Bath Hot Springs and the Bath Hotel

The Bath Hotel was built by John Huggins in 1778 beside a volcanic spring and is generally reckoned the first hotel in the Caribbean, a Georgian pile with fifty rooms that drew invalids and naval officers from across the region for a century. The building is a shell now, stabilised by the Nevis Historical and Conservation Society with American grant money and slowly being brought back, but the springs beside it still run at around 42 degrees and are still used. Concrete soaking pools sit below the hotel, entry is about US$5 for visitors and free for nationals, and locals come down in the evening. It is fifteen minutes on foot from the pier.