A bathhouse in RiNo, Denver
Heat, cold, and nothing else to do.
A wood-fired sauna, a steam room, a warm pool, two cold plunges and a quiet room. Two hours at a time, with your phone in a locker.
Sauna at 194°F, plunges at 39°F.
Five rooms, hottest first.
Follow them down the page the way you’d go round the house: as hot as you like, then as cold as you can stand, then nothing at all.
194°F
The sauna
- Wood-fired
- Fourteen seats
- Löyly on the half hour
A Finnish sauna with a wood stove and three tiers of cedar benches. Sit high if you can take it, low if you can’t. Every half hour one of us pours water on the stones and moves the steam around with a towel. It is better than it sounds.
118°F
The steam room
- Full humidity
- Eucalyptus
- Whispers only
Tiled, dim and so thick with steam you can lose the person next to you. Eucalyptus in the air, cool water at the tap. Lower heat than the sauna, and somehow harder to leave.
102°F
The warm pool
- Salt water
- Shallow
- Built for floating
A shallow salt-water pool at bath temperature, open to the courtyard. It is where the round gets easy: lie back, let the salt hold you up, and watch the steam come off the water on a cold night.
39°F
The cold plunges
- Two cedar tubs
- Bucket shower
- Two minutes is plenty
Two cedar tubs kept at 39°F and a bucket shower for the brave. In up to the shoulders, breathe out long and slow. The first ten seconds are the worst ten seconds.
Breathe
out.
Two minutes is plenty. It gets easier at about forty seconds.
72°F
The quiet room
- Loungers & blankets
- Tea bar
- Mountain view
Loungers, wool blankets, a tea bar and a long window facing the Front Range. Nobody talks in here. Lie down, drink something, and let your heart rate come back to you.
That was one round. Now do it three times.
Heat opens you up, cold shuts you down, and the rest is where it all lands. A round takes about half an hour. Most people do three and leave lighter than they came.
×3
about ninety minutes
01194°F
Heat
12 minutes
Sauna or steam. Leave when you want to, not when you think you should.
0239°F
Cold
2 minutes
The plunge, to the shoulders. Breathe out for longer than you breathe in.
0372°F
Rest
15 minutes
The quiet room or the warm pool. Drink water. Do nothing on purpose.
Two hours at a time.
Six sessions a day and never more than 24 people in the house, so there’s always a seat on the top bench. Book ahead, or walk in when there’s room.
Weekdays: 7:00 am, 9:30 am, 12:00 pm, 2:30 pm, 5:00 pm, 7:30 pm.
Weekends: 8:00 am, 10:30 am, 1:00 pm, 3:30 pm, 6:00 pm, 8:30 pm.
Weekdays: 7:00 am, 9:30 am, 12:00 pm, 2:30 pm, 5:00 pm, 7:30 pm.
Weekends: 8:00 am, 10:30 am, 1:00 pm, 3:30 pm, 6:00 pm, 8:30 pm.
- Women only: Women and non-binary guests.
- Silent: No talking anywhere in the house.
- Late: Low light and records in the quiet room.
What it costs
One session
$42a person
Two hours in every room. Turn up with a swimsuit; we have the rest.
- Towels, robe & sandals
- Tea & water
- Locker
Ten sessions
$360$36 each
For regulars. Share them with whoever you like; they last a year.
- Shareable
- Good for 12 months
- Book any session
MembershipMost loved
$139a month
Come every weekday if you want to, plus two weekend sessions a month.
- Unlimited weekdays
- Two weekend sessions
- A guest pass every month
The whole house
$560up to 12 people
Two hours after close, just your people. Birthdays, teams, the night before a wedding.
- Private sauna master
- Tea & snacks
- Sunday to Thursday
Never been? Good. Start here.
Bring a swimsuit
That’s all. Towels, a robe, sandals, shampoo and a locker are waiting for you.
Arrive ten minutes early
Long enough to change, shower and leave the day in the locker with your phone.
Go round three times
Heat, cold, rest. Go at your own pace; nobody is timing you, least of all us.
House rules
- Shower before anything else.
- Phones live in the lockers.
- The steam room is for whispering.
- Sit on a towel in the sauna.
- Drink more water than you think.
- Nobody is watching. Go at your own pace.
Questions people ask
Come in from the cold.
- Find us
- 3401 Walnut St
Denver, CO 80205Directions - Open
Monday to Friday
6:30 am – 9:30 pmSaturday & Sunday
7:30 am – 10:30 pm- Ask us anything
- hello@thawbathhouse.com(720) 555-0142
- Getting here
Six minutes’ walk from 38th & Blake station: the A Line, from Union Station or the airport.
Street parking on Walnut and Larimer. Bike racks out front, under cover.