Saunas in Perth

An automated wellness studio open around the clock, where sessions are booked and accessed through an app rather than a front desk.

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 long-running float space in Willetton that has grown into a compact recovery studio: float tanks for full sensory rest, plus sauna, cold plunge and red light therapy. One of the few float options south-east of the river.

The spa at Crown Towers, Burswood, with an Aqua Retreat of vitality pool, sauna, steam room and rainforest shower in separate men's and women's areas. Subtle Energies body treatments and massage, skin facials and La Prairie treatments, packages and Crown gift cards. Sixteen and over; treatments of an hour or more include four hours of valet parking. Sunday to Thursday 9am to 5pm, Friday and Saturday to 6pm.

Whole-body and spot cryotherapy, hyperbaric oxygen, red light therapy, infrared sauna and a Theta Chamber across centres in Claremont and Duncraig. Cryotherapy sessions run up to three minutes at $50, and six-week structured protocols are offered for recovery and longevity programs. Open Monday to Saturday.

A communal bathhouse on Donovan Street, Osborne Park: a Finnish sauna, steam room, hot mineral bath and ice bath taken as a circuit on a day pass, with a treatment menu of massage, facials, body treatments and pregnancy massage alongside. All-gender and 18-plus, swimwear required; open seven days, from 6am on Thursdays and Fridays and until 8pm most nights. Packages, memberships and gift cards are sold on the site.

Kelmscott's float rooms sit inside a broader day-spa menu: floatation therapy alongside massage, infrared sauna and beauty treatments, making it easy to stack a float with table work in one visit. One of the only float options in the south-eastern corridor.

Float tanks on Cambridge Street, paired with infrared sauna and relaxation, remedial and pregnancy massage — with a sister site in Currambine for the northern corridor. Floating is the practice here rather than a bolt-on, and the booking system makes a first session painless.

Saunas, ice baths and adjacent recovery modalities in a West Leederville studio — a smaller, quieter alternative to the big-box recovery centres, in the same growing Leederville wellness pocket as Vitality House.

A day spa on Gilbertson Road in Kardinya with a long treatment list and its prices published in full. Aromatherapy massage runs 50 or 80 minutes, with couples rooms at both lengths, alongside Swedish, deep tissue, hot stone and Indian head massage, lymphatic drainage, facials and an infrared sauna. Open six days, from 9am on weekdays and 8.30am on Saturdays.

Ice baths, traditional and infrared saunas and contrast sessions in private one-hour bookings for singles or pairs. Prices are stated plainly: $45 a session, $80 for two, a five-pack at $200, or a $50 weekly membership covering up to three visits. Group sessions run too.

A Finnish sauna house on Erindale Road, grown out of a mobile sauna that spent a couple of years touring Perth before settling into a permanent room. Sessions are built around aufguss — a facilitator working steam and scent through the sauna in rounds — with hot and cold magnesium plunge pools alongside, and a separate private room for anyone who would rather do sauna and ice bath alone. Physiotherapy and massage are booked from the same room, and the lounge runs group classes and events.

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.

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.

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 Harrisdale recovery room with ice baths, a traditional sauna, compression boots, red light and massage guns, plus body composition scanning for anyone tracking the numbers. Stretching classes run alongside.

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.

Breathwork and recovery studios on Beaufort Street (with a second room in Booragoon), running group breathwork, sound healing, yin, yoga nidra and slow flow alongside sauna and ice-bath contrast work. The $79 two-week unlimited intro is one of the better ways in the city to find out which of those actually suits you.

A yoga studio on Stirling Highway, Nedlands, with a wellness spa attached. The spa menu runs signature and pregnancy massage from $145 for the hour, an iKOU facial at $160, iKOU body scrubs and rituals from $140, a 45-minute infrared sauna at $50, and wellness consultations; upstairs the studio teaches vinyasa, yin, prenatal and foundation classes, with private sessions, corporate programs, workshops and retreats. Open seven days around class and appointment times.

The spa inside COMO The Treasury on Cathedral Avenue, open to day visitors as well as hotel guests: four treatment rooms (one a double), a 20-metre heated indoor pool, sauna and a wellness lounge, and a rooftop fitness centre. Massage and holistic treatments with COMO Shambhala's own products, private yoga and pilates, and wellness packages. Open 10am to 6pm every day; bookings through the spa's online portal.

One of the larger wellness centres north-east of the city, serving Ellenbrook, Aveley, The Vines and the Swan Valley under one roof: chiropractic, naturopathy, nutrition, kinesiology, remedial and pregnancy massage, yoga, reiki, holistic counselling and an infrared sauna. Bookings run through Cliniko.

A Perth day-spa institution running since 1994, with rooms in Nedlands and at Carine Glades in Duncraig. The massage menu spans relaxation, full-body, deep tissue, hot stone, pregnancy and remedial work, sitting alongside facials, infrared sauna and full spa packages — the classic long-afternoon escape as much as a treatment stop.

A private infrared sauna and ice bath room inside Maylands' Modern Ritual yoga studio — booked as your own space rather than a shared facility, open around the class timetable seven days a week. The pairing makes a yoga-plus-contrast session a single stop.