Ground in London
Bangkok is the undisputed global capital of Muay Thai — and its fitness scene extends far beyond the ring into some of Asia's most impressive training facilities. World-champion camps like YOKKAO and Attachai sit alongside premium performance gyms like BASE Bangkok. The range is staggering: authentic pad work with fighters who've won Lumpinee titles, altitude-simulated HIIT at Virgin Active Siam Discovery, Olympic weightlifting platforms, and silent yoga studios overlooking the Chao Phraya. What makes Bangkok's fitness culture unique is the blend of serious combat sport heritage with modern performance science. Monthly memberships at premium gyms run 3,000-6,000 baht ($85-170), roughly a quarter of equivalent facilities in New York or London.
5 venues in Ground
&Soul Sanctuary
Housed in a converted Victorian warehouse in Shoreditch, &Soul Sanctuary pairs saunas and ice baths with fitness studios and an alcohol-free social bar, creating East London's most distinctive wellness community.
Sauna Social Club
Part sauna, part listening bar, part cultural venue — Sauna Social Club in Peckham fuses heat, DJs, sound baths, and spoken word into London's most inventive healthy nightlife alternative.
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Community Sauna Baths
A CIC operating outdoor wood-fired saunas and cold plunges across five London sites — Camberwell, Hackney Wick, Peckham, Stratford, and Walthamstow — with aufguss ceremonies, NHS social prescribing, and a mission to make sauna culture accessible to everyone.
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Ironmonger Row Baths
A 1930s Art Deco public bathhouse in Clerkenwell offering Turkish baths with salt and juniper saunas, steam rooms, an ice room, cold plunge, a swimming pool, and squash — all at council-run prices that shame every luxury spa in London.
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Porchester Spa
London's oldest spa, operating since 1929 in a Grade II-listed Art Deco gem in Bayswater. Turkish hot rooms, cold plunge, two swimming pools, and a cafe — an enduring monument to the idea that thermal bathing belongs to everyone.
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