Locker or Cabin? Choose wisely in Budapest’s Thermal Baths

Let’s see the differences between lockers and cabinets and what their advantages and disadvantages are.

If you would like to buy a ticket in one of the thermal baths in Budapest, you have to decide where you want to change and store your clothes. You can choose ticket with locker or cabin, but you have to choose one.

The difference between the two ticket types is HUF 400 or EUR 1,2 for the cabin. Thermal baths have a proxy watch access system, that means you can open and close the lockers and cabins with these watches. There are many scanners in the area of the baths and with the help of these you can find out which locker or cabin you left your clothes in.The difference between the two ticket types is HUF 400 or EUR 1,2 for the cabin. Thermal baths have a proxy watch access system, that means you can open and close the lockers and cabins with these watches. There are many scanners in the area of the baths and with the help of these you can find out which locker or cabin you left your clothes in.

Ticket with locker

This is the cheaper ticket and as seen in the picture is a quite small cabinet, where you can hardly put all of your staff. This photo was taken in Szechenyi Baths, where the locker room is coeducated by the way! You can see that there aren’t too much clothes in it and it’s still full, also there wouldn’t have been place for a longer coat or bigger bag. You can change your clothes in front of the lockers with the others as that area is not coeducated.

There is a dressing cabin at the coeducated dressing rooms, and after changing your clothes you put them into the locker and lock it with your watch. One of the disadvantages of the locker ticket is that you are with more people in a dressing room and can easily loose your staff, or if there are too many people, you have to wait in order to have place for changing. Several supervisors stand there in the corridor at the lockers so if you have any problem, do not hesitate to ask them!If you can’t find a hanger in the locker, you can take one out of an other locker. In case you suffer from low back pain, you should avoid the lower lockers and choose an upper one.

Locker from Lukacs bath:

Locker from Kiraly Bath:

Locker from Rudas Bath:

Ticket with cabin

As you can see in the photo, cabin is a dressing booth with a lockable door. It has the size of a comfortable changing room. There is a comfortable bench and hangers in all of them!

Besides its size it has the advantage of not having to wait for anybody, you can go into it immediately after buying the ticket and change your clothes. I highly recommend the ticket with cabin because cabins are more comfortable and in better shape than the lockers. If you are two and arrive with more packages or bags, my advice is to pack them in one of the cabins in order to have enough place in the other. If two of you go to the bath, I recommend to buy one ticket with cabin and one with locker, so both of you can change your clothes in the cabin without using the locker.

Cabin from Gellert Bath:

Cabin from Kiraly bath:

You can lock both the cabin and locker with the watch you get at the entrance. Double check every time if the door is surely closed! Put your values into the depository! Please note that a deposit is ususally asked for and always in cash, nevertheless you can only pay by credit or debit card anywhere else in the baths.