If it has rocks on it, it takes water. There is no such thing as a “dry sauna.” Regardless of what the sign at the hotel says, where there are rocks, there should be water. No company in the world makes a sauna stove that is intended to be dry.
There. Now you can confidently sneak a large bottle of water into the sauna at your hotel so you can have a proper Finnish sauna.
Enjoy!
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Right on! Good to douse a generous amount of water on hotel sauna rocks right away, clean them off, well before your first sauna round.. never know how long it’s been since that stove has been hit (properly) with water on the rocks. Here’s my post on hotel saunas: https://www.saunatimes.com/sauna-culture/sauna-how-to/hotel-sauna-how-to-take-one/