Finnish saunas in Rennes, France
Aquaouest
Aquaouest is the intercommunal aquatic and wellness centre in Pacé, on the north-west edge of Rennes, with a 25 m sports pool, a leisure pool, a paddling pool and a slide. Its adults-only Espace Bien-Être, open from age 16, has a Scandinavian sauna at 80 degrees, a hammam at 55 degrees, a salt grotto, a balneo pool at 32 degrees, sensory showers including a cold douche écossaise, and an outdoor solarium. A Liberté entry to the pools and wellness area costs 24 EUR, or 20 EUR for local residents.
Awelys Spa
Awelys Spa is a private-hire spa beside the Les Longs Champs shopping centre in north-east Rennes. Guests book one of two rooms for two hours: Emeraude, for two, has a sauna and a large hot tub, while Saphir, for two to ten people, adds a hammam. Towels, robes and toiletries are supplied and swimwear is compulsory. Bookings run from 9:00 to 21:00 every day, and Emeraude costs 95 EUR for two on weekday daytimes. Massages can be added.
Keraqua Thorigné
Keraqua Thorigné is a private pool, sports and wellness centre in the Le Bocage shopping centre at Thorigné-Fouillard, north-east of Rennes. Its wellness area has a wood sauna at 70 to 90 degrees with a backlit Himalayan salt wall, a hammam, a hot tub and a cold shower. Sessions are booked online only, either as an individual entry at 10 EUR per person per hour shared with up to eight people, or as a private hire of the whole spa at 62 EUR per hour for up to eight.
Rennes Aqua Center
Rennes Aqua Center is a private wellness centre in Acigné, about ten minutes east of Rennes and on STAR bus line 64. Its 70 m2 Espace Prestige is booked exclusively by groups of two to fifteen and holds an XXL jacuzzi, a six-seat sauna, a six-seat eucalyptus hammam, a sensory shower and a cold douche écossaise. It also has two flotation tanks and the Vital Dôme, a long-wave infrared sauna sold at 36 EUR for 45 minutes. Open daily 9:00 to 21:00 by booking; Prestige starts at 100 EUR for two.
Spadium Saint-Grégoire
Spadium Saint-Grégoire is a public aquatic centre just north of Rennes with a 60 m lazy river, hot tubs, a sports pool and a slide. Its separate Espace Détente has a Finnish sauna at 80 to 110 degrees, an infrared Japanese sauna at 55 degrees, hammams, Scandinavian showers, a rest room and a patio with a terrace and a cold-water bath. The Détente ticket excludes the jacuzzis, which need the Détente plus pool entry. The area can be hired privately on Saturday afternoons.
Mama Shelter Rennes
Mama Shelter Rennes is a design hotel on Place de la Trinité in central Rennes with a ground-floor wellness area holding a 20 m indoor pool heated to 29 degrees, a sauna, a hammam and a hot tub, and the Spa MamaSkin treatment rooms under a stone vault in the basement. Outside visitors who book a treatment can add 90 minutes in the sauna, hammam, pool and hot tub between 10:00 and 19:00 for 40 EUR; hotel guests get a one-hour slot per night. Reservations are required and flip-flops must be worn.
Spa du Domaine de Cicé-Blossac
The Spa Signature at the four-star Domaine de Cicé-Blossac sits beside a golf course in Bruz, south-west of Rennes. Its wellness area, for over-16s only, has a panoramic pool with swan-neck jets, bubbling loungers and counter-current swimming, a hammam under a starry ceiling, a private aroma hammam and a sauna with a view over the golf course, which closes in the summer season. The spa opens daily: 10:00 to 20:00 on weekdays, 10:00 to 19:00 on Saturday and 10:00 to 18:00 on Sunday.
Spa Nuxe – Balthazar Hôtel & Spa
The Spa Nuxe at the five-star Balthazar Hôtel & Spa occupies 300 m2 in the historic centre of Rennes, a short walk from the old Parliament of Brittany, and is open to non-residents as well as hotel guests. It has a hammam, a sauna and a sensory pool at 30 degrees with a whirlpool, massage jets, counter-current swimming and an ice-cold waterfall, alongside a Nuxe treatment menu from 100 EUR for 45 minutes. It opens daily from 9:00; under-16s are not recommended.
L'Orange Bleue Mon Coach Wellness Rennes
L'Orange Bleue Mon Coach Wellness on Rue de Redon is a coached fitness club in Rennes from the L'Orange Bleue chain, built around personalised programmes with a coach, a dietitian and an osteopath, a Fit3D body scanner and small-group yoga, Pilates and circuit-training classes. Members can recover in its wellness area with a sauna, a steam room (hammam) and a Cryobain cold bath. Access is by membership, from 55 EUR per four weeks on a two-year contract; a free trial can be booked online.
L'Orange Bleue Mon Coach Wellness Vern-sur-Seiche
L'Orange Bleue Mon Coach Wellness in Vern-sur-Seiche is a 475 m2 coached fitness club behind the E.Leclerc shopping centre, south-east of Rennes, offering personalised programmes, Fit3D body scans every four months and small-group yoga, Pilates and circuit training. Its members' wellness area has a steam room (hammam), a sauna and a Cryobain cold bath. Membership starts at 55 EUR per four weeks on a two-year contract, and the club has 12 reserved parking spaces and bicycle parking.
Aquaouest
Aquaouest is the intercommunal aquatic and wellness centre in Pacé, on the north-west edge of Rennes, with a 25 m sports pool, a leisure pool, a paddling pool and a slide. Its adults-only Espace Bien-Être, open from age 16, has a Scandinavian sauna at 80 degrees, a hammam at 55 degrees, a salt grotto, a balneo pool at 32 degrees, sensory showers including a cold douche écossaise, and an outdoor solarium. A Liberté entry to the pools and wellness area costs 24 EUR, or 20 EUR for local residents.
Awelys Spa
Awelys Spa is a private-hire spa beside the Les Longs Champs shopping centre in north-east Rennes. Guests book one of two rooms for two hours: Emeraude, for two, has a sauna and a large hot tub, while Saphir, for two to ten people, adds a hammam. Towels, robes and toiletries are supplied and swimwear is compulsory. Bookings run from 9:00 to 21:00 every day, and Emeraude costs 95 EUR for two on weekday daytimes. Massages can be added.
Keraqua Thorigné
Keraqua Thorigné is a private pool, sports and wellness centre in the Le Bocage shopping centre at Thorigné-Fouillard, north-east of Rennes. Its wellness area has a wood sauna at 70 to 90 degrees with a backlit Himalayan salt wall, a hammam, a hot tub and a cold shower. Sessions are booked online only, either as an individual entry at 10 EUR per person per hour shared with up to eight people, or as a private hire of the whole spa at 62 EUR per hour for up to eight.
Rennes Aqua Center
Rennes Aqua Center is a private wellness centre in Acigné, about ten minutes east of Rennes and on STAR bus line 64. Its 70 m2 Espace Prestige is booked exclusively by groups of two to fifteen and holds an XXL jacuzzi, a six-seat sauna, a six-seat eucalyptus hammam, a sensory shower and a cold douche écossaise. It also has two flotation tanks and the Vital Dôme, a long-wave infrared sauna sold at 36 EUR for 45 minutes. Open daily 9:00 to 21:00 by booking; Prestige starts at 100 EUR for two.
Spadium Saint-Grégoire
Spadium Saint-Grégoire is a public aquatic centre just north of Rennes with a 60 m lazy river, hot tubs, a sports pool and a slide. Its separate Espace Détente has a Finnish sauna at 80 to 110 degrees, an infrared Japanese sauna at 55 degrees, hammams, Scandinavian showers, a rest room and a patio with a terrace and a cold-water bath. The Détente ticket excludes the jacuzzis, which need the Détente plus pool entry. The area can be hired privately on Saturday afternoons.
Mama Shelter Rennes
Mama Shelter Rennes is a design hotel on Place de la Trinité in central Rennes with a ground-floor wellness area holding a 20 m indoor pool heated to 29 degrees, a sauna, a hammam and a hot tub, and the Spa MamaSkin treatment rooms under a stone vault in the basement. Outside visitors who book a treatment can add 90 minutes in the sauna, hammam, pool and hot tub between 10:00 and 19:00 for 40 EUR; hotel guests get a one-hour slot per night. Reservations are required and flip-flops must be worn.
Spa du Domaine de Cicé-Blossac
The Spa Signature at the four-star Domaine de Cicé-Blossac sits beside a golf course in Bruz, south-west of Rennes. Its wellness area, for over-16s only, has a panoramic pool with swan-neck jets, bubbling loungers and counter-current swimming, a hammam under a starry ceiling, a private aroma hammam and a sauna with a view over the golf course, which closes in the summer season. The spa opens daily: 10:00 to 20:00 on weekdays, 10:00 to 19:00 on Saturday and 10:00 to 18:00 on Sunday.
Spa Nuxe – Balthazar Hôtel & Spa
The Spa Nuxe at the five-star Balthazar Hôtel & Spa occupies 300 m2 in the historic centre of Rennes, a short walk from the old Parliament of Brittany, and is open to non-residents as well as hotel guests. It has a hammam, a sauna and a sensory pool at 30 degrees with a whirlpool, massage jets, counter-current swimming and an ice-cold waterfall, alongside a Nuxe treatment menu from 100 EUR for 45 minutes. It opens daily from 9:00; under-16s are not recommended.
L'Orange Bleue Mon Coach Wellness Rennes
L'Orange Bleue Mon Coach Wellness on Rue de Redon is a coached fitness club in Rennes from the L'Orange Bleue chain, built around personalised programmes with a coach, a dietitian and an osteopath, a Fit3D body scanner and small-group yoga, Pilates and circuit-training classes. Members can recover in its wellness area with a sauna, a steam room (hammam) and a Cryobain cold bath. Access is by membership, from 55 EUR per four weeks on a two-year contract; a free trial can be booked online.
L'Orange Bleue Mon Coach Wellness Vern-sur-Seiche
L'Orange Bleue Mon Coach Wellness in Vern-sur-Seiche is a 475 m2 coached fitness club behind the E.Leclerc shopping centre, south-east of Rennes, offering personalised programmes, Fit3D body scans every four months and small-group yoga, Pilates and circuit training. Its members' wellness area has a steam room (hammam), a sauna and a Cryobain cold bath. Membership starts at 55 EUR per four weeks on a two-year contract, and the club has 12 reserved parking spaces and bicycle parking.