Soothing — neither hot nor cold, perfect balance.
Loaded with major ions — the essential minerals (Ca, Mg).
Dense, salty water — you float without effort.
At Ein Bokek, on the Israeli shore of the Dead Sea in the country's South District, this hotel spa and mineral beach sits at one of the most geologically extraordinary bathing sites on Earth. The water here is intensely sodium-chloride — the hypersaline brine of the Dead Sea itself — maintained at a gentle 38 °C for bathing, with a neutral pH of 7.3. The extraordinary mineral density of the water creates the Dead Sea's defining sensation: effortless floating at the surface, the body suspended without any effort at all.
The combination of warmth, salinity, and buoyancy produces an experience unlike any conventional thermal bath. The sodium-chloride water leaves a subtle softness on the skin after immersion, and the surrounding landscape — the arid escarpments of the Jordan Valley, the Moab mountains turning gold in the late afternoon light — frames every session in a setting of stark, meditative grandeur. Ein Bokek offers the infrastructure of a polished resort hotel against one of nature's most extreme and arresting backdrops.