Feel Your Stress Melt Away At The Best Places To Float In Brisbane
Stressed, sore or craving a little sense-deprived serenity? This is your sign to indulge in some therapy—floatation therapy, to be precise. Blissfully relaxing with benefits for the mind, body and soul, floating in magnesium-enriched, body-temp water is the wellness trend that just keeps on trending.
Whether you want to spark creativity, sleep like a babe or take a break from all that goddamn NOISE, we've got you with this list of the best places to float in Brisbane. Found in luxe wellness sanctuaries and high-tech recovery zones, there's a pod, tank or pool guaranteed to float every boat.
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City Cave Float & Wellness Centre
Various Locations
Great staff, sleek fit-outs and a stellar reputation make this Brissy-born wellness chain a winner—and with City Cave’s 70+ locations across Australia, NZ and the US, you can rest assured a fatigue-busting float is never too far away.
Not a big fan of enclosed spaces? Don’t stress—you’ll stretch out and zone out in your very own open float pool. Unless you want to bring your partner for an hour of co-relaxation power, which is totally cool too. Ease into it with lights and music or embrace total darkness and stillness as your muscle tension and worries melt away.
Contro Wellness
Lutwyche
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The superiority of a floatation pod or pool isn’t an open and shut case, so this uber-luxe wellness centre lets you take your pick. All soothing natural stone and aesthetic arches, Contro Wellness is a Med-inspired sanctuary that feeds the soul and the ‘gram.
Choose a Pod or Open Float and feel your soreness dissolve in magnesium-infused water, heated to the perfect temp for deep relaxation. With traditional and infrared saunas, mineral soak baths, massage, a steam room and more on the menu, it’s hard to contro(l) yourself and choose just one service. Couples’ packages, multi-packs and memberships are also available.
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Glow Float & Wellness
Samford
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Not just for urbanites, wellness has a home among the gumtrees at Glow Float & Wellness in Samford. Drift weightlessly and effortlessly in your own private float suite, as the magnesium-rich waters ease stress, aid muscle recovery and give your immune system a helping hand.
Choose the Restoration Deluxe Package for 45 minutes in the Infrared Sauna before your float. You’ll leave feeling a whole lot lighter and, who knows, maybe even enlightened.
The Bathhouse
Albion
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For a bougie-as float experience, book the private float room at The Bathhouse. Tucked away in the Albion Fine Trades Precinct, this travertine-drenched Euro-style bathhouse brings seriously stylish vibes care of award-winning architects, Hogg & Lamb. Plus, next-level relaxation and recovery with hot and cold pools, a tiered steam room and a Finnish sauna with a fireplace (for real)—and that’s not all.
Our tip? Book a Float + Bathhouse Package for 60 minutes of solo floating, followed by an hour of steam, soak, sauna and cold plunge access in the bathhouse. Relaxing is hungry business, so we suggest picking up some snacks from Botanica or Jocelyn’s on the way home.
TotalFusion Platinum
Newstead
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If you can’t afford to stump up for a membership to TotalFusion Platinum, you can still access their next-level wellness and recovery facilities—including float therapy. Defy gravity for 60 glorious minutes in a private float pod, bobbing away in water packed with over 400kgs of magnesium salts. Post-float, you’ll have full access to the stunning rooftop wellness space, which includes the hot and cold plunge pools, steam room, infrared and traditional saunas, snow room, salt room, Normatec boots and the 25-metre magnesium lap pool
Float Oasis
North Lakes
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Northsiders in need of some me time will find their fill at Float Oasis—a tranquil float centre and spa in North Lakes. Make like you’re back in the womb in the salty, soothing waters of one of their pod-style float tanks. Lights on or off, lid open or closed—personalise your float experience in your own soundproof private room.
With high-performance filtration, the pods are modern and hygienic. Plus, the spa menu offers myriad massages, facials and wellness treatments for the ultimate pampering day out.
Fountain of Youth & Float Centre
Alderley
Can’t decide whether it’s your body or your mind that’s knottier? No problem, this one will unravel it all. Among an epic list of relaxation, beauty and wellness services (hello, ‘bikacial’), Fountain Of Youth serves up the ultimate triple threat in its ‘Floatage & Sauna’ package.
70 minutes floating, an hour massage and 30-minute sauna sesh? Shut up and take our money. There are also pure float sessions for singles, couples or BFFs.
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