Ready, set, and rejuvenate at these beautiful bathhouses in Sydney.

Whether you’re deeply invested in the health benefits of contrast therapy or simply love to submit to dedicated chill time in a steam room, you’ll find a Sydney bathhouse that fits your wellness style. From traditional hammams to fitness-focused health spaces, leisurely lounging and beauty-based freshen-ups, these are the top places to unwind both body and mind.

1. Capybara Bathing

Wellness can be found anywhere, even in the heaving and hip topography of Surry Hills. Come along to sweat it out and chill out with a 90-minute session at Capybara, which includes access to a magnesium thermal bath, hot stone sauna, cold plunge and hammam. Prices vary between peak and off-peak periods, so if you can come before 5pm on a weekday you’ll save yourself $5.

Cost: From $65 for 90 minutes.
Address: Groundfloor 235-239 Commonwealth Street, Surry Hills

2. Nature’s Energy

Restore balance at one of the three Nature’s Energy bathhouses located in Glebe, Balmain and Newtown. You can pair your bathing session with a spa treatment, tarot reading or crystal healing session to really locate your inner peace. Each of the outposts has a slightly different offering but you’ll find ice baths, spas and steam rooms at all. A 90-minute session is $60, but on weekdays you can get 90 minutes for the price of 60.

Cost: From $60 for 1 hour
Address: Check website for various locations

3. Nimbus Co

It’s all about opposing temperatures at Nimbus, where their carefully designed therapeutic spaces enhance wellness through extremes. Their community-minded spaces now include studios in Bondi, Manly, and Neutral Bay (not to mention Byron Bay and two Melbourne outposts). Oscillate between hot and cold in the sauna, ice baths and LED lounge.

Cost: Prices vary depending on add-ons, but start at $27 for a 20-minute ice bath session
Address: Check website for various locations

4. Soak Bathhouse

Hugely popular north of the border, the beloved Queensland Soak Bathhouse is coming to Sydney with two locations set to open in Bondi and Alexandria. Bringing that Gold Coast resort energy to Sydney with bright, light-filled spaces that encourage a community ambience, Soak really feels like a micro getaway. Come day or night to enjoy magnesium pools, infrared saunas, steam rooms, cold plunges and cedarwood saunas.

Cost: From $35 for 1 hour
Address: 88 Ebley Street, Bondi Junction

5. Gillian Adams

This lower north shore pamper house caters to the real housewives of Turramurra and everyone else who needs a little lavish TLC. There’s a salon menu and spa packages, but we’ve included Gillian Adams in our bathhouse list for the aquamedic pool and steam package, where you can unfurl bodily stress with oxygenated water and reflexology jets that soothe muscles.

Cost: $90 for 1 hour or $80 when paired with another treatment
Address: 1356 Pacific Highway, Turramurra

6. The Skin and Bath House

Melt into yourself with a session at this Rozelle bathhouse where you can sweat happily in a Swedish sauna and soak in an ice bath for a bit of weekly contrast therapy. It’s all in aid of lowering stress, enhancing immune function and improving circulation, among many other purported benefits.

Cost: $40 for 30 minutes
Address: 634 Darling Street, Rozelle

7. Ottoman Turkish Bath and Day Spa

This tranquil sanctuary is a hidden Ottoman jewel in Sydney’s west. For those who’ve enjoyed the delights of a hammam in Istanbul, you’ll know what to expect. Everyone else will be gob-smacked by the beautifully soothing setting, where tactile stone, marble basins and gently trickling water transport you to far-flung places. Ease yourself onto the hot marble slab, then enjoy the hot tub and sauna facilities. There are plenty of packages to choose from, including the Cleopatra, which includes a full-body massage and a honey and milk treatment.

Cost: From $110 per person
Address: Level 2, 46 Wellington Road, South Granville

8. The Bathhouse

Palm Springs-inspired The Bathhouse is all set for your girl gang to settle in and soak. That’s not to say men and solo soakers aren’t equally welcome to work on their wellness, but this place is certainly ready for hens parties and those all-important girls’ days out. Flit between sauna, steam room, hydrotherapy spas and magnesium plunge pool and lounge about on a day bed with cocktail just to keep the balance. Add a facial treatment or massage to really lean in.

Cost: $90 for 2 hours or all-day (6 hours) for $160
Address: 139 Camden Road, Douglas Park

9. Arisoo Korean Bathhouse and Spa

Gravitate to K-beauty at this traditional-style, women-only Korean bathhouse where guests bathe naked (although this isn’t compulsory) in a calming 39-degree herbal bath and banish tension in the steam room and dry barrel sauna. As with Korean tradition, your experience will begin with a cleansing shower before you enter the bathhouse or treatment room. Relish a scrub, massage or facial and enjoy a two-hour stay at the bathhouse.

Cost: Enjoy an Arisoo Silky Scrub for $119, which includes 2 hours in the bathhouse
Address: 495A Oxford Street, Paddington; 2/7 Help Street, Chatswood

10.  XtraClubs

Inviting everyone to relish the hot and the cold from their large, Finnish-style communal sauna, ice baths, steam room and infrared sauna, XtraClubs are determined to make bathhousing accessible with their deliberately competitive pricing. Offering memberships, they’re hoping guests will use their club as they would a gym. Bondi is the first to open, but ambitious plans are already underway for more venues across Sydney, including Cronulla, Green Square, Liverpool, Manly, Marrickville and more.

Cost: $39 for 90 minutes
Address: 434 Oxford Street, Bondi Junction

11.  Slow House

Take a deep breath and slow it right down at this sleek Bondi basement bathhouse that’s part of the suburb’s exclusive wellness centre, Beachouse. Be sure to wear your most stylish swimming costume as you dip into the magnesium pool, chill in the cold plunge and sweat it out in the sauna and steam room. There’s also a tempting menu of full-body treatments, massages and facials.

Cost: $55 for 90 minutes
Address: 151 Curlewis Street, Bondi

12.  Moroccan Hammam

Exclusively for women, this beautiful hammam is said to be the first of its kind in Australia and will have you feeling like a pampered Arabian princess. Richly decorated in Moroccan style and offering an array of indulgent packages to leave you aglow, you’ll enjoy steam and hot water bathing alongside tea and sweets. Choose a treatment that may include a scrub, body mask, hair wash or coffee foot scrub. Heavenly!

Cost: Prices start with the ‘deluxe hammam’ at $160 for 45 minutes, which includes a body mask, clay mask and hair wash.
Address: 31 Grose Street, Parramatta

13. Sense of Self

Another new one to get spa lovers excited in the second half of 2025, is the opening of Sense Of Self in Sydney, after the success of its popular Melbourne location. Dubbing itself ‘Australia’s first modern bathhouse’, expect multiple large mineral pools, spacious saunas, a Hammam steam room and Cold Plunge pools. As well as dedicated treatment rooms and plenty of relaxation space

Cost: If Melbourne is an indication, prices start at a reasonable $65 for two hours in the baths, while massages are upwards of $160.
Address: Exact address TBC, but it will be on the border of Surry Hills and Paddington

For more pampering experiences, check out the indulgent spas in Sydney.