
For boutique gyms
The recovery tier members book back into mid-week.
One cabin, integrated with Mindbody or Mariana Tek, run as a bookable add-on inside membership tiers or as a paid drop-in.
What the cabin asks of your floor plan.
- Footprint
- 2.52 × 3.96 m Rear courtyard or terrace; slope tolerance to 15°
- Electrical load
- 6 kW HUUM Drop — the highest single line on the feed
- Capacity
- 4–5 bathers Two bookable slots per hour with the 10-minute turnaround
- Heat retention
- Olivine cage Stone-loaded heater holds temperature across back-to-back sessions
- Staffing in-session
- None Pre-heated on the booking; members swipe in like a class
The membership math
Two ways operators price it. Both beat a treadmill.
Bundled into the top tier
Four included recovery sessions a month at the top membership level. Operators tell us this is the retention play: the member who books a Thursday sauna after Tuesday's class has a mid-week reason to stay a member in February.
Sold as a drop-in
A paid recovery session alongside the class schedule — ancillary revenue from the same square metres, without adding a coach or a class slot. On ClassPass-connected studios it lists like any other inventory.
The dossier carries sector pricing benchmarks with their sources — so you can sanity-check the tiers against your own member base.
The math, on your numbers.
Estimated annual incremental revenue
$—
- Payback period
- — months
- Investment
- $—
Arithmetic on the figures you enter — not a revenue forecast or guarantee. This counts direct sauna revenue only; it excludes the room-ADR and OTA-conversion uplift the dossier models, plus operating cost, financing, and tax.
Commercial-duty hardware, certified for the schedule you run.
- HUUM Estonian-engineered heater Drop 6 kW — Red Dot Design Award, 2015
- ThermoWood-D Heat-treatment class Thermo-treated wood cladding, 190°C — dimensionally stable outdoors
- Rating A Energy rating, verified 80 mm rock-wool, λ 0.034 W/mK
The studio dossier: pricing benchmarks and the booking scope.
What a founder forwards to their ops lead — Mindbody / Mariana Tek integration scope, membership-tier pricing benchmarks from operator interviews, and the electrical + footprint drawings.
- Full material specification + supplier certificates
- Electrical, foundation, and structural-load drawings
- Per-property ROI model (your ADR, occupancy, unit count)
- Lead-time + install-day sequence, base by base
What studio founders ask before the dossier
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How does this monetise alongside our class pricing?
Two patterns we see most often: bundle session passes into membership tiers (e.g. 4 included recovery sessions per month at the top tier, paid add-on below that), or run sauna sessions as standalone paid drop-ins. Across the sector, the reported pattern is that the bundled approach drives retention; the drop-in approach drives ancillary revenue. The dossier carries pricing benchmarks from operator interviews.
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Does it integrate with our booking software?
Yes — Mindbody and Mariana Tek both expose the booking primitives we need. The HUUM JSON API ties into the session window so the cabin is pre-heated by the time the member arrives. For ClassPass-connected studios, recovery sessions sit alongside primary classes in the inventory; the bookings flow through your existing scheduler.
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What's the capacity per session?
4–5 bathers, 30–45 minute typical session. For a boutique gym running 1,200 active members and 6–8 high-intensity classes a day, the cabin operates as a recovery amenity for the post-class window. Capacity isn't the bottleneck; scheduling is — most operators run two slots per hour with a 10-minute hygiene turnaround.
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Where does it install?
Outside. The cabin is engineered for outdoor service — typically on the studio's rear courtyard, terrace, or any 2.52 × 3.96 m of relatively level ground (slope tolerance up to 15°) with a power feed within 6 m and crane access for the install lift. We do not retrofit indoor wet-room conversions; the EPDM roof + thermowood cladding + steel frame is designed for outdoor exposure, not for interior compliance pathways.
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How does it survive intensive daily use?
It's engineered for commercial-grade operation: 304-grade stainless hardware (316-grade for coastal sites), HUUM Drop 6 kW heater, Canadian hemlock cladding chosen for closed-grain stability through repeated heat-humidity cycling, and a hygiene turnaround between booked sessions. A boutique gym's session frequency is reviewed against the commissioning schedule before launch.
Tell us your member count. We'll model the recovery tier.
A 25-minute call against your class schedule and membership tiers — then the studio dossier with the bundled-vs-drop-in math run on your numbers.
Boutique gyms, recovery studios, run-club studios, performance studios.