Before your arrival:
- Please leave valuable belongings at home.
- If possible please avoid wearing heavy make-up and body lotions.
- Please do not eat heavy meal one-and-a-half hours before bathing. No food allowed to the Spa.
- Arrive min. 15 minutes before your time-slot starts to allow enough time for check-in procedures and changing to swimming costumes.
- Please bear in mind that contact lenses will dry out and glasses will become very hot and should therefore not be worn in the sauna. Same applies to metal parts such as watches and jewellery and they therefore should not be brought to the Spa.
- Please bring body towel and slippers
- Please note than no child under age of 7 is allowed to the Spa under the Sky.
Before and during hot tub- and sauna-bathing please drink plenty of water to replace of the fluids lost during perspiration. Drinking water will be available at the Spa.
TYPICAL SAUNA EXPERIENCE:
- Drink plenty of fresh cold water.
- For hygienic reasons always use a towel to sit on in the sauna.
- Time in the sauna must not exceed 8-10min followed by cool-down period.
- Sauna temperature is in the region 60°C – 95°C.
- For inexperienced bathers, children, and elderly bathers 70°C is the maximum recommended for safe bathing.
- When the heat becomes uncomfortable leave the sauna and cool down either gradually by sitting outside the sauna or take a cold shower.
- When you have cooled down you may use a hot tub or return to the sauna to experience more heat. If comfortable, add water to the stones to produce steam and to increase the temperature. Always consider fellow bathers. Again, leave when you feel uncomfortable – sauna should be a pleasurable experience not a trial.
- The hot/cold cycle can be repeated as often as comfort allows. However bathing for too long may result in nausea and dizziness so don’t overdo it.
- When finished cool down and enjoy the sensation brought by the sauna. Take a shower.
- Drink a lot of fresh water.
TYPICAL SWEDISH-STYLE HOT TUB EXPERIENCE:
- Drink plenty of fresh cold water.
- Water-temperature is maintained at 37-39*C which is the most pleasurable and safe level as it is slightly warmer that humans' body-temperature.
- You could stay in the hot tub as long as you fancy during your time slot, relaxing, unwinding, listening to the fire and watching the sky.
- Please avoid use of Shampoo, Soaps and oils in the tub as they would create unpleasant particulars in your spa water and damage your experience. Please bear in mind that the hot tub is not for cleaning your body from outside. This experience is to help you to clean your mind and your inside. Thanks to this experience you will lose toxins, tense and stress from inside of your body.
- Running, jumping and climbing on, or in the vicinity of, the Tub are strongly discouraged.
- Please do not swallow the spa water.
- Please do not submerge your head.
Are you in one of these groups?
Children: You are strongly advised to allow no child under 10 to participate on sauna-bathing. The body temperature of children and young people will rise much more quickly owing to their underdeveloped thermo-regulatory mechanism. Children must be supervised at all times.
The time children spent in the sauna should be limited to 3-4min and they must replace liquids on each cool-down period. Adults must be aware of the danger of heat-stress in children and ensure from the early indications of stress that they are not put at risk.
Elderly: As the body gets older it becomes less effective in dealing with cardiovascular stress. Consequently the elderly bathers should modify their sauna-regime to ensure they are not over-stresses. No higher temperature than 70°C is recommended.
Pregnant women: Are advised not to use sauna and other heat-treatment or should seek medical advice before doing so.
Diabetics: Are strongly advised to check with their doctor before sauna- and hot tub-bathing.
You should not use the Spa:
- If you have serious illness, or have a heart condition, high or low blood pressure, respiratory condition, or any other medical condition which may affect your reaction to heat.
- If taking medication for any of the above conditions or of which you are unsure as to the advisability of using saunas or hot tubs.
- Are susceptible to migraines – sauna and hot water can heighten that.
- Have had diarrhoea within the last 14 days.
- Have a contagious decease, infectious skin condition, open sores and wounds.
- Have an illness causing an inability to perspire.
- Have had a heavy meal within one-and-a-half hours.
- Are under the influence of alcohol or drugs
