watering place

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A place where animals find water to drink.
• noun A health resort with mineral springs; a spa.
• noun Informal A watering hole.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun A place where water may be obtained, as for drinking, for watering cattle, or for supplying ships.
• noun Especially, a place of resort for a particular kind of water, as mineral water; a well, spring, town, etc., famous for its waters; in later use, a bathing-place; a seaside resort; loosely, any summer resort.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun a health resort near a spring or at the seaside