Forever in tune with the season, The Okura Spa on the 25th floor of The Okura Prestige Bangkok Hotel is offering a two-hour treatment called ‘Tranquility Within’ until the end of the year. The treatment includes a body scrub and body massage that take their inspiration from the seasons in Japan.
Autumn in Japan is when the leaves are changing colour and falling. The ‘koyo’ or maple leaf turns a wonderful orange tone, so an orange cream scrub is chosen for the treatment to remove dead skin cells and moisturize.
To provide the scent and feeling of autumn to winter, an orange and clove essential oil blend from the Haarn range is selected, delivering intense well-being and warming relaxation.
Once welcomed into the spa, you are greeted with caring smiles and a carafe of ice-cold butterfly pea drink, with a butterfly pea ice cube and a cold towel. The entire scene is set for relaxation.
Before you know it the rich orange cream scrub is sliding between your toes and fingers filling the air with a warm, zesty scent, instantly elevating your mood and gently accomplishing its full-body task. After half an hour your entire body has been relieved of its dead skin cells and you’re in a power shower ensuring it’s the last you see of them. Buffed and sloughed youretake your face-down position for 90 minutes of expert, top-to-toe aroma massage.
The tranquility within that they reference at The Okura Spa instantly begins to surface, with every long meaningful stroke, coupled with the orange and clove oils. The effect is of stress-relief, muscular ease and awakening of the senses. The treatment leaves you altogether reenergized.
Tranquility Within is available until 31 December 2017, at B4,200++.
From 1 January 2018, spa lovers can expect a brand-new seasonal experience: the ‘Smoothie Retreat’. A strawberry scrub and a massage with oils from the tsubaki, or camellia, flower, which blossoms in wintertime in Japan, will make for a fruity and floral one and a half-hour treatment, to replenish and pamper the skin and soul.
THE OKURA SPA, The Okura Prestige Bangkok. Park Ventures Ecoplex. The hotel has a direct skybridge link from BTS Ploenchit. Tel. 02 687 9090. Email: spa@okurabangkok.com. www.okurabangkok.com.
