Naked Spa

Over the past couple of months there’s been a lot of talk about a hot spring spa, a.k.a.the naked spa. The spa is attached to a hotel within a 10 minute walk from our apartment. From all the hype, all I really understood was that you had to be naked, no swim suits allowed! Many of my Western friends aren't too keen on a naked spa.  A couple of weeks ago my friend Cindy, who is Chinese, asked if I wanted to go with her. I thought a day at the spa sounded wonderful, naked or not.

When we arrived, I was surprised that we didn’t need to check in. We simply were handed a plastic bag, which contained a white hand towel & were escorted to a locker room. Cindy began taking off her clothes & I realized there wasn’t any warming up to this naked spa thing, you walk in and take off your clothes… so I took off my clothes.

 

After getting naked, we went to the pool area where there were many naked Chinese woman. There were multiple indoor pools in varying temperatures. There was also an outside hot tub and a wet and dry sauna. It was nice. We headed for an indoor hot tub. From the hot tub I noticed that there were small cubical type stations at one end of the room where it appeared women were scrubbing, with a towel, the bodies of other women. It’s not something I've seen in the U.S. From there we went to a special area to get a body scrub from an employee of the spa. The employees in this area were wearing matching bras and underwear. The underwear had the word "Rosy" bedazzled on the front of them. I guess that was their work uniform. The area had a number of large cubical type areas with 3 foot walls and large doorways. I lied naked on a massage table and had an employee used the white hand towel I was given when I arrived (so that’s what the towel is for), to give me a full body scrub, or at least that’s what I thought I was going to get. After a short bit my friend translated that the employee was stopping the scrub because I wasn’t “dirty.” Instead I agreed to a full body milk massage. The milk massage was $5.80.

After the milk massage we were issued pajamas, which were pink flannel shorts and matching tops, so we could leave the woman only area and have lunch. We enjoyed a delicious hot pot lunch Hot pot is where customers choose raw meat, seafood and vegetables and cook them in a pot with either spicy or bland broth at their table. After lunch we went to a lounge area where we got a 2 hour head, shoulder, leg and foot massage for about $21. We also checked out the communal sauna where both men and woman can lounge in there cool pajamas (men wear the same pajamas, but they are blue). Six hours later we left the naked spa. I’m a fan.

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