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FIND THE BEST SEA SAUNA NEAR YOU

Sea saunas in the UK are popping up all over the place: hoorah for sea saunas! They’re great for surfers, sea swimmers, and those who like to stay firmly on shore. Invigorate your senses and boost your wellbeing with a trip to a seaside of coastal sauna: the UK’s hottest trend. It’s perhaps no coincidence that the Finns, inventors of the sauna, are consistently voted the world’s happiest nation

If you know some who loves a sea sauna after wild swimming, they’ll love our best-selling foodie travel book, The Coastal Café Guide. Take a look and perhaps buy a copy now for their next birthday. They might repay you with a voucher for a sea sauna… 

With sea dipping also on the rise, boasting an impressive list of health and wellbeing benefits too, sea saunas are seeing a significant rise in popularity.  What better way to warm up after a dip in the surf?

Here are a few of our favourite sea saunas. Grab your cozzies and go get some yourself some Vitamin Sea. 

Sea Scrub: the sea sauna in Margate

The first commercial Saunum Cube Sauna in the UK. With bluetooth speakers and adjustable lighting, the Sea Scrub sauna is the best place to enjoy the stunning views of the Margate coast line. Offering private or social sessions, depending on your preference. 


Visit Sea Scrub Sauna in Margate 

Sea Biscuit: a sea sauna in Aberdeen

Calling sea-swimmers in Scotland (or those who like to stay warm and on shore): here’s your ideal wood-fired horsebox sauna at Aberdeen Beach. Take five friends along to soak up views of the North Sea. Treat yourself to a Sauna Spa Platter with face mask, body scrub, fruit platter, ‘Nosecco’ (booze and saunas don’t mix, kids), flannels, and scented oil for water. 

Visit Sea Biscuit Sauna, Aberdeen

For a sea sauna in Worthing: head to Fire Salt Sea

An authentic wood-fired sea sauna on the beach in Worthing with a 200kg wood-fired Estonian stove and Finnish olivine rocks. Enjoy unbroken views out to sea through the full width window. Prices haven’t been increased since 2020 to keep it affordable for all. Perfect for wild swimmers, morning dippers, and those who just love a sea sauna on the Sussex coast.


Visit Fire Salt Sea

For a sea sauna in Padstow or Polzeath: hit up Saunas by the Sea

Two first-rate North Cornwall beaches, two golden sea saunas: you’ll find Saunas by the Sea in arguably two of the most desirable beach destinations in the UK: Polzeath (one sauna’s in the village centre and one’s hidden in Baby Bay, just along the beach) and Padstow. Cosy up in the wood-fired cabins before a plunge in the sea, or warm up after as you catch some waves in the rightly-famous surf. If you’re looking for a sea sauna in Polzeath or Padstow, look no further. The Wild Spa and Wellness Centre (part of the central Polzeath offering) adds outdoor classes, yoga, workshops, and a cold plunge pool to the sauna experience.


Go to Saunas by the Sea

Seek a sea sauna in Poole? Head to The Salt Water Sauna

The Salt Water Sauna invites you to a Nordic bathing experience. It was set up by Arlene, a Finn living in the UK, who wanted to create an authentic sauna experience. Through Tree Era, for every sauna booked a tree is planted, off-setting the wood used to fire the sauna. Aficionados can also check out their winter wellness retreats, hosted in Helsinki.

Go to The Salt Water Sauna, Poole

Looking for a sea sauna in Dover? You need Rebels Sea Sauna

A café and sauna set below the iconic white cliffs of Dover. More than just a sauna, but a community hub, where you can swing by for a sauna session, Tea and Tarot, or an art exhibition – check out their socials for more info on events.

  
Visit Rebels Sea Sauna in Dover

Need a sea sauna in Bude? Seek out Ocean Soul Sauna

Set right on Crooklets Beach, you can enjoy the views across the wide sandy beach as you invigorate your senses. If you’re looking for a sea sauna experience in Bude, you have come to the right place. Peer through the half-moon window straight out to sea.  


Visit Ocean Soul Sauna, Bude

Looking for a sea sauna in Oxwich Bay, Swansea? Try: Ty Sawna

This was Wales’ first beach sauna. Wood-fired and barrel-shaped, this sea sauna is right next to the sea at Oxwich Bay. Enjoy beautiful views of the ocean through the panoramic half moon window. 


Visit Ty Sawna, Oxwich Bay 

Need a sea sauna in Portsmouth? Visit Southsea Café

An independent bistro café right on the water’s edge in Eastney, the Southsea Beach Café now has a sea sauna. The sea sauna opened at the beginning of March 2024 with daily sessions bookable on their website. Ladies only sessions are often available and are bookable online, check ahead. 


Sea sauna at Southsea Beach Café

Sea Sauna, Saunton

Looking for a This Nordic wood-fired sauna on wheels fits up to 12 comfortably. Set right by the water on the North Devon Coast’s renowned Saunton Sands, it allows you to  take in the stunning beach in total privacy (its huge window is tinted).  

Visit Sea Sauna

A great gift idea for sea swimmers and surfers, our UK coastal café and food guide makes a great gift. So if you have friends who do like to be beside the seaside (all that surfing and sauna-ing works up an appetite) buy The Coastal Café Guide, a best-selling guide to 150 brilliant cafés on the coast and at the beach. 

 

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BEST-SELLING FOODIE TRAVEL GUIDES

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Bestselling travel guides 2024

We are Printslinger (like mud slinger, only slinging print about the place instead of mud). Home of three best-selling travel guidebooks and counting, we’re not as well known as Lonely Planet and the like. Our foodie travel books have excelled themselves in 2024 however, often beating the ‘big-hitters’ to the top spot when it comes to online book sales. Not bad for a small, independent publisher without the marketing might of the mass publishers. Long live independents!

At Printslinger, we’re driven by a desire to help you avoid boring, big-brand food and motorway services chains. We exist to help you seek out, support, and celebrate British food and Britain’s local food growers and retailers, Britain’s farmers, and independent farm shops, cafés, restaurants, coffee shops, and more. Let’s have a look at what each of our books has been up to in 2024.

The Extra Mile: a 2024 travel guide bestseller

The Extra Mile: Delicious Alternatives to Motorway Services is our flagship title. It was produced annually in 2017, 2018, and 2019. It then had a three-year holiday (and a change of hands, into our hands), and returned with a bang in 2023.

The Extra Mile (ed. 4, 2023), has 275 off-motorway places to eat near motorway junctions. It was an Amazon #1 Bestseller across several food and travel guide categories in 2023 and 2024, and is frequently on the #1 Most Gifted charts. Its return to prominence in 2024 was aided by our publisher Kerry’s appearance on BBC Breakfast in August, discussing how our books help readers find and buy local food from independent cafés and farm shops near them and while on journeys around Britain.

“Is BBC Breakfast a radio show?” asked Kerry. “No, it’s primetime morning TV with an audience of 7m people,” we said. “I’ll wash my hair.”

The Extra Mile at number on on the Amazon sales chart
The Extra Mile Guide, showing #1 Most Gifted on Amazon

The Coastal Café Guide: a #1 bestselling food guide in 2024

The Coastal Café Guide was released by Printslinger in July 2024. It is packed with 150 of Britain’s best coastal cafés and places to eat, like restaurants with sea views, top spots for coffee after a surf or a wild swim, and idyllic cafés to visit while walking the coast path. The Coastal Café Guide became an #1 Amazon Hot New Release and #1 Bestseller across several foodie travel guide categories. It is a great gift for people who love the sea, seafood, sea views, and culinary adventures on the coast. It was featured in The Scotsman with a long article, had a double-page feature in The Times Weekend, and was reviewed (favourably!) in The Sun, as well as getting coverage in many local and regional outlets. 

Printslinger makes a donation of 1% of book sales to Surfers Against Sewage for every book we sell, managed through the Work for Good platform. 

The Farm Shop Guide: a #1 bestselling food and travel guide in 2024

The Farm Shop Guide is the third title from Printslinger to date. It has 165 fantastic farm shops and farm shop cafés and restaurants, alongside info on farmers’ markets, food festivals, and the best PYO places for pick-your-own fruit, vegetables, flowers, pumpkins, and even Christmas trees across Britain. The Farm Shop Guide had a 2.5 page feature in The Times Weekend, a double-page spread in Waitrose Weekend, a review in The Telegraph’s ‘what’s new in food’, mentions in other outlets including Cotswold Life, and a good plug on TV’s BBC Breakfast.  

Printslinger makes a donation of 1% of book sales to the Sustainable Food Trust for every book we sell, managed through the Work for Good platform. 

The Farm Shop Guide shown over The Times coverage
Graphic showing Amazon #1 spot 27 Oct 2024
Farm - Amazon Hot New Release #1 Food and Drink Travel 08.10.2024

Find out more about Printslinger and our best-selling food and travel guides

Printslinger is run by Kerry O’Neill and Laura Collacott. More titles are in the pipeline, with themes broadening out from pure food and travel guides into other realms. Rest assured, they will remain independent books, about memorable places and independent businesses, created by and for independent-minded people. To browse and buy our books, visit our online bookshop (link below). To discuss stocking our current books, marketing partnerships, press, work, your own book ideas, or anything else of interest, please use our contact form, linked to below. We look forward to hearing from you. 

Finally, a big thank you from us all to everyone who’s bought and enjoyed our books, shared our books and given them as presents, featured our books in their print and online coverage, actually BEEN in our books, and worked with us. We wouldn’t be where we are today without you. Thank you!

Some of the Printslinger team in 2023