Comments on: Sauna Nation – The 10 Weirdest Saunas in Finland

By: Mikko

Mikko — Wed, 23 Nov 2016 16:16:22 +0000

Since 70’s (May have been 60’s) sauna has actually been mandatory in ships under Finnish flag! This should also be the case with navy too. Finnish seamans union is responsible of that

By: Mikko

Mikko — Thu, 18 Feb 2016 23:03:29 +0000

When the Helsinki Music Centre or Musiikkitalo (concert hall) was completed in 2011, the sauna that was built in the dressing rooms of the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra made the news, even internationally. I can’t find a picture of it right now, but it was shown in a video clip on the Yle website at least. It’s a tiny sauna in a windowless, underground part of the concert hall building, so maybe not so much to look at. The other symphony orchestra housed in the building, the Finnish Radio Symphony, did not request a sauna, so their dressing rooms apparently don’t have one.

By: Tay Ribeiro

Tay Ribeiro — Mon, 15 Feb 2016 22:28:26 +0000

‘My entire city is a sauna’ – Someone from the tropics

By: Jussi

Jussi — Thu, 11 Feb 2016 23:35:25 +0000

One more speciality, a sauna on wheels: http://www.vetosauna.fi/sauna_website/#english

For the Finnish sauna culture, open ‘The official travel guide of Finland’ at http://www.visitfinland.com/article/join-the-finns-in-the-sauna/

I’ve worked in quite a few office buildings in Finland – and so far each of them has had a sauna. So have the hospitals and fire stations. When children go to the swimming hall (and that they all do at least a few times a year), they first go the sauna. Some years later they chat sitting in the university student unions’ saunas. Whether you live in an orphans’ home or a nursing home for the aged, you’ll have a sauna there.

I guess that 10 or 100 weird saunas could be found in many countries, not just in Finland. The real speciality of Finns is building a sauna everywhere. One at home, another at your summer cottage where you take your real friends, third at workplace where you take your business friends,…

And the real sauna elite naturally have their own Sauna Association fostering the sauna traditions: http://www.sauna.fi/in-english/the-finnish-sauna-society/welcome/

By: Arctica

Arctica — Tue, 09 Feb 2016 12:52:32 +0000

Oh, I thought they had changed their mind again and approved it in the end… I’ll have a look at those others, thanks =)

By: Liisa / Day With A Local Helsinki

Liisa / Day With A Local Helsinki — Tue, 09 Feb 2016 10:05:32 +0000

A great post about Finnish saunas, just one thing: it’s likely that the new library will be built without a sauna, at least that was the information they gave last year in the news http://yle.fi/uutiset/keskustakirjastoon_ei_tule_saunaa/7962244 – maybe you could replace that one with another one because, after all, there are over two million of them? Like the public saunas in Helsinki, or the one in the former prison http://www.hotelkatajanokka.fi/ravintola/tilaussauna.html, or the ones in Pihlajasaari, or Sompasauna 🙂

By: Claudi

Claudi — Thu, 04 Feb 2016 13:28:51 +0000

Jo, die Bib-Sauna, hab ich schon drüber gelesen, da sind wir noch weit davon entfernt – andererseits weiß ich nicht, ob ich so manche Kollegen oder auch Benutzer in der Sauna treffen möchte…

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 27 Jan 2016 02:13:16 +0000

In Finland, there’s a sauna over 1,4 kilometers under ground, in a mine.