Steam saunas in Melbourne, Australia
EQ Wellbeing
EQ occupies level five of The Eighth in South Melbourne and is built around a bathhouse holding a hot mineral spa, a traditional Finnish sauna, an aromatherapy steam room and a five-degree cold plunge, with a light-and-sound dome and breathwork studio alongside. The whole space is phone-free. Self-guided bathhouse visits run 60 or 90 minutes from $59, and the fully guided three-hour Signature Journey starts at $150.
Project Mood
Project Mood is a Southbank bath house on Coventry Street holding a dry sauna, a steam room, a magnesium hot pool and a cold plunge. Bathing is swimwear only, and the house asks guests not to arrive in gym clothes worn earlier in the day. An introductory offer of two sessions for $50 is the usual way in, with memberships available after that.
Soak Bathhouse South Yarra
Soak sits behind Chapel Street in the Alfasi development in South Yarra, designed by Carr Architects. Bathers move between two mineral pools at 34°C and 38°C, dry cedar saunas, a steam room scented with essential oils and a cold plunge held at 12.5°C, all set among leafy planting. It opens from 6:30am daily. Bathing packages start at $39.95, and a private infrared sauna for up to two people is $49.95.
Sense of Self
A double storey converted brick warehouse on the Collingwood-Fitzroy border, Sense of Self runs two-hour communal bathing sessions around a large magnesium mineral pool at 38-40°C, a Finnish sauna, a cold plunge and a steamy Hammam with a self-led Scrub Station. All-gendered and phone-free, with no-talking quiet mornings from 6:30am to noon and capacity capped at 24. Bathing is $65 off peak, $75 on weekends and public holidays.
Chuan Spa at The Langham Melbourne
The Langham's Chuan Spa on Southgate Avenue in Southbank is built on traditional Chinese medicine principles and opens onto an indoor swimming pool overlooking the Melbourne skyline, with a jacuzzi, sauna and steam room alongside the treatment rooms. Facilities run 7am to 9pm on weekdays and 8am to 9pm at weekends, and day spa guests who book a treatment get complimentary access to all of them.
Brighton Baths Health Club
One of just two remaining sea baths in Victoria, Brighton Baths has stood on the bayside foreshore for more than 138 years. The waterfront health club wraps a steam room and ice bath around open-water swimming with the Icebergers, group classes, personal training and indoor and outdoor training areas. Entry is by membership, and the site also runs events and venue hire on the pier.
St Kilda Sea Baths
The historic bathing pavilion on St Kilda beach houses South Pacific Health Club, whose centrepiece is a 25 metre heated indoor seawater pool drawn straight from Port Phillip Bay, with a hydrotherapy spa, a unisex aromatherapy steam room and a full gym around it. It opens at 5am on weekdays and 7am at weekends, and sits directly on the Jacka Boulevard foreshore beside the pavilion's restaurants and watersports schools.
The Commons Health Club Cremorne
A Melbourne health club whose bathhouse sits beside the gym floor, holding a traditional sauna at 80°C, a steam room at 46°C, cold plunge pools between 5°C and 8°C, hot magnesium pools at 39°C, heated stone benches and a hydration station. It also runs signature group sauna and ice bath classes, a 20-minute sauna followed by a three to five minute group plunge. Access is by membership, from $129 a week with the bathhouse included.
EQ Wellbeing
EQ occupies level five of The Eighth in South Melbourne and is built around a bathhouse holding a hot mineral spa, a traditional Finnish sauna, an aromatherapy steam room and a five-degree cold plunge, with a light-and-sound dome and breathwork studio alongside. The whole space is phone-free. Self-guided bathhouse visits run 60 or 90 minutes from $59, and the fully guided three-hour Signature Journey starts at $150.
Project Mood
Project Mood is a Southbank bath house on Coventry Street holding a dry sauna, a steam room, a magnesium hot pool and a cold plunge. Bathing is swimwear only, and the house asks guests not to arrive in gym clothes worn earlier in the day. An introductory offer of two sessions for $50 is the usual way in, with memberships available after that.
Soak Bathhouse South Yarra
Soak sits behind Chapel Street in the Alfasi development in South Yarra, designed by Carr Architects. Bathers move between two mineral pools at 34°C and 38°C, dry cedar saunas, a steam room scented with essential oils and a cold plunge held at 12.5°C, all set among leafy planting. It opens from 6:30am daily. Bathing packages start at $39.95, and a private infrared sauna for up to two people is $49.95.
Sense of Self
A double storey converted brick warehouse on the Collingwood-Fitzroy border, Sense of Self runs two-hour communal bathing sessions around a large magnesium mineral pool at 38-40°C, a Finnish sauna, a cold plunge and a steamy Hammam with a self-led Scrub Station. All-gendered and phone-free, with no-talking quiet mornings from 6:30am to noon and capacity capped at 24. Bathing is $65 off peak, $75 on weekends and public holidays.
Chuan Spa at The Langham Melbourne
The Langham's Chuan Spa on Southgate Avenue in Southbank is built on traditional Chinese medicine principles and opens onto an indoor swimming pool overlooking the Melbourne skyline, with a jacuzzi, sauna and steam room alongside the treatment rooms. Facilities run 7am to 9pm on weekdays and 8am to 9pm at weekends, and day spa guests who book a treatment get complimentary access to all of them.
Brighton Baths Health Club
One of just two remaining sea baths in Victoria, Brighton Baths has stood on the bayside foreshore for more than 138 years. The waterfront health club wraps a steam room and ice bath around open-water swimming with the Icebergers, group classes, personal training and indoor and outdoor training areas. Entry is by membership, and the site also runs events and venue hire on the pier.
St Kilda Sea Baths
The historic bathing pavilion on St Kilda beach houses South Pacific Health Club, whose centrepiece is a 25 metre heated indoor seawater pool drawn straight from Port Phillip Bay, with a hydrotherapy spa, a unisex aromatherapy steam room and a full gym around it. It opens at 5am on weekdays and 7am at weekends, and sits directly on the Jacka Boulevard foreshore beside the pavilion's restaurants and watersports schools.
The Commons Health Club Cremorne
A Melbourne health club whose bathhouse sits beside the gym floor, holding a traditional sauna at 80°C, a steam room at 46°C, cold plunge pools between 5°C and 8°C, hot magnesium pools at 39°C, heated stone benches and a hydration station. It also runs signature group sauna and ice bath classes, a 20-minute sauna followed by a three to five minute group plunge. Access is by membership, from $129 a week with the bathhouse included.