Taupo DeBretts Spa Resort

Taupo DeBretts Spa Resort is a thermal pool and spa complex on the shores of Lake Taupo in the Waikato Region of New Zealand's North Island, set beside the largest lake by surface area in Australasia and one of the world's greatest supervolcano calderas, whose last catastrophic eruption approximately 1,800 years ago — the Hatepe eruption, one of the most violent volcanic events in the past 5,000 years — ejected enough material to turn the skies red over Rome and China according to contemporary historical accounts. The Taupo area's extraordinary geothermal activity, the surface expression of the same volcanic system responsible for the ancient eruption, produces a landscape of boiling mud pools, fumarolic vents, and natural mineral springs in the broader Taupo Volcanic Zone extending north through Rotorua to the active Whakaari (White Island) offshore volcano, creating New Zealand's most geothermally intensive landscape of continuous volcanic energy. The siliceous-sodium thermal spring waters of DeBretts flow from the same volcanic system that created Lake Taupo, and the resort offers family-oriented outdoor pool bathing alongside private mineral pools and a day spa in a lakeside setting where rainbow trout fishing, kayaking on the world's largest trout fishing lake, and the nearby Huka Falls create a complete natural recreation environment around the thermal wellness experience.