Allas Sea Pool — Attraction in Helsinki sub-region

The most authentic and Finnish way. Sauna and dip yourself into the sea pool.

Really cool experience and started to get addicted with this, so my partner and I came 2 days in a row when were in Helsinki because we really love it!!! Super fun experience to just go into the sauna to get toasty hot and get out into the sea pool / the swimming pool which is 24 degrees. After that you will feel super good about your body, super recharged and generally just happier. Kinda the Finnish way to be happy, even we are back in London now, we are still constantly looking for sauna because of our Finland trip!

There are few tips for tourists who are planning to come!

Bring your own towel (they do rent, but it’s €8 for each towel), you can just bring it from your hotel

Good idea to bring slippers as the fitting room will have quite a bit of sand and it’s frustrating when u wanna wear your socks after taking the shower.

There’s three fitting rooms, all equipped with shower facilities. Male, Female, both.

Bring our shower gel, conditioner and body lotion as they do not provide these.

If you plan to swim, which I strongly suggest you do! It’s really nice to swim in the 24 degrees water at -5 weather. Please bring your goggles, they are also selling it but it’s €45 for a really basic pair from arena.

Do not bring a super big bag as the lockers are quite slim and I find it tough to push my backpack into the lockers.

Probably spare a good 2-3 hours to just slow down and rewind here, really good stuff.

Personally what my partner and I did was that we came at night before our sleeper train to rovaniemi, so after the sauna and swimming, we take advantage of the shower. Then we only head to the train station and to Lapland, and we slept like a baby because the sauna makes us sleep so good. It’s a must to visit in Helsinki! If I am a residence here, I would probably get a season pass and be...

Edit. I'm not going to be polite about this any more. The staff at sea pool are incredibly unfriendly, defensive and seemingly full of them selves. They don't have basic customer service skills, and accuse customers of "abuse" if they receive a complaint. I told them that the hair drier does not work and they just stare me down like I am a Karen, like they are too good for work there and handle normal customer service interactions. The staff need to be trained.

I've been a regular for many years. For years, the staff have engaged in emotional abuse. That's all I have to say.

The location is great, and of course the sea pool! The saunas are average for Finnish standards, and the changing rooms a bit small. You cannot fit a big bag in the lockers, or any shopping bags.

They have some great staff and others who are not so nice. Over the years, I have wanted to quit my membership because the staff act like customers are an inconvenience. I think they prefer tourist who pay a lot more than locals on a monthly pass.

I asked one staff member if he knew when remodelling works are done, and he thought I was personally attacking him and started screaming that it is not his job to know. When I reported him to management, they acted like I had done something to him. Staff member Eric then brought this incident up years later, which was rude, acting lime I have assaulted their staff.

Similar incidents happen from time to time... they don't have customer service skills or common sense, the staff seem defensive by default. When you complain, they turn on you as a customer and back each other up, lying and acting like I've done...

It was my second time at Allas and I still cannot recommend it. We queued with other people outside while the entry was packed due to cold winds. There was zero information from the staff unless you went past the queue inside, while skeptically being looked at by the others waiting.

They have three young people but the service is still slow and you get surprisingly little info, apart from being told when exactly you'd be allowed in. For example, it would be handy to know about the second changing rooms down by the pools. Instead the majority of visitors stays in the first locker room which is very packed, completely wet and has ridiculously few hairdryers for the amount of lockers. There are so many lockers, you don't want to imagine how full it would become were they all in use. It is close to.impossible to fit your belongings and swim stuff into those narrow cabinets.

The largest, mixed sauna is rather cold for Finnish standards and loud. The small mixed and separated saunas are so small that people continue to ignore the "max 8" sign on the door and squeeze in anyways. Or you end up queuing in front of the door which is not relaxing no matter which side of the door you are.

The swimming pools, cold or warm,are fantastic and make Allas stand out from other...