The traditional experience — and the one you should pick if you want to know what taking the waters actually meant in 1920. Buckstaff offers the classic seven-step bath: a private porcelain tub of hot mineral water, a vapor cabinet, hot packs, a needle shower, and a Swedish massage. Attendants in starched whites walk you through it.
The neoclassical building is small and unfussed, and the experience is more clinical than spa-like — no candles, no piped music, just hot water and a routine that hasn't been updated in a century. Walk- ins only, separate men's and women's wings, closed Sundays. Bring nothing; everything is provided.