
so.sauna
Horsebox sauna in the 'Secret Garden' behind the Hangleton Manor pub. Entered through the pub garden, via the door next to the dovecote.
Portslade · 22 min walk
From£830 min, cheapest
The short answer
Hove has seven listed saunas and studios and three gyms with a sauna. Saunadelic is the wood-fired one, four venues have infrared and six have a cold plunge or ice bath. Sessions start at £8 (so.sauna, 30 min).
10 venues · Oldest price checked 6 Oct 2026
West to east. Postcode BN3 and the Hove seafront.
7 venues

Horsebox sauna in the 'Secret Garden' behind the Hangleton Manor pub. Entered through the pub garden, via the door next to the dovecote.
Portslade · 22 min walk
From£830 min, cheapest

Wood-fired sauna next to the Watersports Centre at Hove Lagoon. Finnish-made Narvi stove with volcanic rocks; cold dips in a freshwater tank.
Portslade · 23 min walk
From£1655 min, weekdays, cheapest

Private far-infrared sauna room, sole use for the session. First in Brighton & Hove to offer whole body cryotherapy (opened 2021).
Hove · 15 min walk
£3530 min, private room

Private infrared sauna rooms: 2 cabins, each session in your own room with its own shower. Housed in a 19th-century former bank on Church Road, converted in September 2024.
Hove · 10 min walk
£4030 min, private room

Indoor electric sauna clad in Canadian red cedar with Himalayan salt panels. Assisted 1-2-1 stretch therapy alongside the sauna; 75-min Sauna + Stretch combo.
Hove · 2 min walk
From£2050 min, cheapest

Infrared sauna plus cold plunge contrast-therapy studio (not a traditional Finnish sauna). Cold plunges kept at 5-8°C.
Hove · 22 min walk
From£1860 min, cheapest

Outdoor sauna and cold plunge in the back garden of a family home in West Hove; address only given on booking. Run by Barby De La Fuente-Ford, a qualified breathwork and life coach; breathwork in a studio next to the sauna.
From£1360 min, cheapest
Who can use it, and what a non-member pays.
| Where | Who can use it | Non-member price |
|---|---|---|
| Zone4 HoveUnits 2-4, Dairy Place, 37 The Droveway, Hove | Open to allno membership needed | not published |
| Natural Fit Health ClubSt. Agnes Church, Newtown Road, Hove, East Sussex | Members + guests | not published |
| Hove Fitness Club2 St Heliers Avenue (off Portland Road), Hove, East Sussex | Members only | none |
Status
Sun of a Beach Sauna, Church Road
A wood-fired sauna and plunge pool in the garden of Flat Out coffee shop. It appears closed or paused: its website has expired, its booking page shows no appointments for October or November 2026, and its last Instagram post was on 7 June 2026. We haven't listed it and will recheck.
Rockwater Hove sauna huts
Three beach-hut style timber sauna huts replacing Rockwater's three seafront kiosks. Not open yet.
Toasty Hove beach sauna
Community-led beach sauna run by a Community Interest Company that reinvests surpluses into community access. Not open yet.
Just over the border in Portslade (BN41 1DT), so not on this page: coaching gym for over-40s with a dedicated contrast therapy suite (traditional sauna + ice bath).
Answered from the venues' own pages, nothing else.
Seven saunas and studios on our list (so.sauna, Saunadelic, Cryobright, Float Spa, Sauna + Stretch, Recovery Room and Sauna Yard West Hove), plus three gyms with a sauna. Two more are planned or approved but not open. We checked each on its own website in October 2026.
so.sauna: £8 for 30 min. Sauna Yard West Hove is next at £13 for 60 min.
It appears closed or paused. The website has expired, the booking page shows no appointments for October or November 2026, and the last Instagram post was on 7 June 2026. We haven't listed it, and we'll recheck.
Not open yet. Rockwater Hove sauna huts and Toasty Hove beach sauna have planning permission on the seafront, with no opening date published.
Recovery Room, Sauna + Stretch, Sauna Yard West Hove, Saunadelic, so.sauna and Zone4 Hove (ice baths). Recovery Room is the only one that publishes a temperature: 5-8°C.
Zone4 Hove (open to all), Natural Fit Health Club (members + guests) and Hove Fitness Club (members only).
The full index, west to east, with the map.
Walk out of the sauna and straight into the sea.
Who has a plunge, an ice bath or the sea, side by side.
Gyms, pools and hotel spas: who can walk in, and what it costs.
A sauna to yourselves, priced per group and per head.
Private cabins and shared rooms, with prices.
Every shared session price in one table, with the median.
Every price and fact on this page was copied from the venue's own website or booking page and checked by code against a saved copy. We go round again every month.
Adult and gay saunas aren't listed. Spotted something wrong? Tell us. The full method is on how we check; the site is edited by Alex Christou.