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Riverside Nordic sauna on the grounds of Oscars on the Yarra guesthouse in Warburton, run by the Soul Sauna group. Shared sessions last 90 minutes for up to six people with a sauna host, river dips between rounds and a campfire to warm up. The whole sauna can be booked privately for a group. Twelve-hour cancellation policy applies.

Queanbeyan East strength gym with a bookable two-person recovery zone fitted with a Clearlight infrared sauna, a Primal Ice cold plunge and Verve compression boots. Bookings can be for one person or shared with a friend. The gym runs early morning and evening sessions on weekdays and a short Saturday morning window, and is closed Sundays.

Members-only wellness club from the GURNER Group across six floors on Walker Street, the group's first Sydney club. Application-based membership with a cap per club, no day passes and no guest rates. Bathhouse, saunas and cold facilities sit alongside gym, dining and social spaces. Bondi and Mosman clubs announced to follow.

Floats run 45, 60 or 90 minutes and sauna sessions 45 minutes, for one or two people.

Saltt is a small appointment-only wellness studio on Kortum Drive in Burleigh Heads. Its private infrared sauna room is booked by the session, and a friend can join for a small extra charge per additional person. Staff walk first-timers through how to use the sauna. The studio opens Tuesday to Sunday by appointment only and also sells gift cards.

Saltuary is a studio on Great North Road in Five Dock with two private float rooms, each with its own shower and change area, full spectrum infrared saunas and a salt room. Infrared sessions run 40 minutes and salt sessions 45 minutes, while a float appointment takes about 75 minutes including showering. Massage and facials are also offered. Single sessions, packs and weekly or fortnightly memberships are available.

“including a traditional Finnish sauna, a filtered, temperature-controlled UV-filtered cold plunge, a spacious shower” : Sauna Amalfi

Floating timber-lined sauna moored at Melbourne City Marina in Victoria Harbour, opened in 2025. The electric sauna holds around 80°C, with two onboard plunge tubs at 10°C and 14°C, a cold freshwater shower and harbour views. Sessions last 60 minutes, shared bookings take up to four guests and private hire up to five. Swimwear required, no swimming off the boat.

Infrared sessions run 45 minutes.

Pop-up wood-fired Nordic sauna in a leafy urban yard in Northcote. Standard sessions are quiet, closed-door and run three 10-minute sauna rounds with breaks for a cool plunge or shower. Guided Saunagus sessions add Danish-style towel fanning, essential oils and music. Regular events include queer nights, gender-diverse sessions and themed evenings.

Communal bathhouse and day spa in the Hobart CBD, with a 28°C magnesium pool, 38°C spas, a 44°C steam room and an 80°C sauna. Casual visitors can drop in without a booking and stay as long as they like, with a locker provided and towels for hire. Monthly pool and spa passes are sold, and the bathhouse area reopened in June 2026.

“Join us for a 90 minute Finnish sauna and contrast therapy session with ice bath at our Redfern studio.” : Scout Studios Redfern

Day spa on the ground floor of 97 Currie Street in the CBD offering infrared sessions in a Cocoon Wellness Pod, a lie-down infrared capsule with a gemstone-lined interior and built-in back and leg massage. Sessions run 30 or 40 minutes, with an upgraded package adding a robe, herbal tea and time in the Gathering Room. Massage and facials can follow.

Communal bathhouse in a converted double-storey brick warehouse on Easey Street. Sessions run two hours and include a 38 to 40°C magnesium mineral pool, Finnish sauna, cold plunge and a steamy hammam with an optional self-led scrub station. All genders welcome with bathers on, the space is phone-free, and mornings from 6:30am to midday are no-talking times.

Sydney outpost of the Melbourne bathhouse, in a two-level former warehouse on South Dowling Street, with what the venue describes as the largest sauna in the Southern Hemisphere. Opening in October 2026, with bookings already open. Sessions are two hours, six days a week, with off-peak and peak prices and robe and towel hire. Closed Mondays.

Soak's original Sydney bathhouse in the Bourke and Bowden precinct, a short walk from Green Square station. Mineral pools, cold plunge, cedar sauna, steam room and infrared saunas in a seven-hundred square metre warehouse conversion, with a massage menu and a twenty-minute LED facial and meditation add-on. Same session menu and pricing as Bondi Junction.

Seven-hundred square metre indoor bathhouse inside the Verdical building on Ebley Street, opened December 2025. Two travertine mineral pools at 34°C and 38°C, cold plunges and drench buckets at 12.5°C, dry cedar sauna, steam rooms and infrared saunas, with massage rooms attached. Open to midnight Friday to Sunday. Two hours free parking on site.

Billed as the Gold Coast's original bathhouse, Soak Mermaid Beach is an open-air venue near Pacific Fair and the G:link. Standard 90-minute sessions cover travertine magnesium mineral pools, 38 degree hot spas, a 12.5 degree cold plunge, a dry cedar sauna and an aromatic steam room. A 60-minute early session runs 6:30am to 9:30am, plus a private infrared sauna for two.

Mineral pools, hot spas, cold plunge pools, cedar sauna and steam room at 186 Clarendon Street, South Melbourne.

A 700-square-metre indoor bathhouse near Chapel Street and South Yarra Station, opened in 2025. Two travertine mineral pools sit at 34°C and 38°C, alongside magnesium hot spas, 12.5°C cold plunges and drench buckets, a dry cedar sauna and steam room. Standard sessions are 90 minutes, with 60-minute morning sessions from 6:30am and a private infrared sauna for two.

Soak Bathhouse West End is a rooftop bathhouse above West Village on Boundary Street. Five open-air magnesium hot spas sit at 38°C beside a 34°C mineral pool and a 12.5°C cold plunge, with a dry cedar sauna, essential oil steam room and private infrared saunas. Standard sessions run 90 minutes, with 60-minute morning sessions from 6:30am to 9:30am.

“A 24/7 luxury fitness and recovery space in Sydney’s CBD designed for those who want more out of their training.” : SOHO

SOL Elements sits at Tamborine Mountain Glades in the Gold Coast hinterland, opened in 2025 and set over Lotus Lake. The 90-minute communal bathhouse includes thermal mineral pools, cold plunges, a cedar stone sauna, botanical steam room, an Earth Lab for DIY scrubs, a Himalayan salt room and a fire pit sunk below the lake. Float caves and private suites are also offered.

Social sauna and cold plunge club just off Chapel Street in Prahran. Two traditional saunas are kept between 75°C and 85°C, alongside five individual stainless steel cold plunge tubs at 7 to 10°C, a rest area and five private change rooms. Sessions run 60 minutes, guests must be 18 or over, and you bring your own towel, bathers and water bottle.

Boutique bathhouse opposite Essendon train station built around a sauna, plunge and soak circuit. The communal area has a four-person infrared sauna at about 60°C, two cold plunges and a magnesium hot spa, capped at eight people. Two private rooms each add a two-person infrared sauna, cold plunge and shower. Zen Zone quiet sessions run on Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday.

SOMA is a members-only gym and wellness club in Aurora Place on Phillip Street in the Sydney CBD. Its Recovery Centre has a traditional Finnish sauna, infrared saunas and a magnesium cold plunge pool, which members use without booking. Memberships also cover the gym floor, group classes including reformer Pilates, towel service and toiletries. Recovery Centre drop-ins for non-members are offered case by case outside peak hours.

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.

Spa by JW is the day spa inside the JW Marriott Gold Coast Resort on Ferny Avenue. Beyond massage and facial services, non-guests can buy a Rest and Recovery pass or membership giving access to a traditional sauna, steam shower and relaxation lounge. A one-off Discovery Visit, weekly and monthly memberships are sold, arranged by phoning the spa directly.

“Our infrared sauna sessions are 30 minutes long” : Sports Recovery Centres Australia

A private day spa set in rainforest on Long Road, Tamborine Mountain, hired by the room rather than shared with strangers. Each booking includes a steam room, infrared sauna, mineral pool and waterfall shower, plus a fireside lounge and private garden. Daytime room hire runs 90 minutes to three hours between 9am and 5pm, with evening sessions and massage packages.