Hamptons luxury trends for 2026: traveling saunas, staffing secrets

Whether you want to book a ride on Blade, a private yacht, an elite nanny, a new ‘do or a portable sauna, we’ve got your elite secrets to flying high in the Hamptons this summer.

Wandering saunas

If there’s one amenity that’s become nonnegotiable out East, it’s a sauna. Every new home in the Hamptons has one, builders tell Alexa, and in older homes, closets and nooks are being retrofitted with the hot boxes.

But if you don’t fancy spending hours in the closet, just step outside. You can have a traditional wood-fired cedar barrel sauna with cold plunges brought right to your door. Local family-owned Bunji Box Sauna is the East End’s only mobile sauna service.

The wandering sauna comfortably seats six and is all yours for as little as 24 hours ($400) — and really as long as you’d like (48-hour weekend rentals from $650). Looking to unlock all the benefits of hot/cold contrast therapy? Try one of their guided sessions. It’s a barrel of fun. 

All aboard

Face it. You developed certain nauti habits spending all that time in South Florida. Now that you’re back on the East End for the summer, what are you going to do? Be caught without a yacht? We thought not.

Luckily, Yacht Hampton recently launched the solution: FleetShare, a splashy members-only service that gives you on-demand access to a fleet of seriously sexy ships (and captains) at its Sag Harbor marina. Individual charters start around $500 per hour and go way up from there — but with Jet Skis and a 62-foot Pershing Velocity, plus novelty fun like Fiat and Barbie boats, there’s something to float everyone’s boat.

Better still, Gold and Platinum FleetShare members now have access to vessels in Palm Beach, so your buoyant lifestyle never has to sink. 

Hair apparent

It’s the Hamptons’ mane event. Earlier this month, Julien and Suelyn Farel schlepped their Park Avenue salon out to Southampton, after making a deal for the former La Carezza Salon at 43 Windmill Lane. The lock-smiths behind the Loews Regency New York institution will now snip, style and spoil at the new Julien Farel Restore Salon & Spa, with 16 chairs for hair and makeup, six manicure and pedicure stations, and three private rooms for spa treatments.

“This location completes our trifecta of opulent East Coast destinations, beautifully connecting our New York, Palm Beach and now Southampton maisons,” says Suelyn. And because life doesn’t slow down on the East End, they’ll still be performing their signature Power Beauty services — haircuts, hair color, styling, brows, waxing, nails, massage and facials — simultaneously, so that you’re done within the hour.

Sometimes, it’s good to take shortcuts.

Flight of fancy

It’s Friday and the East End is calling. You know the Long Island Expressway will be anything but express. Now, you have three choices: helicopter (fastest), seaplane (scenic water landing) or turboprop (lots of luggage).

Whatever you choose, it’s never been easier to chop through your Hamptons commute with Blade. The urban air mobility platform is flying from Manhattan and Westchester to Southampton, East Hampton, Sag Harbor, Shelter Island and Montauk all summer long — whittling your Hamptons commute down from three hours to just 30 minutes.

With the flick of an app, you can crowdsource a charter, reserve a seat or book a bird that’s just for little ol’ you. Just wing it. 

Staff up

Getting the perfect summer house might have felt like a coup, but it was just the beginning. You still need to fill it with a chef, nannies and a housekeeper (for starters). The bad news? So does everybody else.

With Wall Street booming, “demand is up,” says Anita Rogers, president and founder of British American Household Staffing. With offices on both sides of the pond, she specializes in assembling entire household teams under tight timelines and can have Mary Poppins at your door in days — not months.

BAHS also deals with estate managers, kitchen staff, laundresses, security, personal assistants, butlers — you name it — all selected to match your lifestyle. How do they source staff with so much competition? By only working with the best professionals — and the clients willing to pay for quality, Rogers says. Get used to saying, “Much obliged, Jeeves.”