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Hastings Steam & Sauna Company
Category: Beauty and Spas Day Spas Day Spas [Edit]
766 Hastings St EVancouver, BC V6A 1R5
Neighbourhood: Downtown Eastside
(604) 251-5455
- Hours:
Mon-Sun 11 am - 11 pm
- Price Range:
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$$
- By Appointment Only:
- No
4 reviews for Hastings Steam & Sauna Company
4 reviews in English
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Review from alex l.
10/24/2011
Absolutely love this place. It is one of my favorite spots in Vancouver. While most of the old Scandinavian saunas in the region have dried up, Hastings still goes strong. Love the place and its rustic old-school feel. Love that there is an establishment you can bring all genders and have a sauna to yourself. I have also done the public men's sauna and enjoyed it, and its quite a bit cheaper.
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Review from Sheila W.
BC
12/8/2008
This is a sauna place on two floors. The ground level, which is also the top floor, allows you to rent a sauna with your friends. It costs around $13-$15 for about 90 minutes. We had four people and they gave us a six-person room. Once inside the room, it's clothing optional (you might want to ask your pals before stripping down to your birthday suit, but I'll leave that up to you).
Each entry room has two cot-type beds, a mirror, a fan and a place to hang your clothes. You can lock those on either side. Those led into a shower room, but it only had one shower head. The sauna was connected to the shower room. The sauna had two benches (tiered one above the other) and it was a tight fit to sit four people on one tier. Sitting some up, some down was kinda kinky considering the close quarters and sweaty nature of the sauna.
Some of the highlights of the experience was the chain to pull for water on the rocks to cause steam and heat up the room; and the eucalyptus oil available for an invigorating smell.
The place is about 80 years old, it's in good condition and clean, but it's a far cry from modern. One person in our party complained of "old man smell."
The bottom floor is a men-only public sauna. I've heard it's roomier, but I'm not allowed in! -
Review from Pamela R.
Vancouver, BC
6/26/2011
Very old but cleaner than you would think (given age and location). They pressure wash between uses. Early-bird special, about $14 for a private room/sauna for 90 mins.
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Review from Troy S.
Vancouver, BC
3/22/2009
I went here on March 22 Sunday, at 3:00pm Had no reservation. But you should call ahead and make one. I ended up with my own private Change room, Shower, Sauna, 2 day beds, like message tables to rest on in the room, also had a fan in it. The price was $17 for 90mins, the dry Sauna was like a blast furnace amazingly hot, oh yeah! you get a clean towel big one and a small sheet, a face clothe also a bucket too fill with cold water, which I put my face clothe in and kept myself wet, a bottle with eucalyptus mixture to squirt on the sauna rocks. I did'nt try it but they also have wet steam baths also. Next time. It was worth it.
