Wellness

IInanna Wellness stands out for its quietly individual approach to massage. Dedicated accompaniment programs, including MamiSpa® for expectant mothers and OncoSpa® for people in oncologically sensitive phases, are a measure of how far the care extends.

The thermal brine spa in Burg draws its brine from a depth of 1,350 meters, with 240 grams of salt per liter. Seven pools are spread across 772 square meters of water surface, including an intensive brine pool with eight percent brine for floating, plus six saunas in its own SaunaGarten and a property of over 30,000 square meters.

Next to the Brandenburg Gate, a spa of around nine hundred square metres spreads across three levels, with eight treatment rooms and three private suites that each have their own sauna and steam bath. An eleven metre pool with whirlpool and its own pool bar, several theme saunas and a gym rebuilt in 2024 complete the picture.

In Bad Wilsnack, thermal brine bubbles up from a depth of 1,018 meters at 39 degrees Celsius and about 16 percent salt. The facility combines five brine pools ranging from 1.5 to 12 percent, a salt lake with 24 percent brine, eight themed saunas in up to 300-year-old farmhouses, and a 50-meter-long graduation tower, the first graduation facility in Brandenburg.

The Liquidrom is located in the Kuppelhalle on Möckernstraße in Kreuzberg. In DOME 36, you float in 36-degree warm salt water and hear music beneath the surface. Additionally, there are five saunas and steam baths, a warm outdoor pool, a dark relaxation area, and a cold plunge pool. The shortest tariff is 90 minutes and costs 22 Euros.

Honigseele in Berlin-Kreuzberg combines gentle hair removal, professional beauty treatments, and in-depth coaching in a holistic well-being concept. Customers are treated here with natural cosmetics from their own Berlin manufactory.

On the shore of Lake Scharmützelsee, there is no thermal bath, but a pure sauna resort: seven saunas and a steam bath, including the SATAMA Theater for up to 160 guests and the Maa-Sauna with up to 120 degrees Celsius. Founded in 2002 with five saunas, today it hosts infusion world championships and attracts around 80,000 guests annually.

In the embassy quarter at the edge of the Tiergarten lies a spa of 260 square metres inside a listed building of the thirties that was put up as the Royal Danish Embassy. It holds a fourteen metre pool, a Finnish sauna, three massage rooms, a gym and a quiet area looking into the park, plus a pool terrace facing the same greenery.

The Stadtbad Oderberger opened in 1902, stood empty for about three decades after 1986, and is now a swimming pool again: a 20-meter lane in a listed hall with original tiles and a gallery. Additionally, there is a Finnish sauna at 90 degrees, infrared loungers, an ice fountain, and a private relaxation area. External guests book a time slot in advance.

On the shore of the Großer Zernsee in Werder, the Havel-Therme welcomes its guests with Moorish-Andalusian architecture and palm trees. The brine and spring pools range from 34 to 40 degrees, and at the pool bar, guests sit on underwater stools in the warm water. Additionally, there are 13 saunas and steam baths, and a 160-meter-long pier leading out to the lake for cooling down.

About 80 kilometers from Berlin, in the spa park of Bad Belzig, there is a facility whose spring brine, with around 20 percent salt content, approaches that of the Dead Sea. Six pools are spread over more than 750 square meters of water surface, plus seven saunas with hourly infusions, and the LichtKlangRaum, a brine pool with sound and light effects underwater.

The Yi-Spa at Monbijouplatz 3a combines Asian massage art with natural cosmetics made from coconut, yogurt, tamarind, honey, and papaya. Each treatment begins with a foot peeling bath and ends with tea and a small snack. Bathrobes and flip-flops are provided, and the underground car park is available to guests free of charge. Couples receive a double lounger.

Inanna Wellness in Berlin-Mitte, just a few steps from Gendarmenmarkt, stands for precise, non-invasive body and skin care at the highest level. For those looking to give a Valentine's Day gift that truly makes an impression, a treatment voucher here is the perfect choice.

The Ensō Studio sits in the former post office on Bölschestraße in Friedrichshagen, right across from the S-Bahn station and a few minutes from Müggelsee. Yin, Restorative and QiGong share the schedule with Vinyasa and Pilates, and there is a massage room of its own plus a lounge with freshly brewed tea for afterwards.

In the north of Brandenburg lies a facility with 1,055 square meters of bathing landscape, where brine rises from a depth of 1,650 meters at 57.7 degrees Celsius and 15 percent salt content. This includes a 110-square-meter wave pool, a grotto passage with six percent brine, two slides of 98 and 102 meters, and eight saunas in an 1,800-square-meter sauna garden.

Zen Wave Therapy is a one-person studio in the Samariterkiez in Friedrichshain. Treatments are not performed on a massage table, but in clothing on traditional Japanese futon mats, using Shiatsu, acupressure according to Traditional Chinese Medicine, and deep tissue work. One hour starts at 68 Euros, 90 minutes at 93.50 Euros.

In Lübbenau, a 45.5-meter-long curved plexiglass pane separates the guests' outdoor pool from an enclosure with Humboldt penguins. There are also fourteen saunas, the largest selection on this list, spread across an indoor area and a sauna village styled like a Spreewald farmstead, with a cucumber sauna, a hay sauna and a cave where Spreewald legends are read aloud.

The Catharinenquelle delivers thermal brine from a depth of around 450 meters, which reaches up to 36 degrees Celsius with a three percent brine content. This includes four whirlpools, an AquaSound pool with underwater music, and seven saunas distributed across two buildings, including a bread-baking sauna where bread is made in a wood oven and then tasted.

Spread across 13,400 square meters, four areas are united under one roof: a fun and sports pool with a 370-square-meter wave pool, a mineral forum with a graduation tower, a sauna world featuring the 70-square-meter Panorama Sauna, and a spa. Approximately 1,500 square meters of water surface and a slide tower reaching up to 55 kilometers per hour are also included.

Hotel Q! in Charlottenburg proves that design hotels in Berlin don't need cool distance. Architecturally bold, designed by the Berlin office GRAFT, it combines flowing forms and warm materials to create a place that has its own unique rhythm between Kurfürstendamm and Savignyplatz.

The Vienna House by Wyndham Andel's Berlin in Lichtenberg represents an urban design hotel concept with real substance: 557 rooms with modern interiors, a Michelin-starred restaurant high above the rooftops of Berlin, and a wellness area that welcomes both hotel guests and day spa visitors alike.

On Budapester Strasse, a few steps from the zoo, lies a modernised spa and fitness lounge with an indoor pool of eighteen by ten metres, a sauna, experience showers, an ice fountain and a heated bench. A wellness lift of its own leads down, the pool bar has a sun terrace with loungers, and the fit lounge carries Kinesis machines.

On Lake Ruppin, the facility extracts its iodine-rich healing brine from a depth of 1,700 meters, with a 17 percent salt content and a reservoir temperature of 63.4 degrees Celsius. It is Brandenburg's only state-certified healing spring. There is also a floating pool with eight percent brine and a lake sauna with a glass facade and steps into the water.

On the top floor of the Spandau Arcaden lies a day spa with a forty metre pool that runs from the indoor area into the open air, a roof terrace of around 600 square metres and three whirlpools. There are also eight saunas and steam baths, a Kneipp pool and a plunge pool as well as a dedicated area for massages and cosmetics.

Since 2004, a tropical resort with an air temperature of 26 degrees Celsius has been located under the former CargoLifter airship hangar, 360 meters long and 107 meters high. It includes a South Sea lagoon of approximately 3,000 square meters with a 200-meter sandy beach, a 27-meter high slide tower, around 50,000 plants, and an outdoor area of 35,000 square meters.