La Gruta

FLOATER’S BLOG: Hot Spring Date March 27th, 2025

I have been travelling around Mexico for almost three weeks and have had no trouble finding some fine ales and lagers to quaff but, oh lordy, does my body ever miss a float!

Hence a visit yesterday to La Gruta, a hot spring spa just outside San Miguel de Allende. I knew from the start this would be a completely different experience than my traditional floats. I expected something more like the famous baths of Budapest although I hoped for a more natural setting like a mountain hot spring.

The Grotto is somewhere in between. A family friendly spot with gardens, sunny terraces and many shady sitting areas all served by wait staff from multiple bars and a central kitchen. There are a couple of change areas, bathrooms and lockers to store your dry gear. The main reason to be here are the six different salt water pools (although two seemed to be out of action) with increasing levels of heat. The grotto itself is the final pool which you enter via a tunnel in which you can feel the water getting warmer with every step. It’s a man-made cave, like a large round hot tub inside a rock igloo with the walls and roof made from local boulders and stone all painted white. There are a few small light holes to let in shafts of sunshine illuminating the rising steam and to give the bathers a chance to see where they are. Okay, it’s not a real cave but quaint none-the-less and when you are desperate for a ‘float’ its like a morphine drip.

It was easy to get a beer and sit on the in-water benches around the edges of the pools soaking up suds and sunshine (except in the cave), have conversations with fellow travellers and see so many smiling faces enjoy a wet wonderland – so it was a ‘happy place’!

Unfortunately, a large inflatable was out of the question although I did see a couple of people using optionally provided life jackets and noodles as flotation devices to support their feet or children. Just before departure a father and child came into the water with a sweet little pink vinyl tube to support said infant. So nice to see Beer Float Training starting at a very young age. So again, it was a pleasant day…

UNTIL THAT LITTLE BRAT STARTED SCREAMING!!!

Lost, and, sadly, not at sea,

Corliss

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