Finnish saunas in Sydney, Australia
1Remedy
A sauna and ice bath studio tucked into Earl Place in Potts Point, a lane off Bayswater Road. The house session is a fixed three-step round the operators call Sweat, Plunge and Reset: 15 minutes in the sauna, three minutes in the ice bath, ten minutes of recovery. It opens 10am to 8:30pm on weekdays and from 8:45am at the weekend, which makes it one of the later-closing sauna rooms in the eastern city.
Cedar & Salt Saunas
A wood-fired sauna pitched on the harbour foreshore at Marrinawi Cove, Barangaroo, after earlier seasons at Q Station in Manly. The cabin seats up to 12 and delivers "traditional Finnish löyly heat"; sessions last 60 minutes in communal groups, broken by swims off the cove. It is a seasonal pop-up rather than a fixed building, currently booked at Barangaroo until the end of September, and can be hired privately or for events.
RESET Studio
A small recovery studio on Knox Street in Double Bay that combines a cedar sauna, a eucalyptus steam room and a halotherapy salt cave lined with Himalayan salt blocks and red travertine. Contrast circuits move between the cedar sauna, ice baths and a vitamin C shower, and private suites take up to three guests. It opens 8am to 8:30pm on weekdays and from 7am at weekends.
The Sauna Project Vaucluse
A mobile wood-fired Finnish sauna parked in the beach paddock at Vaucluse since June 2024, on one of the harbour's quieter beaches about ten minutes from Bondi. The session follows a set rhythm: "After about 15 minutes in the sauna, jump into the ocean or cool off in the fresh air. Repeat this process 3 times over 1 hour." The protected harbour beach makes the ocean plunge easy year round. Sessions are booked online, shared or private, and the same operator runs a second sauna at Palm Beach.
38° The Bathhouse
A 700 square metre bathhouse in the basement below Campbell Parade at Bondi Beach, opened on the site formerly trading as Slow House. The circuit takes in a "38 degree magnesium pool", a traditional salt sauna billed as Bondi's biggest, a steam room, cold plunges and ice baths, plus private infrared suites that can be booked on their own. Massage, facials and red light therapy are sold alongside the bathing.
Arisoo Korean Bathhouse Chatswood
A Korean jjimjilbang on Help Street in Chatswood, billed as "a Korean Bathhouse for women only". Bathers move between hot herbal baths, a cold bath, a wet steam room and a dry barrel sauna, which is the Chatswood branch's own addition, before the house speciality: the traditional full-body Korean scrub. Entry is by reservation only and guests are asked to bring a water bottle, non-slip slippers and their own cosmetics.
Capybara Bathing
A boutique bathhouse on a Surry Hills side street, built around "a series of thermal baths, a traditional hot stone sauna, cold plunges, hammam, scrub and gently heated lounge area". The hot stone sauna runs to 90C and the mineral bath sits at 38C. Every visit is 90 minutes of communal bathing and guest numbers are deliberately capped, with casual sessions from $65 and multi-passes from $50. Watsu, sound baths and breathwork run in the same space.
Escape Bathhouse
A north shore bathhouse on the Pacific Highway with a 38C mineral pool, a traditional sauna, a steam room and ice baths, plus a Placebo Bar serving non-alcoholic drinks. Swimwear is compulsory: "Appropriate swimwear at all times — no nudity", and entry is 18+, or 16+ with a parent. Sessions run $39 for the 60-minute early bird up to $99 for two hours at weekends. Closed Mondays. The whole space can be hired privately from $1500.
Nature's Energy Balmain
A bathhouse behind the Darling Street shopfront in Balmain, part of the Nature's Energy group. It holds a traditional sauna, an infrared sauna, a mineral pool, a steam room, two ice baths, red light therapy and a salt scrub, with a recovery lounge to sit between rounds. Doors open at 6:30am every day and close at 8pm. A 90-minute visit costs $59 Monday to Thursday and $69 at the weekend, and the site asks bathers to "Please bring your swimwear."
Nature's Energy Glebe
The largest of three Nature's Energy bathhouses in Sydney's inner west, on Glebe Point Road. The circuit takes in traditional and infrared saunas, a hot spa, a steam room, four ice baths, red light therapy, a sea salt scrub and a recovery lounge, and it opens at 6:30am seven days a week. A 90-minute visit is $59 Monday to Thursday and $69 Friday to Sunday; 60-minute sunrise sessions start at $39. The house rule is simple: "Please bring your swimwear."
Nature's Energy Newtown
The King Street branch of Nature's Energy, which the group calls its boutique inner-west bathhouse. It has a traditional sauna, an infrared sauna, a mineral pool, a steam room, an ice bath, a salt scrub and red light therapy. It keeps shorter hours than Glebe and Balmain, opening at 10am on weekdays and 9am on Saturday. A 90-minute session is $59 Monday to Thursday and $69 Friday to Sunday, and bathers are asked to "Please bring your swimwear."
Ottoman Turkish Bath & Day Spa
Sydney's Turkish hammam, on Wellington Road in South Granville. "Our recently upgraded Turkish bath features an expanded heated marble slab", the centrepiece where therapists deliver the traditional foam and kese exfoliation. "Our Hammam features a hot tub and sauna, specially designed to prime you for your exfoliation session." Packages range from the Sultan's Cleanse to a men's package and a private hammam for couples or groups, and hair and beauty services share the building.
Sense of Self
The Sydney outpost of the Melbourne bathhouse, in an old antiques warehouse on South Dowling Street: "A sprawling maze of mineral pools, saunas, cold plunges, steam, scrubs, treatment rooms". Sessions run two hours and are limited to eight bathers, so mornings are quiet by design, with no talking between 7am and noon and a strict phone-free rule. All genders bathe together in swimwear. Off-peak $75, peak $85, with a $35 Hammam scrub kit as an add-on.
Soak Bathhouse Alexandria
Soak's second Sydney site, "Spanning more than 700 square metres" in a Bourke Road warehouse in Alexandria. The circuit holds two mineral pools at 34C and 38C, a dry cedar sauna, infrared saunas, a steam room infused with essential oils, and cold plunges and drench buckets kept at 12.5C. Passes start at $39.95 and run to $169.95 for the longer packages, and treatments and massage can be added to a bathing session.
Xtra Clubs Bondi Junction
A contrast-therapy club on the Oxford Street Mall built around what it calls "Australia's largest Finnish sauna", running at 90C, alongside three infrared saunas at 70C, a 45C steam room and seven custom-built ice baths set between 3C and 14C. It opens 6am to 11pm, 365 days a year, and sells single 90-minute sessions for $39 as well as weekly memberships from $18.95.
Xtra Clubs Marrickville
The inner-west branch of Xtra Clubs, on Faversham Street in Marrickville, running the same format as the Bondi Junction club: a 90C Finnish sauna, infrared saunas at 70C, a 45C steam room and custom-built ice baths with two temperature settings between 3C and 14C. Doors are open 6am to 11pm every day of the year. A single 90-minute session costs $39, with memberships from $18.95 a week.
Ian Thorpe Aquatic Centre
The City of Sydney's wave-shaped pool at Ultimo, named for the five-time Olympic gold medallist, keeps a sauna and steam room beside its 50-metre indoor pool and leisure pool spa. Entry fees apply for casual use of the heat rooms, which are not covered by a swim ticket, though "Access to the sauna and steam room is included as a benefit for all 360 Pro Members". The centre is open from 6am to 8pm and also holds a fitness centre and group exercise studios.
Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Centre
The 2000 Olympic and Paralympic swimming venue at Homebush still opens its pools to the public, and behind them sit a sauna, a steam room and "4 spas which are included in the entry price". The heat rooms carry an extra fee paid at the service desk, are limited to swimmers over 16 and to 20 minutes at a time, and users "must wear recognised swimwear made from lycra or nylon at all times".
1Remedy
A sauna and ice bath studio tucked into Earl Place in Potts Point, a lane off Bayswater Road. The house session is a fixed three-step round the operators call Sweat, Plunge and Reset: 15 minutes in the sauna, three minutes in the ice bath, ten minutes of recovery. It opens 10am to 8:30pm on weekdays and from 8:45am at the weekend, which makes it one of the later-closing sauna rooms in the eastern city.
Cedar & Salt Saunas
A wood-fired sauna pitched on the harbour foreshore at Marrinawi Cove, Barangaroo, after earlier seasons at Q Station in Manly. The cabin seats up to 12 and delivers "traditional Finnish löyly heat"; sessions last 60 minutes in communal groups, broken by swims off the cove. It is a seasonal pop-up rather than a fixed building, currently booked at Barangaroo until the end of September, and can be hired privately or for events.
RESET Studio
A small recovery studio on Knox Street in Double Bay that combines a cedar sauna, a eucalyptus steam room and a halotherapy salt cave lined with Himalayan salt blocks and red travertine. Contrast circuits move between the cedar sauna, ice baths and a vitamin C shower, and private suites take up to three guests. It opens 8am to 8:30pm on weekdays and from 7am at weekends.
The Sauna Project Vaucluse
A mobile wood-fired Finnish sauna parked in the beach paddock at Vaucluse since June 2024, on one of the harbour's quieter beaches about ten minutes from Bondi. The session follows a set rhythm: "After about 15 minutes in the sauna, jump into the ocean or cool off in the fresh air. Repeat this process 3 times over 1 hour." The protected harbour beach makes the ocean plunge easy year round. Sessions are booked online, shared or private, and the same operator runs a second sauna at Palm Beach.
38° The Bathhouse
A 700 square metre bathhouse in the basement below Campbell Parade at Bondi Beach, opened on the site formerly trading as Slow House. The circuit takes in a "38 degree magnesium pool", a traditional salt sauna billed as Bondi's biggest, a steam room, cold plunges and ice baths, plus private infrared suites that can be booked on their own. Massage, facials and red light therapy are sold alongside the bathing.
Arisoo Korean Bathhouse Chatswood
A Korean jjimjilbang on Help Street in Chatswood, billed as "a Korean Bathhouse for women only". Bathers move between hot herbal baths, a cold bath, a wet steam room and a dry barrel sauna, which is the Chatswood branch's own addition, before the house speciality: the traditional full-body Korean scrub. Entry is by reservation only and guests are asked to bring a water bottle, non-slip slippers and their own cosmetics.
Capybara Bathing
A boutique bathhouse on a Surry Hills side street, built around "a series of thermal baths, a traditional hot stone sauna, cold plunges, hammam, scrub and gently heated lounge area". The hot stone sauna runs to 90C and the mineral bath sits at 38C. Every visit is 90 minutes of communal bathing and guest numbers are deliberately capped, with casual sessions from $65 and multi-passes from $50. Watsu, sound baths and breathwork run in the same space.
Escape Bathhouse
A north shore bathhouse on the Pacific Highway with a 38C mineral pool, a traditional sauna, a steam room and ice baths, plus a Placebo Bar serving non-alcoholic drinks. Swimwear is compulsory: "Appropriate swimwear at all times — no nudity", and entry is 18+, or 16+ with a parent. Sessions run $39 for the 60-minute early bird up to $99 for two hours at weekends. Closed Mondays. The whole space can be hired privately from $1500.
Nature's Energy Balmain
A bathhouse behind the Darling Street shopfront in Balmain, part of the Nature's Energy group. It holds a traditional sauna, an infrared sauna, a mineral pool, a steam room, two ice baths, red light therapy and a salt scrub, with a recovery lounge to sit between rounds. Doors open at 6:30am every day and close at 8pm. A 90-minute visit costs $59 Monday to Thursday and $69 at the weekend, and the site asks bathers to "Please bring your swimwear."
Nature's Energy Glebe
The largest of three Nature's Energy bathhouses in Sydney's inner west, on Glebe Point Road. The circuit takes in traditional and infrared saunas, a hot spa, a steam room, four ice baths, red light therapy, a sea salt scrub and a recovery lounge, and it opens at 6:30am seven days a week. A 90-minute visit is $59 Monday to Thursday and $69 Friday to Sunday; 60-minute sunrise sessions start at $39. The house rule is simple: "Please bring your swimwear."
Nature's Energy Newtown
The King Street branch of Nature's Energy, which the group calls its boutique inner-west bathhouse. It has a traditional sauna, an infrared sauna, a mineral pool, a steam room, an ice bath, a salt scrub and red light therapy. It keeps shorter hours than Glebe and Balmain, opening at 10am on weekdays and 9am on Saturday. A 90-minute session is $59 Monday to Thursday and $69 Friday to Sunday, and bathers are asked to "Please bring your swimwear."
Ottoman Turkish Bath & Day Spa
Sydney's Turkish hammam, on Wellington Road in South Granville. "Our recently upgraded Turkish bath features an expanded heated marble slab", the centrepiece where therapists deliver the traditional foam and kese exfoliation. "Our Hammam features a hot tub and sauna, specially designed to prime you for your exfoliation session." Packages range from the Sultan's Cleanse to a men's package and a private hammam for couples or groups, and hair and beauty services share the building.
Sense of Self
The Sydney outpost of the Melbourne bathhouse, in an old antiques warehouse on South Dowling Street: "A sprawling maze of mineral pools, saunas, cold plunges, steam, scrubs, treatment rooms". Sessions run two hours and are limited to eight bathers, so mornings are quiet by design, with no talking between 7am and noon and a strict phone-free rule. All genders bathe together in swimwear. Off-peak $75, peak $85, with a $35 Hammam scrub kit as an add-on.
Soak Bathhouse Alexandria
Soak's second Sydney site, "Spanning more than 700 square metres" in a Bourke Road warehouse in Alexandria. The circuit holds two mineral pools at 34C and 38C, a dry cedar sauna, infrared saunas, a steam room infused with essential oils, and cold plunges and drench buckets kept at 12.5C. Passes start at $39.95 and run to $169.95 for the longer packages, and treatments and massage can be added to a bathing session.
Xtra Clubs Bondi Junction
A contrast-therapy club on the Oxford Street Mall built around what it calls "Australia's largest Finnish sauna", running at 90C, alongside three infrared saunas at 70C, a 45C steam room and seven custom-built ice baths set between 3C and 14C. It opens 6am to 11pm, 365 days a year, and sells single 90-minute sessions for $39 as well as weekly memberships from $18.95.
Xtra Clubs Marrickville
The inner-west branch of Xtra Clubs, on Faversham Street in Marrickville, running the same format as the Bondi Junction club: a 90C Finnish sauna, infrared saunas at 70C, a 45C steam room and custom-built ice baths with two temperature settings between 3C and 14C. Doors are open 6am to 11pm every day of the year. A single 90-minute session costs $39, with memberships from $18.95 a week.
Ian Thorpe Aquatic Centre
The City of Sydney's wave-shaped pool at Ultimo, named for the five-time Olympic gold medallist, keeps a sauna and steam room beside its 50-metre indoor pool and leisure pool spa. Entry fees apply for casual use of the heat rooms, which are not covered by a swim ticket, though "Access to the sauna and steam room is included as a benefit for all 360 Pro Members". The centre is open from 6am to 8pm and also holds a fitness centre and group exercise studios.
Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Centre
The 2000 Olympic and Paralympic swimming venue at Homebush still opens its pools to the public, and behind them sit a sauna, a steam room and "4 spas which are included in the entry price". The heat rooms carry an extra fee paid at the service desk, are limited to swimmers over 16 and to 20 minutes at a time, and users "must wear recognised swimwear made from lycra or nylon at all times".