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38° The Bathhouse, Bondi Beach
A domed magnesium pool held at 38 degrees, ice baths, infrared suites and a mirrored ceiling that reads like the ocean at sunset. Sculptural, social and a little hypnotic.
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Aalto Community, Goodwood
A no-membership Finnish sauna and ice bath studio on King William Road, surrounded by roughly 150 plants and built on the idea of accessibility.
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Alchemy Saunas, East Fremantle
A heritage pub turned Roman-inspired bathhouse. Alchemy Saunas fills the 120-year-old Royal George on Duke Street with a 50,000 litre ice pool, hot magnesium pool, three saunas and a steam room across two storeys.
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Capybara Bathing, Surry Hills
The most beautiful of Sydney's new bathhouses. Capybara turns a 1939 Surry Hills warehouse into a terracotta-tiled ritual of magnesium heat, cedar sauna and cold plunge.
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CHANGE Wellness, North Adelaide
A 36 degree magnesium pool, twin ice baths and a trio of heat on O'Connell Street. Sixty minutes, no set order, recovery staged like theatre.
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Cloud 9 Sauna, MacMasters Beach
Two garden saunas on the Scenic Road at MacMasters Beach. One infrared, one Finnish. No spa lobby. No upsell. Just heat, garden and quiet.
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Comma, Cremorne
A six-person bathhouse in Cremorne designed by architect Eloise Fotheringham. Sauna, soak, sweat in Scandinavian order, with custom Ross Gardam lighting and monastic restraint.
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else BATHHOUSE, South Melbourne
A five-million-dollar restoration of an 1880s Emerald Hill building, stacking mineral pools, cold plunges and saunas beneath two open-air rooftop pools. Victorian bones, Nordic ritual.
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Floating Sauna Lake Derby, Derby
Two floating sheds on a former tin mine, lined in burnt larch and shortlisted at the national architecture awards. Architecture you can sweat in.
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MEND, Margaret River
Contrast bathing stripped to its essentials. MEND in Margaret River pairs a Finnish sauna and infrared sauna with hot plunge and ice bath, all in cedar and neutral tones.
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Merse Wellness, Osborne Park
Perth's largest magnesium pool, cold plunge pools, two saunas and a full recovery lounge with compression boots, LED therapy and sound healing on Scarborough Beach Road.
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Nova Holistic Spa, Hobart
Hobart's only boutique all-weather outdoor contrast experience. Infrared sauna, magnesium spa and ice bath cycled under open Tasmanian sky.