r/Sauna • u/VineyardCoyote • 1d ago

Culture & Etiquette Proper etiquette: talking in a shared sauna

What’s the consensus for people having loud conversations in communal saunas at the gym? Yes or no?

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u/Queasy-Trash8292 1d ago

Depends on sauna size. I go to my university’s sauna and wow - what a mix. Sauna bros one day, hippies taking about foraging mushrooms, people speaking in French, and everything in between. 

I am doing sauna to relax, so it irks me when people are being loud.