H2O Herford - Herford sports and leisure pool

The oasis for body and soul in East Westphalia

If you want to escape the stress of everyday life and simply relax, you can enjoy a day's vacation right on your doorstep: At H2O in Herford, East Westphalia's oasis for body and soul.

H2O offers its guests a generously dimensioned water and sauna landscape. On over 22,000 square meters, every visitor will find a variety of offers to suit their personal taste: whether sporty swimming, fun and games in the leisure pool, pure relaxation in the beautiful sauna area with its unique Nordic sauna garden or wellness in the Refugium wellness world - the H2O offers every guest an individual wellness program.

Sauna landscape

A total of 10 different saunas, a steam bath and a snow room cover the entire spectrum of sweating on over 5,000 square meters, both indoors and in the spacious sauna garden.
Relaxing between sauna sessions is just as important as sweating. The spacious sauna garden offers a wide range of options for this: Swimming pools and whirlpools are available both indoors and outdoors, as are a variety of relaxation zones such as a relaxation house with heated loungers (39°) and meditative relaxation music or the Finnish country-style relaxation house. And guests are well catered for with food and drinks in the sauna's own restaurant.

Leisure pool
Fun and games on over 3,500 square meters, including 1,400 square meters of water alone: that's what the H2O leisure pool offers. Two slides, each 146 meters and 110 meters long respectively, provide plenty of action, the wave pool creates a real surf feeling and the torrent and wave channel offer fast-paced water fun. Guests can relax in the warm whirlpool or with one of the numerous water massages. A large number of loungers are available to visitors around the individual water pools, inviting them to relax and linger under the many palm trees and green plants.

The H2O offers all sporty visitors a 25-meter sports pool, a 1-meter and 3-meter diving platform and a heated 25-meter outdoor pool. The outdoor pool is also easily accessible from the inside via a swimming channel, whatever the weather.

Tabokiri jungle island
This unique facility consists of a 400 square meter jungle with water slides, a diving grotto with animated fish and coral reef, an old wooden sailing boat, a Mayan temple, water cannons and many other jungle attractions.

Refugium
The Refugium is the feel-good world at H2O. If you want to escape the stress of everyday life and treat yourself to something very special, the wellness area is just the place for you. Here you can unwind and really relax. The Refugium's wellness offer ranges from classic massages to all-day arrangements. In tastefully designed rooms, located directly above the H2O sauna area, it's all about pure relaxation.