Rose G.
Yelp
If you find the sounds of heavy machinery, lawn mowing, and constant beeping of a forklift backing up calming and relaxing, then this is the spa for you! If, like most people, you find those sounds super annoying and stressful, then I highly recommend you book your spa day elsewhere. I think a spa day inside a steel factory would be more relaxing than this place.
Also, I was so glad that my SISTER wasn't anywhere near me when my massage therapist asked me if I was treating my mother to a spa day for mother's day. She's very sensitive about her age and def would have cried on a spa day that was for her. Really shouldn't assume things like that - also there's only a two year difference between us - SO RUDE.
So I had the tea experience, a swedish massage, and an energy facial. The tea experience was very rushed and we did not get to really enjoy that for very long. Also like half of the time we were in there (so like fifteen minutes out of thirty minutes) one of the ladies on staff sat with us on the floor and was very chatty about the tea and the gardens - not relaxing and really would've enjoyed more time alone without her.
I was supposed to be able to sit in the tea room and drink my tea while my sis got the cedar bath thing, but they tried to kick me out earlier because they had someone else booked in it right after us, but we still had like about 20 or 30 minutes left on the reservation for the tea room. They just wanted to tidy it up for the next person sooner while my sis was in the cedar bath. Since I couldn't chill in the tea room we had for my sis's entire cedar bath, and they don't have any inside waiting areas, they brought me to the gardens outside. While the gardens are pretty enough, it was freezing and raining outside and the entire time I was sitting there all I could hear was the loud noise of the farm next door mowing the lawn and an annoying beeping sound of a forklift or something backing up. I was super cold and the lady brought me a thin blanket, but I really could have just used a thicker blanket or a waiting area inside where I'd be warm. Idk what the heck they do in the winter, because this wasn't pleasant on a chilly day in May even - I shudder to think how I'd feel in December or January.
After my sis was done with her cedar bath she came to join me in the garden and we sat on the pillows for about ten minutes, then moved to the waiting area for the pagoda massages. There was entirely too much time between treatments with nothing to do, and they don't even have a snack menu or something so you can't eat between treatments. Just boredom of waiting around with loud noises of lawn mowing and heavy machinery to irritate you.
Our massage therapists came to get us and bring us to the pagodas. My sis went with some dude and I went with some lady. On the walk to the pagoda is when she asked me if I was treating my mother to a spa day, and I quickly turned around to make sure my sis wasn't nearby to hear that. I very bluntly said that she was my sis and the lady was like oh I shouldn't assume, and I was like yeah, you really shouldn't.
Went into the pagoda for the massage and it was freezing cold. The table had some heat in it, but the entire place felt like ice. All I kept hearing was the beeping of a forklift backing up and heavy machinery during the entire massage. I even asked if she could put on music or something to drown out the noise and the lady was like, oh we just have the sounds of nature here - chirping of the birds and what not - and I was like I just want to drown out the noise of the beeping and heavy machinery - and she was like, yeah that's our neighbors, not a lot we can do about that. I think, one, you could have something to drown out the noise at least, and two, you should either own the land adjacent to you or build your spa somewhere else.
When she started my massage her hands were ice cold - unpleasant. I also asked her to not touch my feet as I'm very sensitive on my feet, and she kept touching them and trying to massage them multiple times. I had to keep reminding her that her touch on my feet was unwanted. She kept just brushing it off like she's so used to just doing feet, but I didn't appreciate her ignoring my preferences when I don't appreciate someone touching my feet. The massage was meh. I asked her not to massage out knots because it's painful and she still did. And other parts of my body it was like she was barely touching me. Just not a great massage and really needed her to respect that I don't like being touched on my feet.
When the massage was done she took me over to the inside to wait for my facial. The "waiting area" for the facials is just a seat near the stairs in the middle of everything and is super loud. My facial sucked, it was painful and just heard more beeping and cars zooming. Also super weird "technique" of playing with the fat under my chin...
Overall, expensive, loud, rude, and not relaxing. Don't bother coming here.