Media and Awards:

Elie Seaside Sauna was listed as The Number 1 Seaside Sauna in The UK, by The Times:

https://www.thetimes.com/article/seven-of-the-uks-best-saunas-by-the-sea-f2w8vb8w2

It also came runner-up, in the category Best Waterside Sauna, at The British Sauna Society Awards, at the inaugural UK & Ireland Sauna Summit, in London, in 2024 (The winners were Driftwood Sauna, in Galway, Ireland):

https://www.britishsaunasociety.org.uk/news/sauna-summit-2024-recap

In February 2025, The Telegraph listed Elie Seaside Sauna as the Number 1 place to sauna, in The UK:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/health-fitness/wellbeing/mental-health/sauna-trend-britain/

NEWSPAPERS

Elie Seaside Sauna has been covered in The Scotsman, The Herald, Scottish Field, The Scots Magazine, The Sunday Post, Homes & Interior Scotland, The Sunday Times Style, Time Out magazine and The Courier, many times.

In spring 2025 all of Scottish Seaside Saunas saunas, Elie, Cellardyke and St. Andrews Seaside Saunas, were featured in Wallpaper journalist and author of Sauna: The Power of Deep Heat, Emma O’Kelly’s book on UK saunas, Wild Saunas: Britain’s Outdoor Saunas.

The Scotsman:
https://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/outdoors/nordic-mobile-sauna-opens-for-wild-swimmers-on-elie-beach-3829765

https://www.scotsman.com/hays-way/hays-way-five-scottish-gems-spotted-along-the-walk-so-far-4602618

The Herald:

https://www.heraldscotland.com/life_style/arts_ents/23839167.sweat-view-wild-sauna-trend-sweeping-scotland/

The Courier:

https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/business-environment/business/3700852/steamy-elie-seaside-sauna-is-fifes-hottest-new-business/

The Sunday Times

https://www.thetimes.com/best-places-to-live/scotland-uk/article/east-neuk-fife-area-guide-bwx5fbktv

The Sunday Times, Style magazine:

https://www.thetimes.com/life-style/health-fitness/article/move-over-pubs-saunas-are-the-hot-new-hangouts-290xwwvr0

The Observer

https://observer.co.uk/style/travel/article/in-the-neighbourhood-east-neuk-fife

TV & RADIO

Judith was also interviewed for Radio Scotland’s The Outdoor Show and by The BBC News, for a feature on the rise of seaside saunas that was aired on Hogmanay 2023. Soon after that, Elie Seaside Sauna was also the only sauna featured on Jules and Greg’s Wild Swim:

BBC Radio Scotland:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0dwbpmt

BBC News:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-scotland-67759941

Jules and Greg’s Wild Swim:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001v58n

In September 2026, Elie Seaside Sauna will appear in More4’s Scotland’s Golden Coast:

https://www.channel4.com/