The real sauna can only be experienced in Finland, its country of origin. There are more than two million saunas (and only five million inhabitants) in Finland!!!!
"Sauna" is the only Finnish word which has spread into most foreign languages including English and German.
A Finnish sauna is totally different from the various sweat rooms found all over the world. A real sauna is a very hot (about 70-100 degrees Celsius, 160-210 degrees Fahrenheit) room in which you throw water on hot stones. Then you sit on the benches without any clothes and enjoy the purifying feeling. Males and females don´t have a sauna together in Finland (except a wife and a husband).
For Finns the summer cottage with its sauna is the best place in the whole world. However, almost every family has an own sauna in a town, too. Nowadays even many people living in multistorey houses have own saunas. Houses have at least one sauna for the use of their inhabitants.
Most hotels have a sauna, sometimes also for use of non-hotel guests.
The Serena Indoor Aqua Park (20 kilometers from the centre of Helsinki) has good saunas, too.
Sauna Bar in Helsinki (adress Eerikinkatu 27) has two saunas. One sauna for women and one sauna for men. Further details: http://www.saunabar.net .
Café Tin Tin Tango has saunas which may be booked for 1-6 persons. Read more: http://www.aktivist.fi/tintintan
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The Finnish Sauna Society (Vaskiniemi in Lauttasaari, Helsinki) has two wood-heated saunas, two special smoke saunas and also an electric city sauna. Saunas are open for Helsinki Card holders. Prebooking is obligatory. Many spas and spa hotels have very good saunas, too.
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Website: http://www.sauna.fi, http://www.sauna.org, http://www.saunasite.com, http://cankar.org/sauna/index.html, http://www.serena.fi, http://www.saunabar.net
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