If you are going to Hells Gate for the geothermal park walk, no visit is complete without paying a bit extra to experience a true Mud Bath. The mud is amazing – silky smooth, warm and squishy. Smear it all over your body and face and after a shower your skin will feel as smooth as a babies bottom! Then after your mud experience hop into the milky waters of the soda pools. Luxury! My advise is to pay a little extra to have a private mud bath, that way you can go naked and your togs wont end up smelling of sulphur for weeks. Hells Gate has just gone through a major upgrade with all new pools and landscaped areas, the communal pool now has a view over the thermal park.
Okoroire Hot Springs Hotel
Lower pool with gravel base
Okoroire Hot Springs Hotel
Lower riverside pool
Okoroire Hot Springs Hotel
Top pool, formally enclosed prior to recent redevelopment.