The Urban Sauna Opens in Anfield on November 14 With Two Log-Burning Saunas and a £497 Founding Year
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The Cherry Lane site has two wood-fired saunas for up to 16 people each, two hot tubs and three ice baths, open 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. The first 100 members pay £497 (about $671) for a year, and another £6 million of building is planned.
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Fifteen pounds buys a session in a log-fired sauna in Anfield from Saturday. The Urban Sauna opens on November 14 on Cherry Lane, in north Liverpool, with a public viewing from noon to 4 p.m. Each session takes up to 35 people for £15 (about $20), the company told SaunaNews.
Guests get two log-burning saunas for up to 16 people each, two 10-person hot tubs, a six-person ice bath and two single ice baths. It is open from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. every day, local business press reported on October 29.
The Urban Sauna at a glance
- Where Cherry Lane, Anfield, Liverpool L4 6UG
- Opens Saturday, November 14, 2026, with a public viewing from noon to 4 p.m.
- Heat two log-burning saunas, each for up to 16 people, built in Latvia
- Sessions up to 35 people; £15 (about $20) each
- Cold and water a six-person ice bath, two single ice baths and two 10-person hot tubs
- Hours 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily
- Founding membership £497 (about $671) for 12 months, first 100 members; £999 (about $1,349) a year after that
- Owner part of the Seven Group NW companies, a Liverpool regeneration and development group
- Investment more than £2.5 million (about $3.4 million) so far, with another £6 million (about $8.1 million) planned
The first 100 members pay £497 (about $671) once for 12 months of unlimited sessions, starting the day it opens, according to the company’s website. After those places go, a year is due to cost £999 (about $1,349).
Saunas built in Latvia
The two saunas were built by a specialist in Latvia and shipped to Liverpool, The Urban Sauna told SaunaNews on November 10. Both burn logs, so the heat comes from a wood fire rather than an electric heater.
A business park brought back to life
The saunas sit on part of a former business park that Seven Group spent four months reworking. A nursery, a play center and seven trade units already use other parts of the site. The whole hub covers 24,000 square feet, and the sauna is due to bring 20 jobs. Shane Hanley, a director of Seven Group, co-founded The Urban Sauna.
More than £2.5 million has gone into the site over two years, according to the local reports. The next £6 million will redevelop the rest of it, with new units for a gym, Pilates and a pool, the company told SaunaNews.
A new kind of sauna for the city
Liverpool’s best-known public saunas sit on the waterfront. Wyld Sauna runs two floating saunas at Princes Dock, with one-hour sessions from £12.50 (about $17), and Sauna Birds runs eight-person sessions on Queens Dock. Anfield brings wood-fired heat, hot tubs and ice baths together on one inland site.
Public sauna is growing across the UK. The British Sauna Society’s UK Sauna Map lists more than 800 saunas, London’s first Sauna Week in October had 28 venues, and a British study this summer tied weekly communal sauna to mental health gains.
