What’s more better than a day well spent at a spa and rejuvenating your mind and senses. Spa is altogether a relaxing experience and helps us give time to do nothing but just relax! Spa experience for first timers may be filled with anxiety and they may tend to end it with blunders, but extra care and following some of the spa etiquettes will make your first spa experience a memorable one and you will want to go in for more such services. All you have to do is be in your best behavior and let go off your worries for that moment, respect the service providers and just enjoy the time you have set apart for yourself. So enjoy your spa experience:
1. Be on time for your treatment
Being in the spa on scheduled time is very important as you can never relax when you are puffing when its time of your treatment. You need to be in a relaxed tone and feel yourself before you go in for your massage. Being there few minutes earlier will help you definitely as you have to fill up some necessary forms or take a shower before the massage starts. Also some spas or resort spas have additional amenities which are been provided for the customers as complementary services.
So being there beforehand may help you get a nice hot steam bath for free. Or you can also have a tour of the spa and see the other amenities provided there. All this will only help to make you relax before the actual massage starts and will make your spa experience even more fruitful than ever. So being there beforehand always helps.
2. Switch off that mobile
You have taken out time from your busy schedule to relax and not to attend your calls when you are at the spa and treating yourself. Save all calls and your office work after the spa and remember that the world did not stop when there were no cellphones around. Constant ringing of the mobile phones will never help you relax but will also distract and annoy the therapist who is there for you and will not wait for time on end as there are other clients they have to attend.
3. Speak up for your preferences
Once you take up an appointment for spa the receptionist will generally ask your preferences for the therapist whether female or male. Go in for the one you prefer keeping in mind the comfort zone. If you do not give any preferences they will most probably provide you with male therapist as female therapists are in demand. Either one of them is fine as they are well trained and know their boundaries and the draping techniques very well and it will not be problem.
4. Take a shower
Having a shower always helps specially when you have spent ample time in hot water tub. You want to take that chlorine off your body before your therapist starts off the massage. Another reason being that you will definitely feel relax and a shower acts as a warm up before the game starts.
5. Staying in spa nudity comfort zone
Massage is most often done nude. But many spas do offer a cover over the private parts of the body as only those parts are exposed which are to be massaged. You can cover or wear your underwear if you want. If the nudity anxiety has risen to a height and you are not at all comfortable, you can ask the receptionist to inform you about massage services that will not require you to go nude like Reiki, etc. or you can go in for facial services.
6. After the treatment gets done
Once the therapist finishes the treatment, you do not have to hop in your bed and get off to go. You can get out calmly. But this does not imply that you linger at that place for a long time as there are other clients waiting for services.
7. To talk or to be quiet
You can choose to talk to the therapist if you want or hibernate yourself, whatever you want. You will lead the therapist. It can also be possible that the therapist will go in talking constantly. In this situation you can do is declare calmly that you will now want to rest a bit or you are now going to zone out. The therapist will definitely get the hint.
8. Your comfort is the most important thing
You are in that spa because you really want to relax. How can you relax when you are not comfortable at all? Even while the massage is on you can speak up for the things that make you comfortable like the pressure, the music, if you require a blanket if its getting too cold or you do not require the table warmer, etc. Speak up for whatever you want as your therapist is there for you and will do everything to make you feel comfortable.
9. How much tip should be given to the therapist
It will mostly depend on the type of spa you choose to visit, but most probably it is come percent of the fee. Service charges are included in the fee you pay for the services but you can give a few more to the therapist as not all the service chargers go to the therapist.
10. Cancelling the appointment
If any last minute work has prowled up in between your schedule you have set up for the spa you need to cancel the appointment and need to tell them that you will not be available for the day. Many of the spas have ‘a day’ cancellation services, but if you do not inform your therapist may come in just for you and will not even get paid.
Keep all the above things in mind when you visit the spa the next time and see how your spa experience changes and makes it even more relaxing than before.