Where to Book a Drop-In Sauna Session in and Around Philadelphia

Are you sick of freezing your butt off? Same! Nix layering three sweatshirts under a parka for a sauna, where 100-plus degree temps are ready to roast you until being cold is in your rearview mirror. Plus, saunas are said to have year-round benefits like reducing stress (and, in turn, boosting mood), improving circulation, and alleviating muscle soreness.

Ready to really warm up? Below, a list of local sauna spots where you can book a drop-in session, so that you can relax (and sweat!) without needing a membership or booking an additional spa treatment.

Alma Acupuncture

1856 Frankford Avenue, Fishtown

In addition to acupuncture, microneedling, and online herb consults, Alma Acupuncture is also home to an infrared sauna, which you can enjoy whether or not you have another service booked. Solo sessions range $50-65 depending on if you want to stay in for 30 or 60 minutes. If it’s you and a pal, expect to pay $70-$95.

Ame Salon and Spa

111 Waynewood Avenue, Wayne

This salon and spa in Wayne is home to an infrared sauna, which emits infrared light to create heat that warms your body — without those skin-damaging UV rays — and not just the air around you. Book a 20-minute session for $25, a 35-minute session for $45, or a 50-minute session for $65. Ame also offers packages if you know you’re going to make this more than a one-time thing.

Aura Esthetic Spa & Sauna

98 Buck Road, Southampton

The bath house at Aura Esthetic offers a sauna-for-two package and private parties (six people minimum, 18 people max) in the banya, a hot steam bath traditional in Russian culture. First, you’ll get massaged by venik, a bundle of leafy twigs used to stimulate blood flow and relieve muscle and joint pain. After heating up, you’ll take a dip in the ice pool and rejuvenate your skin with organic soap.

Center City Cleanse

1740 South Street, suite 301, Graduate Hospital

Center City Cleanse features individual infrared sauna pods where guests can rest, relax, and reap the benefits of a private session. It also has a jade infrared sauna, which is lined with jade stones to promote physical and mental healing. You can opt for a 45-minute session ($50), or enjoy an hour in the jade sauna for $55.

Chung Dam Spa and Fitness

41 East Cheltenham Avenue, Cheltenham

You’ll go because this Korean spa has a warm granite room heated to a toasty 160 degrees — but you’ll stay because it also has herbal steam baths, a hot jade stone room, a hot clay room, and a hot tub heated to 103 degrees. A day pass costs $30.

City Hydration

Multiple locations

With three locations (Midtown Village, Wayne, and Avalon), City Hydration aims to improve your well-being by offering a wide range of services like IV therapy, hydrafacials, and compression recovery. There’s also a sauna (obv), which allows two people at a time. Appointments are required, and can be made for 35 minutes ($30) or 45 minutes ($40).

Cold Plunge Philly

1213 Darby Road, Havertown

Cold Plunge Philly has more than what their name implies: It’s also home to a traditional barrel sauna that sees temps between 190 to 230 degrees and sits up to eight people. Even better: Your first visit is free.

CRYO Philadelphia

8011 Germantown Avenue, Chestnut Hill

Cryotherapy is available for those who want to recover in frigid temps, but for those who prefer heat-based therapy, hit the infrared sauna. A drop-in visit will cost you $49, but CRYO Philadelphia also offers five- and 10-pack specials.

Cryo Myst Therapy Lounge

510 West Lancaster Avenue, Haverford

Haverford’s Cryo Myst Therapy Lounge is home to an infrared sauna that features customizable light therapy so you can tailor your sesh to your liking. Enjoy a 30-minute session for $47.

CURE de Repos

8439 Germantown Avenue, Chestnut Hill and 65 Cricket Avenue, #105, Ardmore

CURE de Repos might be known for its beauty treatments and products, but it also boasts an infrared sauna at both of its locations. A walk-in session at either will cost you $35, but time in the sauna is complimentary when you book with a service that lasts at least 60 minutes.

dtXfy

4328 Main Street, Manayunk and 133 Swedesford Road, Wayne

This “renewal studio” — which currently has two locations — has wellness therapies like red light, massage (in 6D pods), and infrared sauna. The saunas can be enjoyed solo or with up to two other companions, and sessions last 30-40 minutes. You can also select the retreat/yoga option so you can practice yoga in the sauna.

Ebba Sparre Sauna Collective

1900 Pattison Avenue, South Philly (on the grounds of American Swedish Historical Museum)

Debuted this past December, Ebba Sparre Sauna Collective brings three wooden barrel saunas to the grounds of the American Swedish Historical Museum. You can book a solo sesh, or sweat it out with up to 11 friends if you opt in for a buy-out. But hurry, the pop-up only runs until March 29th.

Fire & Ice X

300 South Lenola Road, Maple Shade, New Jersey

In addition to two cold-plunge tanks set at different temperatures, Fire & Ice X also boasts a traditional Finnish dry sauna (temperature range 185 to 200 degrees) and a steam room.

Float SNJ

27 North Maple Avenue, #1, Marlton, New Jersey

Float may have gotten its name from its pools, but the Marlton location also features two infrared saunas suitable for solo or couple’s sessions. (There’s also a cold plunge shower, standard shower, and a ton of included amenities.) There’s a range of options for sauna duration and pricing, as well as recurring membership.

Formation Sauna + Wellness

305 Brown Street, Northern Liberties

​Formation Sauna + Wellness offers a Nordic-inspired sauna experience, with guests spending five to 15 minutes relaxing in the sauna (which can reach 195 degrees Fahrenheit!), then taking a brief ice-cold shower to promote blood flow. Rinse, and repeat two to four times. Formation offers sauna packages for one to four people in 90-minute increments. Plus, you can add on treatments like a facial treatment, herbal foot soak, and an immune-boosting elixir. (Peep the full pricing guide here.)

Halcyon Floats

1314 North Front Street, Fishtown

Halcyon Floats offers float therapy, sound healing, and salt therapy, plus an infrared sauna that can hold up to three people. No matter if you’re coming alone ($29) or with buddies ($44 for two; $54 for three), all sessions at Halcyon last 30 minutes.

Invert Your World

100 Wissahickon Avenue, Ambler

Invert Your World, a fitness studio in Ambler, recently opened a recovery space home to an infrared sauna, plus red light and halo therapies. A drop-in visit, which gives you access to the amenities for 45 minutes, will run you $35, but there’s multi-session and monthly package options, too.

Mainline Float & Freeze

24 West Lancaster Avenue, Ardmore

In addition to float pools, cryotherapy, and compression therapy, Ardmore’s Mainline Float & Freeze has an infrared sauna suitable for one or two people. Sessions range 20 to 40 minutes and cost anywhere from $25 to $60.

Modrn Sanctuary

1420 Walnut Street, suite 1212, Center City

This holistic wellness boutique is home to an infrared sauna that can be enjoyed in 30- or 45-minute increments, with or without red light therapy. Make a day of it and stay for services like massage therapy, lymphatic drainage, a facial, hypnosis, or the energy-healing chakra-crystal bed.

MVMNT

609 East Passyunk Avenue, Queen Village and 2401 Washington Avenue, Graduate Hospital

In addition to strength, mobility, and Pilates workouts, this wellness hub — with two locations — has, what they call Recharge Rooms, where you can do exactly that. Each features an infrared sauna, cold-plunge tub and vitamin C shower that can be enjoyed at the drop-in rate of $40.

Nirvana Float

171 Market Street, suite 2A, Collegeville

This Collegeville float center features a private “fire and ice” room that can be booked by one to four people. It boasts an infrared sauna that’s kept at 125 degrees Fahrenheit, a cold-plunge tub, and a rinsing shower. The 45-minute session runs $69-$149 depending on if you’re visiting alone or with friends.

Nirvana Wellness Med Spa

709 North 2nd Street, Northern Liberties

Nirvana Wellness Med Spa calls its infrared sauna an “infrared therapy cabin,” reaching temps of 150 degrees Fahrenheit. You’ve got options when it comes to booking: 15 minutes for $25, 30 minutes for $35, 45 minutes for $55, or 45 minutes for two people for $65. You can also add halotherapy (a.k.a. salt therapy) to your session for an additional cost.

Restore Hyper Wellness

Multiple locations

Restore Hyper Wellness has eight locations throughout the Philadelphia area, meaning you can drop in for their range of services no matter where you live. There’s an infrared sauna, of course, plus compression, cryo, and IV drip therapies, and various facials.

The Retreat at the Vault

25 South Morton Avenue, Morton

Opened in January above the Vault Jiu Jitsu, this state-of-the-art wellness and recovery center features a traditional sauna that can reach 194 degrees and an infrared sauna, plus a cold-plunge tank, cryotherapy, red light therapy, and 6D massage chairs. A drop-in visit costs $99.

Sanavita Wellness

3174 Richmond Street, Port Richmond

Visit this Port Richmond wellness center for a solo or duet session in the infrared sauna — the private room also boasts a cold-plunge shower — and stay for a massage, cupping therapy, Reiki, or reflexology.

Sanctuary Wellness Studio

735 Bethlehem Pike, Flourtown

In addition to a full schedule of movement classes, Sanctuary Wellness Studio has a single-person infrared sauna that reaches 175 degrees Fahrenheit. Fresh linens are provided, the sauna is pre-warmed, and guests can connect their music to the Bluetooth speakers. The sauna can be booked for 30 minutes ($35) with or without a workout. There are also five- and 10-packs available for purchase.

Southampton Spa

141 Second Street Pike, Southampton

A day pass ($65; $60 on Mondays and Tuesdays) gets you into the facility, where there’s not only a sauna, but a steam room, oxygen steam bath, Russian bath, Turkish bath, and pool. Plus, the food is worth traveling for.

SweatHouz

925 West Lancaster Avenue, suite 130, Bryn Mawr and 1099 Market Street, Dresher

SweatHouz, which recently opened locations in Bryn Mawr and Dresher, is all about contrast therapy. Each suite features an infrared sauna, cold-plunge tub, and a vitamin C shower so you can get the best of both worlds.

Warrior’s Garden Spa and Recovery

600 Huntingdon Pike, Jenkintown

Come to this Jenkintown spot for all your rejuvenation needs. Enjoy a 40-minute session in the infrared sauna, then tack on other services like compression therapy, infrared light therapy, a dip in the cold-plunge tank, or “The Works” for the whole shebang.

The Wellness Refinery

216 Church Street, Old City

The infrared sauna at The Wellness Refinery in Old City has been a popular choice for city residents since 2019. The sauna can reach 158 degrees Fahrenheit, and your experience can be enhanced by color therapy. Sessions are available in 30- and 45-minute increments, with prices ranging from $42 to $125. (See all the rates, plus packages and membership options here.) Pro tip: Don’t skip on the tonic bar!

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