There are also a couple of dozen spas in Mexico. Mexican spas are bargains, but do not usually have hot springs, except for Rancho La Pitaya, near Queretaro and Rio Caliente Spa near Guadalajara.
Most of Mexico's hot springs are in the states of Michoacan and Guanajuato. One of my favorite Mexican hot spring is in San Luis Potosi state. There are Mexican hot springs in Durango, Veracruz. Zacatecas, Jalisco, Chihuahua, Sonora, Hidalgo, Puebla and other Mexican states. My book, Spas & Hot Springs of Mexico reviews 60 spas and hot springs. It is out of print -- but a few copies were found in a garage. so click the image at the right to order. I am nearly out of Spas & Hot Springs of Mexico and may update the book someday. But not today.
40 chapters of Spas & Hot Springs of Mexico are on Mexico's hot springs, with mineral content, water temperature and driving directions for the out-of-the-way hot springs. A lot of work went into it and it is the only Mexico-specific hot springs book. For sample chapters see samples.
These are the last extant copies of the book, Spas & Hot Springs of Mexico. I've seen this book on Amazon for $70 and even talked to some people who paid that for it. Order it at my store for a much better price.
The spas of Mexico or Mexican spas are different than Mexican hot springs. Like in the United States, a spa doesn't need to have a hot spring. One Mexican spa with a hot spring is Rio Caliente. The Hotel / Ixtapan spa no longer has a hot springs-fed pool. The city of Ixtapan de la Sal does still have a very nice balneario and it is open late at night now (2010) and was recently remodeled.
Many Mexican hot springs are commercial enterprises, called balnearios. You have to be specific when asking locals about hot springs. To Mexicans, a balneario doesn't have to have hot water. It is a generic term for a bathing place. To find a hot spring, ask for un lugar con aguas termales (thermal waters). You might still get a wrong answer, but you have a better than 50-50 chance of finding a hot spring for a soak. Also, upper-class Mexicans do not frequent Mexican hot springs. So if you ask one of them about a balneario, they are more likely to refer you to a spa.
As time goes by, I will put a few Mexican hot springs on this site. Meanwhile, use the menu for links to a holistic hot springs retreats (Amatlan de Canas, Jalisco), US hot springs, and spas of Mexico.
If you desire the only spa in Mexico with a hot spring,