Sauna in Stockholm with lake bathing and fitness centre
The picture is from the new pond. Below you can read more about how it came to be and why.
Keep calm and respect the fact that your sauna guest has come for a quiet moment
The sauna here at Hellasgården in Nacka, Stockholm, is a place for recovery and recreation. Please respect that many of our guests come for these very reasons.
Sauna with colleagues? Take a look at our suggestions for different conference packages!
We expect you as a guest to be considerate of other guests in order to achieve an optimal environment with minimum strain on the facility and maximum consideration for other guests.
Book your visit here on the website, choose the start time, keep the time - and enjoy!
You book your visit online, and choose one of the available start times, see below.
If you want to stay longer than 90 minutes - please note that you have to make two separate bookings with consecutive start times, as an annual pass holder you do this at no extra cost.
Weekdays:
8:45-10:15
10.30-12:00
12:15-13:45
14:00-15:30
15:45-17:15
17:30-19:00 (not during infusion)
19:15-20:45 (not during infusion)
Weekends:
9:15-10:45
11:00-12:30
12:45-14:15
14:30-16:00
16:15-17:45
Check in
You check in at reception by mentioning your name to the staff. You will be let into the changing room when your start time begins. If you are late for your start time, you can still check in, but your visit will be shorter.
Check-out
To avoid overcrowding, you should be changed and ready and leave the centre at the agreed time indicated on your booking. For example, you have booked a visit with a start time of 10:30 and you leave the centre at 12:00 at the latest. This applies even if you happen to be late for your check-in.
To help you keep track of the time, we have clocks set up in the shower rooms.
(Guests who do not respect the check-out time may be prevented from future visits by the resort's operators, especially during our busiest times, such as weekends and some evenings).
If you have an annual pass, you can book two consecutive times
If you have an annual pass and want to stay in the centre longer than one visit entitles you to, you can easily book two consecutive times. Of course, you don't have to leave the centre between the times when other guests do.
Drop-in possible on weekday mornings
On weekdays until 13:00, drop-in visits are possible subject to availability and starting times, read more under check-in above. However, we recommend that you pre-book these times as well.
You can of course start your drop-in visit at any time, subject to availability. But to be able to use the facility for a maximum of 90 minutes, you must start your visit at one of our fixed start times. If you start later, your visit will be shorter. Perhaps it is better to wait for the next start time with a walk in the surroundings or a visit to the Sjöcaféet?
Number of contemporary guests
The maximum number of simultaneous visitors is 22 ladies and 22 gentlemen and a visit is 90 minutes. We have made the judgement that this is a reasonable maximum number of visitors and a reasonable length of visit in light of the size of the sauna and how an average sauna visit takes place.
During the times we use mixed saunas, the maximum number is reduced to 17. The number is based on an estimate of how much the mixed sauna form affects the occupancy of the men's sauna.
How to reschedule your appointment
Your entrance ticket can be rebooked to another day (only online and no later than 6 hours before intended arrival) if you have chosen a rebooking guarantee in connection with the booking, a rebooking guarantee costs SEK 20 per person. NOTE! If you have a group booking, it is not possible to rebook for any of them, but you rebook for the entire booking. Therefore, you must have a rebooking guarantee for all persons in the same booking.
Here's how to reschedule:
Click on Change (the text in blue colour for good visibility, no later than 6 hours before your planned arrival) in the receipt that you received from us by email when you made the booking.
If it's been a while since you booked, search for "Hellasgården" in your email, and you'll find the confirmation.
Then choose a new time for your visit.
However, your admission ticket cannot be cancelled.
If you book when less than 90 minutes remain until closing time...
We usually close at 20:45 on weekdays. If you book a visit starting later than 19:15, you must still be out of the facility when we close, so your visit will be shorter than 90 minutes.
Respect the calm on Thursdays!
We have different themes and activities, such as Aufguss on Wednesday evenings and quiet evenings on Thursday evenings. Some guests come to us on Thursdays just to have a moment of peace, quiet and silence. Please respect this. If you want to spend time with your friends, we would like you to book another time.
NOTE! Quiet Thursdays are cancelled until October when autumn darkness falls.
Together we keep it clean and tidy
You as a guest and we as operators also have a shared responsibility to ensure that the facility is clean and tidy - we have recycling bins for plastic, paper, pet and other items in the changing rooms - and that unnecessary congestion is avoided.
Forgotten things
Stored items are kept outside for two weeks. Staff cannot go through all forgotten possessions, so if you have forgotten something, you are asked to look for it yourself. You do not need to call/email us beforehand.
Prices
Daytime on weekdays: 110 kr.
Evening and afternoon hours on weekdays, from 14:00: 130 kr.
Weekends: SEK 170, public holidays: SEK 180.
Children up to 7 years, half price.
Rent the sauna privately: 2 500 SEK. Read more
Towel hire: 75 kr, bathrobe: 110 kr.
Buy lock: 110 kr
Shower cream: 25-40 kr
Sauna bathing with colleagues?
This is how the visit works:
Tip - remember to drink plenty of water!
You are most welcome to experience the amazing and unique Hellasgården 🤗🐳🤩!
Rules - the following apply to ensure that everyone enjoys the sauna and other facilities:
Cool off in Källtorpssjön
As a sauna guest, you can cool off in Källtorpssjön via our bathing jetty. Our guests swim here all year round!
After a swim in the lake, it is popular to relax on our terrace, located overlooking the lake and directly adjacent to the sauna building.
OBS! Rinse with a towel all around your body on the terrace, on the way to and from the dock.
The walkway to and from the bathing platform is a vulnerable environment. We advise you to stay there in the company of another bather. The jetty can be slippery and there is a risk of severe hypothermia when swimming.
All swimming is at your own risk.
Diving prohibited!
Opening hours
Opening hours weekdays: 8:45-20:45. (Last bookable start time 19:15)
Saturdays and Sundays: 9:15-17:45 (Last bookable start time 16:15.)
Different opening hours some weekends and in summer.
Each visit is a maximum of 90 minutes, even if you arrive later than planned, you must leave the centre at the time your reservation ends.
Mixed sauna on Mondays and Wednesdays
On Mondays and Wednesdays, women are allowed to visit the men's sauna but not the shower, changing rooms and toilets. You book your visit as usual - ladies book a place on the women's side and men book a place on the men's side.
NOTE! Does not apply to public holidays.
Culture-safe mixed sauna
A clarification: our mixed sauna facilities are safe for women with a cultural and/or religious affiliation that makes it unthinkable to be in the same sauna as people of the opposite sex. The ladies have their own sauna to which no men have access, as does the terrace outside the sauna, where the men's section is separated from the ladies' by a plank.
Quiet evening on Thursdays - respect the peace and quiet
On Thursday evenings from 16:00, we dim the lights in the changing rooms and set up tea lights and lanterns in the changing rooms and sometimes also in the sauna during the October-April period.
Some guests come to us on Thursdays just for peace and quiet and a moment of silence. Please respect this!
We would prefer, in all goodwill, that young children stay at home this evening, as they risk detracting from the experience of peace and spiritual restoration for other guests.
The same applies if you visit the sauna to hang out with your friends. We suggest that you book a time other than Thursday evenings.
Rent a sauna privately
You can rent the newly renovated sauna privately before or after our regular opening hours.
Time: 7:30-9:30/after 21:30 on weekdays and 18:30 on weekends.
Price per department: 2500 SEK/first hour and 1500 SEK next hour on weekdays. On weekends: 2500 SEK/hour. (Please note: all prices exclude VAT.) For larger groups, from 20 people and upwards, we recommend booking two sections.
OBS! There is an extra charge of 1000 SEK if you book on special holidays such as Christmas, New Year, Midsummer Eve and Christmas, New Year, Midsummer Day, Good Friday from 3 pm. Please contact us by email to get the exact price.
Book the sauna privately: email your request to info@hellasgarden.se, indicate the date and time you wish to book.
Payment: to complete your booking, please pay the invoice from Visma before arrival.
OBS! It is very important that you respect the times. Your booked time is counted from the moment you arrive at the facility until the moment you leave. Groups running late will be charged 1000 SEK.
Bring towels to sit in the sauna and for your feet, to go out and use afterwards, and preferably flip-flops/slippers/sandals to go in and out.
Cancellation: at least 7 days before arrival the full amount will be refunded, after that - no refund. Rebooking- 72 hours before your booked time.
Clipboard
We have started selling digital clip cards. Valid for 1 year from date of purchase.
When you get to "Fill in your details", click on the "I have a gift card code" button. Enter your unique code that you received when you bought the card.
If you have bought a card before the pandemic, enter CLIP CARD when booking, the price will change to 0. Enter the word "clip card" in the "I have a gift card code" button. You show your clip card at the reception/lake café where the staff will clip it. Not valid on weekends.
Price: 990 SEK/daytime, 1190 SEK/evening and 1490 SEK/weekend.
Annual pass
Now you can also buy annual passes online. Show your ID card at check-in for the staff of the reception/lake café. Price: 3990 kr
When you get to Fill in your details, click on the I have a gift card code button. Enter your unique code that you received when you purchased your annual pass.
Parking tickets
Annual passes (January - December) for the car park are only sold to those who have an annual pass for the sauna. Please enter your annual pass code at the reception.
Price annual pass parking: 1200 kr.
Bruce
Bruce members use the code BRUCE when booking - click on the I have a gift card code button. You make one booking per member, i.e. you can only book for yourself. NOTE! You cannot cancel but rebook via email to info@hellasgarden.se, there is an additional charge of 20 SEK per rebooking and per time.
Check in at the checkout point at the reception.
Aufguss - aroma sauna on Wednesday evenings
On Wednesdays from 18.00-21.00 we have an aroma sauna with "aufguss", under the guidance of our knowledgeable and inspiring "saunameisters".
Admission on these evenings is €180, and your stay is limited to 1.5 hours.
You book in the same way as a normal sauna visit - choose the product Aufguss (ladies) or Aufguss (men).
All aufguss guests shall have the opportunity to attend at least two aufguss sessions (sittings).
Usually there are 30 minutes between sessions, but from 19.30 there is one session per quarter until the last session at 20.00. If you book the last start time of the day (19.30), you should be able to attend the 19.45 and 20.00 sessions.
Mixed infusion evenings
During the aufgus evenings we allow mixed saunas - so ladies are welcome in the men's section.
More about aufguss
Aufguss comes from German sauna traditions and can be translated as "pouring on".
In an aroma sauna, the sauna master pours water with fragrant essential oils over the hot stones of the sauna heater, creating wonderful air currents that are enhanced by the sauna master waving/swishing a towel.
A session lasts 5-8 minutes and takes place on a rolling basis during the evening. So you can't expect to be at every sitting, but guests take turns to bathe/shower/rest.
The Aufgussmeister decides how many people can fit in the sauna at the same time and when the sessions take place.
To allow guests to relax and enjoy the scents and warm breezes, the seating is done in silence.
The last session of the evening is at around 20:30, so that everyone can finish in peace and be out of the centre by 21:00.
Saunameisters: Tomas, Lars, Tauno, Olav, Mi, Karin and Kersmine.
Panoramic view of the new steam room built at an angle.
This is how it happened when the pond was rebuilt...
Before the facility was rebuilt starting in summer 2020, the capacity on the women's side was significantly smaller than the men's side. Both the women's changing rooms and the sauna were smaller than the men's.
When the pandemic paralysed parts of the business, the owner, Hellas Alliance Association (a collection of Hellas clubs, read more here) in close consultation with us, the operators of the facility, to carry out the necessary renovations - and a desired redesign of the women's side.
By changing the layout, on a proposal from architect Petter Lindblad of Partum, space was created for more changing lockers and showers - as well as a larger sauna.
The sauna was built at an angle and involved experts in sauna and ventilation. The test runs we did before opening the facility showed that the air circulates as planned and that the heat spreads in a desirable way in the space.
The heater used is a Harvia brand, which is the most common heater used in public saunas in Finland.
Most of the work has been carried out by craftsmen at Söderorts Bygg. We who run the business have enjoyed working with Söderorts Bygg.
During the pandemic, we also moved to online bookings. We can now track booking statistics and see that Hellasgården is used as much, or more, by women than by men. The refurbishment has therefore proved to be well justified and timely.
Here you can see the new reception area.
From idea to reality - the new reception and activity centre
The new reception and activity centre will serve as a hub for all activities at Hellasgården.
For those of us who run and work at Hellasgården, this is a big step - now we separate the café operations, which will continue to be run in the Sjöcaféet, and the management of all activities - everything from sauna visits and football golf to overnight guests and conference guests.
Hopefully, this will enable us to offer even better service to you as a guest.
Unlike the other parts of the sauna building, the design and furnishings for the reception area have been carried out and largely financed by us, the operators.
The new reception is designed by Ekotekten and the interior has been manufactured and finished by Golden Interior. A combo that we have greatly appreciated having the chance to work with.
What to do if you can't pay online
It happens (nowadays very rarely) that some guests have difficulty paying online. If this happens to you, please send an email immediately to info@hellasgarden.se.
Indicate the time you wish to book.
To facilitate troubleshooting, we would also like you to state:
What type of card you are using, if you are booking via mobile then it is of interest to know what type of mobile phone, and if you are booking via computer you will want to know what browser you are using.