Banya No.1

The Banya No.1 website promises “something entirely different”, and honestly, we’ll give them that – it’s definitely different. Banyas are designed to make you sweat properly, mixing dry heat and steam to push your body into a deep sweat and flush out waste products and tended by a banya master – topless, naturally. Other treatments include parenie – rhythmic waving and gentle tapping with hot, fragrant branches inside a superheated room, followed by a bracing cold-water plunge – and mud masks. It might sound crazy, but Banya No.1 has developed a dedicated fanbase, including Kate Moss, Renée Zellweger and Justin Bieber, whose go-to order from the on-site restaurant is 150g of garlic bread sticks.