Steam saunas in Toronto, Canada
AIRE Ancient Baths Toronto
AIRE Ancient Baths occupies a 1912 Edwardian Classicism building on Front Street West, once the Copp Clark publishing warehouse, now 23,000 square feet of candlelit bathing. The thermal circuit moves guests through eight baths at different temperatures, alongside a dry sauna and a steam room, in the Roman, Greek and Ottoman bathing tradition. Massages and rituals include the thermal bath tour. It opens daily from 10am to 10pm, with the last session two hours before closing.
Elmwood Spa
Elmwood Spa has occupied a historic building on Elm Street, just off Yonge, for more than forty years and spreads treatment rooms over four floors. Its Water Therapies circuit combines a swimming pool, a whirlpool, steam rooms and a poolside lounge, and is scheduled before treatments wherever possible. Guests can also take lunch in a robe at the spa's own dining room. The spa opens at 9am Monday to Thursday and 10am on Sundays.
Go Place
Go Place is a 68,000 square foot Korean-style leisure club and spa on Highway 7 in Markham, open 24 hours a day, every day of the year. Admission of $75.95 for adults covers seven themed sauna rooms - salt, volcanic rock, ice, jade, agate, amethyst and a far infrared area - plus a steam room, jacuzzi baths, gym, computer room and lounge. Jacuzzi baths are separated by gender, with three for women and two for men, each with its own steam room.
South-Western Bathhouse
The South-Western Bathhouse, known to Torontonians simply as the banya, is a family-run Eastern European bathhouse behind a Mississauga plaza. It has a cedar Parilka with four levels of heat over a wood-fired brick stove, a dry Finnish sauna, a Turkish hammam tiled with artifacts from Istanbul, a cold plunge and a tea room serving Eastern European food. Admission is $65 and days alternate between ladies only, men only and co-ed. It closes for the season and reopens on 19 September.
Vladimirskie Bani
Vladimirskie Bani, mapped in OpenStreetMap under its Russian name Владимирские Бани, is a public sauna club on Dufferin Street in Vaughan. It combines a traditional Russian banya heated by a wood-burning furnace with a steam sauna, a low-temperature infrared cabin and a cold tub, plus a rest area with complimentary tea. Entry is $45 for a four-hour visit. Days are split: Monday is women's day, Tuesday to Friday men's, and weekends are family days.
Body Blitz Spa
Body Blitz Spa is a women-only therapeutic waters spa on King Street East, built around the European tradition of taking the waters. Its circuit runs a Dead Sea salt pool, an Epsom salt pool, a cold plunge pool, a eucalyptus steam room and an infrared sauna. All guests must wear a bathing suit bottom in the pool area, though a top is optional. The circuit is walk-in only, with no reservations taken, and the spa is closed on Mondays.
Miraj Hammam Spa by Caudalie Paris
Miraj Hammam Spa sits on the fifth floor of the Shangri-La Hotel on University Avenue. Its modern hammam is booked privately and exclusively for each guest, so the ritual of purification happens in solitude rather than on a communal floor. Sixty minutes of treatment time also opens the hotel health club's steam room, sauna, jacuzzi and lap pool. Guests are advised to arrive an hour early to make the most of the pool and health club amenities.
AIRE Ancient Baths Toronto
AIRE Ancient Baths occupies a 1912 Edwardian Classicism building on Front Street West, once the Copp Clark publishing warehouse, now 23,000 square feet of candlelit bathing. The thermal circuit moves guests through eight baths at different temperatures, alongside a dry sauna and a steam room, in the Roman, Greek and Ottoman bathing tradition. Massages and rituals include the thermal bath tour. It opens daily from 10am to 10pm, with the last session two hours before closing.
Elmwood Spa
Elmwood Spa has occupied a historic building on Elm Street, just off Yonge, for more than forty years and spreads treatment rooms over four floors. Its Water Therapies circuit combines a swimming pool, a whirlpool, steam rooms and a poolside lounge, and is scheduled before treatments wherever possible. Guests can also take lunch in a robe at the spa's own dining room. The spa opens at 9am Monday to Thursday and 10am on Sundays.
Go Place
Go Place is a 68,000 square foot Korean-style leisure club and spa on Highway 7 in Markham, open 24 hours a day, every day of the year. Admission of $75.95 for adults covers seven themed sauna rooms - salt, volcanic rock, ice, jade, agate, amethyst and a far infrared area - plus a steam room, jacuzzi baths, gym, computer room and lounge. Jacuzzi baths are separated by gender, with three for women and two for men, each with its own steam room.
South-Western Bathhouse
The South-Western Bathhouse, known to Torontonians simply as the banya, is a family-run Eastern European bathhouse behind a Mississauga plaza. It has a cedar Parilka with four levels of heat over a wood-fired brick stove, a dry Finnish sauna, a Turkish hammam tiled with artifacts from Istanbul, a cold plunge and a tea room serving Eastern European food. Admission is $65 and days alternate between ladies only, men only and co-ed. It closes for the season and reopens on 19 September.
Vladimirskie Bani
Vladimirskie Bani, mapped in OpenStreetMap under its Russian name Владимирские Бани, is a public sauna club on Dufferin Street in Vaughan. It combines a traditional Russian banya heated by a wood-burning furnace with a steam sauna, a low-temperature infrared cabin and a cold tub, plus a rest area with complimentary tea. Entry is $45 for a four-hour visit. Days are split: Monday is women's day, Tuesday to Friday men's, and weekends are family days.
Body Blitz Spa
Body Blitz Spa is a women-only therapeutic waters spa on King Street East, built around the European tradition of taking the waters. Its circuit runs a Dead Sea salt pool, an Epsom salt pool, a cold plunge pool, a eucalyptus steam room and an infrared sauna. All guests must wear a bathing suit bottom in the pool area, though a top is optional. The circuit is walk-in only, with no reservations taken, and the spa is closed on Mondays.
Miraj Hammam Spa by Caudalie Paris
Miraj Hammam Spa sits on the fifth floor of the Shangri-La Hotel on University Avenue. Its modern hammam is booked privately and exclusively for each guest, so the ritual of purification happens in solitude rather than on a communal floor. Sixty minutes of treatment time also opens the hotel health club's steam room, sauna, jacuzzi and lap pool. Guests are advised to arrive an hour early to make the most of the pool and health club amenities.