watering place

British. a seaside or lakeside vacation resort featuring bathing, boating, etc.

a health resort near mineral springs, a lake, or the sea, featuring therapeutic baths, water cures, or the like.

a place where drinking water may be obtained by humans or animals, as a spring or water hole.

watering hole.

Origin of watering place

late Middle English word dating back to 1400–50

When we first landed, I was very active in assisting to get the casks out of the boat, and in rolling them to the watering-place.

Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy |Anonymous
The venerable John Home, author of Douglas, was then at the watering-place, and paid much attention to my aunt and to me.

Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume I (of 10) |John Gibson Lockhart
Extensive works upon these, affording a sea front unsurpassed by that of any English watering-place, were completed in 1905.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 |Various
It is a remarkable quality in a watering-place out of the season, that everything in it, will and must be looked at.

Reprinted Pieces |Charles Dickens

Before they had reached the first watering-place a third tempest, preceded by its choking sandstorm, overtook them.

The River War |Winston S. Churchill

watering place

a place where drinking water for men or animals may be obtained

British a spa

British a seaside resort