A thermal spa on the shore of Okanagan Lake, where the heat and the beach are a few steps apart. We open in Kelowna, spring 2027.
Värra is a waterfront thermal spa on Okanagan Lake in Kelowna. Ten thermal experiences and the lake itself, arranged as a session of heat, cold and the rests that hold them together. You can expect to leave warmer and clearer than when you walked in.
Each round runs the same way: you warm through the saunas, take the cold for a few seconds, then rest for as long as you like. Three rounds fill a session of about 150 minutes, and there is a recommended path you can follow or leave. The plunge is brief; the clear-headed minute afterwards is the part worth staying for.
The Experiences
Three saunas, a hammam, a steam room, a salt room, an ice room, a cold plunge, and the warm and hot pools you rest in between rounds. That makes ten. The eleventh is Okanagan Lake, which you reach on foot across the sand.
Treatments
Massage, body treatments and facials in rooms that look straight out at the water. Each one is added to a circuit booking and recommended to be taken afterwards. The full menu follows closer to opening.
The Arrival
You come in from below, down through a concrete cased underground parking lot, toward a set of bronze doors glowing at the far end. The oldest baths were built this way on purpose: Roman thermae cut into the hillside, Ottoman hammams sealed off from the street. The contrast begins here, before the heat and before the water.
The circuit opens onto a stretch of beach on Okanagan Lake, next door to the Eldorado on Capozzi Road. Between the heat and the cold there's a bar: an Okanagan wine because the valley is right outside, and champagne if there's something to mark. At 4pm in July the light does most of the work.
