Bayside, Melbourne

P3 Recovery Bayside in Mentone has ice bath and contrast pools in 60 minute wet sessions, full spectrum infrared sauna rooms, a traditional dry sauna, a compression lounge and a hyperbaric chamber, with a red light bed listed as coming soon. Group Fire and Ice sessions are run here. Weekly memberships have no lock-in. Opens 6am weekdays.

Finnish-style community sauna by the bay in Mordialloc, with a large window looking over the water and cold sea dips between rounds. Shared sauna rituals run 90 minutes, with guided Saunagus sessions using fanning, music and aroma, and women-only Wednesday sessions. Tea is provided, sessions are alcohol-free and open to all genders and ages, and private hire takes up to six guests.

Rest House Float Centre on South Road, Hampton East, offers float tanks for one or two hour sessions, a 45 minute infrared sauna that takes a friend, Normatec compression for legs, hips or arms, and massage. Package deals combine float, sauna and massage, and a low-cost shareable membership gives access to member rates. Closed Tuesdays.

Cryo SubZero is a first floor recovery studio on Bay Road, Cheltenham, built around a whole body cryotherapy chamber. It also offers infrared sauna, red light, salt therapy, lymphatic compression, local cryotherapy, a hyperbaric chamber, IV infusions and a 3D body scan. Bundles pair cryotherapy with sauna or red light in 35 to 80 minute visits.

Life Hub Bayside on Nepean Highway in Bentleigh is a training club with a bathhouse and recovery area alongside performance and studio classes. A public 10 day all access pass covers classes, bathhouse sessions and recovery facilities, booked through the Life Hub app. The club has traded in Bayside since 2014 and also runs a Geelong site.

Primal Recovery Centre is a sports recovery floor in a Moorabbin factory unit. One entry covers ice baths held at 6 degrees, infrared and steam saunas, a heated magnesium spa, red light, compression boots, a vibration platform and a massage recliner, with a cryotherapy pod and inversion table listed. Plan one to two hours, there is no session timer.

Rare Breed is a boxing, strength and recovery gym in Mordialloc that sells recovery access to non-members. The recovery area has a hot stone sauna reaching 110 degrees, twin magnesium spas set at 38 degrees and 9 degrees, Normatec compression and a lounge with screens. A recovery-only weekly membership and single passes are available, with no lock-in.