Everything you wanted to ask before you walk in.

Three things live under one roof, and you can take them in any order.

• RIDE — 45 minutes on the bike, low light, music forward, an instructor calling the room.
• SAUNA — infrared heat that works from the inside out. Quieter than the RIDE. Just as intentional.
• PLUNGE — cold water, on purpose. The part people fear and then can't stop talking about.

Most people take them in that order — RIDE, then SAUNA, then PLUNGE to finish. You'll be greeted at the door and walked through all of it.

A water bottle, comfortable workout clothes, and athletic shoes. We hand you a towel when you get here, and there's a tap for refills — you're going to sweat, so drink plenty before and after.

If you're staying for the SAUNA or the PLUNGE, bring a swimsuit. That's it — nothing else to plan for.

About 15 minutes. A friendly face will be at the door to check you in, set your bike, and show you where everything lives. It's the difference between starting your first class settled and starting it scrambling.

Your first RIDE · SAUNA · PLUNGE experience is $30. Book it on the site or in the VESSEL app, and create an account while you're there — new member offers land in your inbox.

The intro offer is good for one month from the day you buy it, so grab it when you know you'll use it.

Yes. The resistance knob is yours and nobody else's — the class moves together, but the effort is always your own. Our instructors are trained to give you a way in at every point in the ride.

You're not here to prove anything. You're here to fill up.

Tell your instructor it's your first time. They'll keep an eye on you.

45 minutes on the bike, start to finish. Add 15 for arrival and setup.

If you're staying to SAUNA afterward, give yourself a full 45 to 60 minutes on the other side of class. Recovery isn't something to rush — build the time in and it changes the whole visit.

Both are 45 minutes. What changes is the room's center of gravity.

RIDE is our signature — music-driven, rhythm-based, intentionally coached toward connection, presence and release. You come to move your body and fill your cup.

EMPOWER RIDE is full-throttle. Strength, presence, collective momentum. You ride hard, you rise out of the saddle, and you elevate the people on either side of you. It's built to grow power and leadership from the inside out.

Neither is the easy one. Pick the one that matches what you came for.

No — but they help. Our bikes take SPD and DELTA LOOK clips, so bring your own pair if you have them.

If you're riding in regular athletic shoes, we have baskets that fit right over the pedals. Email hello@vessellagunabeach.com before you come so we can have a bike ready for you.

Never on your first visit, and not on any visit you'd rather not. Come 15 minutes early and we'll dial in your seat height, handlebars, and cleats. Once you know your numbers, they're yours for good — we'll write them down for you.

Both, and on purpose. Mostly dark — a spotlight, some color, and the rest of the room falling away. You stop watching everyone else and start listening to yourself.

It's loud, too. We keep earplugs at the desk — take a pair. Plenty of regulars do, and the class hits just as hard through them.

Then stop. Sit up, take your resistance down, drink water, breathe. Nobody in this room is keeping score. If you feel dizzy or unwell, step off the bike and let your instructor know — that's what they're there for.

A traditional sauna heats the air, and the hot air heats your skin. That's why they run so punishingly hot — the heat has to travel through the room to reach you, and most of it never gets past the surface.

Infrared skips the room. It emits light at a wavelength your body absorbs directly, warming you from within rather than warming the air you're sitting in. Your core temperature rises, you sweat deeply — but the air stays breathable the whole time.

That's why our SAUNA sits around 150°F and doesn't feel like it. A traditional sauna needs 180 to 200 to do comparable work, and most people can only take that in short bursts. Here you can settle in, stay longer, and come out loosened rather than wrung out.

40 minutes, max — and less is completely fine. Take what you came for and leave the rest. Plenty of people are done at twenty.

It runs around 150°F, which sounds hotter than it feels — infrared works differently, and that's worth understanding before your first session. The answer above explains it.

Drink at least 8 oz of water going in, and 24 oz coming out. You'll sweat more than you expect.

A single session is $40, and it doesn't expire — buy it now, use it whenever.

Two people fit at once, so it works as a solo reset or a shared one — bring someone if the quiet is better with company.

A swimsuit. That's the whole answer — nothing else to pack, nothing else to think about.

Separately — but you'll find it on the same schedule as everything else. SAUNA and PLUNGE each get their own booking, so you reserve them the way you'd reserve a bike.

Pull up the schedule and you'll see all three sitting side by side. Stack them however your day allows.

After, for most people. Heat before a RIDE opens you up, but heat after it is where the real release happens.

If you're doing all three, the order most of our riders land on is RIDE, then SAUNA, then PLUNGE to finish. You work, the heat opens everything back up, and the cold closes it — you walk out sharp rather than sleepy.

None of it is a rule. Build the sequence that leaves you feeling like yourself.

38 to 42 degrees. Cold enough that your body has no say in the matter — which is exactly the point.

First time, anywhere from one to four minutes — it depends entirely on the person, and there's no right number.

Here's what we tell every first-timer: keep your hands out of the water, and just breathe through it for one minute. That's the whole assignment. Hands are where the cold screams loudest, and taking them out of the equation lets you find your breath.

You have 10 minutes in the room. If you need to get out and get back in, do it — in and out twice beats white-knuckling it once. Nobody is counting, and nothing about this is a test.

A single PLUNGE is $20 for that 10-minute slot.

Get in slowly and deliberately. The first 20 seconds are the loudest — your breath will want to run. Don't let it.

• Long exhales, longer than the inhales.
• Shoulders down, jaw soft, hands relaxed.
• Stay with one breath at a time instead of the clock.

Get out the moment it stops feeling like discomfort and starts feeling like distress. Descending is the practice — staying under isn't the point.

A swimsuit — same as the SAUNA, so one suit covers both and you only change once.

Yes — please talk to your doctor before using the SAUNA or PLUNGE if any of these apply to you:

• Heart or cardiovascular conditions, or a pacemaker or defibrillator
• Pregnancy
• Diabetes, or any condition that affects your ability to sweat
• Fever, or reduced sensitivity to heat or cold
• Hemophilia or a bleeding disorder
• Metal implants or pins
• Medications — especially diuretics, barbiturates, or beta-blockers
• A joint injury in the last 48 hours

Never use either after alcohol or recreational drugs. Everyone signs our waiver before their first visit, and it covers this in full. Tell us what we should know — we'd always rather adjust than assume.

Through the schedule on this site, or in the VESSEL laguna beach app — free on iPhone and Android. Create an account first; it holds your bike preferences, your credits, and your history.

You have 12 hours before class starts to cancel without penalty. Cancel inside that window or don't show, and you lose the class credit.

If you're sick, tell us. We'd rather you stay home, and we'll work with you outside the window.

Call us at 949.295.0710 at least 15 minutes before class and we'll hold your bike for the first 10 minutes. After that, it may go to someone waiting.

Add yourself online. If a bike opens up you'll get an email asking you to confirm — first come, first served, so keep an eye on your inbox.

No. Credits never expire. They're non-refundable, but they're yours as long as you want them.

A pop-up — exactly what it sounds like. Every so often we bring in a guest instructor and put a one-off class on the schedule. Jamie Cycle is one of those.

It books differently from the regular schedule. You buy it on our buy page — not through ClassPass — and the credit is good for that class only. It won't carry over to a regular RIDE, and a regular class credit won't get you into it.

Worth knowing before you buy, so nothing sits unused in your account.

Yes — credits can be shared or transferred on request. Just ask us at the desk or email hello@vessellagunabeach.com and we'll move it over.

Yes, and it's built right into booking. Pick the spot you want them in and enter their email address in it — that bike is theirs.

Ride next to each other. Suffer next to each other. It's better that way.

It comes down to rhythm. Do you ride on a schedule, or do you ride when you can?

Credits are a purchase. You buy a set number of classes, they sit in your account, and they never expire. Nothing recurring, nothing to cancel, no month to keep up with. If your weeks look different from each other, this is your lane.

A membership is a subscription. You're billed monthly for a set number of classes — or unlimited — and it renews until you freeze or cancel. It costs less per class than buying credits, and it comes with things credits don't: single classes at $25 when you want an extra, and advanced booking on the top tier. If riding is already part of your week, this is the cheaper and easier way to do it.

The short version: credits wait for you, a membership keeps you moving. Neither is wrong. Pick the one that matches the life you're actually living right now — and switch when that changes.

One difference that catches people: membership classes don't roll over. You use them inside the month or they're gone. Credits are the opposite — they wait for you indefinitely.

If you come up short on a membership month, you can always buy more at your member rate. Nobody gets stranded.

Four, and none of them expire:

• 1 credit — one class, no commitment
• 5 credits
• 5 credits, early bird — the same five classes at a better rate, good for the 7am and 5:30pm classes only
• 10 credits

Use them as you go, at whatever pace your life allows. Current rates are on the pricing page.

One thing to catch before you buy: the early bird pack only works on the 7am and 5:30pm classes. If those two times don't fit your day, take the regular 5-pack instead.

On the RIDE side, four — built around how often you actually get in:

• 1× a week — four classes a month
• 2× a week — eight classes a month
• Unlimited — the door's always open
• Unlimited + advanced booking — everything above, plus the schedule opens to you two weeks out instead of one. You pick your bike and your instructor before anyone else can

Rates are on the pricing page. SAUNA and PLUNGE have their own memberships — more on that below.

Hold just one at a time. If you want more rides in a given month, add single classes at your member rate rather than stacking a second membership on top of the first.

Add a single class to your cart. If you hold any RIDE membership, that class comes in at $25 — the discount applies automatically at checkout, whichever tier you're on.

So if you're on 1× a week and you've burned through your four, the fifth is $25. No code to enter, nothing to ask us for. Just add it and go.

No — recovery stands on its own here. SAUNA has its own membership, and so does PLUNGE, separate from each other and separate from RIDE.

That's deliberate. Plenty of people come to us only for the heat, or only for the cold, and they shouldn't have to buy a bike to get it. Build the combination that's actually yours.

We call them RECOVER memberships.

PLUNGE

• The STEADY Plunger — $39/month, 4 PLUNGE credits
• The LOYAL Plunger — $79/month, unlimited

SAUNA

• The STEADY Sauna — $99/month, 4 SAUNA credits
• The LOYAL Sauna — $149/month, unlimited

Each one starts the day you first use it — not the day you buy it — and renews monthly from there. Freeze or cancel any time, same 24-hour rule as everything else.

Any time. Freeze it, cancel it — life moves, and your membership should be able to move with it.

The one thing we ask: get it to us at least 24 hours before your next billing cycle. Inside that window the charge has already gone out, and we can't pull it back.

Email hello@vessellagunabeach.com and we'll take care of it.

Yes — you'll find us on ClassPass as VESSEL Laguna Beach, and the schedule is bookable there.

One exception: our pop-up RIDE with Jamie Cycle doesn't run through ClassPass. That one you buy directly from us — more on it below.

There's parking at the Hive Shopping Center. Local parking passes are accepted on the meters along the frontage road and Laguna Canyon Road.

Give yourself a few extra minutes at peak hours — it's Laguna.

Honest answer: one shower, and it's cold. It's there for rinsing off before you PLUNGE — not for getting ready afterward.

There's a bathroom and a spot to change, which covers most people just fine. But if you've got somewhere to be and you need a hot shower and a full get-ready, plan on doing that at home.

Yes — 13. Anyone under 18 needs a parent or guardian to sign the waiver on their behalf.

Yes. Birthdays, bridal parties, team offsites, a room full of people who need the same forty-five minutes together — we host all of it.

Email hello@vessellagunabeach.com and tell us what you're imagining. We'll build it with you.