Seoul Zimzilbang Korean Sauna

It is a good place… liked it. 20 $ per entry is not bad. They have variety of saunas to try which is relaxing. although there was some strange smell in the hall. You have to be completely naked in the spa… while showering or using the hot tub or steam room. If you are not comfortable being nude in front of other people then this not the place for you. they offer Koren scrub (only male 2 male) which is good and leaver you skin smooth and silky. overall good experience. will be going back there.

I was super excited when this place first opened up and still go from time to time. Excellent value $ 20 bucks gets you in with no time frame. Take a significant other or friend and gab away comfortably in the 40 degree room, take a break in the ice room, on to the 77 degree room, another ice break, then 10 minutes in the hottest 90 degree room. Repeat. Now its time to hit up the snack bar for a nice cold beer and some instant noodles. Book a body scrub and your skin will thank you leaving you with butter soft baby skin. Finish off in the steaming in the hot hot steam room and soak away the winter blues in the hot tub. Bring your own towel as you are only given 2 small towels.

20 $ cash per visit, price includes sauna, suits and towel
The dinning room is the biggest room here and I can’t figure out the point of the huge empty place
They have several levels of temperature rooms and each room has some bamboo mats and yoga mats, the mats are dirty and the pillow are made of wood
The shower place is the most awkward place I have ever been! Everyone share the same space naked!
The lady work at the food station is rude and the food is bad. Outside food and drinks are not allowed.

It’s a very nice place to hangout with friend in freezing winter. They are not so new, but quite spacious. There are around 7 different kinds of steam room and one ice room there. I would suggest to bring your own towel. Their towel don’t look very clean, color all changed. After all, I really enjoy my time there with friends. I will recommend this place to my friends and I will go back again

Came here to take shower and nap after red eye flight to Toronto from Los Angeles.
I guess I had high expectation but…
You only get two small towels and they don’t even provide toothbrush.
Place seemed dirty and not well taken care of but I guess you don’t have much choice anyway in Toronto.
I wouldn’t go back. It would be much better to get a motel to take shower and nap.

Just along Magnetic Drive around Steeles and Dufferin, there’s a family Korean sauna which is pretty neat! Although it may be tricky to find at first, there’s a bright red banner that reads ‘family Korean sauna’. Don’t worry, you can go with your friends still ;)
There are a total of 6 rooms with different salts, chemicals and minerals. Four of the rooms are in the high 30 and low 40 degrees Celsius. The other two rooms are between 80 and 120 degrees Celsius but there’s carpet so your feet don’t burn when you go in immediately. My routine is to just go in the sauna and then the ice room later.
They also provide small towels which many people use to make the Princess Leia look on the head. The central area provides food and water if necessary. If you want to buy food, they’ll charge it to your locker number. There’s also a massage you can get which includes a fee. Feel free to bring your own games, but they also have entertainment such as a pool table and other games there already. Pretty cool experience.

Nothing fancy… $ 20 cash to get in… Paying any other way… add the tax
2 small hand towels and your shorts (with pockets) and tshirt is given to you. Along with a remote key/​wristband.
If you want to shower, go in the steam room, hot or cold tub… be prepared to go naked. Soap bars and Shampoo, hair dryer and hair brush (did not use) is provided for you.
The lockers are fair size and its according to the # you selected to out your shoes when you first came in.
Once you walk out… its the common area. There is a snack bar serving instant noodles, boiled egg, drinks and Sapporo beer and asian ice creams.
I saw that board gamrs ban be rented/​borrowed… I dont know.
Wifi is free… its the facilities phone number.
Plenty of sofa and chairs to lounge
5 dry sauna ranging from 39c to 120c and 1 cold room.

Isolated place within an industrial area i.e. semi-​spooky neighbourhood. Clean facility. Can be busier and louder on weekend evenings/​nights.
Fantastic scrub for $ 40.
Great Korean sauna experience

This place is da bomb!!! You want a unique Korean sauna experience in Toronto? This is THE place! It’s located in a bit of a hidden area so upon arriving you start wondering if you will be kidnapped. When you go into the place there are lockers for your shoes. Oh bring cash it’s 20 $ otherwise $ 22.50 with credit. Once you check in you are given a t shirt and shorts so everyone looks like they are in prison at this point wearing the same outfits. You get two small towels and there is a huge locker for you inside the change room. Everyone in the change room taking showers and using the hot tubs or steam room are naked! Then you go into a common area where you can get some snacks, cup noodles or play some boardgames. There are really only 3 sauna rooms and 1 cold room so it’s small. But for 20 $ you can’t go wrong. I saw lots of Korean students here with their iPads and MacBooks studying as this place is opened 24 hours.
Overall, it was a good experience. A mini 3 hour Korean vacation escape from the cold! Staff in the snacks area was not very friendly though and there is a bit of a language barrier if you don’t speak Korean. I’ll definitely be back.

Great place. Great value. No real complaints to be honest. They did an excellent job trying to make things understandable with big signs in english.
Great place to escape to for a couple of hours. Just relax. Bring the suggested items other people have noted.

My friend and me went there this Monday, everything is good, not many people. We did the body scrub, there was one lady beside me, after her finished, I found they didn’t clean the cloth and bed properly at all, only use water, then start using again… when we finished body scrub, we went into the sauna room, they have different temperatures, very nice! Only the ice room very smelly, couldn’t stay inside.
We stayed there around 4 hours, ate some eggs and noddles. Everything seems good until I got home, I found my legs, arms, belly are full of red dots… I email them to see if any customer complaints the same thing before, but no reply. I waited 2 days to see if they are going to disappear, but no good luck, it’s getting worse. I will go to see the doctor tomorrow!
I am worried now, because I’ve seen what they are using it’s not clean at all… If they keep using for different people, it may cause skin disease…
Just a reminder for everyone, the sauna is okay, but don’t try other things!

We go there from time to time and we used to like this place a lot. When it’s not crowded it’s very nice and relaxing. People come with the friends and family, play board games, watch TV, read.
Positives:
— low price entry tickets — $ 20
— 24 hour service
— 6 different temperature sauna rooms — fro 38 to 92 C
— steam room in each change room
— you can have full body scrub for $ 40
— cold room
Negatives:
— The food choice is only limited to what they can make in a microwave (instant soups). I’ve seen some people had rolls, but when we asked if we can order food, they said no.
— The sofas in the hallway are very old, and the fox leather is piling off and stays on you
— there is no coal in the lower temperature rooms, so the odor is not very pleasant. I think they used to have coal bags in all rooms, but now I can only see them in the 80 — 90 C chambers
— They don’t discourage to use cell phones, and last time we visited there was a lady who spoke on the speaker phone for hours. That was pretty annoying.
Bring your slippers and an extra towel. You get small hand towels, but they are not big enough to dry yourself after the shower.

What a fun experience to chat and hang out with friends!
It is in an industrial office area so it can be a bit tricky to find at night. I came with 4 other people at 10pm at night. We put our shoes in the locker and paid $ 20 in cash (if you pay with debit/​credit its $ 22) We got our uniforms and then to the locker room. The uniforms are these large biege tshirt and shorts which looks like oversized pjs. When you wear with your friends it becomes a good laugh especially with a Princess Leia towel hats.
We loafted on the large couches and got some cup noodles and kimbap. The board games were unfortunately $ 3 to rent. Then off to the saunas. The heated rooms were a lot smaller than I expected but since it was late at night it wasn’t too busy. We got to try all of the rooms with only our group in it except for 1. We spent the most time in the crystal room which is about 38 degrees and Elvan Stone room around 42 degrees. it was hot but not too hot to move around and chat. We were only in the 90 degree room for about 2 minutes before it was just too much!
We were there until 3 am. Unfortunately the snack bar closes around 1.30 am and we never got to try their baked eggs (guess i’ll have to come back for those!) They also turn off a lot of the lights then as people are sleeping on the couches. The large middle area was big enough so that you dont really bother any groups around you.
Although it looks more like a cafeteria than a spa like environment, but for $ 20 and you get to stay there as long as you like it was great. There were a lot of laughs and sweating that night!

It’s not like King Spa in Chicago– it’s small and cozy. For 20 bucks, you cannot complain. I would choose here any night if I needed a cheap place to stay! Well, I am used to sleeping on hard floors.
Warning for overnighters: people do snore. Do not fall asleep in the hot sauna rooms. You can die or wake up very shriveled. The outside jjimjil room does get cold at night. I slept for about thirty minutes but my body told me to go into the toasty room that connects you to the sauna rooms. You should bring a wet towel, which will act as a humidifier in the hot room.
There are only two baths, but at the time I went, this was not a problem. There are enough showers and the steam room is big enough, in my opinion. I can’t imagine what it would be like if a lot of people came to the sauna. I’d feel a bit cramped for sure .
Take a long, nice bath. Scrub out your anxieties, fears, and stress. Detox in the many sauna rooms! It’s like Korean therapy.
Being physically clean really correlates to feeling mentally clean.
For 20 dollars, not bad at all!

Upon entering the hidden building, we were greeted by a Korean lady who spoke very little English but was nice nonetheless. We were urged to take off our shoes and place them in separate lockers (I usually share lockers for ease of only having to carry one key but she requested we separate out the shoes so we did — I was with my one friend). Once you put away your shoes, the hostess exchanges your shoe key for a locker key inside the change room. Payment is $ 20 cash or $ 20 + tax if not paying cash. You get a very roomy t-​shirt and long shorts — orange for women and blue for men — and 2 small gray towels. The women’s change room is to the left and the men’s is to the right.
Inside the (women’s) change room there is a showering area where no clothes are permitted (not even swim suits!). The lockers are HUGE so you can potentially bring your entire closet if you need to get ready there before a night on the town. If you do plan on showering there (it’s required before you entire the sauna) then I would recommend bringing a larger towel from home to dry yourself off. We also brought our own clean pair of flip flops to wear inside but I saw many people walking around bare footed.
Once you’re all showered and changed you enter the main lobby where there are couches, TVs playing Korean shows, and a small dining area in the middle. If you’re hungry there’s a variety of food you can get ranging from simple instant noodle cups (there’s a pretty decent variety of these), kimbap or chips if you’re not too hungry or even full rice and meat plates, not to mention the eggs. I didn’t get any but the guy sitting at the table across from me had a plate of what looked like bulgogi, white rice and kim chi (it looked really good, we were eying him pretty hard lol!!!). There’s also drinks such as aloe or even beer (Sapporo and Canadian) if you want! If you don’t want to pay for drinks and you’re thirsty, there’s a water dispenser on the left of the bar for free in addition to them allowing you to bring in empty water bottles for your personal use. When you get food you only need to show them your locker number and they add the charge to it so you can pay when you leave — you don’t need to carry money around.
Now onto the sauna rooms! When you enter there is a large room that’s about 25 C that has mats for you to use in the hotter rooms. There are about 9 (I don’t remember exactly) including 1 ice room with a big wall of ice. The sauna rooms are made with various crystals and stones that are supposed to have different healing properties. All this information is listed right outside each room for you to peruse. The rooms themselves are quite small, some fit perhaps 4 – 5 people comfortably. The temperatures range from 32 C all the way to a whopping 92 C (this room has wooden seats). We tried the 32 C, 42 C, and 78 C. My personal favourite was the 42 C as it was hot but not too hot that it was uncomfortable. So I still got sweaty but I wasn’t struggling to breathe as I did in the 78 C room. Since we were all new to the sauna we didn’t try the 92 C room but I think I will next time.
Overall it was a great experience and I will be back again. We were there for about 4 hours but it didn’t feel like 4 hours at all! Time just flew. The best thing about this place, besides the saunas (obviously), is that there are tabletop games that you can play (I remember seeing Jenga and Scrabble in their little collection) while you eat or just hang out in the lobby area. If their selection isn’t to your liking you can even bring in your own games — I brought in Settlers of Catan to play.
Lastly, there is in and out privileges. I had left Catan in my car as I wasn’t sure if the locker was large enough to fit both my bag and the game so I had to go back out to get it. There was various slippers that you can use to walk outside placed around the front area so you don’t have the take your shoes out of the locker. I thought this was a really thoughtful touch!

The biggest selling point is not that it’s the only korean style sauna in the area, but that it’s probably the cheapest place to stay for a night in the Toronto area, besides sleeping in your car or on the street. $ 20 for 24 hours. Doesn’t get much better than that. You need a car to get here though, although I think you can get here by bus eventually.
Unfortunately, you’ll be sleeping on a floor mat or a couch. The sauna rooms with the different temperatures and interior walls was interesting, but not that appealing to me.
The little convenience store style snack bar was a bit sad looking. I’ve been to saunas in Korea, and they generally had way more stuff to eat and play with. Still for $ 20, it’s good enough.
I was a bit worried about the cleanliness and level of hygiene. The ground of the shower room had a weird brownish discoloration that didn’t wash off. The water in the dipping pools wasn’t being circulated, so I had no idea if it was clean or not. I was hoping for a more traditional shower area with stools and a variety of sprays and soaps but this was just a very basic shower.
The floor mats are quite dirty. I don’t think they get cleaned often. You might want to wipe down everything yourself before using it.

This was my first Canadian «zimzilbang» and compared to my US experiences, I wasn’t very impressed. But if you don’t have any other options nearby, it will do.
The good: One of the women’s spas has a strong jet spray that, if you stand in the perfect spot, hits right on the shoulders. Awesome if you have a lot of tension there! And with some awkward maneuvering, you can probably get it to hit other parts of your body that are sore. I managed to get a few minutes on my lower back and even my calves which felt wooonderful but probably looked ridiculous.
The meh: First off, it was a little hard to find the place, and when we did, the parking lot looked a little rundown and could use some fixing up.
Second, the place is a lot smaller and more basic than the US k-​spas I’ve visited. The women’s spa room is pretty compact – when you enter, the scrub/​massage room is to your left, and the showers are right in front of you. There is one spa to the left of the showers behind the scrub room, and another to the right, along with the wet sauna room. I didn’t do a scrub but was surprised to see them taking customers so late in the evening.
The main room is also very bare looking – maybe because it’s so large with a big space in the middle. The café is to the right, with a few tables/​chairs, and the wall are lined with big black couches. Perhaps it was because we were there so late – if there are people/​mats in the middle of the room, it probably won’t look so unnecessarily immense. We didn’t try the food, but it smelled pretty good.
My least favorite thing was my experience in the heated/​sauna rooms. The heated area is separated from the main/​café area, and there is a smaller «main» room with heated floors in there, with a TV in that common area. Mats and head pillows are available. The individual rooms were small but decent, but the annoying thing was that people would talk really loudly to each other. In the main room, I can tolerate this, but in the individual sauna rooms, I really felt that it was a breach of spa etiquette.
Would I recommend to a friend? If they want a Korean spa experience in the Toronto area, and this is still the only one, yes, with the disclaimer that it will be different from the US Korean spas. But I probably wouldn’t go out of my way again.

BOTTOM LINE: It’s all about that 72 degree sauna room and the Princess Leia towel wraps.
Over the past year, the word’s clearly gotten out as the clientele here are no longer just Koreans or Russians! As the only zimzilbang in town, they have little competition, and even though I’ve heard the ones in NYC and LA are way more elaborate, they also cost a lot more. This place may be a bit bland, but it’s good where it counts.
Let’s start with the change rooms. They’re decent. The showering area is just okay but just thinking about that communal bar soap makes me vomit in mouth a little. Also, it’s a good idea to bring your own slippers, but that’s just universal precautions. The steam room and the hot and cold baths are a great way to relax, and I usually do 2 rounds before hitting the sauna rooms.
They are about 6 sauna rooms with most of them hovering around the 40C, but my favourite is the 72C one — it strikes the perfect balance of being hot, but not too hot (unlike the 92C one!). The ice room’s great — others have complained about odours, but I’ve never experienced this.
Finally, their common area is pretty weak sauce. Their kitchen is fairly bare bones, though their kim bap is not bad. I really wished they served REAL food that can satiate my bibimbap cravings at 3 in the morning. The «entertainment area» is pretty sad I have to say, so just bring your own stuff. Even though the exercise machines have been around forever, they’re essentially new and unused. At the end of the day though, despite my gripes, I find that I keep coming back because I’ve somehow turned into a sauna junkie and this place is one of the best values in town.

Originally, I had booked a «regular/​custom» massage. When I got there I asked about the Aromatherapy massage, as I like a very relaxing time with scented oils and such. The girl at the front explained that you must be completely naked and it’s done by a woman. All of this seemed perfectly legit. I mean, it’s a «family» sauna, right? I wasn’t sure how comfortable I was with being completely naked, but I figured I’d suspend my shyness for a day and see what it was all about.
Well…
I sheepishly entered she shower area (and I will agree with a previous reviewer who likened it to something from a horror film), showered and lowered myself into the hot tub, waiting for my masseuse. But how was I to know who she was? Should I get out and wait? But I would be waiting naked in a women’s shower! That’s just far too creepy a thing to do. Eventually, a woman came in in her bra and underwear with a caddy full of massage things. She scanned the shower quickly and saw me «Number 22?» She asked? I was relieved. She showed me to the massage area where there was another woman lying tits up on a table being rubbed all over. Um… was this going to be me? But it seemed to late to back out now – even rude, maybe to say I wasn’t comfortable with this. But I was already naked and thinking that I couldn’t get any more.
Lying naked on my stomach, I felt a hard press on my calves. I was about to ask her to not rub so hard, but when I looked back, I saw that she was STANDING on my legs with her hands on the wall, holding her up. 10 minutes later I was covered in oil with this Korean woman on my back, sliding back and forth and working my muscles in a way that can only be akin to mild torture. It hurt so badly, and when I asked her to use a lighter touch, she ignored me. This was definitely far out of my comfort zone, but I reasoned that it was no big deal and probably normal in Korea.
I actually have bruises from this massage (I am incredibly sensitive and bruise easily) My skin is in pain. BUT, my muscles are incredibly knot free and my body feels better than it has in years. So in the end I would say that it was worth the hour of pain and embarrassment.
After showering all the oil off, I went tot he massage studio for my foot massage, which was wonderful and relaxing.
I liked all of the saunas, but my favourite was the one that was medium hot. I lounged on the smooshy black couches and waited for my sushi to arrive. I tried a baked egg and it was wonderfully nutty and delicious.
I’d say that this was a day well spent. Relaxation, a completely new experience in massage and a super chill environment. My only criticisms are that maybe they could go a little easier on me next time. Maybe I’m missing the ‘no pain, no gain’ mantra, because it did work. Also, for a duration of time in the early afternoon, there was a dog barking incessantly from another room. This was not the most relaxing noise. I got around it by putting on my headphones and listening to music, but otherwise it would have been very annoying.

This place is AMAZING and Korean people rock for inventing this! It’s a great place to relax and just chill out. I thought it would only be Koreans here (who I love) but I was happy seeing a few non Koreans around to up the diversity factor and make this brown girl feel like she’s not sticking out like a sore thumb.
I loved the saunas. I chilled in the jade room for awhile and played some music on my phone. I went at night and was happy that there wasn’t a big crowd.
I tried a foot massage which was the bomb! And then I nom nomed on baked eggs and spicy squid which were delicious.
I am a lifelong fan of this place and will be back often as $ 20 is totally worth the experience. The only cons of this place is that food is a little pricey, you need to pay for pool or board games and the showers are communal (which I know is traditionally Korean) but I felt shy going in.
For newbies coming here: bring a bottle of water, slippers, soap, a bigger towel and a pack of cards to play with.