After years of planning, El Nido is over the moon to offer a new Finnish-style sauna experience with your cabin stay. Steam aprés-ski in the winter, and on chilly highland mornings in spring and fall.
We’ve built an entirely custom cedar sauna in the heart of a salvaged 80-year-old orchard shed, at the edge of our back field. Windows let in natural light with views of birds and passing weather. An entry deck serves for snow bathing and cold-water dousing, in view of Mount Cleman.
Sauna Passes are currently $30 per cabin visit,
for up to a week of access.
Add a Sauna Pass when booking online, or contact us to add access to your existing reservation. Visiting for more than a week? We’ll refresh your towels and restart your pass for week two.
You bring:
Water bottle (no glass!)
Swimwear or partial clothing
Slip-on footwear
We provide:
Pail to carry fresh water from cabin
Sauna bath and bench towels
Entry code and instructions
Sauna Pass holders please complete the Sauna Liability Waiver in order to receive your entry code.
Sauna Pass holders are responsible for their own safety and etiquette, and that of all members of their party. Participation in sauna is hazardous and use is at your own risk. El Nido Cabins assumes no responsibility for personal loss, injury, or illness of any kind which may result from use of the sauna.
From orchard shed to cedar sauna:
See this little Young’s Cabin roll through town to our back field and transform into a cedar sauna, through the work of many friends and neighbors!
High praise to our many friends and neighbors and craftspeople who built this! In order of appearance: Torri, our orchard shed provider; Roberto, Eduardo and Ray, our friends at Ayala’s Excavating; Spencer the Great; Ryan Mathern, my extremely competent big brother and nomadic collaborator. (Not pictured: Will Cawley, John Long, Nick Simpson, Aldo, and Joel.)
Our custom-designed sauna hot room comfortably seats six guests and features a powerful Finnish Harvia heater with 120lb of stones for even heat and steam. The electric stove comes to bathing temperature with a simple dial switch in about 40 minutes, and maintains a preferred temperature throughout the sauna session. (You can saunter away at the end without burning the place down!)