"Also in Buda, the Gellért Bath is part of the under-renovation Art Nouveau Hotel Gellért from 1918, poised to become a Mandarin Oriental in 2027. Visitors flit between the monumental swimming pool crowned with a glass roof, the thermal pools surrounded by regal lion heads spurting water and walls of Zsolnay porcelain tiles, and the pummeling outdoor wave pool that opens at the end of May every year."