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Snow
[ Snow room ]
Snow Room Manufacturer, Supplier and Installer
in the UAE and the GCC
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Since 1987[ What to know ]
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Sauna · steam room · hammam
Snow
Produced on site, daily
Manufacturing
Own facility, İkitelli OSB, Istanbul
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Winter wonderland all year round
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The snow experience 365 days a year
Sauna Dekor is a snow room supplier and installation contractor for hotel spas, wellness centres and private villas in the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Qatar, working with TechnoAlpin snow-room technology. We have manufactured in Istanbul since 1987 — this is our 40th year — and have delivered wellness projects in 41+ countries. In October 2025 we delivered a 6 m² snow grotto for a private villa in Dubai, fourteen weeks from order to handover.
Tingling cold and soft powder snow. The fascinating white splendor has an almost magical appeal for people, it soothes the mind and arouses our playful instinct, no matter how old we are. Experience this wonder 365 days a year with indoor snow concepts from TechnoAlpin. Specific concepts for different sizes and purposes guarantee personalized solutions for every application.
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A Turnkey Solution The SNOWROOM
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Simple Maintenance
The mechanical room can be positioned up to 50m away from the SNOWROOM and maintenance access is simple. Special openings provide access to the air conditioning units and snow nozzles to enable easy maintenance.
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Intuitive Operation
A 7-inch touch display ensures easy control and monitoring of all operating functions of the EcoSnow 2.0 technical snow unit. A scheduler program permits automatic control of both snowing and defrosting times. TechnoAlpin can access the device and make changes to the settings at any time via remote maintenance, if necessary.
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Rigorous Hygienic Standards
High hygienic standards have always been a major priority for TechnoAlpin's product development team. Visitors to a SNOWROOM only come into contact with fresh snow and clean air. A microbiological analysis carried out in 2021 confirms that SNOWROOM surfaces, snow and air quality are completely safe as freezing room temperatures prevent the survival of microorganisms.
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A Design Highlight For Any Room
The SNOWROOM offers a modern design and a visual highlight for any indoor venue. The SNOWROOM can be perfectly incorporated into any design. Thanks to the different versions, it can be individually adapted to transform any space into a unique experience. Four different available design styles ensure optimal integration of style.
Pristine Snow Quality
Fresh snow produced on a daily basis made from air and water - no artificial additives. TechnoAlpin Indoor guarantees snow of the highest quality, just like the real thing. The patented nozzles deliver a fresh blanket of snow every morning.
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Spa & Wellness
Snow Rooms - An entirely new way to cool down
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Fitness
The "cool" regeneration after the workout
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Private Luxury
A SnowRoom to your exact requirements
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Winter wonderland in the wellness area
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SNOW ROOMS – THE HOLISTIC COOL DOWN
A proper sauna also requires rapid cool down after sweating. A sauna is designed to be paired with a cold room; the contrast between the two is the point of the circuit. A SNOWROOM is ideal for restoring the body to a normal temperature – from head to toe: Deep breaths at -10°C and dry air cool the airways whilst powdery snow falls also has a cooling effect on the skin. Compared to dowsing with water, the cold effect is intensified without causing a cold shock.
Cold applications and cold therapies are in vogue. Cold rooms are specified as the counterpart to the heat rooms in a thermal circuit, whether the facility is a hotel spa, a recovery centre or a private villa. The Global Wellness Institute has tracked hot-cold contrast as one of the recurring themes in facility design. Even the change from normal room temperature to cold is enough to expose the body to “positive stress”. Unlike traditional wet cold treatments, the snow sauna is a soft, dry cold. So it’s pleasant and welcoming, and hence essential to boosting the positive effects. The SNOWROOM exploits the physiological ability of the human body to adapt to the fullest extent.
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THE WELLNESS INNOVATION AS
A GREAT ATTRACTION
The SNOW ROOM not only feels good, it looks good too. Real powdery snow in a sauna setting will take the wellness guest by surprise and enhance the overall sauna experience. Those who are not looking for snow to cool down will visit the SNOW ROOM out of curiosity and be amazed at how natural the snow actually feels. This attraction will make traditional wellness areas stand out from the crowd and offers a new and interesting approach.
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Design
Rock Design
Cubic Design
Stone Design
Forest Design
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The SNOW ROOM for your fitness center
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THE "COOL" REGENERATION AFTER THE WORKOUT
After intense exercise, be that in a competitive or amateur sport, the body has to be cooled down again afterwards. Cold treatments can boost the recovery process after a workout. Snow rooms are most often specified next to a sauna in facilities that serve athletes and gym members. Cold temperatures also temporarily reduce the sensation of pain, providing relief for both muscles and joints. As a result, the body releases positive messenger substances, namely endorphins and serotonin, which improves joint movement.
A SNOW ROOM construction with real snow in a fitness center or sports facility offers visitors an innovative form of regeneration after a workout. A SnowRoom can be a unique selling point for your facility and will also grab your guests’ attention.
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Tailored to individual needs
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A SNOW ROOM FOR YOUR PRIVATE RESIDENCE
A snow room is just as individual as you are. Would you like to upgrade your private wellness area with a special form of cool-down down after a sauna? Want a unique setting to recuperate after sport? Or do you simply want to impress your guests with an extraordinary eye-catcher?
The SNOW ROOM construction from TechnoAlpin makes all this possible even in your own home. Real snow, without chemical additives, just for you, your family and friends. Anywhere in the world. The possibilities are endless.
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Innovation and spirit of the times
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THE VERY ESSENCE OF INDOOR SNOW ROOM: FOCUS ON OUR VALUES
We set great store in developing and integrating innovative technologies to ensure optimum performance and the efficient use of resources.
With Indoor snow solutions, water consumption is kept to a minimum: one liter of water produces 5 liters of snow. Approximately 200 liters of water are needed per week to create a it.
Up to 80% of the energy required for a SNOW ROOM can be recovered as thermal energy: for example, the waste heat generated by cooling the it can be used to heat a swimming pool.
Tailored to individual needs
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Quality & Certification
We ensure that our products meet the most stringent of quality standards by carefully selecting the materials and construction methods used for our products.
All TechnoAlpin Indoor products are designed and manufactured in Italy to the highest standards. Product quality is tested on certified test benches and guarantees flawless performance in the field.
The TechnoAlpin snow unit carries its manufacturer’s CE and CSA certification for European and North American standards. All components are installed and serviced by certified personnel to guarantee a long lifetime.
Explore Related Wellness Solutions
Combine your snow room with our sauna solutions for contrast therapy. Add an ice fountain or cold plunge pool for a complete cold wellness experience.
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Snow room supplier and installer in the UAE and the GCC
Sauna Dekor supplies, installs and commissions snow rooms as part of a complete thermal circuit rather than as a standalone box. TechnoAlpin (Italy) is our snow-room technology supplier and supplies the snow unit; we take responsibility for everything the unit depends on — the insulated shell, the continuous vapour barrier, the condenser position and its heat rejection, meltwater drainage, the electrical supply, the interior finish and the interface with the sauna, steam room and plunge next door. That division of scope is deliberate. In a Gulf installation the snow unit is rarely what fails; the wall build-up, the condenser location and the drainage are.
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How is a snow room sized for hotel spas and villas?
| Property segment | Capacity | Floor area | Typical use |
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| Apartment or compact villa | 1–2 people | 2–3 m² | Private contrast sessions |
| Villa wellness suite | 2–4 people | 4–6 m² | Family and guest use |
| Large villa or penthouse | 4–6 people | 6–9 m² | Entertaining, group wellness |
| Boutique hotel spa | 6–10 people | 8–14 m² | Signature spa amenity |
| Resort or commercial spa | 10+ people | 14–25 m² | High-throughput spa circuit |
Ceiling height is normally held at 2.2–2.4 m. We size snow-room refrigeration against the Gulf’s own ambient figure, not a catalogue figure: 45 °C outside against roughly minus 10 °C inside is a gradient of about 55 K, and a plant selected for a European basement will run permanently at full load in Dubai. Sessions last two to five minutes, so the room is sized to the number of people who will actually use it at once.
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Snow room delivered in a private villa in Dubai
In October 2025 we handed over a 6 m² snow grotto inside a private villa in Dubai. Fourteen weeks ran from order to handover. The room is finished in backlit natural stone, a snow lance produces fresh powder snow on demand, and the condenser sits remote from the room on the service roof so the rejected heat never recirculates into the wellness wing. The snow room opens off the villa’s existing sauna and cold plunge, which is how the cold pole of a thermal circuit is meant to be planned — in the drawings from the start, not added afterwards. The engineering behind a Dubai installation of this kind is set out in full on our snow room Dubai page.
The client’s name is withheld by agreement. The district, the property type, the floor area, the month of handover and the programme are given as recorded.
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Cold therapy delivered by Sauna Dekor
Cold is a discipline we build. Alongside this villa snow room, these are other cold installations we have delivered — plunges and ice, next to the saunas and steam rooms they serve. They are listed here as cold-side work, not as snow rooms.
- An ice fountain in a branded residence tower in Istanbul.
- A stainless-steel cold pool at a resort residential project in Muğla (2025).
- A cold plunge at a beach club in Kilyos (2025).
Client and operator names are withheld by agreement; the city, the facility type and the year are given as recorded. For the snow unit itself we work to TechnoAlpin’s specification and commissioning procedure.
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Further reading on the cold side
A snow room is one way of delivering the cold half of a contrast circuit, and it is rarely the only one in a project. The order in which a snow room is planned, from its place in the circuit to the shell, the drain and the plant room, is set out step by step in our snow room planning guide. How heat and cold are sequenced is set out in our guide to sauna and cold plunge; what cold-water immersion involves in practice is covered in cold plunge use and what an ice bath is. Where all of these sit relative to one another in a planned facility is covered in our notes on the thermal suite. The Dubai-specific engineering is in snow rooms in Dubai.
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Who builds the snow room, and who manufactures the snow unit
The snow unit is manufactured by TechnoAlpin in Italy and carries that company’s CE and CSA marks. Everything the unit sits inside — the insulated shell, the continuous vapour barrier, the interior finish of the snow room or snow grotto, the condenser position, the meltwater drainage and the interface with the sauna, steam room and plunge next to it — is manufactured and installed by Sauna Dekor, from a workshop of nineteen people at İkitelli OSB, Başakşehir, Istanbul.
Sauna Dekor has manufactured since 1987, is in its fortieth year and has completed work in 41+ countries. Sauna Dekor’s own certificate is TS EN ISO 9001:2015, covering the manufacture of sauna and spa products and after-sales service; it covers the room we build, not the snow unit, whose certification belongs to TechnoAlpin.
Last updated: 23 September 2026
Comparison
Saunas, steam rooms, hammams and cold rooms compared
Operating ranges of the rooms we build. A Finnish sauna is the hottest and driest; a steam room and a hammam run cooler with far more moisture; cold rooms close the circuit.
| Room | Temperature | Humidity |
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| Finnish sauna | 80–100 °C | 10–20 % RH (dry air) |
| Bio sauna | 50–65 °C | — |
| Infrared cabin | 45–60 °C cabin air | — |
| Steam room | 40–50 °C | Close to 100 % RH |
| Turkish hammam | Room air 40–50 °C; heated platform 40–45 °C | — |
| Cold plunge pool | Water 2–15 °C | — |
| Snow room | About −10 °C | — |
Sources: Sauna Dekor approved operating ranges (29 September 2026); Finnish sauna humidity: Hussain & Cohen, 2018; snow room: TechnoAlpin.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Who supplies and installs snow rooms in the UAE?
Sauna Dekor. We are a snow room supplier and installation contractor for hotel spas, wellness centres and private villas in the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Qatar, working with TechnoAlpin Indoor snow-room technology and manufacturing the surrounding wet-area works in our own factory in Istanbul, now in its fortieth year. Our scope is the room and its interface: insulated shell, continuous vapour barrier, condenser location and heat rejection, meltwater drainage, interior finish, and commissioning alongside the snow unit.
Have you delivered a snow room in Dubai?
Yes. In October 2025 we delivered a 6 m² snow grotto for a private villa in Dubai, fourteen weeks from order to handover: an insulated shell finished in backlit natural stone, a snow lance producing fresh snow on demand, and a remote condenser on the service roof. The client’s name is withheld by agreement.
What temperature does a snow room run at?
The TechnoAlpin Indoor snow rooms we supply operate at about minus 10 °C. A snow lance combines chilled water and compressed cold air to form fresh powder snow that settles on the benches and floor. Sessions are short — two to five minutes, normally straight after a sauna.
How is a snow room engineered for a 45 °C climate?
By designing against the Gulf’s own ambient figure rather than a catalogue figure. Outdoor design temperatures in the UAE reach 45 °C while the room holds about minus 10 °C, a gradient of roughly 55 K — far larger than a European installation faces. That drives heavier insulation, a refrigeration plant sized on the real gradient, a condenser location where the rejected heat can actually go, and a vapour barrier with no interruptions. The most common failure in hot-climate snow rooms is an undersized or badly located refrigeration system, not the snow unit itself.
What size snow room do I need?
Sizing follows capacity and session style, not dwell time. A one to two person villa room works at 2–3 m², a family wellness suite at 4–6 m², a large villa or penthouse at 6–9 m², a boutique hotel spa at 8–14 m² and a resort spa at 14–25 m². Ceiling height is normally held at 2.2–2.4 m to control the refrigerated volume. Oversizing is expensive twice over: a bigger plant to buy and a bigger load to run all year.
What is the difference between a snow room, an ice room and a cold plunge?
A snow room produces real falling snow in sub-zero air. An ice room or ice fountain supplies crushed ice to rub on the skin without freezing the whole room. A cold plunge immerses the body in cold water; we build cold plunge pools for water temperatures from 2 to 15 °C. They are three different pieces of equipment with three different plant requirements, and a full contrast circuit often includes more than one.
Where does the refrigeration plant go?
Remote from the room, in a position where the condenser can reject heat without recirculating it — a service roof, a plant deck or a ventilated plant room. This has to be fixed at concept stage, together with meltwater drainage and the insulated wall build-up, because the visible room is only part of the installation footprint.
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Snow room projects
Rooms we manufactured in Istanbul and installed with our own team. Each frame opens the project page.
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Get a quote for a snow room
Send us the room size and ceiling height; we will work out the scope and the budget range with you.
In short: A snow room is a cold cabin where fresh snow falls at about −10 °C (TechnoAlpin), used between sauna and steam sessions. Sauna Dekor builds the room and its plant space around TechnoAlpin snow technology for hotel spas and villas in the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
How cold is a snow room?
A snow room is a walk-in space kept at about −10 °C, a value given by the snow-making manufacturer TechnoAlpin, where real snow is produced and falls inside the room. It needs an insulated envelope, a refrigeration plant, a snow generator and an anteroom so guests can step in after the sauna.
Cold & Contrast
Which cold and contrast rooms do we build?
6 cold rooms we plan next to the heat rooms, each with its own sizing, equipment and plant: cold plunge pools, snow rooms, snow showers, ice fountains, shock buckets and cryotherapy rooms.
Cold plunge pool
Water held at the set point, from 2 to 15 °C, by a chiller sized for the climate and the bather load.
Snow shower
A single ceiling unit that releases snow on demand, where a snow room does not fit.
Ice fountain
A stainless outlet that fills a basin with flaked ice; the ice machine stays outside the room.
Shock bucket
A timber bucket on a stainless arm that tips cold water when the cord is pulled.
Cryotherapy room
A factory-built cabin from its manufacturer; we plan the room, the power and the ventilation around it.
Comparison
How do the cold rooms compare: plunge, ice, snow and cryotherapy?
The cold step sits at the exit of the heat rooms, a few steps away; a cold room placed far from the sauna is not used.
| Room | Temperature | Equipment | What the building provides |
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| Cold plunge pool | Water 2–15 °C, held at the set point | Chiller; stainless steel or tiled shell | Chiller in a plant space, continuous filtration and disinfection, grab rail and slip-resistant steps |
| Snow room | About −10 °C (TechnoAlpin) | Snow unit from its manufacturer | Unit outside the room; water, drain and its own circuit; insulated panels and an unbroken vapour barrier |
| Snow shower | Snow released on demand | Ceiling snow unit from its manufacturer | Generator in a dry plant space; water, drain and power; floor laid to falls |
| Ice fountain | Flaked ice in a basin | Built-in ice machine | Machine outside the room; only the outlet enters it |
| Shock bucket | Cold water on demand | Bucket, stainless arm and pull cord | Cold-water supply above and a drain below |
| Cryotherapy room | Set by the cabin manufacturer | Electric or nitrogen whole-body cabin | Own electrical circuit, service space behind the cabin, ventilation for the cooling unit |
Sources: Sauna Dekor approved operating ranges (October 2026); snow room: TechnoAlpin.
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Where a snow room does not fit
Where the floor area or the budget does not allow a room, a snow shower releases snow from a single ceiling unit in an open niche and takes the same place in the circuit.
Last updated: 28 October 2026