Private hire is the default here rather than the premium option. You book the room and the plunge for your own group, and steam usually comes with it.
Asheville has the most, and the studios spread through both states' cities. Bookings are by the hour, and the stoves are mostly electric.
In the Carolinas, 20 of the curated saunas fit this cut. See the full the Carolinas region guide for every venue, or keep scrolling for just the private saunas.
Every private sauna in The Carolinas
Arden Salt Room & Sauna
$$Denver, United States
A small salt therapy and sauna studio on NC-16 Business in Denver, North Carolina. Sessions are booked one or two at a time in an infrared sauna with coloured light, or in the rock salt room next door. Single visits, session packs and monthly memberships are all sold.
Baltic Sauna
$$Cary, United States
Baltic Sauna is a wood-fired sauna in a private backyard in Cary, booked whole for three hours at a time. The two-room cabin holds four to six in the hot room, and guests pour their own water on the stones. Outside are a rope-pull cold shower, a gazebo and a fire pit.
beem Light Sauna — Concord
$$Concord, United States
A beem franchise studio in Concord where each infrared sauna session is taken in a private suite. Red light therapy can be booked on its own or paired with the sauna, and towels are provided.
beem Light Sauna — Durham
$$Durham, United States
beem's Durham studio is on Yunus Road. Guests book a private full-spectrum infrared sauna and set the colour of its light. Red light therapy is the only other treatment it lists.
beem Light Sauna — Fort Mill
$$Fort Mill, United States
beem's Fort Mill studio is on Broadcloth Street in Fort Mill. Guests book a private full-spectrum infrared sauna, either solo or as a social sauna. Red, blue and green light therapy are sold as separate short sessions, and a shower can be booked too.
beem Light Sauna — Huntersville
$$Huntersville, United States
Beem Huntersville is an infrared sauna studio on Cranlyn Road, part of the Beem chain. Sessions run in private suites, either a solo sauna or a larger one for two. Red light therapy can be booked alongside a sauna or on its own.
beem Light Sauna — South End
$$Charlotte, United States
beem's Southend studio is on South Tryon Street in Charlotte's South End. Guests book a private full-spectrum infrared sauna by the session. Red, green and blue light are also on offer, and green light can begin with a discovery consultation.
Drip Nordic Sauna
$$Asheville, United States
Outdoor wood-fired Nordic sauna site in Woodfin, about ten minutes north of downtown Asheville, overlooking the French Broad River. Cedar saunas, cold plunge tubs, a fire pit and outdoor lounge tents, designed around being outside rather than in a building. Community drop-in, private bookings and full-site rentals all run, plus a separate mobile sauna.
HILO Sauna + Plunge
$$Winterville, United States
HILO Sauna + Plunge is a contrast-therapy studio in Winterville built around private suites. Each suite pairs a full-spectrum infrared sauna with a cold plunge tub and a rainfall shower. A guest can join you in the suite for a fee.
Melt Well — Raleigh
$$Raleigh, United States
Melt Well's Raleigh studio is in Brennan Station on Creedmoor Road, North Raleigh. Contrast suites pair an infrared sauna with a cold plunge and a vitamin C shower, and sauna-only suites are booked separately. A full-body red light bed has a room of its own.
Perspire Sauna Studio — Ballantyne
$$Charlotte, United States
Perspire's Ballantyne studio is on Ballantyne Village Way in Charlotte. Its private infrared suites have red light panels and a TV for streaming. Single sessions are sold to anyone, with packs and memberships for regular visits.
Perspire Sauna Studio — Morrisville
$$$Morrisville, United States
Perspire's Morrisville studio is on Village Market Place, between Raleigh and Durham. Each session is a private suite with a full-spectrum infrared sauna, red light panels and a SNØ cold shower. Halotherapy is listed alongside.
Perspire Sauna Studio — Olde Raleigh
$$$Raleigh, United States
Perspire's Olde Raleigh studio is on Edwards Mill Road in Raleigh. Guests book a private infrared sauna suite with built-in red light therapy and a TV. Some suites add a cold SNØ shower for contrast, and halotherapy is offered too.
Pure Sweat Sauna Studio — Winston-Salem
$$Winston-Salem, United States
Pure Sweat's Winston-Salem studio on Trade Street rents private Sunlighten infrared cabins for 45-minute sessions, with chromotherapy and a chilled peppermint cloth to finish. Contrast sessions add a cold plunge and an ensuite shower. Suites can be booked for one or two people.
Sauna Culture
$$Charlotte, United States
A traditional Finnish-style sauna in a Cotswold storefront, with tiered cedar benches and water you ladle onto the stones yourself. Three individual cold plunges sit at different temperatures, and a lounge serves tea between rounds. A private suite adds a salt sauna, shower and its own plunge for up to four.
Sauna House — Charlotte
$$Charlotte, United States
Set inside a 1934 industrial building in Charlotte's historic FreeMoreWest district, with exposed brick, bow-truss ceilings, and factory-style windows. Co-ed, phone-free, swimsuit-required Nordic-style bathhouse built around a two-hour Thermal Cycle of Finnish sauna, cold plunge, and rest on heated benches. Includes a silent salt room and a small massage menu.
Sauna House — Durham
$$Durham, United States
A 6,900 sq ft converted Geer Street warehouse in downtown Durham, stripped to its glass and rebuilt as the brand's "Version 2". Same contrast-bathing ritual as the rest of the group: Finnish sauna, cold plunge, heated metal lounge sofas, phone-free, with massage rooms attached. Walkable to the Geer Street bar and restaurant strip.
Sauna House — Greenville
$$Greenville, United States
Occupies the historic Borden Ice Cream Company building on the edge of Unity Park, with 16-inch-thick insulated walls and 9-foot windows. Adds a private one-hour infrared cabin and a silent salt room on top of the standard Finnish sauna, in-ground cold plunge, and heated bench loop. Two-hour Thermal Cycle, swimwear required, phones in lockers.
Sauna House — Raleigh
$$Raleigh, United States
A single-floor, ADA-accessible bathhouse off Dupont Circle in southwest Raleigh, next to the Platform Apartments. It is the Sauna House site with both a cold plunge and a warm pool, alongside the Finnish sauna and heated lounge benches. Tea, kombucha and electrolytes only: no food, no phones, no alcohol.
SweatHouz — West Ashley
$$Charleston, United States
SweatHouz lists its West Ashley studio in Unit D at 835 Savannah Highway, Charleston. Guests have a private suite to themselves for up to 60 minutes, with an infrared sauna, a cold plunge and a vitamin C shower.