South, Sydney

XtraClubs Green Square on Zetland Avenue in Zetland, open 6am to 11pm every day, with a 90°C Finnish sauna, 70°C infrared saunas, a 45°C steam room and ice baths from 3 to 14°C. A single session is 90 minutes. Memberships on a 28-day rolling term cover unlimited off-peak visits, and packs work at any XtraClubs.

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.

Body WRL is a recovery studio in The Cannery on Morley Avenue, Rosebery. It has private infrared sauna suites for two or four people (the larger suite has its own shower), a DreamPod float tank, a whole-body cryotherapy chamber, a NovoTHOR red light pod, a hyperbaric oxygen chamber and Normatec compression. Sessions are booked by time slot, mostly 30 to 90 minutes. Weekly sauna and combined memberships run with a four week minimum.

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.

Private sauna suites on Cronulla Street in Cronulla. Each suite has a traditional or infrared sauna and its own rainwater shower, and contrast rooms add an ice bath. Sessions run 50 minutes for one or two people. Weekly memberships cover infrared or contrast sessions, and monthly resident passes are offered to a limited number of locals.