To think a ‘spa day’ sounds pretty miserable, really?

[53rdWay]

I just do not get why these are supposed to be relaxing. Or why they’re the MN cliche recommendation for frazzled mothers especially. People massaging you! And faffing around with your fingernails and toenails! And plastering your face in goo! If I wanted to be touched all the time and have yoghurt rubbed into my face I could just stay at home with my children.

I know different people like different things and all (although if you disagree with me you are objectively wrong obvs), but are there other people who shudder at the very thought of spa treatments?

My idea of hell too, particularly if I have to do it with someone else. That said, I love a massage, absolutely love it. Deep tissue, whole body to get all the horrible knots out - but I don't need it to be part of a whole day of torture with other people!!!!!

I'm dying for a spa day!!! For real.

Depends on the type of spa day. I also don't really like to prodded and pummeled, but I do love saunas and steam rooms. Those are very relaxing.

I had lovely day. No being touched. Mud bath followed by special shower thingy. Then used all the sauna, jacuzzi, pool. Lying on the patio area sipping fruit water (later on gin). Lovely cream tea

I had to go for massage sessions as part of CBT a few years ago. It was bloody awful, you can't keep an eye on them when they're moving around and it's dark and there was once a fatal oily hand slip during the thigh portion of the event. I did eventually concede that the arm massage is good. They also tell you how terribly dehydrated and stressed you are, which didn't really help to relax me.

I also fundamentally believe I was waterboarded by a naked elderly woman at a Hamam a few years back in Istanbul. shudders

I take it you've never had a spa day OP?

@53rdWay

I've never met anyone IRL who agrees with me that spa days sound yack. I cannot think of anything worse. I have never had a massage and the idea of it makes me shudder a bit. Ha!

I also fundamentally believe I was waterboarded by a naked elderly woman at a Hamam a few years back in Istanbul.

I have no difficulty at all in believing this.

Can I genuinely ask what is the pleasure of a sauna?

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I like a good spa day but not when DD(10) and her friends did one for me. Little fingers prodding my neck and poking my eyes with makeup brushes. Nightmarish.

Sitting around in the damp with other people's foot skin lurking, and paying strangers to poke at me, and rabbit food for lunch.

Doesn't sound like any spa day I've ever been on
You can swim or go in the hot tub if you want but you don't have to and even if you do there's absolutely no obligation to "sit around in the damp", you are allowed to dry off. As for other people's foot skin, all the spas I've been to give you slippers or you can take flip flops. I've never been poked at either, reminds me of Ross giving the weird massage in Friends . Massages aren't compulsory anyway, my best mate hates them so she always gets her nails done instead. As for rabbit food for lunch, last time I went on a spa day I had a yummy pasta dish followed by a big slice of cake .

I love spas

Nope, I'm still not buying it, and I'd never let a stranger touch my nails, they're my pride and joy!
The only Spa I'd go to is the one in Belgium with the F1 cars

My idea of hell!

I have tried spa days in the UK as well as other countries, Germany, Japan (very strict on etiquette), Thailand, Malaysia, India and so on, and you know what I still dont like them, as much as I have tried to 'get' the whole experience, some have cost a fortune and not felt the slightest relaxed after .

Been with friends as well as couples massages etc. Had so many treatments from hot stones to ice massages, fully clothed ie swimwear to naked, but no, never again but gave it a good shot.

Im hate being massaged and cannot for the life of me see whats relaxing, hot tubs/Jacuzzi vile, swimming I like, face treatments I end up in spots and I dont even have sensitive skin, no-one will ever touch my feet again and I can do my own nails fine.

Nope not for me, and I do feel its one of those things your perceived you should enjoy, but if you do well ...

Not for me either, give me nature any time. A walk through the trees, barefoot in the grass.
My idea of heaven, but each to their own. I don't see the purpose of hot tubs either, sharing bodily fluids in cell soup. But some people save to buy their own.

I had a hot stones full body massage today for the first time, it was bliss

Don't worry OP I'll have your treatments for you!

I grew up coveting a spa day. Tried several in my 20s/30s, not for me. No one can look after me as well as I can!

Not for me either. The idea of lounging around in a dressing gown other people have been sweating and trumping in (I know they've had a wash) and being massaged by a bored beautician leaves me cold.

@Doodleoodleday which was the one in London you used to go to? Sounds amazing!

My idea of hell too, I'd rather go to the dentist for a root canal than have a spa day.

@ZootSuit

It was Espa at the Corinthia in Next to embankment. I love it there!

Get the 120 minute treatment it's just bliss.

I had one for the first time in years a whole ago with a friend. We stayed overnight

We arrived, after lunch sat outside in the south nnand chatted, sat on comfy chairs some.more and chatted more ( not seen each other in some time). We then went for a long walk in nearby countryside ( we chose one in a country location),. We came back for swim, sauna and a delicious and also healthy dinner

Then we slept in a very comfortable room.. The following morning we had a lie in then a delicious a nd healthy breakfast followed by swimming, jacuzzi, a gym visit , another long walk and a lovely buffet lunch before heading home. It was bliss . My friend did have a treatment as well on the second day but I sat and read while she did this