We are lucky that in our family travels these days we get to have Part 2: Date Night. You see, our son is 16 and he kindly agrees to babysit our younger daughter. In Baden-Baden, pretty much everything is within a minute walk, so you will not waste your precious date time getting to your date night activity the parents will understand.
Both baths are owned by the same company Carasana , but Friedrichsbad has a very different ambience: it is elegant spa relaxation at its best think sculptured archways, marble tiles, and exotic frescoes on the ceiling. There is a recommended Roman-Irish bathing ritual : a step sequence detailed here of warm and hot air baths, steam rooms, warm and hot water baths, a cold bath, massages and showers during which your body temperature is first slowly increased and then gently brought back down with ever cooling temperatures of the pools.
The ritual is diagrammed on the walls in the spa and in the brochures, but it is merely a suggestion. What is not negotiated is your attire: in Friedrichsbad , you have to be naked to use the facilities as in many sauna complexes in Germany for a combination of hygienic and historical reasons.
On Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays check before you go men and women bath separately, but meet at stations 10 and 11 where the most beautiful pools are located. We entered the Bath after 6 pm, on a mixed day, and there were only several other bathers sharing the entire bath house with us.
The Bath is open 9ampm daily. Like Caracalla, Friedrichsbad is fed by 12 artesian underground springs under town, and it is believed that the bathing process stimulates the blood circulation and strengthens the immune system.
