24/02/2026
Hello all / helo pawb!
We thought now was a good time to properly introduce ourselves! ❤️
We started in October 2024 after a trip to the Isle of Man and a chance visit to a beach sauna. After having fallen in love with sauna-ing we decided that Beaumaris would be a perfect location for one of our own.
As a team we’re made up of some locals and some ‘out-of-towners’ but we all call Anglesey and Beaumaris home so providing jobs and bringing local people together was an important part of our business model.
What started as a way of keeping some of our seasonal Seacoast Safaris - Puffin Island Cruises & Boat tours staff employed and giving us something to do during the cold winter months when the boats stop running has become a year round operation!
The sauna itself started life down in South Wales with Barrel Sauna UK, making sure that our sauna was made here in Wales was always a priority. Our first location was a tiny patch of land on the way into Beaumaris over looking the Menai Strait and the mountains of Snowdonia / Eryri National Park. Our site consisted of the sauna, a couple of footbaths and a wind breaker. We then custom made our cold plunge tank along with all our beautiful decking. However it was always our intention to change location so in April 2025 we moved a few hundred yards to the beach on the opposite side, with an equally fantastic view and still a 30 second walk to the water at high tide but now with a full site with fencing, free parking, somewhere for our team to sit, lots more decking and seating AND a wood fired hot tub! Phew!
As with all our ventures we always strive to be as environmentally conscientious as possible, we are totally off grid and we try and source most of our logs locally, keeping the carbon footprint of transportation down. By sourcing logs locally and buying in bulk, packaging is also kept to a minimum and we use recycled briquettes made from 'waste' sawdust. We also use Eucalyptus logs, although these are imported from South Africa there is an ethical story behind their production! (Read more about that here ~ www.properwood.co.uk/about 🪵)
As well as our sauna being built in Wales we also employ local people, it's always been important to us to give back to our local community. We have been long-term supporters of the RNLI and a large proportion of our staff work as volunteers, we also offer free sessions for the crew!
We’ve now officially been operating for over a year and we are absolutely loving sauna life!
Thank you / Diolch! ❤️
