With a bath master
Steaming programmes
The bath master watches the heat, works with the venik and tells you when to step out and cool down. A programme runs inside your booked time and is priced per guest.
60 min · 6,500 ₽ per guestFirst steamFor your first time in a banya. The bath master tells you what comes next and keeps an eye on how you feel. An hour without fierce heat.Available in: Herbal, Russian
40 min · 7,000 ₽ per guestClassic steamingThe Russian banya as it is: a warm-up, two veniki and cold water. Forty minutes with a bath master.Available in: Russian, Finnish
60 min · 8,500 ₽ per guestContrastThree rounds of heat, cold and rest. The bath master keeps time; you keep track of how you feel. The programme lasts an hour.Available in: Russian, Finnish
45 min · 7,500 ₽ per guestHerbal steamingGentle heat, a linden and eucalyptus venik, herbal tea. Forty-five minutes.Available in: Herbal, Russian
90 min · 10,000 ₽ per guestSteam for twoA programme for two. The bath master steams each of you, and in the second round teaches you to steam each other. It ends with a honey rub. An hour and a half.Available in: Russian, Herbal
60 min · 6,000 ₽ per guestTowel roundsA programme for a group of up to six. The bath master pours scented water on the stones and sweeps the hot air around the sauna with a towel. Two rounds with different scents. An hour.Available in: Finnish
50 min · 8,000 ₽ per guestScrub and honeyLight heat and skin care: a salt and honey scrub. Fifty minutes.Available in: Russian, Finnish, Herbal
70 min · 9,500 ₽ per guestHoney wrapCare in the herbal steam room: a honey and herb scrub, then you lie on the bench wrapped in linen at 45–55 °C. Seventy minutes.Available in: Herbal
55 min · 8,000 ₽ per guestFoam washAn old banya treat: thick soap foam, a bast scrubber and a herbal hair rinse. Fifty-five minutes.Available in: Herbal, Russian
60 min · 8,500 ₽ per guestKese and foamThe hammam ritual: you warm up on the heated marble platform, then the attendant scrubs your skin with a kese mitt and covers you in olive-soap foam. The programme lasts an hour.Available in: Hammam
150 min · 19,000 ₽ per guestLong benchPolok's big programme. Three rounds: birch, then oak with birch, then linden with herbs. Between rounds come the plunge and a honey and salt scrub; at the end, oil and an unhurried tea. Russian suite only, in a session of three hours or more.Available in: Russian
How the bath master works
Asks how you feel and how experienced you are before starting, and sets the heat for you rather than for the programme.
Soaks the veniki before every session, a fresh set for each guest.
If it gets too much, the round stops. That is normal: the programme adapts to you.
Before a programme, tell the bath master about blood pressure, pregnancy and chronic conditions. If you are unsure whether the steam room is right for you, ask your doctor first.