Mount Hot Pools
- Location
- Mount Maunganui, New Zealand
- Water type
- sodium chloride
- Temperature
- 39 °C
- pH
- 8.2
Water profile
Relaxing — deep, immediate muscle release.
Loaded with major ions — the essential minerals (Ca, Mg).
Dense, salty water — you float without effort.
Mount Hot Pools is a public thermal bathing complex at the base of Mauao (Mount Maunganui) in Tauranga, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand, where chloride-mineral spring water is used in a series of outdoor heated pools in a sea-facing recreational complex that combines the New Zealand tradition of thermal bathing with the beach and surf culture of one of the country's most popular summer resort destinations. The pools, surrounded by the grassed reserve at the foot of the iconic volcanic cone of Mauao that rises 232 metres directly from the sea, offer bathers simultaneously the therapeutic benefit of mineral water and one of New Zealand's most distinctive urban natural settings. The combination of geothermal pool bathing with swimming at the famous Mount Maunganui surf beach, the vibrant café and restaurant culture of the Mount strip, and the spectacular sunset views of Tauranga Harbour makes this one of New Zealand's most pleasurable and sociable thermal bathing experiences.