The springs still run hot today and the site is now home to a modern spa resort, which provides a full range of spa services. For non-guests, there is an day-use fee to enter the complex.
The main waterfall, which gushes over a cliff beneath the resort, ranges in temperature from 40° to 60° C (104-140° F). This is the most popular spot and is often full of families and young people enjoying the waters, in attire ranging from fully-veiled robes to modern western swimsuits. Visitors should respect the more traditional bathers and leave the stringiest bikinis at home. There are hot pools and several smaller falls nearby as well.
About 6km after the turnoff for Hammamat Ma'in is the impressive Al Megheirat dolmen field, with hundreds of dolmens (prehistoric chamber tombs) scattered across several hillsides.
Close by are two sites linked by tradition to Herod the Great. One is the palace at Makawer (machaerus), where Salome traditionally danced, and where John the Baptist was beheaded; now Hamamat Ma'in, the thermal mineral springs, where Herod was said to have bathed in its medicinal water, where people have come for thermal treatments or simply to enjoy a hot soak, since the days of Rome.
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