Suolijärven Sauna – wood heated winter swimming sauna

NOTICE : Suolijärven sauna opened again 12.9.2021. The sauna time is divided to shifts with seat booking via web page. One shift is now 1 hour and in addition dressing&shower time before and after. If there are free seats in the sauna before or after your shift, you can extend your sauna session. Similarly you can also use the other sauna, if there is space. If you don’t book a seat beforehand, you can come (on your own risk) and the sauna carer makes the booking to the next shift with seats available.

Corona instructions:

Don’t come if you are ill!
Wash hands/use hand sanitizer.
Maintain safety distance in dressing rooms, saunas and outdoors.
Use the big dressing rooms a bit further from the saunas. Wearing mask there is recommended.
Avoid speaking loudly inside the sauna.

The opening hours of the sauna are divided to shifts with web page seat booking. One shift is now 1 hour and in addition dressing&shower time before and after. If there are free seats in the sauna before or after your shift, you can extend your sauna session. Similarly you can also use the other sauna, if there is space. If you don’t book a seat beforehand, you can come ”with a risk” and the sauna carer makes the booking to the next shift with seats available.

Sauna is a mixed sauna, swim suit mandatory.

Small dressing rooms without showers are located nearby (DURING CORONA TIME THESE ARE ONLY FOR THE KEY HOLDERS). There are also small lockers for valuable stuff (e.g. mobiles, wallets, keys), please share one with your friends. Big dressing rooms with showers and toilets are about 100 m from the sauna (USE THESE DURING CORONA TIME).

Welcome to this cosy ”summer cottage” like public sauna with traditional wood heated stove. Enjoy also the great landscape of Suolijärvi, cold water of the lake, snow and good sauna company. Before your sauna session, you can make some walking in the nature trails of Suolijärvi/Hervantajärvi.

Address of the sauna: Suolijärvenkatu 5. Public transportation: Bus number 6 ( bus stop Teekkarinkatu) or tram route 3 (stop Hervanta kampus, about 1 km walk).

Get familiar with: winter swimming instructions

Entrance fee

The Sauna fee is 7 €, 5 times card 30 €

Students, retired, unemployed 6 €, 5 times card 25 €.

Children (under 12 year) 4 €, 5 times card 16 €.

Payment to the sauna carer you can find somewhere nearby the sauna. You can Pay in cash, exact change preferred. You can also pay using MobilePay or card.

Sport related Smartum, Tyky and Edenred notes and Eazybreak, ePassi, SmartumPay and EdenredPay mobile apps accepted. Related cards can not be used.

Gear and service

Bring with you swim suit, winter swimming shoes or e.g. thick socks for walking snowy&icy paths and decks, water to drink (no tap water available near the sauna).

Gas grill available, bring your own sausages.

Seat booking

Here the link to the reservation system:

book a seat here – reservation calendar

Rent the sauna

You can also rent the whole sauna for your group in Suolijärvi. You can e.g. do some sports together at Suolijärvi recreational area, then go to the sauna and dip to the lake (and possibly grill some sausages) and then continue the evening e.g. in the centre of Hervanta. The first three hours 148 € (15 sauna goers sauna), additional hours 25 €/h. Only the big public dressing rooms with showers are in use (lockers available). Note that the sauna is located on a public beach and the sauna-goers should obey the rules of the beach.

It is possible to rent the 15 sauna goers sauna for your group before or after the public sauna hours, 75 €/h. Ask more!

For more info or reservation, call 040 0243559

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