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Welcome to the cool Saunablogger blog, stories from saunas around the world, from Finnish smoke saunas to luxury spa saunas. Not to mention hotel saunas!

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Swim in the East Itäkeskuksen Uimahalli
I visited the Itäkeskus swimming hall after many years of not being there. It is one of my favourite community swimming pools.
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February 2018, Itäkeskuksen uimahalli, Helsinki, Finland
Sauna (Normal); Swimming (Indoor, Water, Underground, Waterbody-Pool)

February Swim
I went for a swim in the Allas Sea Pool today, again. Except that now it is February, and it is -5 C outside.
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February 2018, Allas, Helsinki, Finland
Swimming (Outdoor, Ice, Beach, Water, Waterbody-Pool); Sauna (Normal)

Sauna at the Grand Hotel Beau Rivage
Janne and I visited Interlaken, and stayed at the Grand Hotel Beau Rivage. A grand, old style hotel, and I of course also wanted to visit their pool & saunas department.
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January 2018, Grand Hotel Beau Rivage, Interlaken, Switzerland
Sauna (Normal); Swimming (Indoor, Outdoor, Water, Waterbody-Pool)

Upper House Spa. Wow.
It was worth waking up at 6:45am for this. If I wanted to visit the Upper House Spa at the 20th floor of this Göteborg skyscraper, I had go early before my meetings.
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January 2018, Upper House, Göteborg, Sweden
Swimming (Indoor, Outdoor, Water, Waterbody-Pool); Sauna (Normal)

Kazakhstan Sauna!
It turned out that our hotel, the Uyut in Almaty had a sauna, and a small jacuzzi. The sauna was almost too hot, and there was no way to throw water on it.
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January 2018, Hotel Uyut, Almaty, Kazakhstan
Sauna (Normal); Swimming (Indoor, Water, Waterbody-Pool)

Järva Sauna
I thought I was being smart, staying at a cheap hotel, at a Stockholm suburb I've never been to before, Järva. But there were surprises...
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January 2018, Ibis Järva, Järva, Stockholm, Sweden
Sauna (Normal)

Kuusijärvi Smoke Sauna
Kuusijärvi smoke sauna and beach. Great public sauna, maybe best around Helsinki (?)
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January 2018, Kuusijärvi, Vantaa, Finland
Sauna (Smoke); Swimming (Ice, Water, Waterbody-Lake, Outdoor)

December Swim
I went for a sauna and swim in the Allas Seapool today. Late arrival, after 8pm... and they were already closing at 9pm.
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December 2017, Allas, Helsinki, Finland
Swimming (Outdoor, Water, Waterbody-Pool); Sauna (Normal)

Swissotel Singapore Sauna... Closed WTF?
I arrived... and needed a sauna. Or at least an excuse to completing that document. Actually, I really needed a sauna to wash off travel and to warm me up from the freezing aircon climate.
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November 2017, Fairmont Hotel, Singapore, Singapore
Sauna (Normal); Swimming (Indoor, Water, Waterbody-Pool)

StayAt Sauna
This is the cheap and far-away hotel for my office visits in Sweden. But it is comfortable and the staff is friendly. I like it, now even more when I realised there's a sauna.
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October 2017, StayAt Kista, Stockholm, Sweden
Sauna (Normal)

Memory of a Sauna
Visited the Memory Hotel sauna. Free, but needs to be reserved. Sauna reservations are not my thing. But not a bad sauna at all! There's also a pool.
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October 2017, Memory Hotel, Kista, Sweden
Sauna (Normal); Swimming (Indoor, Water, Waterbody-Pool)

Krakow Sauna
I had an opportunity to visit a sauna in Poland. Obviously I took the opportunity!
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August 2017, DoubleTree Krakow, Krakow, Poland
Sauna (Normal); Swimming (Indoor, Water, Waterbody-Pool)

Black Snow Apocalypse. Now.
Imagine bright, white snow, gently covering a mountain. Now imagine all that snow black, dirty. Melting hard ice, covered by an accumulation of pollution and dust from air. This is reality.
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August 2017, Hintertux, Zillertal, Austria
Skiing (Outdoor, Snow, Lifts); Health; Sauna (Normal); Swimming (Indoor, Water, Waterbody-Pool)

Four saunas in Dresden
Late arrival... quick dinner... and then onto testing the wellness area at Dresden's Hilton hotel. Usually, hotel saunas are simple, but not this one!
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July 2017, Hilton Dresden, Dresden, Germany
Sauna (Normal); Swimming (Indoor, Water, Waterbody-Pool)

GRUNT!
I'm between Czech Republic and Germany, on my way to a conference. Late night arrival... tired. But, the sauna at Hotel Grunt rescued me.
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July 2017, Hotel Grunt, Mlada Boleslav, Czech Republic
Sauna (Normal)

Arizona Sauna
I'm on vacation with Janne, a road trip through western US. Our hotel in Flagstaff turned out to have a sauna. Great!
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July 2017, Flagstaff Hilton Garden Inn, Flagstaff, Arizona, USA
Sauna (Normal); Swimming (Outdoor, Water, Waterbody-Pool)

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The Saunablogger articles appeared originally in the Blogspot Planetskier series, at TGR posts, or at the Relaa website. See also the articles about skiing, caving, urban exploration, climbing, cycling, flying, and swimming.