Sleep & recovery in East Perth

Merse Wellness Osborne Park is a bathhouse on Scarborough Beach Road with hot magnesium spas, cold plunge pools, hot rock and infrared saunas, a steam room and monsoon showers. Bathhouse sessions usually run 60 to 90 minutes. The steam room is open to members and casual visitors, with bookings through the Merse app. A Rejuvenate Lounge offers compression, LED light and sound sessions. Open weekdays 5.30am to 9pm, weekends 7am to 7pm.

Recwell is a contrast therapy and recovery centre in Wangara with hot and cold pools, a steam room, a campfire sauna, a compression boot lounge and Reformer Pilates. Contrast sessions run 60 minutes and include the pools, sauna and steam room, booked as casual sessions, packs or week-to-week memberships from $49 a week for two sessions. Remedial massage and physiotherapy run on site through outside providers. Open weekdays 5.30am to 8pm and weekends 7am to 4pm.

Twelve venues across Perth, most of them within sight of water — Scarborough Beach, City Beach, Cottesloe, Port Beach and Point Walter among them, alongside indoor rooms in West Leederville, East Perth, Burswood, Nedlands and Karrinyup shopping centre. Sessions run a flat sixty minutes on the hour and are communal rather than private, with venue capacities between seven and twenty. Cold water varies by site: ice pools, ice baths, ice showers, a magnesium pool, and at the beach venues the ocean itself. Booking is through the studio's own app.

A Forrest Street room in Subiaco running sauna and cold plunge in thirty or sixty minute blocks, with availability deliberately capped so the space stays quiet rather than filled. A thirty-minute session is $25 and an hour is $35, with early sessions at 5am, 6am and 7am for $7, $14 and $21. The timetable also carries yoga classes, and drinks afterwards are complimentary. Showers and change rooms are on site.

Four sites between the South Terrace studio and the beaches at South Beach, Leighton and Hillarys Boat Harbour, and the format changes with the location. The studio runs private infrared rooms at thirty minutes and a private magnesium bath and sauna at sixty; the beachside rooms are communal, including a silent session where nobody talks. A bath house experience and massage run alongside. Booking is online.

A Matlock Street studio with an unusually wide timetable for a Pilates address — reformer classes and studio sessions share the building with an infrared sauna, an Inside Flow yoga class, kinesiology and a mobility and balance class. A second location runs on Angelo Street in South Perth. Useful if you would rather book one place for several different things.

An Innaloo practice on Ellen Stirling Boulevard running reformer classes and a gym floor alongside the physiotherapy rooms, with an infrared sauna on site. A standing over-fifties strength class runs under its own name rather than being folded into the general timetable. HICAPS is on site, so health fund claims are processed at the desk.

A recovery lounge on Albany Highway with an unusually long equipment list — infrared sauna, whole-body cryotherapy, red light, PEMF, compression boots and lymphatic drainage, hydrogen inhalation and exercise-with-oxygen, plus EMS training. Sessions are sold singly or in credit packs, and the pack rate brings the per-session cost down to about $33. Worth deciding what you actually want before booking; the menu is long enough to be confusing.

A West Leederville training and recovery room where the cold plunge and infrared sauna sit alongside the gym floor rather than in a separate wellness space. Compression boots, red light and shock wave therapy are on the same menu as pilates and yoga classes, which makes it more of an athlete's setup than a spa. Open from 6.30am on weekdays and Saturday mornings, closed Sundays.

The Broadway room of a two-site wellness studio, built around equipment rather than treatment beds: an infrared sauna, a Cocoon infrared pod, a salt cabin for halotherapy, LED facial light, oxygen and hydrogen therapy, and lymphatic roller massage. There is also a heated RedFit sauna studio running yoga, pilates, cycle and weights classes in the warm. Sister site in Rockingham; each books on its own number.