How we verify
Every listing on this site carries the date a person last confirmed it. That date is the product. Here is exactly what sits behind it.
What we check
- Temperatures
- The actual operating range of the cold plunge and the sauna, in Fahrenheit — not the marketing number on the homepage.
- Pricing
- Drop-in rate, day pass, and monthly membership where each exists. If a studio does not publish a price, we record no price rather than guessing.
- Access model
- Whether you get a private suite, share a communal space, or can choose. This is the detail people most often get wrong when booking.
- What is actually on site
- Which modalities the location genuinely has. A chain listing infrared sauna nationally does not mean this branch has one.
- Still open
- That the studio exists and is trading. Recovery studios open and close quickly, and stale listings are the main failure of every other directory.
What each status means
Not every listing carries the same confidence, so we say which is which rather than flattening everything into one badge.
- Verified
- A person confirmed the details directly with the studio — by visiting, calling, or both — and recorded the date. This is the standard we want every listing to reach.
- Brand import
- Details came from a franchise operator’s own location list. Reliable for address and brand, less so for current pricing, so these carry the date of the import and get upgraded to Verified once checked individually.
- Community
- Submitted by a studio owner or a visitor and sanity-checked, but not yet independently confirmed. Treated as a lead, dated honestly, and never presented as verified.
- Closed
- Confirmed to have shut down. Kept in the registry so it is not re-added by mistake, and removed from every public listing.
What we will not do
- Invent details. If we do not know a studio's plunge temperature, the field is absent. There are no filler values anywhere in this site.
- Publish scraped listings as verified. Imported data is labelled as imported and dated as imported.
- Let payment change a fact. A studio can pay to be featured, which affects placement and adds a badge. It never changes a temperature, a price, or a verification date.
- Pad thin pages. A city page with too few studios is marked
noindex, and modality pages are not generated at all below three matching studios.
Staying fresh
Listings are rechecked on a rolling basis, and anything older than six months is flagged internally for a recheck. Because the date is printed on every listing, you never have to take our word for how current it is — you can see it and judge for yourself. The most recent check across the whole site was 2026-07-27.
Spotted something wrong? Send us the correction through the listing form, and note the studio name — corrections are prioritised over new submissions.