J W ‘s Health Club & Spa

The Spa located on the sixth floor is integrated into the hotel’s health club and customers change and shower in the ladies or gentlemen’s locker room. The Spa has a total of 10 treatment rooms including two dedicated for Traditional Thai Massage. The majority of its customers are hotel guests. Not surprising more foreigners than Thai use the facility reflecting the hotel’s client mix. There is a near equal split between men and women using it.

Spa treatments awaken all of the senses, the hands of the masseurs on the skin the sense of touch; the soft lighting the sense of sight; burning oils the sense of smell; the gentle tones of a piano in the garden aroused the sense of sound and refreshing herbal tea the sense of taste.

The spa has sauna, steam rooms, Jacuzzi and hot and cold plunge pools, to complete the professional treatments.

From time to time we all get run down and need a detoxification, to cleanse the body of all the impurities. Learn how to recover in the city. To detoxify my body I was taking the Lymph Drainage Massage, The semidarkness of the treatment room created the right mood to receive my massage. It was as if it were just light by candles. The soft tones of pan’s pipe simply enhanced the sense of tranquility. The silence was audible.

This treatment manually opens the lymph vessel valves and induces toxin to travel along the vessels towards the lymph nodes, where they are filtered before passing through the waste system. As a result enhancing the body’s state wellness, promoting the immune system to solve the problems of numb, swollen legs, broken capillaries, varicose veins and cellulite. This was possibly one of the most gentle and comfortable massage treatments I have ever tried. The therapist’s hands glided over body applying just enough pressure to effect the treatment. A one-hour treatment costs Baht 1,600++.

Having returned home the treatment can be followed up with sea salt bathes allowing the minerals to stimulate hormone growth. The detoxification process causes de-hydration and it is quite natural to have a mild headache or feel nausea afterwards. To compensate one should drink more water over the next couple of days.

JW’s Health Club & Spa,
JW Marriott Hotel, 4 Sukhumvit, Soi 4, Bangkok 10110,
Tel (66-2) 656-7700, Fax (66-2) 656-7711