Full disclosure: I have never been to a spa in my years. I haven't even gotten my nails painted, or make-up professionally done, so this review is brought to you by a spa neophyte that was cashing in a a nuit blanche deal. It is the middle of winter. I haven't seen anything green since November. Every time I go outside I wear three pairs of pants. But at Bota Bota, I wore a bikini and sat in a hot tub as the snow gently covered our great bilingual city. I felt like Gatsby as I stood in the hot tub overlooking the panorama that is Montreal. I felt the grandiosity of it all and I liked it. I needed it. I needed a little break from the ice crystals that form inside my nostrils when I walk to school in the morning. This was my ticket.
The water circuit was fantastic. I sauna-ed, cold-dipped, and repeated a good 6 times. And every time I needed to do it again because the feeling of returning to the sauna after a dip so cold that your entire body feels like an ice cream headache is a rare but wonderful treat.
TL;DR: Everything about this place is awesome. It smells amazing. It feels amazing. The staff had outfits that I would wear to a cocktail party. I want to live here.