Thon Hotel Notodden

Thon Hotel Notodden offers a sauna a short walk from Heddalsvatnet, in the small Telemark town best known for its blues festival and the medieval Heddal stave church. The communal sauna sits in the hotel's compact wellness area on Torvet, designed as a calm decompression spot rather than a destination spa — exactly the right scale for the size of the town. The rhythm is straightforward: warm up in the sauna, take a cold shower, then rest in the wellness area or in the room afterwards. With a quiet visitor flow most of the year, the sauna is rarely busy, which makes it a good option for an unhurried evening after a day spent at the Blues Festival, on the Telemark Canal or visiting Heddal Stave Church a few minutes south of town. Hotel guests have direct communal access through the wellness area. For travellers exploring Telemark — by canal, by car or for the music — Thon Hotel Notodden is a sensible mid-route base. A working sauna in Notodden is a small but meaningful detail that turns a stop on the way to somewhere else into a proper restorative pause.