About
Built for the six months a year London is cold.
Thaw opened in January 2024 in the old Dominion Bank at Richmond and Central. The tellers' hall is the rest room. The vault, two feet of concrete and steel, keeps the plunge at eight degrees without trying.
We wanted one thing a Nordic bathhouse has and most spas don't: a proper cycle of heat and cold that you can do on your own, at your own pace, without anybody selling you anything. Then we added hands and faces, because people asked.
The rules are short. Sixteen people on the thermal floor, never more. No phones past the lockers. Quiet in the sauna. Everything else is up to you.
The team
Four people who like quiet.
Registered therapists for anything on the table, one aesthetician, one host who runs the cold.
Marisol Peña
Registered Massage Therapist
Deep tissue, hot stone. Fifteen years of tables.
Devon Achebe
Registered Massage Therapist
Slow hands, prenatal. Will let you sleep.
Hanna Lind
Aesthetician
Built the cold-to-warm facial. Allergic to anything that stings.
Tomasz Wróbel
Thermal host
Runs the contrast sessions. Counts your breaths so you don’t.
Demo photography is Creative Commons stock from Wikimedia Commons, credited on the credits page. [CONFIRM: real photography]