Four questions that pick your treatment for you
A spa menu is organised by technique, which helps the therapist and almost nobody else. Answer these four and the choice makes itself.
Every spa menu in the world is organised the same way: by technique. That is a useful arrangement for the person giving the treatment and an almost useless one for the person choosing it, because nobody walks in wanting a method. They walk in wanting an outcome, and the menu never asks about outcomes. These four questions do.
One: can you point at it?
If there is a specific place that hurts and you can put a finger on it, book deep tissue or bamboo. Both work the inner layers — muscle, tendon, the fascia between them — and both are firm and narrow rather than broad and soothing. If the honest answer is "all of it, vaguely, for about three weeks", stay with Swedish or aroma. Specific treatments applied to a general problem tend to find a place that did not hurt before.
Two: do you want to be warm, or worked on?
These are different appetites and the menu does not distinguish them. Hot stone leads with heat — warm basalt laid along the back and glided, so the tissue is already soft before hands arrive. It is the gentlest route to a deep result. Deep tissue is the opposite trade: more result per minute, more sensation per minute. Neither is braver than the other; they suit different days.
Three: how much do you want to relax?
Aroma Massage
A gentle massage with warm aromatic oil and slow, relaxing movements. Perfect for letting go of tension and taking a moment for yourself.
Four-Hand & Six-Hand Massage
Two or three therapists work together in a coordinated rhythm, creating a deeply relaxing massage with several pairs of hands.
Lomi Lomi
A flowing massage performed with the feet, using long, smooth movements across the body. Designed to release tension and leave you feeling deeply relaxed.
60 or 90 minutes?
Choose the treatment time that suits you best.
60 minutes — a complete full-body massage, perfect when you want to relax and release everyday tension.
90 minutes — more time to slow down and focus on areas where you feel tired or tense. A good choice when your body needs extra attention and deeper relaxation.
The facial runs thirty-five minutes and is a different kind of booking: short enough to take on a working afternoon without rearranging the day around it.
If you would rather not decide
Describe how you want to feel afterwards when you send the booking, and let the spa choose. It is a better brief than a treatment name, and it is what your therapist would have asked you for anyway once you were in the room.
Two of the treatments carry a confirmed price — sixty minutes of Swedish or aroma at AED 425, and ninety minutes of Swedish at AED 600. Everything else on the menu is quoted when you book, so the figure is agreed before anything else is.
Worth knowing.
Deep tissue or hot stone?
Hot stone if you want a deep result with less sensation — the heat softens the tissue before hands arrive. Deep tissue if you can point at a specific place and want it worked on directly.
What is a four-hand massage like?
Two therapists working in time with each other. The mind stops trying to predict where the next stroke is coming from, and that is the point of it rather than a side effect.
Can I book without choosing a treatment?
Yes. Say how you want to feel afterwards and the spa will suggest one. That is a better brief than a treatment name.
