Saunas
In Lagos the question is never whether the grid can carry a 9 kW heater. It is how the heater sits beside the …
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A Lagos hotel spa has one requirement above all others: it must work at eight on a Friday evening whether or not the grid is up. Lagos hotels ran at about 66.7 per cent occupancy in October 2025 with record room rates (Estate Intel), and guests paying those rates notice a cold sauna immediately.
Typical project in Nigeria: NGN 39M – 207M, supplied and installed · six to ten weeks per room after the drawing is approved, plus shipping.
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Loop first, rooms second
Hotel and club guests move from heat to cold to rest and back. The loop is drawn before the rooms, with the cold tubs a few steps from the sauna door and a pair of tubs for every eight sauna seats, so the post-work rush in a Victoria Island hotel or an Ikoyi club keeps moving.
Every guest-facing load on the essential board
This is the part specific to Nigeria. Heaters, chillers, extract and lighting all sit on circuits the changeover actually feeds, and their restarts are staggered so the generator does not trip on inrush when it picks up the load. The equipment guests depend on is installed in pairs, valves let one room close without the others, and a box of labelled spares lives in the engineering store, because imported parts take weeks to arrive.
A suite that goes dark mid-evening loses bookings no matter how good the mosaic is.
Hotel experience
Behind the drawings are 220 hotel spa projects from our factory, among them spa floors for Hilton, Hyatt, Sofitel, Rixos and Kempinski. In Africa that includes the thermal floor of the Sofitel Thalassa in Algiers and, closer to home, our 2025 villa sauna in Ikoyi, Lagos.
Abuja hotels bring a different brief: conference guests use the spa in the early morning and late evening, and the harmattan months mean the chillers' intakes need filtering and weekly cleaning between December and February.
Budgets and handover
| Scope | Indicative, million NGN |
|---|---|
| Small hotel thermal suite | 39 – 84 |
| Full hotel spa, duplicated plant | 88 – 207 |
New hotels get their spa built into the main contractor's sequence; for an operating hotel we work one area at a time behind hoarding. Before we leave, the spa attendants learn the daily routine and the maintenance team learns the plant, and we come back after six months to review how it is running. A plan of the space and the number of rooms is enough for us to sketch a circuit and an itemised budget.
In short
- Heat, cold and rest planned as one loop before the rooms
- All guest-facing loads on the essential board, restarts staggered
- Duplicated critical plant and labelled spares on site
- Staff trained at handover, log reviewed at six months
Questions
Hotel & club spas in Nigeria
How much space does a hotel thermal suite need?
A compact suite for a Lagos business hotel fits in roughly the footprint of two guest rooms, with a separate plant room; a resort-style spa needs considerably more.
Can the hotel stay open while you build?
Yes. We close one area at a time behind hoarding and agree quiet hours with the general manager in writing.
What happens to the spa when the grid drops?
Nothing guests can see, if it was designed for it: the changeover picks up the essential board and the loads restart in sequence.
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