A slow day in the hot springs

About this experience

Revive Bathing gives you all-day access to the bathing areas at Metung Hot Springs: the Bathing Ridge, the Lagoon Precinct and the Hilltop Escarpment, per the listing. The ticket is valid on the date you choose, and you can arrive any time during opening hours. Metung Hot Springs' own site gives those as 9.00 am to 6.00 pm daily; check the times for your date. A host greets you in English.

Time there: as long as you like, all day. The Bathing Ridge has the Hill View pool at its highest point, the Melaleuca pool among banksias and bottlebrush, the Wombat pool, a shallow trail pool for families, a cold plunge, hot mineral showers and the Hillview sauna, which is for guests 16 and over. There is a reflexology walk over different stones, and the viewing deck looks over the Gippsland Lakes, towards Ninety Mile Beach and the freshwater lagoon. Visit Gippsland also mentions bathing barrels and architect-designed saunas on the site.

The ticket covers the bathing. Food is not listed as included; the coffee hut on the Bathing Ridge has snacks, granola and chia cups, coffee, tea and fresh juice. Bring swimwear. The listing marks the site wheelchair accessible and calls the trail pool accessible; it sits on an undulating hillside, so ask the venue which areas suit you. It is not suitable during pregnancy, per the listing. There is no transport included.

• All-day access to the Bathing Ridge, Lagoon Precinct and Hilltop Escarpment
• Geothermal pools, mineral showers, a sauna and a cold plunge
• A reflexology walk and a viewing deck over the Gippsland Lakes
• A shallow trail pool that suits families
• Arrive any time during opening hours

How the day runs

1. Arrive73 Storth Ryes Ave, Metung

   Check in with the host any time during opening hours on your date.

2. Warm upThe Bathing Ridge

   Start in the Hill View or Melaleuca pool, then the mineral showers beside the saunas.

3. Hot and coldSauna and cold plunge

   The Hillview sauna (16 and over), then the cold plunge pool.

4. BreakCoffee hut and viewing deck

   Snacks, coffee or juice, and the view over the Gippsland Lakes.

5. ExploreLagoon Precinct and Hilltop Escarpment

   The Wombat pool, the reflexology walk and the rest of the site at your own pace.

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Tips before you book

• Come early on weekends and in the school holidays to have more of the pools to yourself.
• Pack a warm layer for the walk between pools on cool days; the site is on an open hillside.
• Make it part of a lakes trip. Our Gippsland Lakes guide covers Metung, Paynesville and the Raymond Island koalas.
• Coming by train? V/Line runs as far as Bairnsdale; our Melbourne to Gippsland guide has the timetable.

Read next:

• The Gippsland Lakes
• Melbourne to Gippsland
• Gippsland towns

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