Built back in the 19th century, the Krasnopresnensky Baths have turned into a huge modern health complex that carefully preserves all the bathing traditions of the past. In the early 2000s, a large-scale reconstruction and redevelopment of the premises was carried out here, and now there are many women's and men's departments of various categories, as well as Russian steam rooms, Finnish saunas, spacious swimming pools, hot tubs, its own gym, solarium, laundry and salon beauty. In terms of price-quality ratio, perhaps the best baths in Moscow. An excellent place for a male or female company, a family holiday, young people and the elderly. Clean, cozy and very friendly.
A real palace of bath art, built in 1808 and still not losing its popularity among Muscovites and visitors. The interiors amaze with their splendor; you can come here as if on an excursion to a museum and immediately immerse yourself in the atmosphere of the century before last. There are three men's and two women's bathhouses, there are spacious relaxation rooms, many showers, deep pools under huge stucco vaults, and real Russian steam rooms. The Sanduny restaurant always serves cold beer, mead, rye kvass with horseradish, ice-cold vodka, and dishes of Russian, Uzbek and Chinese cuisine.
The oldest three-story bath complex in Moscow, which has been under reconstruction for a long time. But after the Gizma Project company acquired it and carried out major renovations, a restaurant was located on the ground floor. The women's department occupies the entire second floor, the men's department on the third. The bath rooms are huge and very clean. There is a small pool where you can take a dip after the steam room. Tuesday is a visiting day only for privileged categories of citizens. On other days, visits are at full price. And although the prices cannot be called low, you can purchase a subscription for 5 or 10 visits.
There are three bathhouse sections: women's and two men's (first and second category). The steam rooms are made of deciduous wood (oak, ash, larch, linden) and equipped with gas stoves with cast iron blocks, which create the atmosphere of a real traditional Russian bath. The establishment operates all year round without interruption, despite summer water outages, there is always hot water here. On Sunday mornings, a special steam with eucalyptus, horseradish and wormwood is served here - the best remedy for colds. There are containers with boiling water everywhere, you can brew tea for free. There is a swimming pool with ice water, massage tables and its own restaurant, where the food is very tasty.
The oldest baths in Moscow, built in 1888, are included in the list of “14 most interesting baths in the world”, according to Forbes. The soaring procedure has been elevated to a real ritual here. Thanks to the unique atmosphere of the vaulted steam rooms, which have not been rebuilt since their foundation, you can always try real “light steam” here. And thanks to our own boiler room, it is possible to constantly maintain the correct temperature in the steam rooms. There are women's and men's departments, as well as superior rooms.
The bath complex is located in several buildings built by Stalin in 1938. Despite this, modest but high-quality renovations have been made in all departments. However, true connoisseurs loved this place for its high-quality steam, cold pools and plunge pools, and at very affordable prices. In addition to the public section, there are several VIP lounges with private booths. One of the few places in Moscow where visiting time is not taken into account, and you can relax all day long.
For many years, the Izmailovo baths have been famous for their chic interior, perfect cleanliness and order. That is why it is customary to come here with children, especially since children under 7 years old have free admission, from 7 to 12 years old - a 50% discount. In the bathhouse building there is a hairdresser, a body philosophy studio, and a solarium. Here you can get a manicure and pedicure, or visit spa treatments. Two large halls welcome visitors, divided into “men’s” and “women’s” days. It is better to clarify the schedule and coordinate a visit in advance by phone.
A public bathhouse popular since Soviet times. Simple and cozy interior, calm pleasant music, spacious and bright rooms, unlimited visiting hours. Friendly staff, professional massage therapists and bath attendants greet and escort any client as a member of the family. In the building of the bath complex there is a beauty salon, hairdresser, Finnish sauna, Russian bath, and Turkish bath. A large selection of aromatic oils for the steam room, a spacious deep pool with ice-cold water, separate changing cabins where tea and dishes from a cafe with Russian cuisine are served.
The bathhouse has existed since 1936 and consists of 6 halls, designed in different styles. The establishment is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Steaming in a Russian bath is carried out using birch wood. Three large renovated halls can accommodate large groups of up to 25 people. There are two small family saunas for 2-6 people. Professional bathhouse attendants soar with oak and birch brooms and give massages. The complex has 10 lounges, its own gym, karaoke, large swimming pools and a billiards room.
Baths appeared back in the 18th century; water for them was taken from the nearby Neglinensky ponds. The Seleznevskie baths, along with the Sandunovskie baths, were a favorite vacation spot. The Seleznevskie baths are unique in their design - the red brick bath buildings stand not on a foundation, but on oak piles, under which small rivers flow.
A variety of baths, infrared cabin, hammam, Roman bath, Moroccan bath, craxen or hay bath, Korean mineral bath, as well as intensive Russian and Finnish baths.
The benefits of a bath for human health, mental and physical well-being have been known for a very long time.“Banny effect ”occurs during regular trips to the bathhouse.Blood vessels are trained and health improves.The variety of baths of the peoples of the world guarantees everyone the opportunity to select the most comfortable steam for themselves. Baths, according to their properties, are “soft” and “intense”. We choose the most optimal option for ourselves.
The softest infrared bath. Its radiation can heat the human body absolutely safely. Heating begins at room temperature and puts minimal stress on the heart. Session duration is 15-30 minutes. Natural humidity, air temperature 45-60°C
Hamam - Turkish bath. Temperature 45-55°C, humidity 65-85%. The body is heated on a marble table, where various procedures such as peelings and massages are performed.
Roman bath. The temperature is approximately 45°C, humidity 100% is achieved by the operation of the steam generator. This comfortable sauna is ideal for women; the surface layers of the skin are perfectly moisturized with steam.
Moroccan bath. Temperature around 45°C , air humidity is natural. All procedures take place as in a Turkish bath on a warm marble table (peelings, massages with aroma oils)
Craxens or hay bath. The miraculous effect of such a steam bath, which passes through the hay, absorbs its aromas, envelops the body, and the steam is supplied locally to the lumbar region.
Korean or mineral aroma bath.There are mats on the warm floor. The mineral jadeite has a beneficial effect. Jadeite is used in oriental medicinerecoverydisturbed human bioenergy.
“ Intense “ baths
Russian bath. Temperature 70-90° C, humidity is about 80%. It is hot here and there is enough steam. This balance of temperature and humidity allows you to achieve light and soft steam.
Finnish sauna. Temperature 100-120° C, humidity about 30-50%. Low humidity allows you to raise the temperature to 120° C As a result, the heat coverage in such a sauna is greater.
Japanese bath – ofuro. Immersion in water with a temperature of 40-42° C heats up the body. Then alternate contrasting effects of hot (45-46°C) and cold (8 ° C) water. In terms of load on the body and cardiovascular system, this is the most intense bath.
Ofuro- a bathhouse for lovers of contrasting sensations, which, according to the Japanese, has a rejuvenating effect.
The nature of the steam - wet or dry, as well as other components of a sauna relaxation - vary depending on the region. Baths and saunas are most popular in the northern, cold regions of our planet. I bring to your attention the most popular and interesting baths in the world.
1. Rauhaniemi, Finland
As you know, Finns are experts in saunas. The most popular and oldest sauna in Finland is Rauhaniemi in Tampere, built back in 1906. It is located right on the shore of the large lake Näsijärvi. This is the best place for walruses in winter. Heated paths lead from the sauna directly into the lake, in which a spacious wormwood is cut down; the water temperature is 2-4 degrees Celsius. The extensive Rahaniemi steam room can accommodate about 70 people, and there is also a second, smaller steam room. For a good healing effect, it is recommended to warm up well in the steam room and cool off in the wormwood several times. In summer, a resort area is set up here with all the conditions for a beach holiday.
2. Flying sauna gondola, Finland
It is worth mentioning another Finnish sauna in the ski resort of Ylläs, Finland. Its unusual feature is that the sauna is located in... a cable car cabin! The cable car cabin is lined with wood outside and inside. A session in the steam room lasts about 20 minutes - that’s how long it takes to climb to a height of 718 meters. Four people can fit in the sauna at the same time. If you wish, at the upper station of the cable car you can get out and plunge into the purest snow. The cabin is equipped with transparent windows from the inside, from where you can admire the impressive mountain landscapes. By the way, at the top station of the lift there is a stationary sauna that can accommodate 17 people, and the cable car cabin is like its “branch”.
3. Gellert, Hungary
There are about 120 thermal springs located in the capital of Hungary, Budapest. The healing power of hot mineral water was noted by the ancient Romans living in these territories. The most famous of the resort complexes is located at the foot of Gellért Hill in the center of Budapest, right on the banks of the Danube River. The complex was opened back in 1918 and is one of the most beautiful architectural sights of the capital. Immersing yourself in the fables of the Gellert complex feels like taking a bath in at least a cathedral - marble columns supporting high arches, multi-colored stained glass windows and colorful mosaics. There are baths and saunas, baths and swimming pools, thermal baths, massage services and other wellness treatments.
4. Friedrichsbad, Germany
During antiquity, on the territory of Baden-Baden, Germany, there were ancient Roman baths - public baths. Duke Frederick I dreamed of reviving the culture of health and recreation there. And in 1869, he ordered the construction of a majestic building for public baths in Baden-Baden. There are men's and women's wings connected by a large swimming pool, and the interior of the baths contains marble colonnades and statues of ancient gods. A tourist coming here for the first time will be recommended to go through the entire bathing ritual of Friedrichsbad, consisting of 17 procedures, following one after another. This ritual combines dry steam rooms, soapy massage, wet steam rooms, hydromassage pools, and the final part is a relaxation room where you can get plenty of sleep.
5. Liquidrom, Germany
In Germany, as you know, they know a lot about good music. That is why a hybrid of a bathhouse and... a nightclub was created here. The interior of the complex is decorated with natural stone, and the steam rooms are traditionally made of wood. There are dry and wet steam rooms, a salt cave and a sauna with a panoramic glass wall, massage rooms and an outdoor terrace with sun loungers for relaxation. The highlight of the Liquidrom complex is the vast seawater swimming pool, where twilight and sparkling disco lights always reign. In the evenings you can hear sets from local DJs, and concerts are held on weekends. Moreover, the speakers are installed even underwater, so when you dive, you can hear the music even better.
6. Sauna Deco, Holland
A small sauna in the heart of Amsterdam, Holland, is known primarily for its unusual design for a sauna in the Art Deco style of the early 20th century. The exquisite details of the interior by the recognized master Boileau - a staircase with a bronze balustrade, a glass elevator shaft, gilded stained glass windows - were inherited from the sauna after the renovation of the interior in a large Parisian department store. There are no male or female sections; moreover, it is prohibited to wear swimsuits in the sauna. There are two saunas with different temperatures, as well as a Turkish hammam with eucalyptus steam, a hydromassage pool and an internal garden terrace. It is in the Deko sauna that the best massage therapists in Amsterdam work, and the queue for them is written far ahead.
7. Sandunovskie Bani, Russia
The public baths, built by theater actor Sandunov in 1818, are considered the most popular in Moscow. According to legend, the enterprising actor founded his own business with money raised from the sale of a diamond necklace given to his wife by Empress Catherine II as a wedding gift. At the end of the 19th century, a pompous building was erected on the site of the dilapidated baths, striking in its luxury and mixture of styles. The clients of the baths at that time were different - from ordinary people to rich merchants. The women's and men's sections are located separately, but the main architectural beauties are available only to men. An interesting fact is that bathhouse attendants and steamers work here in dynasties, each with their own day and their own clientele.
8. Gedyk Pasha, Türkiye
Authentic Turkish baths - Gedik Pasha Hammam - are the oldest in Istanbul, Türkiye. They were built back in the 15th century, and most guidebooks write that only local residents go here. However, this is not so, and a tourist who finds himself in the Gedik Pasha hammam will be pleasantly surprised. At the entrance you are given peshtemal towels and sheets. It is not too hot in the main hall of the Hararet, because it is customary to stay here for a long time, as if languishing and occasionally cooling off in the pool. For those who like something “hot,” there is a classic high-temperature sauna. In the center of the room there is a hot “belly stone”, on which clients receive a peeling massage using a hard mitt. Foam soap massage is also in favor here, which allows you to perfectly cleanse the skin. The men's and women's sections are located separately here.
9. Daikoku-Yu, Japan
Baths are also loved and appreciated in Japan, however, the heating technology here is slightly different. Instead of steam rooms, public baths called “sento” have hot water baths in which people actually sit, sweat and relax. Since 1927, the Daikoku-Yu bathhouse has been operating in Tokyo, which is called the “King of Sento”. From the outside, the bathhouse looks the same as it did in the distant 20s, resembling a Buddhist temple in appearance. But inside, extensive renovations and improvements were made in the late 90s. There are hot baths with temperatures up to 45 degrees, as well as cold and massage ones, there is even an outdoor bath. Tourists are amazed by the calm and leisurely atmosphere that reigns inside the bathhouse, both among clients and staff. But it is the complete relaxation of body and soul that gives its healing effect.
10. Dragon Hill Spa, Korea
Dragon Hill Spa in Seoul, Korea is a real Disneyland bathhouse! Entire families come here, and tickets are sold not for an hour or two, but for 12 hours. There really is something to do here. The seven floors of the complex are occupied not only by baths and swimming pools, but also by spa salons, massage rooms, a fitness club, a cafe and restaurant, and even a golf course. The main feature of the complex is the original dry steam rooms. In one, the floor is covered with layers of salt, the other is decorated with jade, the surface of the third is covered with cypress, and the fourth is heated with pine wood. There are also wet steam rooms and baths, as well as an ice room with a real snowman, where you can undergo a cryotherapy session. Men's and women's areas are located separately, there are relaxation rooms and a beautiful hall in a medieval style.
The bathhouse has long and firmly entered into our lives, not only as a place where you can relieve stress and improve your health. For modern people, a bathhouse with a steam room near the water has already become the same attribute as a car or a country house or apartment. And in most cases, authors and customers try not to limit themselves to a boring box or extension in the apartment in order to put their whole soul into it and please their friends and family with the originality of the design.
How to design a bathhouse
The most original and unusual baths are always built from wood. Firstly, this is the tradition and vast centuries-old experience of building a bathhouse on the ground, next to nature and water. Secondly, wood is rightly considered the most convenient material for any building, especially since it is impossible to make a real steam room from materials other than wood.
What types of wooden baths are there? There are good and bad, there are much fewer ugly buildings in nature, because even when building the simplest hewn bathhouse from timber or round logs, the craftsmen put so much imagination and soul into it that it would be hard to call it ugly.
The structures can be roughly divided into main groups of baths:
In addition to those listed, there are many buildings that are difficult to attribute to any of the groups; they are interesting and unusual, sometimes they look like a joke, but for the most part these are real baths in which you can have a great steam bath and relax by the water, despite their unusual appearance.
Wooden baths
The possibilities of using wood in the design and construction of steam rooms are almost unlimited, even in an apartment. At the same time, it is often difficult at first glance to even understand that in front of you is a bathhouse made of timber or a residential building.
Saunas made of timber and logs
Most often, these types of baths are either simplified to a log house, reminiscent of an old hut from a Russian fairy tale, or built on a grand scale in the most bizarre forms. The simplest would be a bathhouse made of timber, specially treated and profiled material with a cross-section of at least 150x150 mm. From such material you can build as complex and beautiful structures as you like, even for an apartment; they will all be strong and durable.
Buildings in the form of barrels, various figures or unusual piles look interesting.
Unusual design solutions of the structure force the paired rooms to be designed accordingly in the same unusual shapes and curves.
A bathhouse made from debarked and rounded logs, especially near the water, looks somehow more exotic and brighter. But in construction it is much more difficult, since it is formed using old techniques for connecting log houses. If you wish, you can always build something unusual with pronounced antique features. Against their background, a bathhouse made of timber looks somehow too ordinary and boring.
Unlike timber, a log vault requires a lot of additional protective and thermal insulation measures. But in design and expressiveness, the log version looks more picturesque, especially if it stands somewhere near the water, on the edge of a pine forest.
Designs for recreation on the water
A water bath is more unusual for our perception. Most often, the purpose of installing a building in close proximity to the shore is the so-called contrast swimming in cold water. According to the old Russian method, you need to run from the hot steam room and plunge into soft lake or river water. After such stress in cold water, the body seems to acquire new reserves of strength and energy. Not everyone can run to free water and not get killed on a slippery clay or muddy bank. Therefore, a water bath is taken as far into the water as possible or special wooden paths are built for access to clean water.
For example, in Finland there is a dugout bathhouse with an exit directly into the water of the lake. In terms of popularity, such a bathhouse is not inferior to modern saunas, and, interestingly, it has been smoking near the water since 1906, for more than a hundred years.
Such buildings near the water can be modular, in the form of mobile houses, containers or even barrels. They are easy to bring and install near the water, at the beginning of the season, in your favorite place in the river or bay.
The desire to go as far from the shore as possible has grown into a new form of water bath. In fact, this is no longer a self-propelled craft, on which a wooden house with a stove and a pipe is installed. This approach makes it possible to be closer to clean water, away from mosquitoes and coastal vegetation. It is clear that there are a great many options for building for water recreation, with cauldron-shaped baths and antique Japanese water barrels.
Relaxing on the water in such an unusual bathhouse requires extremely stringent fire safety measures, because a fire, especially at a distance from the shore, can lead to fatal consequences within a few minutes.
Bathhouse in the apartment
In trying to adapt a bathhouse for an apartment, a city dweller turned out to be no less inventive than those who like to relax in a steam room in nature. But, unlike in rural areas, where there is a supply of water and a place to jump out in case of fire, a ignited steam room in an apartment can destroy not only the owner’s home, but also the neighbors’ apartments.
The advantages of such pairs are obvious:
- You can steam your bones and muscles in your apartment at any time of the day or night; it’s much more convenient than wasting a lot of time traveling out of town to a dacha or a public steam room;
- The apartment option is an ideal means for preventing rheumatism and combating autumn colds;
- Having your own steam room in the apartment is a guarantee of hygiene and cleanliness.
Modern bathhouses for apartments are almost always made to order by specialized companies or purchased as ready-made kits. Branded designs are much safer and more reliable for an apartment, given the fact that heating air and steam using electric heaters in such a bath always requires very reliable wiring and protection against electric shock in water.
Most often these are box-shaped structures made of wood, some of them resemble an old telephone booth, but the external appearance and design of such options do not spoil the decor of the apartment. Most often, for reasons of convenience, baths are placed as close as possible to the water source - near the bathtub or shower in the apartment.
It’s rare, but you can still find interesting bathhouse designs - homemade ones for an apartment, designed for a couple of people. Despite all the inconveniences, their creators are happy to use the steam room in their own apartment. Some of them can even be placed in the living room of an apartment.
The design looks interesting. You can stay in such a bathhouse for an apartment for a long time without experiencing problems with breathing or overheating from hot water.
Without hesitation, you can call the design for an apartment shown in the photo the simplest and smallest sauna. This bathhouse design can, if desired, even be stored on the mezzanine or in any other place in the apartment.
Unusual shapes of baths
The shape and design can be the most unusual or even unexpected in its decision. So you can find a design in the form of a cable car cabin or in the shape of a pyramid. But such design options are not always aimed at getting full-fledged steam and relaxation by the water; rather, it is a way of self-expression.
Separately, we can recall the category of designs in the style of “wild nature by the water”. This can be a building in the form of a pile of stones or hidden in the crown of trees, on branches.
Baths in the form of unusual extensions in the apartment look exotic.
Bathhouse from a gun carriage
Among the many types of baths, this one is especially popular among novice builders. As a rule, installing a sauna box from a log with your own hands is beyond the capabilities of a DIYer. It is necessary to use an unusual material - a carriage, or a carriage block. Essentially, this is a debarked log, 35-40 cm in diameter, whose side “cheeks” are cut off, and the lower and upper supporting surfaces are profiled with an arc.
One of the options for a bathhouse made from a gun carriage is shown in the photo; at first glance, there is nothing unusual about it. The box resembles one of the types of timber construction, but this is only at first glance.
In practice, the use of such an unusual material provides considerable advantages:
- The corner lock pattern is significantly simplified;
- Good sealing at inter-crown joints, no need to caulk the carriage every year;
- After completion of the shrinkage processes, the walls of the bathhouse made of unusual material are much stronger than traditional log ones;
- The smooth flat surface of the walls simplifies finishing; you can easily hang furniture, a shelf, a picture, or cover it with clapboard with virtually no loss of useful space in the bathhouse.
For your information! Craftsmen say that 300 years ago ships and fortresses were built from gun carriages, so you can easily imagine how durable bathhouses made from an unusual material can be.
The most important thing is that building a bathhouse from a gun carriage has a completely different look than a timber or log structure. It cannot be called cheap, since you have to cut the log on a sawmill, but in many respects the unusual material turns out to be more preferable, especially if this type of bathhouse is built in a warm climate.
Bathhouse underground
Building a steam room underground today looks like an outlandish or unusual solution, but half a century ago, most types of “black” baths were made in the form of a dugout.
This steam room looks like a village cellar; it was unusual to see a chimney and ventilation hood above the dugout.
The main advantage of these types of baths is the unusually low price of construction. For the walls of the steam room, slabs or dead wood trunks are used; dried moss, branches of fruit trees and shrubs are used for insulation. One thing can be said - such an unusual sauna is not inferior in quality to an expensive log sauna, and its construction will cost a couple of thousand plus a stove and waterproofing material.
Bathhouse from a barn
The first thing that all summer residents try to do before building a full-fledged bathhouse is to turn the existing barn into something like a simple steam room. In the summer, as a rule, for such an unusual transformation of a utility block into a sauna, it is enough to cover the walls with a tarpaulin and foil polyethylene foam using a stapler.
The heater is made from a potbelly stove, with the pipe leading out into the barn window. In fact, this type of bathhouse is considered the most numerous, since all temporary steam rooms on construction sites and summer cottages are built on a similar principle.
Polycarbonate bath
Assembling a steam room made of transparent plastic is not as difficult as it might seem at first glance. Moreover, cellular polycarbonate retains heat perfectly. An unusual bathhouse can be made in a mini factor, as in the photo, or you can make a full-fledged steam room in the form of an extension to a barn or house.
In the latter case, you will need to first assemble the wooden frame of the unusual bathhouse, and secure the polycarbonate itself with an overlap and gluing the joints with tape or polyethylene.
According to reviews, the process of steaming in a transparent bath in the middle of snow and frost gives a very unusual sensation.
Kung sauna
Making a steam room from an aluminum car booth will require a lot of effort in order to find a suitable sample. After being written off, good-quality, insulated cabins or shift shelters are sold out like hot cakes.
No special modifications are required to equip such an unusual bathhouse. The change house is installed on a columnar foundation and the interior is lined with clapboard.
In the side niches of the kung there is always enough space to install a stove, a supply of firewood and even a small gasoline generator, if the place for an unusual bathhouse is chosen somewhere in the forest or on the shore of a lake.
Of all the listed types of baths, this one is best suited for fishermen, hunters and simply those who like to relax in nature.
To compile this rating, we visited the most popular baths and saunas in Moscow and are now ready to advise lovers of heat and brooms the best places to take a steam bath. So:
Usachevsky
This place is extremely popular among those who are not ready to spend serious money on a bathhouse, but at the same time count on truly high-quality heat and do not shy away from the rather peculiar manners of the local steam bathers.
Here you will find a classic Soviet interior with wooden partitions painted in a depressing burgundy color and tiles, which in the pre-perestroika years were glued to these walls using a mixture of Moment glue with dry construction plaster.
There is no swimming pool as such, the list of additional services looks extremely ascetic and includes, in addition to washing, only cosmetic procedures and massage. “Sadness and melancholy,” some will say. Nothing like that, just look at the local contingent! Stunning elderly professors, sophisticated ladies from the house on the embankment, and young ladies who are like two peas in a pod like the characters in the popular Soviet drama “Moscow Doesn’t Believe in Tears” often like to come here.
It has its own atmosphere and a crowd of avid bath attendants. Just one thousand two hundred rubles - and you will have the opportunity to stay in this “fairy-tale” place as long as your heart desires.
Seleznevskys
The primordial spirit of the old baths reigns here, and to this day the Soviet people live happily and well: the bathhouse attendants colorfully blow their noses into the sewage every now and then, tell obscene jokes and from time to time give each other rude compliments. And the steam that the grandmothers who work here provide is simply something! It is quite possible to go into a steam room as a sin and simply not return back.
As you probably already guessed, the word “repair” has not been heard here for a long time; it is quite possible to run into rust and burst tiles. Despite all this, the Seleznevsky baths are considered the best of the capital’s baths, and the quality of the local steam is legendary.
Sandunovskys
This is not just a bathhouse in Moscow, but a real monument of cultural heritage (the heat here has been famous throughout Moscow since 1808), and at the same time, perhaps the most “star” washing station in the entire eastern part of the Old World. Fyodor Chaliapin and Vladimir Gilyarovsky himself took a steam bath here more than once (“whoever hasn’t been to Sanduny has never seen Moscow”). After all, this is where Doronin-era Naomi Campbell loved to soap her gorgeous feet.
In a word, the place is extremely interesting. Just a dozen years ago, passage here for ordinary people was prohibited due to the high cost. Judge for yourself - entrance to the first-class cabin (where there is a stove from a steam locomotive and the most beautiful steam) cost about a thousand American dollars.
However, times have changed and baths have become closer to the people. At the moment, a booth in the highest women's category will cost 1,850 rubles, for the first category you will have to pay one and a half thousand. Remember that when coming here on weekends, you need to be prepared to stand in a huge queue among Moscow fashionistas who love to first generously smear themselves with Siberian mud, then lie around in a “cocoon” suit, and then steam and dive into the plunge pool. Join us!
Warsaw
The results of the recent reconstruction were increased prices, the absence of cockroaches, grannies with basins and a modernized design. The bathhouses of the peoples of the world located on the fourth floor make a particularly strong impression: it’s like a wild Ginza fantasy.
Here you will be offered professional service and an individual approach to everyone who wants to take a steam bath, and local specialists will probably buzz everyone’s ears with monologues about how wonderful it is to order a personal bathhouse and that everyone here does it.
It will all end with a local professional setting up the right temperature for you in the steam room, giving you some herbs to steam, wrapping you in a branded towel, as if from the Starkov hotel, while at the same time starting an unobtrusive conversation about the meaning of life and the search for sources of pleasure in it - they like things like that here Topics.
Despite all the negative aspects that the innovations brought with them, Varshavka also has an extremely significant, serious plus: a luxurious procedure for washing the body. Just imagine how gently they rub and pamper you. Girls, believe me, this is a real treat for your party-weary little body.
Krasnopresnensky
These baths are considered the main competitor of Sanduny and, despite the lack of historicity, enjoy well-deserved respect among lovers of steam and brooms. Here you will find a magnificent Russian steam room, cool “old-regime” staff and leatherette upholstery from the times of stagnation.
In addition, you can enjoy the now popular spa treatments, cryosauna, Ayurvedic massage, milk and almond peeling, and even separate VIP rooms, which modern baths rarely do without.
Local bath attendants prepare the steam room every forty minutes, creating an optimal balance between moisture and heat. They're not going to steam anyone to death here, but you can't expect much mercy either. The description of what is happening in the steam room is very reminiscent of the plot of low-budget mystical TV series: visitors enter, stack themselves on the shelves, and in the ringing silence the bath attendant begins to turn up the heat.
In the center of this entire idyll, a bucket of cold water, like ice, appears as a salvation for the faint-hearted; visitors are thrilled and quietly slide down the walls.