In this post we focus on the saunas in Manchester’s city centre hotels.

Hotels with Pool and Sauna:

Castlefield Hotel

Hotel chain: Independent
Official hotel website
Leisure club name: Y Club
Leisure club website
Available to: Hotel guests (free), leisure club members, day-pass visitors, spa package customers.
Information based on: Visit, web research.
Sauna: Mixed-gender use.
Also available: pool, steam, gym, race tracks, spa treatments.
Towels are not provided.

Sachas Hotel

Hotel chain: Britannia Hotels
Official Hotel website
Leisure club name: Spindles Health and Leisure Club
Leisure club webpage
Available to: Hotel guests (at additional cost £2.50 per day or £5 per week), leisure club members.
Information based on: Visit, web research.
Sauna: Mixed-gender use.
Also available: pool, steam, gym.
Sauna interior is pictured on website in slideshow, empty.
Venue offers spa treatments (eg full body massage, £30).
Towels are not provided.
Hours: Mon-Fri 7:30am-10pm. Sat 9am-8pm. Sun 10am-5pm.
Children (2-16 years) restricted to 10am – 5pm.

Thistle Manchester

Official hotel website
Hotel Chain: Thistle
Leisure club name: Otium Health & Leisure Club
Leisure club webpage
Available to: Hotel guests, leisure club members, day visitors
Information based on: Visit, web research.
This has a sauna in the male changing room, and presumably a sauna in the female changing room.
Also available: Steam room (which I don’t recall using), hot tub, tiny swimming pool (described as a “plunge pool”).
Hours: Mon-Fri 7am-12noon; 3pm–8pm. Sat 7am–9pm. Sun 8am-12noon.

The Midland

Peter Street, Manchester M60 2DS
Official hotel website
Chain: QHotels
Leisure club name: Leisure & Spa at The Midland
Leisure club webpage
Available to: Hotel guests, leisure club members.
Information based on: Visits, web research.
Sauna 1: Male-only sauna in male changing room, open rocks.
Sauna 2: Female-only sauna in female changing room, open coals.
Also available: Pool, hot tub, decent gym.
Towels are provided.
Open: Mon-Fri 6am-10pm, Sat-Sun 7am-8pm.

Radisson Edwardian

Chain: Radisson Edwardian
Official hotel website
Leisure club name: Sienna
Official club website
Available to: Hotel guests, leisure club members, spa customers, day-pass visitors (£12).
Information based on: Visits, web research.
Sauna: Mixed-gender sauna in area near pool, automatic.
Also available: swimming pool, hot tub, steam room, gym, spa treatments.
Towels are provided.
There is a cold water fountain.

Park Inn Manchester Victoria

Chain: Park Inn
Official hotel website
Leisure club name: Pace Health Club & Nu Spa
Leisure club website
Available to: Hotel guests, leisure club members, spa customers, day-pass visitors (£15).
Information based on: Visit, web research.
Sauna: Mixed-gender sauna overlooking pool, open rocks.
Also available: swimming pool, steam room, gym.
Towels are not normally provided.
There is no water fountain.

Hilton Manchester Deansgate

Chain: Hilton
Leisure club chain: LivingWell.
Available to: Hotel guests, leisure club members, spa customers, day-pass visitors (£10).
Information based on: Visits, web research.
Sauna: Mixed-gender sauna near pool (by entrance to ladies’ changing), open rocks.
Also available: swimming pool, hot tub, steam room, gym.
Towels are provided.
Gym reception sells water bottles, but there is a water fountain by the entrance to the ladies’ changing.

Hotels with sauna but no pool:

Novotel Manchester

Chain: Novotel (Accor)
Official hotel website
Available to: Hotel guests.
Information based on: Visit, web research.
Also available: “hamman” (steam), gym.
Towels are provided.
There is only one changing room (which does have a cubicle).

Manchester Macdonald

Official Hotel website
Sauna exterior is pictured on website in slideshow and gallery.
Available to: Hotel guests, spa treatment customers.
Information based on: Visit, web research.
Heat suite contains multiple varieties of sauna, all for mixed-gender use.
Towels are provided.
There is a water fountain, which was annoyingly warm when we visited.

Malmaison Manchester

Official Hotel website
Hotel Chain: Malmaison
Sauna available to: Hotel guests, spa treatment customers.
Information based on: Web research.
This hotel has a gym and a spa. Their own site doesn’t list a sauna, but many third party sites do. It’s unclear whether the sauna is attached to the gym room or the spa. One of the few mentions that we’ve seen in a review said that it wasn’t working when they visited (in 2006).

The Lowry Hotel

Official Hotel website
Chain: Rocco Forte
Available to: Hotel guests, spa customers
Information based on: Web research.
Sauna 1: Male-only sauna in male changing room.
Sauna 2: Female-only sauna in female changing room.
Website notes that it is usual to go naked in these saunas.
Also available: gym, spa treatments.

Hotels that don’t have a sauna:

There are many hotels that lack a sauna. We list here only ones where there may be confusion.

Ramada Manchester Piccadilly

Chain: Ramada Jarvis
Official hotel website
No sauna presently!
This had a Sebastian Coe health club in the basement, however following refurbishment this facility is no longer officially listed – but some sites may still have old information.

Crowne Plaza Manchester City Centre

Chain: Crowne Plaza
This new hotel does not have a sauna. The Crowne Plaza Manchester Airport does, and the Midland Hotel (listed above) was a Crowne Plaza for a period – so confusion may arise.

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If you have any more information, please do share it with us in the comments. Or if there’s something you’d like to know, ask away! We’re also very keen to know what sort of format people like for this information. Remember, we intend to list every publicly-accessible sauna in the UK. Ultimately we’ll have everything in a searchable database, but this post lists our first 9 saunas. There are many more to go!