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Low Tech Magazine: Communal Luxury: The Public Bathhouse
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Iceland runs plenty of these and has a nice culture of frequenting the public bathhouse. It's one of the few things you can do that is actually affordable there.
They do have the advantage of having essentially infinite clean energy in the form of geothermal heat. As do Japan in many cases, for that matter. I'm sure that has something to do with these institutions having staying power there.
Anyway, I think this idea has merits, but not as an energy saving measure. The reason for this is that in order to maintain good water quality, you have to shower thoroughly before getting into the bath, negating the potential energy benefits of the initiative. We can bring it back for it being nice, though!
Same in Hungary. Tourists are charged out the wazoo for it, especially the two or three most well known and picturesque ones, but locals can get a prescription for discounted entry from their doctors by just saying "oh, my rheuma is acting up".