Finnish saunas in Brussels, Belgium
Bath & Barley
Bath & Barley is a beer spa a step from the Grand-Place, where guests soak in handmade oak tubs filled with warm water, yeast, hop and malt. Every room is private, seating up to six, and the Monk experience adds a hops-aroma sauna at 70°C and an oak barrel to cool down in. An hour for two starts at 139 euros, or 169 euros with the sauna. It opens daily, from 11:00 on Saturdays and later on weekdays.
Calm Spa
Calm Spa runs two wellness spaces on avenue Firmin Lecharlier in Jette, each combining a heated pool, a jacuzzi, a sauna and a hammam. The venue works two ways: the rooms can be booked as a fully private spa, or visited as a public spa reserved for women. Massages, scrubs and beauty treatments are offered alongside the bathing. Reservation is required and rates are published separately for the spa and the beauty institute.
Les Thermes de l'Espadon
Les Thermes de l'Espadon is the sauna, hammam and jacuzzi area of the municipal Espadon sports centre and swimming pool in Etterbeek. A ticket costs 15 euros and is valid for three hours, including the pool. On weekdays and Fridays until early evening the thermes are entered through the pool; at weekends there is a separate sauna entrance between 12:45 and 14:00. It opens weekdays 17:00 to 22:00 and weekends 11:00 to 19:00. Only Bancontact card payment is accepted at the sauna.
Piscine Triton
The Triton pool in Evere keeps a wellness area with a sauna, a steam room and jacuzzis alongside its swimming pool, entered for an additional fee. A combined pool, sauna and hammam ticket costs 7.50 euros for Evere residents and 11 euros for everyone else, with an eleven-visit pass at 75 and 110 euros. The pool opens weekdays 7:30 to 19:00, Thursdays until 20:00, and weekends 9:00 to 17:00. It is closed on public holidays.
The White Oak
The White Oak is a wellness resort at Kampenhout, north-east of Brussels, with several saunas, a garden of outdoor dipping pools and a swim pond, a restaurant and a regular programme of aufguss sessions run by its own sauna masters. The resort is normally nude, but every Wednesday and the first and third Saturday of the month are swimwear days on which swimwear is mandatory throughout. It opens daily from 10:30, until 23:00 on Fridays and Saturdays.
Thermae Grimbergen
Thermae Grimbergen is a green wellness estate north of Brussels run by the same group as Boetfort, with its thermal areas split between Aquarius, the nude section, and Sabai, where a swimsuit is worn. Two private saunas, Cleopatra and Yasmine, can be hired separately. The weekly experience programme includes Mindful Moments on Wednesdays and Cold Awareness on Thursdays. The baths open daily from 10:30 to 23:00 and a physical ID card is required at the door.
Thermen Dilbeek
Thermen Dilbeek is a full-day thermal complex just west of Brussels with eight saunas inside and out: a bio sauna, a panorama sauna over the garden, infrared cabins, the fire-lit Kuori, the Ranta opgiet sauna where professional aufguss sessions run daily, the Himalayan salt mine Salina, the Eclipse and the Latvian-inspired Pirts. Bathers cool in a 19°C plunge pool or the cooling barrels in the ornamental pond. Swimwear is not permitted. Entry is €39.50, open daily 11:00 to midnight.
Thermen Londerzeel
Thermen Londerzeel is the rural sister of Thermen Dilbeek, north of Brussels, with four saunas: an Austrian Alm sauna at 80°C with an open hearth, a bio-panorama sauna over the indoor complex, an infrared cabin and an aqua sauna set beside a giant aquarium. Cooling is by an 8 by 5 metre 24°C plunge pool, cooling barrels and a bath in the natural pond, and there is a heated 32°C outdoor pool year round. Swimsuits are not allowed. Entry is €47 and the baths open daily 11:00 to midnight.
Martin'Spa by Algotherm
Martin'Spa by Algotherm is the thermal bath and spa of Martin's Château du Lac on the shore of Lake Genval, south-east of Brussels, with a heated indoor pool, a sauna and hammam, whirlpool baths, four treatment rooms and a cardio fitness area. From Monday to Thursday the baths are open by reservation only, at 15 euros an hour for hotel residents and 35 euros for outside visitors; from Friday to Sunday access is reserved for guests who have booked a 50-minute treatment.
Spa Cinq Mondes Dolce La Hulpe Brussels
The Cinq Mondes spa at the Dolce hotel sits in the Sonian Forest south-east of Brussels and pairs a heated indoor pool with a sauna and a hammam alongside its face and body treatments. It opens Monday to Friday from 10:00 to 19:00, Saturday from 10:00 to 20:00 and Sunday from 9:00 to 18:00.
Tangla Hotel Brussels
The Tangla Hotel in Woluwe-Saint-Lambert keeps a wellness centre of more than 1,200 square metres with a large heated indoor pool, a spacious sauna and a big fitness area. The fitness room is open around the clock; the pool and sauna run from 6:30 to 21:00, with last entry at 20:00. The hotel states the wellness centre is now open to the public and not only to residents.
Thermae Boetfort
Thermae Boetfort sits on a 400-year-old castle estate at Melsbroek, north-east of Brussels, and splits its thermal areas into two zones: Moenia, the nude section, and Curia, where a bathing suit is worn. Alongside the shared saunas it rents two private saunas, Lagoon and Zen, by the two-hour slot, and runs a hammam peeling among its treatments. A hotel adjoins the baths. It opens daily from 10:30 to 23:00; a physical ID card is required at the door.
Aspria Arts-Loi
Aspria Arts-Loi is a members' sports and wellness club in the European quarter with a 21-metre pool and a spa offering a sauna, a steam room, a hammam and a jacuzzi. The club opens weekdays from 6:30 to 22:30 and weekends from 9:00 to 19:00, while L'Institut spa runs 9:00 to 21:00 on weekdays and until 18:45 at weekends. The spa is described as accessible to both members and non-members.
Aspria Avenue Louise
Aspria Avenue Louise is an adults-only urban club off avenue Louise with the largest indoor pool and spin studio in central Brussels, and a wellness area with a hammam, a jacuzzi and a sauna. L'Institut spa opens weekdays 10:00 to 21:00 and weekends 10:00 to 19:00, and both treatments and spa days are sold to non-members.
Aspria Royal La Rasante
Aspria Royal La Rasante is the group's club in Woluwe, set in green grounds with two pools and a spa holding a sauna, a jacuzzi and a hammam, plus tennis courts and a fitness floor. L'Institut spa opens every day, including Belgian public holidays, from 10:00 to 20:00, and treatments and spa days that include one day of access to all facilities are also sold to non-members.
Bath & Barley
Bath & Barley is a beer spa a step from the Grand-Place, where guests soak in handmade oak tubs filled with warm water, yeast, hop and malt. Every room is private, seating up to six, and the Monk experience adds a hops-aroma sauna at 70°C and an oak barrel to cool down in. An hour for two starts at 139 euros, or 169 euros with the sauna. It opens daily, from 11:00 on Saturdays and later on weekdays.
Calm Spa
Calm Spa runs two wellness spaces on avenue Firmin Lecharlier in Jette, each combining a heated pool, a jacuzzi, a sauna and a hammam. The venue works two ways: the rooms can be booked as a fully private spa, or visited as a public spa reserved for women. Massages, scrubs and beauty treatments are offered alongside the bathing. Reservation is required and rates are published separately for the spa and the beauty institute.
Les Thermes de l'Espadon
Les Thermes de l'Espadon is the sauna, hammam and jacuzzi area of the municipal Espadon sports centre and swimming pool in Etterbeek. A ticket costs 15 euros and is valid for three hours, including the pool. On weekdays and Fridays until early evening the thermes are entered through the pool; at weekends there is a separate sauna entrance between 12:45 and 14:00. It opens weekdays 17:00 to 22:00 and weekends 11:00 to 19:00. Only Bancontact card payment is accepted at the sauna.
Piscine Triton
The Triton pool in Evere keeps a wellness area with a sauna, a steam room and jacuzzis alongside its swimming pool, entered for an additional fee. A combined pool, sauna and hammam ticket costs 7.50 euros for Evere residents and 11 euros for everyone else, with an eleven-visit pass at 75 and 110 euros. The pool opens weekdays 7:30 to 19:00, Thursdays until 20:00, and weekends 9:00 to 17:00. It is closed on public holidays.
The White Oak
The White Oak is a wellness resort at Kampenhout, north-east of Brussels, with several saunas, a garden of outdoor dipping pools and a swim pond, a restaurant and a regular programme of aufguss sessions run by its own sauna masters. The resort is normally nude, but every Wednesday and the first and third Saturday of the month are swimwear days on which swimwear is mandatory throughout. It opens daily from 10:30, until 23:00 on Fridays and Saturdays.
Thermae Grimbergen
Thermae Grimbergen is a green wellness estate north of Brussels run by the same group as Boetfort, with its thermal areas split between Aquarius, the nude section, and Sabai, where a swimsuit is worn. Two private saunas, Cleopatra and Yasmine, can be hired separately. The weekly experience programme includes Mindful Moments on Wednesdays and Cold Awareness on Thursdays. The baths open daily from 10:30 to 23:00 and a physical ID card is required at the door.
Thermen Dilbeek
Thermen Dilbeek is a full-day thermal complex just west of Brussels with eight saunas inside and out: a bio sauna, a panorama sauna over the garden, infrared cabins, the fire-lit Kuori, the Ranta opgiet sauna where professional aufguss sessions run daily, the Himalayan salt mine Salina, the Eclipse and the Latvian-inspired Pirts. Bathers cool in a 19°C plunge pool or the cooling barrels in the ornamental pond. Swimwear is not permitted. Entry is €39.50, open daily 11:00 to midnight.
Thermen Londerzeel
Thermen Londerzeel is the rural sister of Thermen Dilbeek, north of Brussels, with four saunas: an Austrian Alm sauna at 80°C with an open hearth, a bio-panorama sauna over the indoor complex, an infrared cabin and an aqua sauna set beside a giant aquarium. Cooling is by an 8 by 5 metre 24°C plunge pool, cooling barrels and a bath in the natural pond, and there is a heated 32°C outdoor pool year round. Swimsuits are not allowed. Entry is €47 and the baths open daily 11:00 to midnight.
Martin'Spa by Algotherm
Martin'Spa by Algotherm is the thermal bath and spa of Martin's Château du Lac on the shore of Lake Genval, south-east of Brussels, with a heated indoor pool, a sauna and hammam, whirlpool baths, four treatment rooms and a cardio fitness area. From Monday to Thursday the baths are open by reservation only, at 15 euros an hour for hotel residents and 35 euros for outside visitors; from Friday to Sunday access is reserved for guests who have booked a 50-minute treatment.
Spa Cinq Mondes Dolce La Hulpe Brussels
The Cinq Mondes spa at the Dolce hotel sits in the Sonian Forest south-east of Brussels and pairs a heated indoor pool with a sauna and a hammam alongside its face and body treatments. It opens Monday to Friday from 10:00 to 19:00, Saturday from 10:00 to 20:00 and Sunday from 9:00 to 18:00.
Tangla Hotel Brussels
The Tangla Hotel in Woluwe-Saint-Lambert keeps a wellness centre of more than 1,200 square metres with a large heated indoor pool, a spacious sauna and a big fitness area. The fitness room is open around the clock; the pool and sauna run from 6:30 to 21:00, with last entry at 20:00. The hotel states the wellness centre is now open to the public and not only to residents.
Thermae Boetfort
Thermae Boetfort sits on a 400-year-old castle estate at Melsbroek, north-east of Brussels, and splits its thermal areas into two zones: Moenia, the nude section, and Curia, where a bathing suit is worn. Alongside the shared saunas it rents two private saunas, Lagoon and Zen, by the two-hour slot, and runs a hammam peeling among its treatments. A hotel adjoins the baths. It opens daily from 10:30 to 23:00; a physical ID card is required at the door.
Aspria Arts-Loi
Aspria Arts-Loi is a members' sports and wellness club in the European quarter with a 21-metre pool and a spa offering a sauna, a steam room, a hammam and a jacuzzi. The club opens weekdays from 6:30 to 22:30 and weekends from 9:00 to 19:00, while L'Institut spa runs 9:00 to 21:00 on weekdays and until 18:45 at weekends. The spa is described as accessible to both members and non-members.
Aspria Avenue Louise
Aspria Avenue Louise is an adults-only urban club off avenue Louise with the largest indoor pool and spin studio in central Brussels, and a wellness area with a hammam, a jacuzzi and a sauna. L'Institut spa opens weekdays 10:00 to 21:00 and weekends 10:00 to 19:00, and both treatments and spa days are sold to non-members.
Aspria Royal La Rasante
Aspria Royal La Rasante is the group's club in Woluwe, set in green grounds with two pools and a spa holding a sauna, a jacuzzi and a hammam, plus tennis courts and a fitness floor. L'Institut spa opens every day, including Belgian public holidays, from 10:00 to 20:00, and treatments and spa days that include one day of access to all facilities are also sold to non-members.