Lola S.
Yelp
I got the red flower hammam treatment and it was so amazing. First, this treatment, you will lie down on a very large hot stone. You will be naked but they will cover you with towels around your breast area and your vag area. Then you flip over and do the backside and then they cover your butt. The person performing the treatment will not see anything as you do most of the covering yourself while the person giving the treatment steps out. If you aren't comfortable with that, maybe you should try a different service. I don't like to be naked in front of other people, so I was worried that the person that was giving me the treatment with see my naked flabby ass, but that was not the case here. So try something new and go naked during this treatment. I kept my swimsuit bottoms on against advisement, and it really did get in the way of the treatment, so although they let me keep it on which was so nice, next time, I will take it off. Another tip is to do NOT SHAVE at least two days before this treatment, they will scrub you down with body scrubs, so if you shave before that will cause irritation, so make sure to do that at least two days before if you have to do that.
While you lie down on the heated stone in a private room, they throw buckets of water on you. If you do not want to get your hair wet, I repeat, please bring a water turban. I will have to look into getting one for myself next time as I used the shower cap that was provided in the locker room and it was not the business. Also bring a hairband to put your hair up. They scrub your body with body butters, soaps and oils, and they encase you in bubbles. I do not know how to explain it, except it's kind of like when you take a bath and you have a bunch of bubbles, so there's no water, but just a bunch of bubbles. After the treatment they rinse you with water while you're still laying down, they kind of alternate between rinsing you and slapping you with the water which feels great. This is not a massage, but it's basically like you take a shower laying down. It sounds weird, but it is absolutely amazing and anyone and everyone needs to try this if they can.
Throughout the treatment, they used all these body, butters and oils that smelled so good. Probably the best smelling lotions and soaps I've ever smelled before. One of the soaps did smell like the In-N-Out special animal style sauce and it made me kind of hungry during the treatment, but overall the soaps and oils smelled amazing. They also add an automatic 20% gratuity to each treatment. I feel like the 20% gratuity is well deserved for the people who perform the treatments. I had Ron for the Hammam service. He did such an amazing job, and I look forward to coming back and having the service again with him. He was so kind, polite and respectful. I highly recommend to book with him. I was also worried during my treatment as there was so much water being poured over me and I try to do everything I can to save our planet's resources, but Ron assured me that the facility is a sustainable facility, and that the water is cleaned and recycled, which is such a big deal for me, so I was glad to know that.
The treatment was so amazing, I thought to myself if this was so good, their other treatments have to be amazing as well, so I actually booked a Hydrafacial right after. The hydrafacial was just as amazing as the Hammam treatment. I didn't catch my facialist's name, but she did such an amazing job, and she wrote down their medical grade face products for me. She was not pushy at all and I was so glad she wrote down the products because I was really impressed with what she put on my face. I've had many hydrafacial's before, but this one was so different as she was very thorough and did not miss any spots on my face, neck, and décolletage. This was all included in my hydra facial treatment. The two treatments I received were so amazing and worth the money in my opinion. I thought I would be able to have pool access for all the money that I spent, but you are not able to use the pool if you are not a guest at the cosmopolitan. That was a bummer considering that was the main reason why I booked the treatment in the first place. If you wish to stay all day, they give you In and Out privileges until 7 PM. If you get the Hammam treatment, definitely get the Facial after. Do not get a Facial before as they will wash the products off of your face. Also use the sauna and the other rooms before the Hammam treatment as they put a lot of oils on your body, and you do not want to rinse it off after.
I wonder if they have a couples Hammam experience. That would be really cool to do with my husband. They do not have a coed spa, this is separated by gender, but if I could do a treatment on the same stone as my husband, that would be cool.
Overall, the spa wasn't the best because it was small, but it was beautiful. The treatments is what saved it, they were out of this world so I will definitely come back again.