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Hell's Gate & Wai Ora Spa

Address:   State Highway 30, Tikitere, Rotorua
Rotorua - Taupo
New Zealand
Phone:   (07) 345 3151
Website:   http://www.hellsgate.co.nz/

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Hell's Gate, just out of Rotorua, on New Zealand's volcanic plateau, is a place of geothermal activity so pronounced, including erupting geysers, steaming fumaroles, mud pools and hot geothermal waters. Hell's Gate offers the visitor numerous options, from walking the Geothermal Reserve Walk, to a Mud Bath, or a Sulphur Spa, to Massage.

Hell’s Gate Tikitere is a unique place of extreme contrasts. You will see remarkable formations and colours, cascading hot water and unearthly vistas, even examples of “land coral”.

Hell's Gate Geothermal Reserve is set in 50 acres with a large variety of geothermal features. Walk past steaming fumeroles and pools of boiling MUD so violent they are unnerving. Follow the footsteps of ancient Warriors through the swirling clouds of steam, past the pool where the Maori Princess “Hurutini” lost her life, see the violent geothermal activity of the Inferno and the Kakahi Falls, the largest hot waterfall in the Southern Hemisphere.

The unique geothermal muds and waters of Rotorua are renown for their curative and invigorating properties—and this is particularly so at “Hell's Gate” - Rotorua’s most active geothermal reserve.

There are three private mud baths in the Wai Ora (“Healthy Waters”) Spa Facility – one family and two three-person baths each containing in excess of 70-100kgs of the finest geothermal muds in both suspended and solid form. After your mud bath, visitors can then go into the “North Island” shaped sulphur spa or the deeper “South Island” shaped sulphur spa, both with their own hot water falls to relax and revitalize.

The facility has eight purpose-built treatment rooms that impress on the client the sense of New Zealand and all that it offers down to the Manuka (New Zealand's native Tea Tree) oil essence that gently permeates the rooms. You can choose from a number of treatments including: mud facial, massage, and body scrub and mask. Two of the rooms have been specially set up for couples or 'honeymooners' who wish to share this unique massage experience.

Open every day: 8:30am - 8:30pm


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    Jane posted on October 20th, 2011
    Overall Rating: 3.7 / 10

    We enjoyed the geothermal walk. but the mud & sulphur bath was disgusting. Very overpriced for sitting in a cold grave like concrete pool. You are supposed to take a cold shower after sitting in a luke warm mud pool. It was freezing. We had the throw away our bathing suits and towels from the sulphur smell.

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    jenniferbattnz posted on September 14th, 2009
    Overall Rating: 9.3 / 10

    This was an amazing place to experience! Have a mud bath, sulphur spa and follow up with massage - you come away feeling the best in the world!!! Highly recommended!!!!

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    Mike Tapper posted on September 8th, 2009
    Overall Rating: 8.0 / 10

    We thoroughly enjoyed our visit to Hell's Gate. The walk around the reserve was spectacular, followed by a most relaxing mud and sulphar bath. It's less ritzy than the more commercial resorts in Rotorua but this makes it less crowded and a good option if you're on a budget. A word of advice: take an old swim suit and throw it away afterwards as the smell will never leave!