Not every bath for two is a date

Say "beer bath for two" and a couple marking an anniversary usually comes to mind. Fair enough, but it is a narrow picture. A spa visit for two works with anyone whose company you enjoy: your mum, your sister, your oldest school friend, your dad, your son, your brother, or the mate you have been promising to do something with for the past five years. Lázně Pramen has been running since 2008, and you will find us on Dejvická street in Prague 6, a two-minute walk from Hradčanská metro station. You can come after work or on a weekend without turning it into a full-day expedition.

Why does it suit two people who aren't a couple? Because the whole set-up is built around privacy and comfort rather than romance. Each tub holds up to two guests, and our private rooms are yours alone for the length of the booking: once you are in, nobody else walks through the door. There is no shared pool full of strangers. And because you choose between a beer bath and a wine bath, each of you gets what you actually like, even if your mum's taste and yours have never once overlapped.

Having a room just for the two of you, somewhere you can talk out loud, laugh, or simply close your eyes and say nothing at all, makes a shared bath a good excuse for the kind of conversation that never quite happens across the kitchen table.

This isn't a piece about romantic evenings; you will find those elsewhere on our blog. Instead, we will look at which room works best for friends or family, how to choose between beer and wine, what actually happens during those ninety minutes, why swimwear is absolutely fine, and how to invite someone gracefully with a gift voucher.

Choosing a room when you are not a couple

There are four rooms in Dejvice, each with its own atmosphere and capacity. The price, though, depends on the treatment and the number of tubs, not on the room's name, and bath prices are always for the whole room, per booking, never per person. For two people who aren't a couple, it helps to settle one question first: would you rather share a tub, or would you each feel more at ease with your own?

Ruby Spring (Rubínový pramen) is our most intimate room, for one or two guests. It has a single larch tub with a whirlpool, an electric fireplace and a heated bed of wheat straw. Bookings last 90 minutes. A beer bath starts at €148 per room and a wine bath at €201 per room, and the price is the same whether you come alone or as a pair. It suits sisters, a mother and daughter, or two friends who are happy to sit in the same tub.

If you would prefer a bit of personal space, there is Golden Spring (Zlatý pramen), our largest room, with two oak tubs, each with its own whirlpool. It is the only room where two tubs run at once, so each of you gets one. Two beer tubs for two guests come to €190, two wine tubs for two guests to €268, and the beer-and-wine combination for two guests to €238, always for the whole room. Golden Spring takes up to four guests, so a mum and two daughters fit comfortably: the combination for three guests is €278.

For a pair after something special, there is our V.I.P. room, Emerald Spring (Smaragdový pramen). Packages here last 2.5 hours and are strictly for one or two guests. They open with a cedar phyto-sauna, a cedar barrel you sit inside with your head poking out of the top. The V.I.P. Beer SPA starts at €293 and the V.I.P. Wine SPA at €326 per booking.

The fourth room, Sapphire Spring (Safírový pramen), is a salt cave with no tub. It is used for massages. You can book a massage on its own, or add it to a bath in the same booking when you reserve, and then it always takes place before the bath.

Beer or wine: when you have different tastes

Mum drinks white wine and nothing else, her son wouldn't touch a glass of it, and your friend lives on dark beer. Not a problem. You choose between two baths, and with two tubs you can even have one of each. Both run at 35-38 °C, close to body temperature, and both come with an automatic whirlpool.

Our beer bath is made with Petrovické zlato craft beer, Žatec hops, brewer's yeast and malt. A specialist adds the natural blend to the water right in front of you. You get your own beer tap in the room, and the beer bath includes unlimited light and dark beer with snacks. For a father and son, or two friends who want to talk things over with a pint in hand, it is the obvious pick.

The wine bath contains red wine, grape seed and skin extracts, wine yeast, honey, herbal extracts and French lavender flowers. Waiting in the room is a bottle of wine, red or white as you prefer, with a plate of fruit and cheese. For a mother and daughter, or two friends, it can feel like afternoon tea, only in a warm tub instead of at a café table.

Can't agree? Then book Two in One in Golden Spring, where each of you has your own tub with your own blend. Here is how the options stack up for two:

  • Beer bath in one tub (1-2 guests, 90 min): from €148 per room
  • Wine bath in one tub (1-2 guests, 90 min): from €201 per room
  • Two beer tubs in Golden Spring: €190 for 2 guests
  • Beer and wine combination in Golden Spring: €238 for 2 guests
  • Two wine tubs in Golden Spring: €268 for 2 guests
  • V.I.P. Beer SPA in Emerald Spring (1-2 guests, 2.5 h): from €293 per booking
  • V.I.P. Wine SPA in Emerald Spring (1-2 guests, 2.5 h): from €326 per booking

So nobody has to settle. Just decide beforehand whether you want to share a tub and a drink, or each have your own.

How ninety minutes for two actually unfold

If neither of you has been before, it is reassuring to know exactly what lies ahead. The beer and wine baths follow the same pattern, and the whole booking lasts 90 minutes in the room. We suggest arriving 10-15 minutes early so nothing feels rushed.

The shower is in the room, and you use it before the bath. Then comes roughly ten minutes of preparation: the specialist adds the natural blend to the water in front of you, so you can see exactly what goes into the tub. After that you have 20-30 minutes in the water, usually around twenty, though you are welcome to stay for the full thirty. The rest of the time, about 50 minutes, is for lying back on the heated wheat-straw bed by the electric fireplace. In other words, the ninety minutes include the preparation, not just the soak.

  1. Arrive 10-15 minutes before your booking for a brief welcome
  2. Shower in the room before the bath
  3. About 10 minutes of preparation, with the blend added in front of you
  4. 20-30 minutes in the tub at 35-38 °C with the whirlpool running
  5. About 50 minutes resting on the heated straw with beer or wine

After the bath you are welcome to use the shower in the room, but we recommend not rinsing the blend off for about two hours. For two people this has a practical upshot: don't plan to head straight to a meeting or the gym. A slow walk around Dejvice, or simply home, is a far better follow-up.

We walk through the whole thing step by step in our guides to how a beer bath works and how a wine bath works. If you are bringing someone who feels a little self-conscious in spas, send them the link in advance. People relax much more easily when they know what is coming, and once they arrive, all that is left to do is unwind.

Swimwear, conversation and silence: enjoying it without the awkwardness

When you come with a friend or relative, what may hold you back isn't the price or the beer. It is plain old embarrassment. How do you behave in a tub with your mum, your mother-in-law, or a friend from five-a-side? The answer is simple: however feels comfortable. The room is private, and the rules inside it are yours.

Swimwear is completely fine. Nobody expects you to get in without it, and when you aren't a couple, it is the natural choice. You step into the tub over the rim using a wooden step. If sharing a single tub feels a little too close, choose Golden Spring with its two tubs: you each have your own, and you can still see and hear one another.

Talk or stay quiet? Both are right. Maybe you will finally have the conversation with your mum that there was never time for at home. Or, as two friends at the end of a gruelling week, you may simply be glad to sit in warm water for twenty minutes without saying a word. Silence between two people who are close isn't awkward; it is rest. Feel free to leave your phones in your bags, too. The bath loses nothing if you don't photograph it every five minutes.

The bed of loose, heated wheat straw in its wooden frame is generous, but not everyone wants to lie right next to their mum or brother. There is nothing to stop you taking turns: one stretches out on the straw while the other lingers at the little table with a beer or a glass of wine, and then you swap. A few small things that help:

  • Agree in advance whether you want one shared tub or two of your own
  • Bring swimwear if it makes you feel more at ease
  • Take turns on the straw bed if you like
  • Don't try to plan the conversation, or the silence

The easy atmosphere doesn't come from romance. It comes from nobody rushing you and no strangers looking on.

An example: a Saturday afternoon for mother and daughter

To make this concrete, here is a made-up scenario. Picture a daughter who has moved back to Prague after years abroad and wants to treat her mum. Mum likes white wine; the daughter leans towards beer. A single tub would mean one of them compromising, so she books a Saturday afternoon in Golden Spring with Two in One: €238 for two guests, for the whole room.

In our imagined afternoon, they arrive a little early, shower in the room and watch the specialist add hops, malt and yeast to one tub and the lavender-scented wine blend to the other. Each settles into her own oak tub with its whirlpool, mum with a bottle of white and a plate of fruit and cheese, her daughter with beer from the tap. After about twenty minutes they move to the straw; mum lies down first while her daughter finishes her drink at the table. They talk about everything that never fitted into phone calls across half of Europe.

If they wanted more time together, they could start the afternoon earlier with a massage in the Sapphire Spring salt cave, added to the same booking in advance, since a massage always comes before the bath. The cave holds ten tonnes of salt: rock salt, Dead Sea salt and Himalayan salt. There is one massage table, so the massages happen one after the other, and whoever is waiting relaxes in a comfortable armchair right there in the cave. Each massage is priced per guest: a 30-minute relaxation massage for the back, neck and shoulders starts at €46, a 60-minute full-body relaxation massage at €66 and a 60-minute sports massage at €82.

The same idea works for other pairings. A father and son might take a beer bath in Ruby Spring from €148 per room. Two friends celebrating something big could go for the V.I.P. Wine SPA in Emerald Spring from €326 per booking, with the cedar phyto-sauna, a relaxation massage or a scrub, and a wine bath. Two sisters on a tighter budget will be perfectly happy with a single tub and a wine bath from €201. You can shape the afternoon around the relationship, your tastes and your wallet.

A gift voucher as a low-key invitation

Inviting your mum or a friend to the spa is a lovely gesture, until you run into everyone's diaries. Mum's Saturdays are booked solid, your friend works shifts, and your sister is in the middle of moving flat. A gift voucher sidesteps all of that: you hand over the invitation now and find a date later, when it suits you both. The voucher is digital, a PDF, so you can email it or print it and tuck it into a birthday card or a Mother's Day card.

There are two kinds. A value voucher leaves the choice to the recipient, who picks both the treatment and the date, which is handy if you aren't sure whether they will fancy beer or wine. A treatment voucher is a ready-made plan: the recipient only has to book a date. If you have your heart set on taking your mum for the combination in Golden Spring, that is the clearer option.

Redeeming it is straightforward. Just give the voucher code when you book or at reception, or scan the QR code. If the treatment costs more than the voucher is worth, you pay the difference when booking or on the day. A value voucher can also be used in instalments, with the remaining balance available until the expiry date.

  • Two types: a value voucher and a voucher for a specific treatment
  • Redeem with the code when booking or at reception, or by scanning the QR code
  • Any price difference is paid when booking or on site
  • A value voucher can be used in several instalments
  • Validity runs from the date of purchase, and the expiry date is printed on the voucher

And if plans change? You can withdraw from a voucher bought online within 14 days of purchase, either through the link in your confirmation email or by writing to info@laznepramen.cz. The money goes back to the original card, minus any service already used.

Practical details and booking for two

You will find Lázně Pramen at Dejvická 255/18, Prague 6 - Dejvice, two minutes from Hradčanská metro station. We are open Monday to Friday from 10:00 to 22:00 and at weekends from 10:00 to 23:00, so an evening slot after work is entirely doable. Book online through our booking page, by phone on +420 728 059 770, or by email at info@laznepramen.cz. Your booking is confirmed the moment our confirmation email arrives. For V.I.P. packages we may ask for a deposit or payment in advance.

Two people's plans change more often than one person's, so the cancellation terms are worth knowing. Cancel more than 48 hours ahead and it is free, with a full refund; between 24 and 48 hours ahead we charge 50% of the price, and with less than 24 hours' notice or a no-show, 100%. Moving your date is free up to 48 hours beforehand, subject to availability. Please arrive 10-15 minutes before your start time: if you are more than 15 minutes late, your booking may be shortened or cancelled without a refund. The terms in force at the moment of confirmation always apply, and you can read them in full in our terms and conditions.

Beer and wine come with a few house rules. Please don't bring your own alcohol or food; the beer, wine and snacks are part of the treatments. Smoking, including e-cigarettes, is not allowed anywhere on the premises. Staff may turn away a guest who is visibly under the influence of alcohol, with no refund. A full list of health restrictions is also in the terms and conditions.

After your bath, take a look at our own beer cosmetics range at reception: beer shampoo, hair conditioner, body peel, body scrub and bath salt. Any of them makes a nice little keepsake for your mum or friend, a reminder of the afternoon you spent together.

Whether you are coming with your mum, your sister, your dad or your best mate, all you need to do is pick a room and a bath. Browse all our treatments, and if you aren't sure what would suit the two of you best, get in touch. We will happily help you plan an afternoon you will both remember.