Alma Health & Spa Retreat 4* is the newest premium spa holiday venue in Romania, located in south-east Romania, in Lacu Sărat Resort, Brăila county, on the shores of a millenial healing mud and saltwater lake.
Our property includes a 4* hotel with 185 comfortable rooms and apartments, a top-notch wellness & spa center using the healing mud and the hypersaline water from the Salt Lake, a private beach with outdoor saltwater and freshwater pools, restaurants and bars and a modern event facility.
The heart of the hotel is Alma Health Center, based on a unique, holistic concept that combines natural healing and wellness therapies with high-end rehabilitation technologies for faster and long term health benefits, to stay healthy and young for longer. As well, we our wellness facilities are beneficial in prevention and relaxation, from couples to families, from individual leisure guests to corporate groups.
Alma Health & Spa Retreat’s mission is to restore people’s health and revive the quality spa tourism in the Lacu Sarat Resort, so it regains its glory from the Belle Epoque times when it used to be famous across Europe for the healing results as well as for the holiday atmosphere.
1. Originality
The originality of our spa hotel consists of the synergy between wellness and health facilities, between traditional and modern, between the unique local natural resources and the high-end technology to treat, heal and relax our guests, in a holistic approach, body-mind-soul.
Its various facilities were built to serve the needs of all ages in a healthy way. The outdoor Alma Health & Fun open during the summertime includes an aquapark for kids, saltwater and freshwater pools and direct access to the salt lake for mud therapies. The saltwater pool uses the saltwater pumped directly from the lake so that guests benefit from it in a premium way.
The indoor facilities with free access for all hotel guests, combine the specific local saltwater pool automatically pumped from the lake, with the classical wellness ones such as freshwater vitality pool, sauna, hydromassage Jacuzzi and saline room with Himalayan salt walls.
Alma Health Center is one of the largest and most modern balneary venues in Romania, blending the wellness and the medical spa in a unique integrative way thanks to the unique natural resources and the ultimate technology. It features 2,500 sq.m. area and 60 individual therapy rooms, including 19 automatic bathtubs for saline mud baths, Dry Floating deep relaxation beds, Vichy showers, relaxation room, 3 underwater shower tubs, 3 hydromassage tubs, 2 physiotherapy rooms, 8 individual massage rooms and a spa therapy room for couples with 2 beds and a Jacuzzi, 2 Jacuzzis, one of which overlooks Lake Sarat, dry and wet saunas, Hammam, 2 saline rooms with Himalayan salt, individual cabinets VACUMED, TECAR, SIS, EMSELLA, Shockwave, Laser, ultrasound, magnetotherapy, low and medium frequency electrotherapy, vitality indoor pool, with a depth of 1.3 m, heated water and water jets for hydromassage, as well and the swimming pool with salt water automatically captured from Lake Sarat and heated to 37 degrees.
2. Impact and benefits
The Alma Health & Spa Retreat innovation concept integrates health, relaxation and social interaction in all its facilities following the mind – body – soul concept of wellbeing.
- health therapies are integrated with relaxation rituals and outdoor pool sessions during the summer
- social events are organized during public holidays and wellness options are integrated
- all hotel guests benefit from access to the wellness facilities, indoor and outdoor saltwater pools and direct access to the salt lake for ointments with mud and cold baths in the saltwater lake
- packages including accommodation and balneary therapies include access to wellness facilities
- guests receive personalized recommendations both from the balneologist not only for the treatment of ailments, but also for prevention and relaxation
- the use of natural resources – water and sapropelic mud is complemented by therapies that use high-performance technologies for quick and long-lasting effects
- the synergy of natural elements can be found both in the spa area and in the spa area, where VOYA cosmetics are used for the first time in Romania, a unique brand, internationally recognized for its organic products, based on hand-harvested seaweed from the Atlantic Ocean.
3. Sustainability
Built on the shore of a salt lake – natural therapeutic lake, considered a protected natural area and in a resort where natural resources – water, lake mud and air are the essential natural factors for which Salt Lake belongs to the category of balneary-climatic resorts, Alma Health & Spa Retreat follows and promotes the principles of sustainable tourism.
The entire Alma Health & Spa Retreat project has been designed with care for natural resources, the environment and guests.
Alma Health & Spa Retreat is directly connected to Alma Health Center, forming a unique retreat where the focus is on both health and wellness. The medical treatment base is specifically designed for guests who seek prevention and medical rehabilitation. The spa offers a range of therapies that leverage the natural resources of the area, including the therapeutic saltwater and sapropelic mud, essential for treating various ailments and promoting overall health. On the other hand, the wellness area within Alma Health Spa is tailored to those seeking relaxation and rejuvenation. This space is ideal for couples, families, and individuals who are on leisure vacations, offering them a serene environment to unwind and restore their energy.
The buildings of the complex follow the principles of smart buildings where the temperature is digitally controlled and automatically balanced in all spaces, so that the comfort of the guests is maximum with an optimal consumption of resources.
In order to harmoniously integrate nature into the hotel premises, but also to increase the relaxation of the guests, fresh plants decorate the Alma Health & Spa Retreat premises, including preserved mosses and plants.
To protect the environment, messages in the rooms and bathrooms urge guests to postpone the change of linen and towels, and hotel information for guests is presented in digital format on TV (digital guest directory).
To support the local community, the menus in the resort’s restaurants include fresh ingredients purchased from local producers (cold meats and cheeses, vegetables and fruits). Also in support of the local community, most of the resort’s employees are locals, and during the summer, in the beach area, they work with pupils and students from high schools and faculties in the Brăila-Galați area.
Selective waste collection procedures are implemented in all Alma Health & Spa Retreat premises.
Sustainability is also found in the holistic approach to health practiced in the spa center, where guests are guided towards prevention and a body-mind-soul approach.
At Alma Health Center, salt water and sapropelic mud are automatically collected from the Salt Lake, and at the end of the therapies they are recycled, returning to the lake through an automatic system of pipes and pumps. Similarly, the salt water from the indoor and outdoor pool, captured from the Salt Lake, returns to the lake automatically, without undergoing any alteration of its composition. The bathtubs in the mud bath therapy rooms are washed only with clean water, which is then disposed of in separate sewer lines.
In the spa area, the use of VOYA products, a brand with an international reputation for its emphasis on sustainability, brings added value and emphasizes Alma Health Center’s choice to be a sustainable brand. The algae in the VOYA range are harvested by hand to protect the ecosystem and not disturb the aquatic life around the Irish Atlantic coast where they are harvested.
In the outdoor area, the water from the showers is heated with the help of solar panels, because in this area we can take full advantage of solar energy – the Lacu Sărat resort rivals the seaside in terms of the number of sunny days a year. Thus, we continue to honour our commitment to protect the environment, reduce electricity costs and achieve energy independence of the resort.
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Com Chiscani, Aleea Centrala, Nr 5, Statiunea Lacu Sarat
