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.
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.
Contrast Therapy (Combined Ice Bath & Sauna Session), sale price
Checked Oct 2026
Longevity studio on High Street with dry and wet zones. The contrast session pairs a hot sauna with a controlled cold plunge offering four plunge temperatures. Other bookable services include a cryotherapy chamber, red light bed, hyperbaric chamber, compression lymphatic sessions and PEMF, plus nurse-led consults. Open seven days, with early Thursday starts from 6:30am.
Float studio on Level 2 of the Warringah Mall Medical Centre building on Cross Street, Brookvale. Each private float room has its own shower, and floats run 60 minutes. A three-float intro pack suits first-timers, and larger packs of three to twenty floats last a year and can be shared with family and friends.
Float centre on Riley Street in Darlinghurst with private float rooms, each with its own shower, and up to four pods bookable at once. Floats run 60 minutes. First-timers get a three-float intro pack, and larger packs of three to twenty floats last a year and can be shared with family and friends.
Tiered natural hot springs on Ewamian Country in the Gulf Savannah, owned and run by the Ewamian people. Visitors join a 90-minute guided Hot Springs Discovery Tour of the spring terraces, finishing with a soak in a bathing pool. Tours usually leave reception at 8am, 10am, 2pm and 4pm daily during the operating season, with camping on site.
Tally Floatation Therapy in Yarraville has three private float suites with pods holding more than 500kg of Epsom salt, a shared infrared sauna for up to three guests, and compression boots in the relaxation lounge. Floats run 60 or 90 minutes and sauna 45 or 90 minutes, followed by herbal tea. Entry is via Hall Street.
Day spa on Unley Road with far infrared saunas that can be booked on their own for 30 minutes, solo or as a couple, alongside a couples suite, a private lounge, massage and facials. The Unley site focuses on date nights and group bookings, with client parking behind the spa off Young Street. Open until 9pm Monday to Thursday.
TH7 Cleveland is a recovery clinic built around guided protocols. The signature Nordic runs 60 minutes: traditional sauna, hot and cold contrast pools, steam and a short cold plunge. Compression boots, red light and ice baths also feature. The Cleveland clinic on Doig Street serves the Redlands, opening at 8am on weekdays and 7am on weekends, and also lists infrared saunas.
TH7 Mt Gravatt is a recovery clinic built around guided protocols. The signature Nordic runs 60 minutes: traditional sauna, hot and cold contrast pools, steam and a short cold plunge. Compression boots, red light and ice baths also feature. The Mount Gravatt clinic is on Logan Road, a short walk from the City Cave site at 1480 Logan Road, and also lists infrared saunas.
TH7 Newstead is a recovery clinic built around guided protocols. The signature Nordic runs 60 minutes: traditional sauna, hot and cold contrast pools, steam and a short cold plunge. Compression boots, red light and ice baths also feature. The Newstead clinic is on Longland Street, open from 7am every day, and is one of six Brisbane TH7 sites.
TH7 West End is a recovery clinic built around guided protocols. The signature Nordic runs 60 minutes: traditional sauna, hot and cold contrast pools, steam and a short cold plunge. Compression boots, red light and ice baths also feature. The West End clinic is on Montague Road near the river, open from 7am daily, and also lists infrared saunas.
TH7 Yeerongpilly is a recovery clinic built around guided protocols. The signature Nordic runs 60 minutes: traditional sauna, hot and cold contrast pools, steam and a short cold plunge. Compression boots, red light and ice baths also feature. The Yeerongpilly clinic on Queens Way opens at 9am on weekdays and 7am on weekends, and also lists infrared saunas.
The Bathhouse Albion is a European-style bathhouse in the Albion Fine Trades precinct, designed by Hogg & Lamb in travertine. Ten spaces include two 38° heated pools, a 12° cold plunge, a scented steam room, two infrared saunas, a Finnish sauna with fireplace and a traditional sauna. Sessions run 60 or 90 minutes, phones are not allowed and guests must be 18 or over.
The Bathhouse at Ground Currumbin sits under a fig tree in front of a restored 100-year-old Queenslander in Currumbin Valley. One-hour sessions include mineral hydrotherapy spas and a cedar hot tub, two plunge pools (one around 10 degrees), a wood-fired hot stone sauna and an outdoor infrared sauna. Guests must be 18 or over, and reception is inside the Ground Grocer.
Palm Springs-styled outdoor bathhouse on the Macarthur fringe, about seventy minutes from the CBD. Soak sessions run two hours, three hours or all day and cover the sauna, steam room, hydrotherapy spas, magnesium plunge pool, robe, slippers and towels. Float rooms, facials, massage, yoga and breathwork classes on the same site. Licensed, with food. Closed Monday and Tuesday.
Chlorine-free contrast bathhouse on Bangalow Road in Byron Bay. A 90-minute session includes herbal tea, a pre-bathing body scrub, guidance on a bathing protocol, a warm pool, three infrared saunas set at 50, 60 and 70°C, a cold plunge pool and red light panels. Locals packs and a weekly membership are offered for Northern Rivers residents. Street parking only.
magnesium pool 39 degrees Celsius, checked 2026-10-18
cold plunge 5 to 8 degrees Celsius, checked 2026-10-18
traditional sauna 80 degrees Celsius, checked 2026-10-18
steam room 46 degrees Celsius, checked 2026-10-18
5-8°cold plunge
39-46°magnesium pool / steam room
80°traditional sauna
5-8°cold plunge
39°magnesium pool
46°steam room
80°traditional sauna
Membership access required
Members club near Swan Street and Richmond Station with a bathhouse of 39°C magnesium pools, cold plunge pools at 5 to 8°C, an 80°C traditional sauna, a 46°C steam room and heated stone benches. Guided sauna and ice bath sessions pair a 20 minute sauna with a group plunge. Bathhouse entry comes with the Fitness plus Bathhouse membership. Members 18+.
Small group training gym on Sunbeam Road in Payneham with a recovery area offering a sauna and compression boots. Recovery is sold separately from class memberships as single sessions, a ten-session pack or a two-session trial.
The Lifespring on Market Street in Rockingham is a float centre with private float cabins, taking bookings from the first float at 8am to the last at 8pm. Doors are not always open for walk-ins, so sessions are booked online or by phone ahead of time. Gift cards are sold through the centre's online booking store.