ESTONIA Resort Hotel & Spa

ESTONIA Resort Hotel & Spa sits in Pärnu's beach district, close to the city center, combining a 106-room hotel with a dedicated spa and conference wing. Rooms come with free wifi and water, and breakfast is included in the room rate. Hotel guests also get use of the gym, so it's worth packing workout clothes if that's part of the plan.

The spa side centers on nine different saunas built around Estonian sauna rituals, meant to strip away the noise of an ordinary day through heat and ritual rather than a single quick soak. For swimming, there's a large pool and a Dead Sea pool, the latter presumably salted to mimic buoyancy and mineral content. The treatment menu draws on Estonian natural ingredients alongside more exotic Sundari-branded therapies, with a signature option being a vigorous herb bundle massage using hemp oil and finished with a honey ball massage, priced at $42.

Beyond the spa, the property runs a conference center positioned between Tallinn and Riga, hosting seminars, meetings and corporate events in what the hotel describes as an environment built around water. Food and drink options include the à la carte restaurant NOOT, a café, and a lobby bar, which also handle concert dinners, holiday parties and birthday events.

Day passes are offered in addition to standard hotel-guest access, and staff work in Estonian, English, Finnish and Russian. Pricing sits in the moderate range for the region, and the spa counts just three listed treatments, so it's a tighter menu than the surrounding sauna and pool offering suggests.