Steam saunas in Hannover, Germany
aquaLaatzium
aquaLaatzium in Laatzen combines a pool, a fitness club and a large sauna landscape built around Finnish tradition: a sauna village with a lookout tower, streams and a natural bathing lake. Four big Aufguss saunas outside include a lake sauna on stilts, an earth sauna with birch banya rituals and an 80-seat event sauna; indoors are six more saunas and steam baths. A private club sauna can be booked. Four hours cost €30 on weekdays; the pool is closed for roof repairs.
Königliche Kristall-Therme Seelze
The Kristall-Therme in Seelze, west of Hannover, is a thermal brine spa with about 10,000 m² of bathing area, natural brine pools of 1.5 to 12 per cent salt, a sports pool and a romantic garden. It has seven themed saunas, four inside and three outside, from 60 to 105 °C, plus a steam bath and an Ottoman hammam, with daily Aufguss rituals and a cold plunge. The saunas are always nude. Three hours cost €24, a day €39.50.
Sauna Martinique
Sauna Martinique is an independent sauna landscape of over 5,000 m² in Laatzen-Rethen, just south of Hannover. It runs eight heat rooms from 46 to 92 °C, among them a Finnish Aufguss sauna with hourly infusions, an outdoor log-cabin sauna, a fire-lit earth sauna and a steam room, plus a warm indoor pool and an unheated outdoor pool kept ice-free for cooling. Bathing is nude throughout. Day tickets cost €23 to €26.
Wasserwelt Langenhagen
The Wasserwelt in Langenhagen, just north of Hannover, is a 20,000 m² sports and leisure pool with a 25 m pool and a 100 m tyre slide. Its separate sauna area has five heat rooms, among them a Kelo sauna and a chestnut sauna at 90 °C, a fireplace sauna, a meditation sauna and a steam bath, with Aufguss infusions usually every hour, a 7 °C plunge pool, a 24 m² outdoor pool and a sauna bar. Tuesday mornings are for women only.
aquaLaatzium
aquaLaatzium in Laatzen combines a pool, a fitness club and a large sauna landscape built around Finnish tradition: a sauna village with a lookout tower, streams and a natural bathing lake. Four big Aufguss saunas outside include a lake sauna on stilts, an earth sauna with birch banya rituals and an 80-seat event sauna; indoors are six more saunas and steam baths. A private club sauna can be booked. Four hours cost €30 on weekdays; the pool is closed for roof repairs.
Königliche Kristall-Therme Seelze
The Kristall-Therme in Seelze, west of Hannover, is a thermal brine spa with about 10,000 m² of bathing area, natural brine pools of 1.5 to 12 per cent salt, a sports pool and a romantic garden. It has seven themed saunas, four inside and three outside, from 60 to 105 °C, plus a steam bath and an Ottoman hammam, with daily Aufguss rituals and a cold plunge. The saunas are always nude. Three hours cost €24, a day €39.50.
Sauna Martinique
Sauna Martinique is an independent sauna landscape of over 5,000 m² in Laatzen-Rethen, just south of Hannover. It runs eight heat rooms from 46 to 92 °C, among them a Finnish Aufguss sauna with hourly infusions, an outdoor log-cabin sauna, a fire-lit earth sauna and a steam room, plus a warm indoor pool and an unheated outdoor pool kept ice-free for cooling. Bathing is nude throughout. Day tickets cost €23 to €26.
Wasserwelt Langenhagen
The Wasserwelt in Langenhagen, just north of Hannover, is a 20,000 m² sports and leisure pool with a 25 m pool and a 100 m tyre slide. Its separate sauna area has five heat rooms, among them a Kelo sauna and a chestnut sauna at 90 °C, a fireplace sauna, a meditation sauna and a steam bath, with Aufguss infusions usually every hour, a 7 °C plunge pool, a 24 m² outdoor pool and a sauna bar. Tuesday mornings are for women only.