May Thermal Resort & Spa
- Location
- Sandikli, Afyonkarahisar, Turkey, Turkey
- Water type
- thermal
- Temperature
- 42 °C
- pH
- 7.3
Water profile
Relaxing — deep, immediate muscle release.
Rich in trace elements — gentle on the skin.
Soft water — natural, classic buoyancy.
May Thermal Resort and Spa is located in Sandıklı District, Afyonkarahisar Province, one of Turkey's most concentrated thermal regions. The alkaline waters of Afyon are renowned throughout the country for their high temperature and characteristic soap-like softness, shaped by the volcanic plateau geology of the central Anatolian plateau from which they emerge.
At 42 °C the water envelops the skin in deep warmth and a distinctively smooth, velvety touch that regular visitors to Turkish kaplıca recognise immediately. This particular softness, rooted in the water's alkaline composition, lies at the heart of the Anatolian thermal bathing tradition — a practice woven into daily Turkish life long before the Ottoman Empire codified the art of the hammam. In Sandıklı, the kaplıca perpetuate this culture of hot bathing with unbroken fidelity.
The Afyonkarahisar region offers a singular cultural context: a land of opium poppies and artisanal lokum confectionery, it combines traditional agriculture with thermal heritage in a landscape of open, luminous plateau. A stay at May Thermal is as much an immersion in the waters as in the art of living of central Anatolia.