Parking lot at the spa, Aguas Caliente | Informal Campsite

Peru

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Verified:
about 1 month ago
Altitude:
4000.0 masl
Website:
None
Contributor:
henryreisen.ch

Amenities

Electricity:
No
Wifi:
No
Kitchen:
No
Restaurant:
Yes
Showers:
Warm
Water:
Natural Source
Toilets:
Running Water
Big Rig Friendly:
Yes
Tent Friendly:
Yes
Pet Friendly:
Yes

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Good overnight place, quiet. You can either park outside the gate (always free but no infrastructure) or inside. For parking inside they sometimes ask 5 soles but then have access to toilets. Spa entrance is 5 soles pp, sauna especial 8 soles. Go to the PE 3S, towards Juliaca, over the railway line to the parking lot.

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The parking lot outside the hot springs is really quiet and leveled. You can sleep here even if you don't go into the hot springs. It's free but dry camping (no amenities). We felt safe.

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good spot, kind of wild camping as you have the mountains and a river on the side.
there are toilets inside the termas for 0,5s.
we entered the termas for one day, it costs 6 soles for a private pool, tye pool looks old, and there is a lot of rust in the water, but for 6 soles it is an OK shower!

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Although at 4000m high and very cold -it was a really lovely stop. We did park inside at no extra cost (7.50 soles p/p- our 4 year old didn’t pay) and only heard the noise of wheely trash bins going back and forth in the evening. A good range of pools- kid friendly ones to really hot ones! We bathed on a Wednesday morning and quite a few locals came too- but all were welcoming and chilled. FYI- showers are cold but if you go find the private pools, there are some showers with slightly warmer water to the right of the building. Enjoy! :-)

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Current price s/7.5pp. We stayed inside the gates but I wished we had stayed in the car park. Perhaps we were unlucky, but this place doesn’t close at night and we had people being super noisy and coming in and out of the pools most of the night. Horrible nights sleep could have been avoided by staying out of the complex, and you can still access the pools whenever you want. Apart from that we had a great evening here!

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Nice quiet, level place to spend the night. We found the hot pools to be clean and hot! The infrastructure at the hotel/restaurant/pools is aging, but perfectly functional. Chilly!

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Buen lugar para pasar la noche, tranquilo y muy frio. Es seguro, lss personas de la comunidad son amables. Al contrario de las descripciones se nota el esmero de la comunidad por mantenerlo bien. El sauna es muy bueno. No pagamos por pasar la noche soli la entrada al sauna

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Staff let us camp inside the facility with our bikes and we had full 24h access to the pools for 5 soles. Beautiful place and the warm baths were very welcome after a cold descent from the south.

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WARNING!! The place to sleep is OK, but the pools are filthy, we just came back from the hospital with our three years old, with severe intestinal infections. And the nurse told us that they have been trying to close this pools because people get sick all the time. Is a good place to spend the night though. But don't make the mistake we did and don't get in the pools.

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The pools seem OK, but our 3 y/o is terrible sick after going there and of course swallowing a little bit of water. We adults are OK, and we have fun, but the water is far from clean.

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Perfect safe overnight option. We payed the 5Sol each and could then park inside. Used only the outside pools which are hot! You might want to try several as temperature varies in each. In the morning we couldn’t use the one from the night before as the water was boiling! Only annoyance, when we wanted to leave a stupid guest had parked in front of the gate and we had to wait until the person was called though the speakers but then still didn’t show. So we also started walking around looking for the owner ... took a long while until he showed up.

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On the way to Cusco or to Puno it's a good place to sleep. We parked outside one saturday night and it was quiet.

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Always 5 soles per person to sleep and access to the baths. We were there on Saturday night, during holidays. Avoid putting the tent next to the family baths, there was noise all night long. The baths are open 24/24.

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Very dirty on sunday evening , they don't change the water of private banos. They put their waste in the canal of hot water.
they ask the doble price for foreigners ;(

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s5 entry pp and camping included. You get access to all the pools (private sauna s8pp). 50c for bathroom during opening hours. Restaurant on site but no food left when we went at 6pm. Can get snacks from the sellers outside. Not particularly peaceful at night as kids were playing in the pool until after 11pm.

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2 soles for the outdoor pools and 5 soles for a private hot pool. 5 soles to park your car inside. there are toilets and showers outside. Nice location for a night. there are people selling bread, soft drinks and some snacks outside.

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After a maps.me direction disaster, managed to get back on the main road and stopped here for the night. Nice level parking lot for big rigs. Paid S/2 to get in and used about 4 different pools. Did not charge us for parking but we arrived after dark. We'll see what happens tomorrow morn.

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Quiet place to stay on the road to or from Cuzco.

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We came here after hiking rainbow mountain. It was nice to soak after the hike and they had a nice flat parking spot inside the gate for us to park. $5sol/pp to enter the pools and $2sol to camp inside the gate. This place has definitely seen better days. Showers are somewhat warm.

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didn't lake the place too much. paid 10 soles for one car. need to pay 0.5 sol to use very dirty toilets. did not see the showers. for whatever reason the guard decided to wake me up at 6 in the morning to say hi.

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We loved this place!! Beautiful location with (snow capped) mountains around, and the thermal baths are suppppper warm/hot and natural. They have lots of pools and it's really not busy.

5/s PP to sleep the night inside their gate and use of the baths in the night and the morning. Great place to stop.

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We stayed 1 night, 2 tents, 2 motorcycles, 3 people cost just 5 sole each!

The motorcycles were parked inside behind a building next to our tents, the thermals are a perfect stop to relax whatever your means of travel and to meet the friendly locals...

There's not much around but outside in the morning there's locals selling cheap food ;)

Highly recommended!!

PS. If you are heading to Arequipa by moto leave early or take the correct route, somehow took us 8hrs. Some muddy unpaved roads. It was very cold, wet and high attitude

Good luck!!

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The boy on the desk charges us for 2 Sol for the swimming pool☺
5 Sol for the inside parking
Nice place for after a walking day

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Very good place to stay for the night. We could park and sleep inside the gate for free but 5 or 10 soles would definitely be justified as well. The staff is very friendly and the compound beautiful. All facilities are pretty basic and the spa has seen better times so just decide for your own if you want to use the spa. We went for the steam saunas which could have been hotter but were nice after the cold night. The showers are ok although unfortunately not really warm when we were there which is weird because they should also come from the hot springs.

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We went there on Saturday, really busy with all the local. Paid 5soles/p. We pitch the tent inside the complex, no problem. We were 5 tents! No charge for the tent. You have to pay for the toilet...50 cents. Really good

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Yes, reasonably quiet after locals leave. Toilets in dismal shape and very dirty.

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For Peruviaanse Standard Very good Spa.
We enjoyed thé 8 soles herbal sauna.
Just parked outside.
hot water, frezing voor night.

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Excelent. Park in the terms complex. a lot of posibility for relax. Term whit aromatic plants, terms pools, family terms, suanas, pools outdoors, etc... for only 5soles. Past the nigth 5 soles por RV. The terms complex is the comunity, the owens ar 500 familys, we work whit pasion. Is not enterprise municipal or private... =)

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Parked inside the gate. Paid 5sol entrance fee only. We were there after sunset and was directed to an indoor bath. Didn't think the place was very clean. Garbage on floor, shower didn't work by our bath, taps in washroom sinks didn't work. But decent place to spend the night, very quiet, felt safe.

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when we arrived, they wanted to charge 30 soles for a very basic room and extra 10 soles for parking inside.
we did not agree, because in the comments it says nothing about paying for parking, if you take a room. the people were unfriendly and quite agressiv. after all this we left the place and stayed next at hospedaje Paraiso.

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In our humble, young opinion, a 5 star Peruvian spa. Parked here overnight and enjoyed the herbal baths and saunas. For Peru standards a fairly clean establishment. 30 sol for 4 and the van for full access. Asado stalls right out front. 8 sol for trout, pollo or cerdo meals. The boss man even thanked us personally as we were leaving.

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stayed inside for 1 night
very good to bath at 4000m in the nature with a 35° water

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We got to park inside the gate, took a bath in the morning, great place, nice people.

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termas, barros, sauna, etc..buenas instalaciones, con aparcamiento. conseguimos habitación doble por 25soles, instalaciones incluidas

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Great thermal baths. The community owns the baths so all the money goes to them. They charged 5soles pp to camp and 5soles pp for the ages Thermales.

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We asked at the entrance to the aguas calientes whether we can park inside and they let us. We paid 5 soles per person to enter the most expensive thermal bath, but prices start at 2 soles. They say thermal baths are open all night long and you can enter any one you like at any time. There is a restaurant inside and accomodation is available too, but we ate in a small kiosk just outside - an old friendly lady prepared trout for us for 8 soles. Very nice place but it gets very cold in the night, we woke up to frozen front windows on our car.

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Good overnight place, quiet, faucet no other infrastructure. Free

Go to the PE 3S, towards Juliaca, over the railway line to the Parking lot

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