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<\/p>\nIt’s a short walk from the Bristol-Bath cycle path<\/p>\n
Estel is a Content Editor for Bristol Live. She joined Bristol Live in December 2019 after working at WalesOnline. She was a finalist at the 2019’s Regional Press Awards as well as the 2019’s and 2020’s Wales Media Awards. Born in Barcelona, Estel loves the countryside, yoga and a good bath.<\/p>\n
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The sauna only opened very recently<\/p>\n
Being one of those people driving Bristol’s sauna boom<\/a>, I was very excited when my friend said yet another one had opened – this time, in an industrial area of Fishponds<\/a> in East Bristol<\/a>.<\/p>\n Wild Sauna, described as ‘a sauna sanctuary for locals, by locals<\/a>‘, opened at Filwood House last month, just a short walk from JD Gym and the Bristol and Bath Cycle\/Railway Path. Despite living nearby, I had never been to that area of Fishponds but was not that surprised when my friend told me the spot had been earmarked for 2,000 new homes<\/a>.<\/p>\n Reminding me of Bristol Community Sauna<\/a> at St Anne’s House, in South Bristol<\/a>, the Wild Sauna is by a rather old-looking block housing some businesses. Located in the car park itself, I am loving people’s creativity on where there could be a sauna – in Bristol, we have one by an ‘abandoned’ seal pool<\/a> and another within some community gardens in East Bristol, for example.<\/p>\n Care has been taken to transform the spot – surrounded by greenery and bamboo canes – and you easily forget where you are. Despite not having been open long, the sauna was busy when we attended a mid-week evening; there were about six of us which felt about right for the size of the space.<\/p>\n There are also a couple of cold plunges and showers, as well as some lounge chairs to relax in. As usual in most saunas, conversation sparked between us after a while.<\/p>\n \u201cA sauna in Fishponds – I never thought I would see the day\u201d, said one man, which resulted in an interesting conversation on gentrification in the area.<\/p>\n There was also talk about restaurant recommendations – a recurring theme it appears, this being the second time I have been asked for them while in a sauna in the city. As a local journalist who loves to eat out, I am always more than happy to bombard people with suggestions of the city’s best restaurants.<\/p>\n We spent about an hour in the sauna, leaving with a much clearer head and feeling much more relaxed than we arrived. At \u00a310, the Wild Sauna offers an affordable way to go to a sauna in Bristol.<\/p>\n I am so happy Bristol is finally developing a sauna culture and we no longer have to pay for overpriced spa days in order to be able to get into a ridiculously hot room. Long may it continue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It’s a short walk from the Bristol-Bath cycle path Estel is a Content Editor for Bristol Live. She…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370260,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,748,393,12716,4884,15125,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-370259","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-bristol","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-fishponds","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-things-to-do-in-bristol","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115084937695591545","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/0_a9efacbe-48b6-490e-a94b-ca03a8e207cf.jpg\")
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