Sant Hilari Sacalm - Font Vella Hotel Balneari

On the day after Christmas Felipe and I took a couple hour drive with his parents to go to Sant Hilari Sacalm to the Font Vella Hotel Balneari for a bit of a "mini vacation".  We had talked with his parents about trying to find a place to relax for a few days...I think we all needed a bit of relaxation.  After some online conferencing with each other, and a quick visit to check the joint out on Felipe's parent's part - we decided on Font Vella.

A Balneari is basically a resort or hotel situated at a mineral water spa.  They had a full thermal water circuit (pool, jacuzzi, sauna, "turkish bath"/steam room, ice bath and so forth).  We had a beautiful room, very close to the spa entrance.  The room was huge, and very comfortable, and we spent two days swimming, and relaxing at the spa.  It was pretty quiet the first day we were there because it was a Catalan holiday...so for the first day we almost had the whole place to ourselves.

Overall it was a terrific place, and I would love to go back...maybe next time we should go back during the warm weather...we could spend some time sitting on the chaises outside!