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Hi.

We have plans. Ambitious plans.

We aim to list every publicly accessible sauna in the UK, along with the information you’d like to know. The rotas, the dress codes, the other facilities. Little things you’d like to know before you go, like is there a water fountain? And on various levels, is it a real sauna?

To clarify early on, we’re not about pick-up-joints or brothels. We’re all about the sweating. Whether it’s a council leisure centre, a fancy hotel or a backstreet gym – if it’s a sauna the general public have access to, we’re on it.

We’ll be wanting you – the general public – to contribute to the data when the database goes live in 2010. Right now, we’re still after your input in the form of feedback on this blog.

So our first question is – what, to you, is a “real sauna”?

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Marc says:
30 October 2009 at 7:07pm

To me a real sauna is a sauna in which one can relax in without any clothing. Wearing nothing in a sauna is by far the most beneficial, healthy, and invigorating way to take a sauna. Wearing sticky swimwear is not in a sauna is not atall healthy. So I do not like sauna where the rules are “please wear swimwear at all times”. Additionally the sauna should also be mixed, and none of this sex segregated business.

Finally a real sauna should have adjacent cold shower/s and drinking water facilities. As some of us like to enjoy a sauna for a good half hour or so at least, not just a quick 5 minute round!

So in summary then, for me a real sauna is a) nude use permitted(by far the best way to enjoy a sauna), b) unisex sessions, and c) good cold showers and drinking water facilities.

Editor says:
25 November 2009 at 11:00pm

Good points.

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