Swimwear required saunas in Melbourne, Australia
Comma
Comma's Cremorne bath house is communal and unisex but deliberately tiny: only four people are welcomed into the space per session. The Like the Finns Do package moves between a magnesium hot tub, a traditional Finnish sauna and a cold pail shower, while The Way of Light adds exclusive access to an infrared sauna. Swimwear stays on throughout. Sessions run about $75 to $90, and treatments are offered alongside.
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.
Sauna Boat Melbourne
A timber-lined sauna afloat in Victoria Harbour at the Melbourne City Marina in Docklands, heated to around 80°C with two ice baths on deck: one at 10°C straight from Tasmanian waters and one at 14°C kept at Victorian water temperatures. Sessions last 60 minutes, with up to five guests in a private booking and four in a shared one, and run all day Saturday and Sunday from 7am to 7pm. Swimwear is required.
Sóma Bathhouse
Sóma in Essendon builds its visit around what it calls the holy trio of sauna, plunge and soak. The communal space holds a four-person infrared sauna, two cold plunges and a hot mineral spa set to 39°C, while the private rooms each have their own shower, a two-person sauna and a cold plunge. It is a bathers-on bathhouse, and the introductory offer at $95 covers one communal and one private session.
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.
Comma
Comma's Cremorne bath house is communal and unisex but deliberately tiny: only four people are welcomed into the space per session. The Like the Finns Do package moves between a magnesium hot tub, a traditional Finnish sauna and a cold pail shower, while The Way of Light adds exclusive access to an infrared sauna. Swimwear stays on throughout. Sessions run about $75 to $90, and treatments are offered alongside.
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.
Sauna Boat Melbourne
A timber-lined sauna afloat in Victoria Harbour at the Melbourne City Marina in Docklands, heated to around 80°C with two ice baths on deck: one at 10°C straight from Tasmanian waters and one at 14°C kept at Victorian water temperatures. Sessions last 60 minutes, with up to five guests in a private booking and four in a shared one, and run all day Saturday and Sunday from 7am to 7pm. Swimwear is required.
Sóma Bathhouse
Sóma in Essendon builds its visit around what it calls the holy trio of sauna, plunge and soak. The communal space holds a four-person infrared sauna, two cold plunges and a hot mineral spa set to 39°C, while the private rooms each have their own shower, a two-person sauna and a cold plunge. It is a bathers-on bathhouse, and the introductory offer at $95 covers one communal and one private session.
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.