Russian & Turkish Baths

Not the same if you are thinking this place is like a Korean spa. Locker rooms are dirty, roaches in the cafeteria, and my mud, salt and scrub package took about 30 minutes and I still had mud on body when she was done. Needless to say wouldn’t recommend this place. Someone needs to open a decent Korean spa around here.

Just had another relaxing time at the shvitz. A fun relaxing place that is also a little weird. Just how I like it!

Please pay attention on my review! In general everything was good. The man who stands at the door and gives the keys disappointed me totally. His jokes has no sense, about money, Attitude was awful. But its okay. When i was trying to get my phone from vault, he told me: «Pay 3 $ extra and i’ll give you your phone». What? Its horrible! You probably guys kidding me. Thats the way he’s trying to get extra money? He would rather to work in some public market… It really disappointed me, and i got Headache. In the end my Parking has finished and I had to leave from this place, as I couldn’t get my phone and extend it. If you don’t change it, i will write some letter to government. Thank you!

THIS PLACE IS THE SHVITZ. But it’s not for the faint of heart. Or the squeamish. Or germaphobes. Or people who don’t like people. This place is a public bath house, so you’re going to be hopping into a hot tub with strangers and getting splashed by a bucket of water that was poured over a stranger’s head.
Can you dig? If not, stay out of the steam room… and the sauna… and the hammam… and the Amethyst room… and the polar bear room… Are you getting the drift? This place is a trip. There’s room after room of experiences, some relaxing, some detoxifying, some frankly uncomfortable, but Russian & Turkish Baths is a place like no other I’ve ever been, and that in itself is reason enough to dive in.
The crowd is eclectic – tourists, new age-​y locals, real Russian people, fitness enthusiasts – all sorts of folks whose unifying factor is an open mind. Meet people, learn something, try something new, set aside your inhibitions and insecurities, and live a little!
So this place is weird, but not THAT weird. There’s no nudity, people having sex, or other shocking X-​rated activities happening at the Baths, at least not when I was there. It’s a great place for a rainy day. It’s not for kids because there are too many areas that have sauna rocks and scalding steam, etc… It’s famous for its detoxifying powers and sore muscle recuperation. You can easily spend upwards of 3−−4 hours there without getting bored. It is NOT a luxury spa. It is a really cool, completely unique day of surprises for the adventurous.
Some details–
* Wear a swimsuit (Suits are required. Changing facilities, at least for women, are too small for comfortable wardrobe changes. Keep it to a minimum.)
* Bring or be prepared to buy water. Lots of people had gallon jugs of water with them.
* You don’t have to bring a towel. They give you 2 small ones at check in, and you can ask for more if you need them. However, I wished I brought one to keep in my locker for the end when it was time to get dressed.
* The Baths are located inside a big condo building called «The Castle.» When you walk in, take a hard right and walk downstairs.
* Valet Parking. If there’s street parking, I didn’t see it. Valet costs $ 7 with validation from the spa.
* Best rates are available for pre-​purchase from the website.
* The tea room didn’t open until 4. We went outside to the Tiki Bar by the pool for beverages. On a hotter day, we probably would have gone swimming in the pool.

I guess if you have nothing to compare this place to, it’s ok. I unfortunately have been to some amazing Korean Spas in Los Angeles that are much cleaner, less smelly, less dirty and way less people. Also, the customer service is much more friendly. The idea is very cool but it just looks scary inside. It’s dark like a dungeon. I believe there are so many groupon deals and just makes this place overcrowded on the weekends and it’s hard to get a ladies locker. It was cool to see but won’t be back. Couldn’t wait to go home and shower with some antibacterial soap.

One of my favorite places of all time, I always leave here feeling like a million bucks! Yes, you Will be a little hesitant to try it, but there’s a reason the one in NYC has been there since 1892!

I love this place! My favorite things to do are the salt-​water hot tub, aromatherapy steam room, pour ice cold water over my face when it gets too hot, jump in the freezing water basins for true invigoration, and eat yummy food! This place makes me feel so alive! Highly recommended.

Awesome experience! Recommend everyone do this at least once a month.

I had a great time. It was sanitary, staff was friendly, they had a great little tiki hut sorta bar/​restaurant by the pool. I would say that the aromatherapy sauna could be a bit more aromatherapy and they could use some background music. Otherwise it was a fun outing.

I bought a groupon for $ 28 for one visit. At the door it is $ 40. They have 17 rooms for you to go through while you visit the baths. You are not timed. They give you two towels and a key to a locker. They also have lock boxes at the front desk. It is being watched so this is where you would put your more valuable items. The rest go in a locker in the locker room which is not monitored.
The place is nothing fancy, but didn’t feel dirty. You valet park for $ 7. To use the pool you need to exit the baths and go around the side of the hotel. It was not busy the Saturday afternoon we visited.
You have to buy any food or beverage you want in the café that is attached to the baths. You give them your locker # and they charge your items to your tab that you pay for at the end. You could carry around your own water, which I recommend since you sweat a lot.
We had the cheese blintzes in the café. Three blintz for $ 11.95. They were reheated and not made fresh… they still had good flavor and were topped with powder sugar and came with a side of apple sauce.
It is a neat experience and I recommend it to people to try.

No joke, this was probably the weirdest place I’ve ever been in my life. But I would 100% go again.
Pro-​Tips:
1) Come when it opens! I’ve read some reviews that mentioned that it was «gross», but I could imagine it can get dirty with all the people coming in from the beach and pool. When I came at opening, the floors and rooms were clean.
2) Bring shower shoes! It’s tiles from floor to ceiling, so it does get slippery. So for some traction and protection from cooties, bring some sandals!
3) Leave whatever valuables at home, but if you don’t, don’t worry. They’ll give you keys for a lock-​box behind the desk and a key for a locker in the locker room, so I wasn’t worried about losing anything.
4) Buy your passes ahead of time on their website! They give you a discount if you pay through PayPal and bring your receipt. Be aware though! One guy behind the desk (owner?) tried to good-​naturedly hustle us into paying a second time. He probably likes to mess with the tourists, so don’t be worried and stick to your receipt!
Loved the shvitz and the rain room!

Terrible place dirty old looking the Brown towels that they give you are Small. And they answer there phone. Over all experience not Good. I don’t recommend it. Cheap replica.

Great place!
The steam room with the the Rocks is amazing
Detox like a mofo
Cold plunge!
I don’t like the baby ass towels they give you
Go on a tues so it’s not packed
Love the salt water jacuzzi
Food wise get the beets, celery, carrot cleanse juice
(Fresh squeeZed)
This amazing Russian soup like salanca or something like that great with the bread and butter

Wow! I haven’t been here in 10 yrs and this place is more amazing than before. …they’ve added several new amenities like the Rain Room and or the Hydro Message room… to die for! Had the best time… relaxed, contemplated about life, had a couple of beers n made some amazing memories w my BBF… what else can a girl ask for?

As My usual Miami Beach Russian Spa, Nirvana Spa has recently closed due to reconstruction, I decided to try this place for the first time with a friend, who is a regular customer. Upon entering the place, I was immediately creeped out by the feel of the entryway, overall uncleanliness, and the disgustingness of the people behind the counter. One guy actually smelled and had a shirt full of holes & his shorts were ripped. I think he is the guy that does the platza, so that was something i wanted to get, but I opted out of. I didn’t like that there were cameras on every single corner of the place for them to view… creepy.
I decided to get a half-​hour massage, and the massage was awful! The lady performing it didn’t speak a word of English so I could not communicate to her how uncomfortable I was. She literally climbed on top of me dug her knees into the back of my legs, bending me and pulling on my shoulders, which hurt. Afterwards she stood outside my shower while I cleaned off which was also very creepy and uncomfortable.
I did love the variety of the rooms that they had and the rain room was especially nice. The saunas and steam rooms were WAY too hot, And the Jacuzzi I believe actually had vomit in it, so we avoided it. The whole experience was just creepy and uncomfortable. I will never go back again, and my friend also said the same thing, as she alerted the front desk about the vomit and they would not do anything about it, but gave her a discount for her silence on the matter. One word to describe this place: gross!

I am actually having trouble finding the words to describe the most surprising pleasure, I’ve found in Miami. Here’s the skinny — no, it isn’t pretty, it’s outdated, and even when it was first established it was styled by Russians (take that how you will, it’s not meant as a slight) but to an adventurer you just see oodles of character. Every nook and cranny is packed with a surprise. Oh you’d like to try a giant salt water jacuzzi with a giant water spout pouring down from a 15′ ceiling? They got that! You want a room of simulated rain, in which you can set the temperature? They got that! You want authentic Russian food and healthy choices? Yah, they got that!
This is the raddest place in this silly, superficial place known as South Beach! Be an adventurer, go in with an open mind and embrace your inner Russian! Also, get the Baltic #9, it’s 8% and its glorious!

I went by myself today, that kinda sucked, but I still enjoyed my adventure. My first experience with anything like this, but ok. The detoxing was great & I do feel better. I didn’t know abt some of the things that you could get & I can understand abt what others say abt staff. Cheaper if you buy online.

This place is extremely weird. It’s located in the basement of a hotel. If you can find your way there, you’ll see one of the tackiest decors in the world. Nothing matches — they’re due for a major upgrade. When you enter the lobby, there are various TV’s around the room showing the strangest footage from inside of the spa. Some of it is pre-recorded[looked extremely raunchy] and some is live. Once you’re done paying, they hand you a raggedy old towel and send you through an entrance that leads you to the locker rooms [guys go one way, females go the other way]. The locker room and spa were kind of dirty. So, avoid this place at all costs if you like cleanliness.
I went on a Sunday afternoon with my cousin, sister and grandmother and it was busy but, not too packed. It was our first time at a spa so we weren’t expecting anything fancy considering the price we paid. Once you get passed all of the nastiness; the place isn’t that bad. Everyone walks around in bathing suits, which could cause you to get self-​conscious but, no one is checking you out. They’re too busy trying to enjoy themselves. They offer A LOT of amenities/​rooms; everything from saunas to Jacuzzis to even a café. My favorite room was the rain room. You adjust the water temperature and speed of the water to your liking.
All in all, I had a great time here and can see myself going back often. It’s a wonderful experience that everyone should go through on their own. Definitely give it a try if you’re stressed out, or are in the area.

Weird. Rude. And weird.
I’m staying in the Castle Beach hotel and saw this place a few times but was weary to try it because every single time I went to ask about it. The people working there were in a screaming match with a customer. Usually about their credit card charge.
When my sister visited me, we decided to go together and get massages. I called down to make an appointment and the guy couldn’t tell me if they could get me in. He said «Just come. If they’re available, they’re available».
So we opted not to get a massage because it was impossible to get an answer on it and we only have 2 hours. So we did the day pass for the baths instead.
The people working here are SO rude! They wouldn’t answer any questions, wouldn’t explain anything to us and told us to just go instead. So we did. It’s pretty much a dirty, large «spa» with a handful of steam rooms, saunas and cold and hot tubs. And then a wall of treatment rooms that are confusing and unclear if you can just go in there or not.
After an hour, we were done and went out to pay. He was very rude about us paying cash and told us to follow him upstairs to the valet (in our swimsuits) to get change. We gave him $ 80 and he gave us $ 4 back. Which wasn’t the correct change. We told him since we paid for a day pass, can we come back later, if we want. He told us that if we would have paid with a credit card, yes, because we would have a receipt.
Overall a weird experience. If you decide to do it — take several towels of your own. And flip flops. And don’t shower there after. It’s super gross. Oh — and there are cameras throughout the entire place that broadcast to the outside of the spa. Where guests and the rude guys workings there sit and watch you and laugh. Also don’t take anything valuable. Only bring enough cash to pay for your treatments because you have to leave your wallet with the front desk when you go in (super shady).
My vote would be to find a Groupon for a day spa and go get a massage and enjoy their steam room and sauna instead.

Stolen/​Lost Ring– I recently went here and stayed till close on a Friday evening. We stayed in the saunas for over four hours. I was one of the last people to leave the establishment and so happened to leave my wedding ring in my locker. I soon realized the ring was left and I called them as soon as they opened the next day. You would think that the staff or cleaning crew would turn this in but not a chance at this establishment. The cleaning crew comes in the morning and were the ones who most likely went through the lockers. The staff kept telling me they would ask this person or that person but at the end of the day the ring was never returned. No one knows anything and it is the customers fault that the item was left I. The locket. It is sad that someone would actually keep this ring as it really is not of any monetary value, it is just a band.
We are still in hopes that it would be returned.
My advice to anyone going here would to not bring anything of value into the establishment. Even one of the employees told me that some people have master keys and could potentially taken it while I was in the sauna.
Just be careful with your belongings at this establishment.

This place is really dirty and disgusting. There were cockroaches in the polar room and the place smells like a stubborn foot fungal infection waiting to happen. Bring your own flip flops should you decide to go.
The service is equally as bad. Waiting in line took forever. I felt like we spent more time waiting in line than we did in the actual spa. The owner was belligerently drunk and kept trying to push my boyfriend and I to buy the 10 pass deal even though we repeatedly refuse. Then he proceeds to make racist remarks to one of his buddy clients to go back to China. Add insult to battery, his unprofessional drunk ass decides to charge us twice as much for the entire cost of the spa. From reading other reviews, this place is prone to scamming people. Perhaps if you’re actually stubborn enough to ignore the bad reviews of this and actually go or if you don’t care about acquiring hepatitis from the place, then at least pay in cash. I’ll be keeping an eye out on my next statements.
Dirty, bigoted, incompetent swindlers… yeah I’ve been to better Banyas than this place.

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I visited this past Saturday and I purchased my tickets online for the discount, my total was $ 59.93. During my visit I purchased a beer & oil for $ 15.00 and I paid cash. On my way home I checked my online banking and they took $ 500 from my debit card! The scary thing is that I never swiped my card BC I got the tickets online and then I paid cash! My wallet was inside the locker the entire time. I just made a police report and I called the miami news to inform them about the incident. I raced back to the spa to tell them about the charges and another customer came in screaming about the exact same incident! This is horrible right before the holidays! Next I’m calling the BBB. BEWARE OF YOU CREDIT CARDS WHILE IN THE SPA.

Horrible customer service. This guy in the front desk speak to us as if were little children not as customers willing to pay their services. Never go to this place, terrible people and it also seemed dirty on the entrance.

I have been coming here for years and I really must say that this place has gone downhill
The owners who used to be very nice were extremely rude to me and even screamed at me. I bought my tickets online (to save $ 5) and they were annoyed at doing the extra work to process the payment. Extremely difficult not welcoming. 2 of 3 of our lockers didn’t match the keys and I was afraid to ask the rude man at the front to help so we all shoved our stuff into one locker
I also got yelled at by the cleaning guy for leaving my towel outside the bathroom.
It was pretty busy which was out of character for here. And it was also pretty dirty I didn’t feel as clean as I used to some of the rooms even felt funny.
I also saw a few German roaches and other critters crawling around
I am very disappointed because I have been coming here for years and I always have loved it but I don’t think I’ll be going back unfortunately