Dunfermline : Carnegie Leisure Centre, Pilmuir Street, Dunfermline Fife, KY12 0QE :  Tel: 01383 314200 web-site

Review :  Clean and only £4.30. Turkish suite men only on Tue, Thu 10am-9pm Sat 9-5 after which it becomes mixed. Mon, Wed and Fri men only days for the aerone baths.Faclilities are hot room, large steam room and small sauna with small plunge pool. There are communal showers, 3 showers behind one cutain and a resting area. Lockers only. The hot room is small but pretty with turkish style dome. It has appeared in one of Lucinda Lampton's architectural programes. Trunks for mixed sessions only. John

EDINBURGH : Portobello Swim Centre, 57 Promenade, EH15 2BS, 0131 669 6888

Sessions: men, women, and mixed. Women only Mon 3pm-9pm, Wed 9am-9pm, men only Tue and Thu 9am-9pm.

ABERDEEN : Bon Accord Baths, Justice Mill Lane, AB ER (01224) 587 920

Review : Clean and only £5.65. Men only session Wed 10am-9pm, rest is mixed except Tue which is for the ladies. Can have a female attendant on men only sessions. Facilities include 2 saunas, 2 steamrooms and 3 hotrooms. There is also a large coldish plunge pool, a hydro massage bed and a tv lounge with free coffee and papers. Jacuzzi to be installed soon, according to management. About 16 cubicles with beds and lockers and about 20 lockers.