Dublin County Council has launched a pilot program allowing mobile saunas to operate in public spaces, with initial sites at Killiney Beach, Dún Laoghaire Baths, and the Forty Foot. The council received numerous requests for sauna installations and chose to trial the concept after a competitive application process.
A seaside sauna at Dublin ’s Forty Foot is proving popular – but they’re popping up all over Ireland.But one suspects that even Joyce couldn’t have imagined a wooden 10-person sauna on wheels perched there, overlooking the sea. It was as if an alien spaceship had landed, with hardy swimmers and walkers stopping to gawp as they rounded the concrete wind shelters of the Forty Foot, on a rocky outcrop reaching into Dublin Bay.
The spot has become temporary home to the The Hot Box Sauna company, which has been awarded a licence by Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council. Others are situated at Killiney beach and Dún Laoghaire Baths.Helen Smirnova, a civil engineer with the council’s Infrastructure and Climate Change division, said that for the previous year the council had been receiving requests for saunas to be installed. “We were asked if we would be interested in placing saunas in public grounds. There are a lot of saunas in private grounds but only one or two other local authorities around the country allow this scheme,” she said. Ms Smirnova said the council decided to begin the trial after it was approached by people involved in the business and by members of the public.“We can’t just allow someone to set up and we couldn’t prioritise one particular vendor over another,” she said. “We had to make it a fair competition for those applying for the licence. It’s a good opportunity to do a trial and what we viewed as the best service providers were given a licence.” Up to 15 applications were made to Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council; five saunas are now based in the three locations and have the option to open from 7am to 7pm three days weekl
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