Best Hot Tub & Sauna Stays in Medicine Hat

A Sauna and Steam Room Lead the List

Topping this list, the Best Western Premier Executive Residency leads with a sauna and steam room alongside its hot tub and indoor pool, plus an outdoor fireplace terrace for a cool evening once the sun goes down over the prairie. At five miles from Medicine Hat Airport, it sits at the further end of the cluster, a trade most guests make for the fuller wellness circuit, backed by bathrobes as a room standard and a 9.2 guest rating that leads the city. That combination is hard to find elsewhere in Medicine Hat at a similar rate, which is part of why the Best Western Premier leads this particular list.

Days Inn by Wyndham pairs its hot tub and indoor pool with in-room fireplaces, a genuinely rare in-room detail that suits a quiet winter evening without leaving the room at all once the Alberta cold sets in. The Hampton Inn & Suites takes a different route with a saltwater indoor pool and hot tub together, plus a sun terrace for daytime use, gentler on skin and eyes than the standard chlorinated water found at most of the rest of the strip. Neither property lists whether the hot tub is shared with other guests or set aside for a single room, so that detail is worth confirming directly.

Comfort Inn & Suites and the Econo Lodge Inn & Suites both carry a hot tub alongside an indoor pool, with Econo Lodge adding a sauna and a rooftop pool on top, an unusually full package for its budget price point that few two-star properties elsewhere in the province would bother assembling, and Comfort Inn backs its hot tub with express check-in for a faster start to the evening. That budget-tier generosity is unusual enough to call out on its own, since most two-star properties elsewhere settle for a pool and nothing more.

Holiday Inn Express & Suites, Clarion Pointe Medicine Hat Saamis Tepee and Wyndham Garden Conference Center round out the list, each backing a hot tub with an indoor pool and, in Clarion Pointe's case, an on-site casino for an evening out without leaving the building at all. Holiday Inn Express adds a two-story waterslide to the same pool deck, making it the pick for a family wanting a hot tub alongside genuine kids' entertainment. Between the waterslide, the casino and the hot tub itself, this end of the list treats the amenity as one part of a bigger evening rather than the whole plan.

Cold winters are the real reason hot tubs and saunas earn their keep in Medicine Hat, a city where the temperature swings hard between a dry, sunny summer and a properly cold prairie winter. The hotel cluster along Highway 1 carries most of this amenity, since the same chain hotels built for airport and highway travellers tend to include a hot tub as a standard upgrade over a pool-only property.