Terence's @rchive

I just had a very rejuvenating and relaxing bath in my hotel room in Danshui (淡水), Taiwan. The hotel is called 活丽养生会馆, Alive Regimen Hotel. Each room in this hotel has a big jacuzzi bath tub and steam bath.

The Room

The room is simple and clean with nice soft bed and 32″ LCD TV.

Bathroom washing area

Bath and spa amenities

Steam bath and shower cubicle

Button to start the steam bath

Press on this button outside the cubicle to start the flow of steam. Each press will last for 3 minutes.

Steam Bath

Shortly after pressing the button, the cubicle is filled with steam of herbal scent.

Herbal bag for bath tub

The Jacuzzi bath tub

The water takes around 20-30 minutes to fill up the entire tub. I tossed the herbal bag into the tub.

While waiting for the water to fill up the tub, I followed the spa guide provided by the hotel to 1st take a shower. Then proceed to do the steam bath. The steam bath was quite hot but has nice herbal scent. I cooled myself down by showering myself with cold water.

When the water is full, I went into the tub and turn on the water pumps. As soon as I turned on the jacuzzi, the toilet lights are dimmed to a nice and relaxing ambient lighting. I sat in the hot water and started squeezing the herbal bag to hasten the mixing. I end up bursting the entire bag which immediately spread the herbal powder to the entire tub, which was good. With the lights dimmed and water massaging me, its a perfect end to today’s hectic tour schedule. The ambiance is so nice, I wish I had someone special to share with me at that moment.

I come out 20 minutes later. Was sweating inside the hot water and had to come out twice to shower cold water to cool down. I can feel my body loosen up and mentally relax after I come out and lay on my bed. Too bad I had to get up to pack my bags, and I end up losing the mental relax state after all the shoving and squeezing the stuffs into my luggage.

This round Taiwan tour sure is a relaxing 1. Had 4 consecutive nights of spa treatments in the resorts I stayed. 1st spa hotel was Fengtai Hotel (丰泰大酒店) in Chihpen (知本), followed by Dakeng Leisure Farm (大坑休闲农场), then West Lake Resortopia (西湖度假村). I didn’t post the photos because I cannot take pictures there and the 1 in Dakeng I can take but I forgot…… So just check out their website lar.

Will be flying back later at 8AM. Gonna miss all this spa experience. I will be back for more!

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