My wife and me accompanied my mother for a shorter spa-stay at the Stubicka Toplica in Zabok near Zagreb in Croatia.

We had initially booked rooms at the Dijana hotel only to find out that this place was a hospital with a hotel wing. As neither of us wanted to stay there after having seen the rooms, and seen that there are a lot of rehab- och ill people we decided to cancel our reservations there and go to the nearby Hotel Matija Gubec instead.

Hotel Matija Gubec is a a two-star hotel in the middle of a recreational area and near a spa, balkan style. The spa includes two indoor pools, saunas, different kinds of massage and aroma therapies, and also includes a slightly
neglected fitness room with a variety of machines. The only other spa experience I have is from the Blue Lagoon on Iceland, and I was a bit disappointed that Stubicka Toplica wasn't at all like that. The water in the seven outdoor pools are apparently heated with some kind of geothermal... more