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| - I was still trying to get over a cold and Jeff is a spa-whore, so i looked on Yelp for recommendations in Vegas.
I'm glad we stopped.
The facility is quite clean. There was a young man cleaning the wet areas the whole time we were there.
Much like other Korean spas I've been to, I was greeted by a shoe locker area, before entering the locker room. The clothes lockers have the weird little magnetic/electronic keys on plastic bands that looked like hair bands from the 80s.
The men's locker room is huge. On the left and right are lockers. In the middle of the room are 4 black leather easy chairs and behind them, two red lounge type chairs. A flat screen TV is across from these chairs. (It was tuned to a basketball game.)
Along the walls are long counters with brushes and cotton swabs. I'm used to seeing more grooming products than what they had out. (I only saw some lotion and nasty hair gel.)
Outside of the glass doors to the wet areas, there is a shelf with smaller and larger towels. Immediately inside the glass doors is another shelf with towels, to your right. To your left is a shelf with toothrushes, wash cloths, and razors. The stand up showers are directly in front of you. To the right of the shower areas is a flat screen TV. (Tuned to a Korean talk show.) There is a privacy screen by two of the showers to the right. The remaining showers are open. (It took me a while to figure out the showers. You adjust temperature on the left dial. There is no right dial and then you push the "button" in the middle for the water to turn on. Think push button sink faucets, just you get to adjust the temperature on these. I realize they have drought restrictions, so this was a clever idea, but strange to those of us who have never encountered that before.)
To the left of the shower area is a huge hot tub with the jets going. It is much deeper than you would initially expect, but a comfortable temperature and the jets are perfect for helping relax a tight bath.
in the next room over, there are rows of sit-down (Asian-style showers). They have glass dividers between them. On a table near these showers is a large bucket of salt. it is for the salt sauna.
Across from the sit-down showers, there is a large cold pool. It is deep, too, but not as cold as some places I've attended.
Beyond the sit-down showers there is a body scrub area, sectioned off by a privacy screen. To the left of the body scrub area there is the salt steam sauna, an herbal steam sauna and the dry sauna. I didn't enter the dry sauna.
After showering, I salted myself up and entered the salt sauna. it was quite nice. The heat and the steam made the salt melt and all my toxins left with it. I ended up rinsing off and then moving to the herbal sauna. This room was at a much higher temperature. It hurt to breathe in there, so I left it. The salt did make my skin smoother.
There is a room off to the side of the cold plunge. I saw a young man go in there and he described his body scrub when he came out. I think the term he used was "thorough." That is my kind of body scrub!
Going back out to the locker room, there is a resting room (in the dark) amidst one bank of lockers. There is a bathroom across from the stairs leading to the 2nd floor and the co-ed areas. At the entrance of the stairs, there is a salt cave. It is a large room with salt bricks along the walls and ceiling. There are mats on the floor and head rests. I stayed in there for about 10 minutes and was sweating by the end. It didn't seem that hot, but it got me sweating. I liked that room, quite a bit.
When we entered, we were given "spa clothes" Unfortunately, I wasn't able to go upstairs to the 2nd floor because my spa clothes were too small for me. Next time, I'll bring my own shorts and tshirt, so that I can go see what else this place has to offer.
I didn't get a massage, though I doubt I would ever get one here, since I pay about half for the same kind of massage where I live. I might pop for a body scrub, though. :)
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