Private saunas in Tallinn, Estonia
Heldeke!
Heldeke! is a theatre-bar in Kalamaja that heats its electric sauna, up to 85°C, for public unisex sessions every Wednesday and Sunday, 17:30 to 19:30 and 20:00 to 22:00. A session costs €7.50 online or €8.50 at the door and is limited to 12 people. After the sauna there is a 15°C pool and a vaudeville-style bar with a full drinks menu. Swimwear, a towel or nothing are all allowed, and the venue can be booked for private events.
Iglupark
Iglupark is a group of igloo-shaped sauna cabins on the waterfront at Noblessner harbour, most of them rented privately by groups. A communal morning sauna is open to anyone with a ticket every day from 8:30 to 12:00; tickets are limited per day and should be bought in advance, and swimwear or a body-covering towel is required. The ticket includes showers, toiletries and drinking water, and the house tip is a plunge into cold water after the heat.
Kalma Saun
Kalma Saun is a public sauna in Kalamaja, built in 1928, with separate men's and women's sections. The men's side has a sauna with a wood-burning stove, a steam sauna and a pool; the women's side has an electrically heated sauna and a small plunge pool. Both open Monday to Friday 11:00 to 22:00 and at weekends 10:00 to 23:00, with the till closing an hour earlier. Men pay €17 to €20 and women €14 to €17, and a small and a large private sauna can be booked.
Raua Saun
Raua Saun has been a public sauna on Raua Street since 1936. It has separate men's and women's saunas plus a shared steam sauna, and groups can book an hourly private sauna. Birch, eucalyptus and red oak whisks are sold on site, and café Fe is in the same building. It is open daily from 11:00 to 21:00 except on sanitation days, the first and third Monday of each month, and a two-hour session in the public sauna costs about €8 to €10.
Tallinna Saun
Tallinna Saun, also called the Tartu maantee sauna, is a public sauna opposite the central bus station that has been running since 1882. It has separate men's and women's saunas: the men's side opens every day except Wednesday and the women's side on Monday, Friday and Sunday, both 10:00 to 21:00. Entry is €14 for men and €12 for women, cash only. Bathers go naked, whisks and towels are sold or rented at the desk, and rooms with a sauna can be hired for private events.
RING Spaa & Saunad
RING Spaa & Saunad is a sauna and water centre in Õismäe with ten saunas: Finnish, Russian, smoke, hammam, salt-steam, steam, juniper, birch and amber saunas, and a wood-fired outdoor sauna. Sauna masters lead steam, aroma and salt rituals several evenings a week, included in the ticket along with sauna yoga. The sauna centre is open daily 11:00 to 22:30; adult tickets cost €19 to €31 with no time limit, and a lounge with a private sauna can be hired.
Tallinn Viimsi SPA
Tallinn Viimsi SPA is a spa hotel in Viimsi, north-east of the city centre, with a recently expanded Spa & Sauna Centre. Its saunas include a black Finnish sauna where whisking is allowed, a smoke sauna, a ritual sauna with automated rituals every day, an infrared yoga sauna, juniper, steam, salt-steam, salt-stone and tropical saunas, an outdoor sauna and a children's sauna. It is open daily 9:30 to 22:00; a three-hour ticket costs €16 to €29, and swimwear is mandatory.
Aqua Spa at Tallink Spa & Conference Hotel
Aqua Spa is the water centre of the Tallink Spa & Conference Hotel between the passenger port and the Old Town. It has a Finnish sauna, a steam sauna, a salt sauna and a hamam, a large indoor pool, a children's pool, jacuzzis and an outdoor pool open from April through the summer, with sauna yoga in the hamam on Mondays and Thursdays. It is open daily 8:00 to 22:00; a three-hour ticket costs €24 Monday to Thursday and €30 Friday to Sunday, and swimwear is compulsory in the pools and saunas.
Club 26
Club 26 is the fitness and health centre of the Radisson Blu Hotel Olümpia, with a gym, a 16 m pool and saunas with a view over the city. The sauna area has a Finnish sauna, which can reach 120°C, and a lower-temperature sanarium at 50 to 60°C with aroma and coloured light. It is open daily 7:00 to 22:00, and non-guests can buy a single ticket for the pool, gym and saunas at €20 before 15:00 or €23 after, with towels included. A private sauna can also be booked.
Heldeke!
Heldeke! is a theatre-bar in Kalamaja that heats its electric sauna, up to 85°C, for public unisex sessions every Wednesday and Sunday, 17:30 to 19:30 and 20:00 to 22:00. A session costs €7.50 online or €8.50 at the door and is limited to 12 people. After the sauna there is a 15°C pool and a vaudeville-style bar with a full drinks menu. Swimwear, a towel or nothing are all allowed, and the venue can be booked for private events.
Iglupark
Iglupark is a group of igloo-shaped sauna cabins on the waterfront at Noblessner harbour, most of them rented privately by groups. A communal morning sauna is open to anyone with a ticket every day from 8:30 to 12:00; tickets are limited per day and should be bought in advance, and swimwear or a body-covering towel is required. The ticket includes showers, toiletries and drinking water, and the house tip is a plunge into cold water after the heat.
Kalma Saun
Kalma Saun is a public sauna in Kalamaja, built in 1928, with separate men's and women's sections. The men's side has a sauna with a wood-burning stove, a steam sauna and a pool; the women's side has an electrically heated sauna and a small plunge pool. Both open Monday to Friday 11:00 to 22:00 and at weekends 10:00 to 23:00, with the till closing an hour earlier. Men pay €17 to €20 and women €14 to €17, and a small and a large private sauna can be booked.
Raua Saun
Raua Saun has been a public sauna on Raua Street since 1936. It has separate men's and women's saunas plus a shared steam sauna, and groups can book an hourly private sauna. Birch, eucalyptus and red oak whisks are sold on site, and café Fe is in the same building. It is open daily from 11:00 to 21:00 except on sanitation days, the first and third Monday of each month, and a two-hour session in the public sauna costs about €8 to €10.
Tallinna Saun
Tallinna Saun, also called the Tartu maantee sauna, is a public sauna opposite the central bus station that has been running since 1882. It has separate men's and women's saunas: the men's side opens every day except Wednesday and the women's side on Monday, Friday and Sunday, both 10:00 to 21:00. Entry is €14 for men and €12 for women, cash only. Bathers go naked, whisks and towels are sold or rented at the desk, and rooms with a sauna can be hired for private events.
RING Spaa & Saunad
RING Spaa & Saunad is a sauna and water centre in Õismäe with ten saunas: Finnish, Russian, smoke, hammam, salt-steam, steam, juniper, birch and amber saunas, and a wood-fired outdoor sauna. Sauna masters lead steam, aroma and salt rituals several evenings a week, included in the ticket along with sauna yoga. The sauna centre is open daily 11:00 to 22:30; adult tickets cost €19 to €31 with no time limit, and a lounge with a private sauna can be hired.
Tallinn Viimsi SPA
Tallinn Viimsi SPA is a spa hotel in Viimsi, north-east of the city centre, with a recently expanded Spa & Sauna Centre. Its saunas include a black Finnish sauna where whisking is allowed, a smoke sauna, a ritual sauna with automated rituals every day, an infrared yoga sauna, juniper, steam, salt-steam, salt-stone and tropical saunas, an outdoor sauna and a children's sauna. It is open daily 9:30 to 22:00; a three-hour ticket costs €16 to €29, and swimwear is mandatory.
Aqua Spa at Tallink Spa & Conference Hotel
Aqua Spa is the water centre of the Tallink Spa & Conference Hotel between the passenger port and the Old Town. It has a Finnish sauna, a steam sauna, a salt sauna and a hamam, a large indoor pool, a children's pool, jacuzzis and an outdoor pool open from April through the summer, with sauna yoga in the hamam on Mondays and Thursdays. It is open daily 8:00 to 22:00; a three-hour ticket costs €24 Monday to Thursday and €30 Friday to Sunday, and swimwear is compulsory in the pools and saunas.
Club 26
Club 26 is the fitness and health centre of the Radisson Blu Hotel Olümpia, with a gym, a 16 m pool and saunas with a view over the city. The sauna area has a Finnish sauna, which can reach 120°C, and a lower-temperature sanarium at 50 to 60°C with aroma and coloured light. It is open daily 7:00 to 22:00, and non-guests can buy a single ticket for the pool, gym and saunas at €20 before 15:00 or €23 after, with towels included. A private sauna can also be booked.