Neap
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Neap, a float and cold water studio on Spike Island, Bristol. Floats from £58.

Float for an hour in water as warm as your skin.

Each room holds 25 cm of water with 520 kg of Epsom salt dissolved in it, so you lie on the surface without trying. The room is dark and quiet, and the light stays off until you want it.

Book a floatSessions and prices
  • 60 or 90 minutes
  • Water and air at 35.5 °C
  • Four private rooms

The first twenty minutes

Most people spend them noticing small things: the pump going quiet, their own breathing, water at the temperature of their skin until it stops feeling like water. After that there is very little left to notice.

Then three minutes at 6 °C

Float and cold ends in the plunge pool. A guide stands with you, counts the first ten breaths and calls time at three minutes. Most first timers stay in for about ninety seconds, and that is plenty.

The hour after is part of it

The lounge upstairs has tea, blankets and no phones. Nobody is booked into your room for twenty minutes after you, so you can dress slowly and leave when you are ready.

Float and cold, 105 minutes, £82.

Sessions and prices

Every session is booked online and starts on the hour or the half hour. Prices include towels, earplugs, shampoo and tea upstairs afterwards.

  • Float, 60 minutes

    A room to yourself, music for the first and last five minutes, the light under your control.

    60 min£58Book

  • Float, 90 minutes

    The length most regulars move to after their third or fourth float.

    90 min£74Book

  • Float and cold

    A 60 minute float, then the plunge pool at 6 °C with a guide for up to three minutes.

    105 min£82Book

  • Contrast circuit

    The sauna at 85 °C and the plunge at 6 °C, as many rounds as you like, eight people at most.

    60 min£28Book

  • First three floats

    Three 60 minute floats to use within 90 days, for your first visit only.

    3 × 60 min£135Book

Towels, earplugs and tea are included. Cancel or move a booking free of charge up to 24 hours before it starts.

Inside a float room

Four rooms, each big enough to stand up in, so nobody climbs into a pod. The water is filtered three times over between every float and tested twice a day.

Salt does the work

With 520 kg of magnesium sulphate in 25 cm of water, the water is denser than you are, and your face, chest and knees sit above it whatever you do. Most people float with their arms by their sides or above their head.

Water and air are both held at 35.5 °C, the temperature of your skin, so after a few minutes it is hard to tell where you end. The light and the music are yours to switch off, and an intercom by the door reaches the front desk.

Water
25 cm deep, 520 kg of Epsom salt, specific gravity 1.27
Temperature
35.5 °C water and air, held within 0.2 °C
Room
2.6 m by 1.6 m, 2.2 m ceiling, a door that never locks
Filtration
The whole volume through a 1 micron filter three times between floats, then UV
Plunge pool
6 °C, 1,400 litres, chilled and filtered all day
Sauna
85 °C, cedar benches, eight places

Your first float

It takes about an hour and forty minutes from the door back to the street. Bring yourself; towels, a hair dryer and everything for the shower are here.

  1. Arrive 15 minutes early

    We show you the room, the light switch and the intercom, and answer anything you want to ask.

  2. Shower, then float

    Wash off any oil or make up, put in earplugs, step in and lie back. Music plays for five minutes, then it is quiet until five minutes before the end.

  3. Shower again and sit for a while

    The salt rinses off in a couple of minutes. Tea is upstairs, and you can stay as long as you like.

Before you book

Please wait four weeks after a new tattoo and two days after colouring your hair, or the salt will lift the colour. If you are pregnant, or have epilepsy, a heart condition or an open wound, call us first and we will talk it through.

Floating is not a treatment for any condition. It is an hour of warm, quiet water, and that is all we claim for it.

Membership

For people who float every month. Pause it for up to three months a year, and cancel with 30 days' notice.

  • Two floats a month

    £96 a monthJoin

    Two 60 minute floats each month; an unused float rolls over for one month.

  • Contrast only

    £39 a monthJoin

    The sauna and plunge as often as you like, booked up to a day ahead.

  • Gift cards

    From £28Buy

    For any session, sold at the desk and online, valid for twelve months.

One float a month

£52 a month

  • A 60 minute float every month
  • Extra floats at £46, the contrast circuit at £18
  • Book up to four weeks ahead, a week before everyone else
  • No joining fee, paid by direct debit
Become a member

Visit

Neap is on the harbour side of Spike Island, between the dry dock and the Cumberland Basin. The door is on the waterfront, not the road.

Address
41 Cumberland Road, Spike Island, Bristol
Hours
Monday to Friday 7:00 to 22:00; Saturday and Sunday 8:00 to 21:00. The last float starts 90 minutes before we close.
Getting here
Six minutes on foot from the Cumberland Basin ferry stop. Racks for 20 bikes, no parking on site.
Access
Two rooms and the plunge have step free access and a hoist; tell us when you book.
Phone
0117 496 0381, 7:00 to 21:00

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