The World’s 100 Best Saunas & Baths

Seaside hot springs on Hvalfjörður with about eight stone pools of varying temperatures, a sauna and a steam room. A lower pool meets the ocean with the tides, and guests cold-plunge in the fjord between soaks.

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A hotel and wellness resort by the Brno Dam with whirlpools, an outdoor warm pool and a large sauna world. Many themed saunas with distinct aromas, a natural cooling pond and regular sauna ceremonies led by named sauna masters set it apart.

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A geothermal bathing complex on Lake Urriðavatn near Egilsstaðir, with outdoor pools at different temperatures and lake views. The outer pools float on the lake, and ladders lead straight into the cold water for a plunge.

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A large new sauna and wellness complex in Zoetermeer with many indoor and outdoor saunas, pools and a landscaped garden with flowers and ponds. Check-in runs on self-service screens and wristbands, and themed saunas include a koi aquarium sauna and a cinema sauna.

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A large thermal spa beside the Crow Wood hotel in Burnley, with indoor and outdoor pools, saunas, steam rooms and on-site restaurants. A recent extension added a rooftop infinity pool with fire pits, alongside an ice room and a serenity pool.

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Hotel and thermal spa near La Fortuna, with a separate hot springs park a short shuttle ride from the rooms. A volcano-heated river runs through many pools and waterfalls set in rainforest gardens, with Arenal Volcano visible on clear days.

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A large spa and hotel in the forest south of Oslo, with pools, jacuzzis, saunas and steam rooms spread across three floors. Saunas are textile-free, and only the venue's own swimwear is allowed in the pools.

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A thermal spa and hotel in rural Styria, built by Friedensreich Hundertwasser with grass-covered roofs, colourful facades and no straight walls. Large indoor and outdoor pools hold warm mineral water, and the buildings show signs of age.

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A geothermal lagoon on the coast near Reykjavik, built into dark volcanic rock with coves, passages and a swim-up bar. An infinity edge faces the ocean, and a seven-step Skjól ritual adds a sauna with a sea-view window, cold mist, salt scrub and steam room.

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Hotel spa near Alsager with a largely outdoor spa garden of heated pools, saunas, steam rooms and daybeds set among English gardens and countryside views. Swim-up pool bars and many separate pockets of space spread guests out.

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A Māori-owned geothermal spa on the shore of Lake Rotorua, with thermal pools, saunas, a mud room and massage treatments. Guests follow the two-hour Restorative Journey after a cultural introduction, and group sizes are capped per timeslot.

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A large lakeside sauna and wellness complex near the Kempen woods, with Egyptian-style architecture, statues of gods and crystals throughout. Its infusions and rituals, including Aufguss with live music, singing bowls, the Hathor Ritual and a Temazcal sweat lodge, change theme from session to session.

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Thermal spa and hotel near Wijchen with many themed saunas, pools, gardens, and an on-site hotel with restaurants including Numa. Guests can swim in the adjacent lake, watch infusions in the theater sauna, and order at indoor and outdoor pool bars.

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Nordic spa on a forested mountainside in Rawdon, with hot tubs, cold plunges, saunas, a steam room and a bistro. A natural cold spring, a meditation trail with hammocks, a dark room and strict silence rules set it apart.

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A geothermal lagoon on a forested hillside near Akureyri, with two large outdoor pools at about 38 to 41°C, a sauna and a cold plunge. Swim-up bars serve drinks in the water, and the pools look out over the fjord and Akureyri.

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Nude sauna and wellness complex in Oosterhout with many saunas, baths, pools, a hammam and a large restaurant. Panoramic infusion saunas look out over a landscaped garden with a pond and sunbathing lawn, and Aufguss sessions run about hourly.

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A large adult spa near Reading with many themed pools, saunas, steam rooms and relaxation areas, plus treatments and a restaurant. Its Dead Sea pool, Roman pool, salt pool and bookable celestial flotation sessions draw repeat visitors.

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A Nordic thermal spa in the Laurentian forest beside the Diable River, with hot pools, saunas, steam rooms, cold plunges and indoor and outdoor rest areas. The river serves as a cold plunge, and staff enforce a strict silence policy.

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Clothing-optional hot springs outside Ridgway with about ten unchlorinated pools at different temperatures, set among gardens inside a privacy fence. Overnight guests in rooms, campsites or the parking lot can soak through the night under the stars.

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Large sauna and thermal bath complex with a hotel beside a lake in Voorst, with many saunas, pools and daily infusions. A saltwater cenote cave pool, a Sauna Theater with staged infusion shows and an underground tunnel from the hotel set it apart.

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A Turkish hammam in Amman offering steam, a Jacuzzi, heated marble, body scrubs and massage. It is clean and well organised, while massage quality and scrub technique vary.

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Large thermal spa in Bad Staffelstein with saltwater brine pools indoors and outdoors and a big clothing-optional sauna area. The sauna garden has log-cabin saunas, a natural bathing lake with a waterfall, and varied hourly infusions.

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A renovated neighbourhood public bathhouse near Shin-Imamiya Station in Nishinari, with soft-water baths and a paid sauna. An auto-löyly sauna, a deep cold plunge and a starry-ceiling relaxation space up the stairs from the open-air bath set it apart.

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A large thermal bath and sauna complex in Bergisch Gladbach with Spanish, Indian and Oriental themed sections, indoor and outdoor pools, and many saunas. The day runs on a schedule of sauna infusions and rituals, and a wristband records purchases for payment on exit.

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Large sauna complex in Czeladź with Roman-themed saunas, steam rooms, indoor and outdoor pools, relaxation areas and a restaurant. Its centrepiece is the Colosseum, an amphitheatre sauna holding over 200 people, where sauna masters stage music-and-towel-fanning sessions.

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Thermal spa on a hillside above Lake Gale in Bromont, with saunas, hot and cold pools, relaxation rooms and a restaurant. Guests can swim in the lake from a dock, use floating mattresses, and toast marshmallows at a fire.

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Large co-ed Nordic spa village in the forest at Chelsea, with hot and cold pools, many saunas, steam rooms, restaurants and massage treatments. Scheduled Aufguss and sauna rituals, the Kalla float pool and separate quiet and social zones set it apart.

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Thermal complex in a forested ravine near the Villarrica volcano, with many open-air pools ranging from about 35 to 45°C. Red wooden walkways link the pools through dense vegetation and end at a cold waterfall pool.

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A Turkish hammam and day spa in North Miami with saunas, a steam room, a salt room, cold plunges and an on-site restaurant. Guests come for the kese bubble scrub on heated marble slabs and the Ottoman-style marble interiors.

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A QC Terme spa set in the restored Art Nouveau Palazzo Berzieri in central Salsomaggiore, with relaxation rooms and saunas in the historic building. The pools sit in the former thermal power plant across several floors, including suspended and rooftop panoramic pools.

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Candlelit underground thermal baths beneath a historic terraced house linked to the author of Peter Pan, with massages and bath packages. Pools range from cold plunges to hot baths, alongside a salt flotation pool, steam room and jacuzzi.

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A large sauna complex in central Berlin with Balinese decor, many saunas, indoor and outdoor pools, and relaxation rooms. Infusions run at least every 30 minutes, and the venue is frequently crowded.

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Large sauna and pool complex in Tallinn's Mustamäe district with a family area of water slides and a separate 21+ zone. Around 20 saunas, a 100-seat sauna for scheduled rituals, outdoor hot tubs and wristband food ordering set it apart.

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A spa at the Yona hotel in Obernai with day and night packages, a buffet meal and massages. A ground-floor water maze with themed jets sits below a floor of saunas, steam rooms, sensory showers, a snow room and relaxation rooms.

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A Korean-style jjimjilbang spread over several floors, with gender-separated nude bathing areas and co-ed sauna rooms where guests wear provided loungewear. Many themed saunas, including an ice room, sit alongside geode decor, a restaurant, nap areas and body scrubs.

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Thermal baths near Puelo with about ten outdoor pools from 36°C to 45°C, set beside a wetland and native forest. Volcanic water, staff checking pool temperatures throughout the day, and an optional Patagonian Ritual circuit draw visitors along a long gravel road.

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A day spa and bathhouse inside the InterContinental hotel in Sorrento, offering a 90-minute, 11-step bathing ritual alongside massage treatments. The circuit runs from a salt scrub through hot and cold rooms to heated lounges with a towel cocoon and eye compress.

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A small-scale sauna complex in a former barn with wooden beams, set in woodland near Putten. Saunas include a sauna boat on the pond, a sauna cave and a panoramic infusion sauna, with deer often seen from the grounds.

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Thermal spa and adjoining hotel in Bad Tatzmannsdorf with indoor and outdoor pools, saunas and relaxation rooms. Its textile-free Garden of Eden sauna area has a snow sauna, a lakeside sauna and Uhudler wine infusions, and loungers are assigned by number.

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Large sauna resort in Oer-Erkenschwick with many themed saunas, saltwater and outdoor pools, and a separate outdoor swimming pool. Frequent staff-led infusions, a dark saltwater pool with underwater music, and spacious landscaped grounds with ponds and loungers set it apart.

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Sauna and thermal bath complex in Sint-Niklaas with themed saunas, pools, jacuzzis, a restaurant and landscaped gardens. Infusion sessions run every two hours in the largest sauna, with heavy use of ice and named sauna masters.

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Thermal springs and hotel in Portland, with three-hour soaking sessions spread across several floors. A plant-filled Conservatory pool, a silent basement Sanctuary with mineral, hot, cold and ambient pools, and an outdoor Secret Garden set it apart.

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Modern thermal spa in Baden with pools from about 30 to 38°C, a sauna area and massage rooms. It is known for its sauna infusions in the panoramic sauna, a floating salt pool, an ice room and river views from the Limmat sauna.

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A sauna complex directly on the shore of Lake Tegernsee, with views of the water and mountains and a restaurant on site. Guests cool off in the lake between saunas, and sauna masters run infusions every 30 minutes, often set to music.

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A sauna complex on a natural pond in Limbach-Oberfrohna with several saunas, relaxation rooms and a restaurant. Guests swim from a jetty in summer, take ice dips in winter, and attend themed infusions with music, including birch infusions in the banya.

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Municipal open-air hot spring on a coastal slope above the sea, reopened after renovation, with a large infinity-style bath and a cold bath. Men and women swap baths daily, and only one side faces Mount Kaimon.

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A Nordic thermal spa on the St. Lawrence River in Old Quebec, with hot pools, cold plunges, saunas, steam rooms and the Nord restaurant. An infinity pool and saunas face the river, where ice floes drift in winter, and a current-driven lazy river circles nearby.

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Municipal hot springs complex in the mountains about 15–20 km from Fiambalá, with natural stone pools on a slope. The pools step up the hillside from about 30°C to 45°C, and the water gets hotter the higher the pool.

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Thermal spa complex in Podčetrtek with indoor and outdoor pools, saunas, hotels and the Aqualuna water park. Orhidelia is an adults-only wellness area, kept separate from family zones with slides, a climbing wall and an in-pool bar.

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Sauna and wellness complex built into an old fort of the Amsterdam Defence Line, with a hotel and restaurant among the Beemster meadows. Fort walls and bunker spaces are combined with new saunas, and a small island with a hot tub sits across the water.

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Day-trip hot spring complex on the Sukumo River in Okuyumoto, Hakone, with gender-separated baths, saunas, rest areas and restaurants. Most baths are open-air rock pools of natural spring water, and the women's side includes a tunnel-like cave bath.

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A cliffside ryokan in the Iya Valley with a free-flowing sulfur spring, reached by narrow mountain roads. A steep cable car descends about five minutes to lukewarm open-air baths beside the river, and an indoor observation bath looks out over the gorge.

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A therapeutic hot spring inn in the mountains of Akita, with day-use baths, an inn section and a self-catering section. Its hydrochloric acid spring, around pH 1.1, stings the skin and feeds 100% and 50% source baths and steaming outdoor bedrock beds.

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Thermal bath and sauna complex in Bad Wildbad, built around a historic Art Nouveau and Moorish bathing hall with many small pools at varying temperatures. Swimwear is optional in most areas, and a rooftop pool and panoramic sauna overlook the town and mountains.

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Day-trip hot spring above the Soni Kogen Farm Garden roadside station in the Soni Highlands, with indoor baths, sauna and cold plunge. Its free-flowing alkaline water feels slippery and leaves skin smooth, and the lukewarm open-air bath faces the mountains.

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Thermal brine spa in Bad Kissingen with indoor and heated outdoor pools, whirlpools and a large sauna area. A brine floating pool with underwater music, a brine inhalation room and a varied programme of sauna infusions led by sauna masters set it apart.

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Thermal spa and sauna complex on Lake Kochel with brine pools, a family swimming area and a clothing-optional sauna section. Guests swim straight into the lake from the grounds, and hourly show infusions run in large saunas facing the lake and mountains.

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Thermal brine spa in Rheinfelden with warm saltwater pools, an outdoor whirlpool pool and a large nude sauna area. A dense brine float pool, chalet-style saunas overlooking a park, and hourly sauna infusions with salt scrubs draw regular visitors.

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Bathing complex in Eibenstock with a renovated family indoor pool and a large sauna garden of themed wooden cabins. The sauna village has Russian and Finnish saunas, a Japanese sauna area and infusion rituals, while the new pool area is geared to younger children.

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Hillside spa hotel above Langenburg with a large indoor and outdoor wellness area, open to hotel guests and day visitors. Several pools face Langenburg Castle and the valley, a tower holds a pool and bar, and saunas include barrel saunas and staged infusions.

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A forest thermal spa in Whistler built around a hot-cold-rest circuit of hot pools, cold plunges, saunas, steam rooms and lounges, with massages on offer. Staff enforce silence in the outdoor areas, and phones are not allowed.

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A hot springs resort on the Clark Fork River in Montana, with lodge rooms, cabins, a restaurant and a tavern. Six to seven pools run at different temperatures, from a cold plunge to a hot sulphur pool.

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A 16th-century Ottoman bath built by Mimar Sinan for Admiral Kılıç Ali Paşa, restored and now run as a guided hammam. Attendants lead guests through a warm marble slab, kese scrub and foam wash, with tea in the domed camekan afterwards.

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A large, modern thermal spa at a hotel in Banya, with saunas, steam rooms, and indoor and outdoor mineral-water pools. Outdoor pools face the mountains, and a DJ plays music outside.

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Sauna complex near Holzweiler with many themed saunas, several pools, saltwater baths and whirlpools, and regular infusions. A large, well-kept garden looks across fields toward the Siebengebirge, and infusions in the barn and tower saunas draw crowds.

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Public swimming and sauna complex in Riscone near Brunico, split into a family pool area and a separate sauna village. Its scheduled aufguss infusions and outdoor sauna garden draw many guests, with tea and snacks served after sessions.

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Large wellness complex in Dilbeek with a hotel, buffet restaurants, and many saunas, hammams, pools and jacuzzis. It has separate clothed and naturist sections, and the outdoor garden and lake sit mostly in the naturist part.

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Korean-style spa in Edison with gender-separated nude bathhouses, hot tubs, a cold plunge and a ring of themed dry saunas and igloos around a shared uniformed lounge. Korean body scrubs, massages, a restaurant and a juice bar serving bingsu fill out the day.

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A restored 1831 Ottoman bathhouse in Istanbul's Çukurcuma neighbourhood, offering scrub, foam and massage rituals in white marble rooms. Bathing is mixed-gender, so couples and groups go through the ritual together, followed by tea and sweets in a resting lounge.

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Thermal baths in the Val d'Hérens with indoor and outdoor pools, saunas, a hammam and grottoes over two floors. The outdoor pool and saunas look onto the Alps, and an upper floor holds sensory showers with a snow shower.

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Thermal bathhouse in Chicago with candlelit pools of different temperatures, steam rooms, saunas, cold plunges and massage packages. Guests move between hot, warm and cold baths, a salt flotation pool and an indoor-outdoor pool with a waterfall.

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Thermal spa and hotel near Bormio with indoor and outdoor pools fed by natural thermal water, plus saunas and mud baths. Pink Art Nouveau building, large gardens with mountain views, and an afternoon aperitif buffet included in the ticket.

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Thermal spa complex in Bad Füssing with indoor and outdoor pools of hot thermal and sulfur water, plus a separate Saunahof sauna village. Pools range up to about 42°C with massage jets, and the rustic sauna courtyard runs infusions every half hour.

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Thermal bath and spa complex in Rajecké Teplice with indoor and outdoor pools at varied temperatures, a sauna world and treatments. Antique Roman-style columns and arches frame the pools, which are lit with music in the evening.

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A sauna and spa complex in a 1912 Art Nouveau building in Cologne-Ehrenfeld, split into historic, outdoor and Japanese-style areas. Frequent sauna infusions run about every half hour, alongside an outdoor onsen and a historic pool with underwater music.

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Riverside hot springs complex in Glenwood Springs with dozens of mineral pools at varied temperatures, saunas and cold plunges. A 21+ area holds pools modelled on springs worldwide, such as the Dead Sea, with drinks delivered to the pool.

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Public bathhouse in Kinosaki Onsen, housed in a building styled after the Kyoto Imperial Palace, with painted ceilings and screens in the lobby. Bathing is entirely open-air, in three tiered pools fed by a waterfall on the hillside behind.

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Men's-only sauna facility across from Soka City Hall, with a sauna room, cold plunge pool and outdoor relaxation area but no hot bath. The sauna room has stairs, tiered seats and two stoves, so temperature changes with where guests sit.

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Underground thermal bathhouse in Tribeca with candlelit brick and stone rooms, hot, warm and cold pools, a saltwater float bath and a steam room. A rooftop pool sits under an open skylight, and staff enforce quiet throughout.

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Large thermal complex in Eastern Styria with thermal pools, a Fun Park with slides, baby and toddler areas, and the separately ticketed Schaffelbad sauna area. A pool bar sits in the upper thermal pool, and the layout spreads across several levels and passages.

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Thermal spa and safari-themed lodge in Burgenland, about an hour from Vienna, with indoor and outdoor thermal pools, a saltwater pool and saunas. A natural lake with a floating island sits beside the pools, and lodge guests can join ranger-led wildlife and birdwatching tours.

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A Balinese-style sauna complex with a hotel in Glinde, east of Hamburg, with more than a dozen saunas, steam rooms, pools and many relaxation rooms. Incense, carved wood decor, waterbeds, a natural swimming pond and scheduled sauna infusions fill the large, labyrinthine grounds.

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Thermal spa in Beuren with indoor and outdoor pools from 24 to 40°C, steam grottos, a salt grotto and a separate sauna area. Outdoor pools look out over the Swabian Alb hills and castles, and the Friedrichs restaurant is open to non-bathers.

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A Japanese-themed spa hotel in archipelago woodland outside Stockholm, with indoor and outdoor warm pools, saunas, steam baths and on-site restaurants. Guests wear matching robes throughout the stay, from the baths to meals, and many arrive by boat.

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A sauna facility near Akasaka Station with a talking-allowed bathing floor and a silent second-floor sauna floor. Five sauna rooms, three cold plunge pools at different temperatures and hourly Aufguss sessions set it apart.

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A Russian banya in Dubai with a large steam room, snow room, cold plunge pool, outdoor terrace and a restaurant serving Russian food. Banya masters run hourly steam rituals with music, and parenie with oak veniki, scrubs and massages come in packages.

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Thermal bath and hotel complex in the Ötztal Valley with indoor and outdoor pools, a children's area and a separate sauna world. Three raised bowl-shaped outdoor pools face the mountains, and the sauna area runs scheduled infusion rituals.

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Thermal baths and spa set in the stone vaults of the former Hürlimann brewery in Zurich. A rooftop pool looks out over the city skyline, and a ten-station Roman-Irish spa circuit is available for an extra charge.

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Bad Steben's thermal spa has a bathing area, a separately charged Wellness Dome with brine pools, and a large sauna area. Warm outdoor pools, sound and laser-show pavilions, and staffed sauna infusions are offered, while indoor halls and corridors run cool.

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Thermal spa in Bad Reichenhall with brine pools on several floors, a large sauna area with outdoor grounds, and a separate family pool next door. Mountain views from the outdoor pool and crystal sauna set it apart, alongside scheduled sauna infusions including salt treatments.

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A geothermal lagoon of milky-blue, silica-rich water set in a black lava field near Keflavík Airport. Bathers apply silica mud masks from a mask bar and order drinks at a swim-up bar, paid by wristband.

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A geothermal complex in Hanmer Springs with about a dozen thermal, sulphur, rock and lap pools ranging from 28 to 42 degrees, plus hydroslides and a lazy river. Adults-only pools, a cold plunge and a spa with private pools sit among native trees and mountains.

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A Bali-style sauna and thermal spa on a lake on the edge of Düsseldorf, with indoor and outdoor areas, many saunas and an Asian-leaning restaurant. Frequent sauna infusions, a panoramic sauna and loungers facing the lake set it apart.

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Large thermal resort in Entre Ríos with about ten indoor, semi-covered and outdoor pools of fresh and salt water at varied temperatures. The grounds hold a lake with an artificial beach, a campground, bungalows, eco-modules, hotels and sports courts.

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A Nordic thermal spa at the base of Mont Saint-Hilaire with hot and cold baths, saunas, steam rooms, yurts and the North Restaurant. Its forested grounds hold quiet and whisper zones patrolled by staff, plus self-service facial and salt scrub stations.

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A day-trip open-air sulfur bath built beside a mountain stream at the upper end of Zao Onsen, with separate sections for men and women. Two tiered rock pools hold milky, highly acidic water, the upper pool hotter and the lower lukewarm.

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A small-scale sauna complex in Pijnacker with indoor and outdoor saunas, a herbal bath, a Turkish steam bath, a pool, a restaurant and a large garden. It rarely gets crowded, but maintenance is overdue and the floors are wet.

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A hot-spring park inside the Rio Quente Resorts complex, next to Hot Park, with natural pools where water flows from one to another. Springs bubble up from the ground, monkeys and macaws visit, and blue lights illuminate the pools after dark.

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Thermal spa in Burg with indoor and outdoor pools of brine and thermal water from 18°C to 38°C, plus a separate sauna area. Pools vary in salt concentration, hourly sauna infusions run, and the restaurant serves fresh dishes.

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A neighbourhood public bathhouse in Kyoto, open since the Taisho era and registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property, used daily by locals and visited by tourists. Majolica tiles, carved transoms, a Kurama Tengu ceiling and a carp pond surround many baths, including an electric bath.

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