Bath Thermae Spa: the only natural hot spa in Britain
Posted on 31 August 2011 with 1 comment from readers
Dubai hotels have done much to popularize spas in the UAE but for the real thing you should head to the only natural hot spa in Britain, the Bath Thermae Spa.
There has been a natural hot spa here since Roman times when the conquerers of Britain noticed a natural hot spring and saw its commercial potential. The original Roman baths are still a popular tourist attraction.
Hot spa
But the Bath Thermae Spa is something rather more modern and hygenic. Developed on the site of a former bath complex it is the UK’s most modern and an sophisticated spa, a piece of architecture worthy of this beautiful city that only opened in 2006.
On the roof is an open top pool of the famous Bath water complete with underwater jets. You can survey the city skyline from the pool. The next level down has four steam rooms each with a different aromatic oils filling the air, and a huge rainfall shower in the middle.
This is a marvelously light and airy building with natural light in every room, even the treatment rooms on the ground floor. How different from the rather claustrophobic chambers of a typical spa.
Enjoy the very latest in hot stone and Vichy rainfall shower massages or a body scrub and rejuvenation massage. The female therapists are to the highest standard and prices very reasonable. The AED480 package includes four-hours in the spa and a massage and two-course meal in the healthy restaurant.
Impeccable facility
The ground floor also has a large indoor pool for wallowing in the water with a Jacuzzi in the corner. Its an impeccably clean and well managed facility with changing rooms with individual cubicles so privacy is assured.
Or if you wanted to rent an entire pool facility for complete privacy then there is the Cross Bath smaller pool with its own natural spring that used to be for the kings and queens of England when they visited Bath.
It’s a shame that so many Arabian visitors hardly get outside of London in the summer. Bath is a short high-speed train ride from Paddington station and a great place to relax and unwind as ArabianMoney is discovering this week.
1 Comment posted by readers:
A guide told me once that the water comes up from 1-2 kms below ground, and that it has been coming up since the Romans were here. Rather like the river Thames which keeps pumping up water in the Cotswolds in volumes far too large to be accounted for by rainfall. Bath is on the southern edge of the Cotswolds.
Makes you wonder how all this lovely water got trapped down there in the first place, so that it is able to slowly leak out over generations and empires. Perhaps, there really was a worldwide flood in Noah’s time when vast quantities of water got trapped in the layers of sediment after they hardened.
Like having a fresh look at professional financial advisers, perhaps we should have a fresh look at what happened some 6,000 years ago. If we can get what happens in the here and now so wrong (I refer to those who did not invest in gold and silver over the last decade), then we are much more likely to get what happened millennia ago totally wrong.