The Sense of Spa Bangkok

The Sense of Spa Bangkok
Address
2F, 323 United Center Bldg,Silom Road,Bangrak, Bangkok
Contact
Phone : +66-(0)2-635-5488 9
E-Mail : info@senseofspa.com
Web : http://www.senseofspa.com
Opening hours
Everyday 10:00 - 22:00

The Sense of Spa Bangkok, a day spa in Bangkok Thailand, is one of the most popular bangkok spa which is designed for everyone like you. For wealthy people they already have enough choices to enjoy. But for the rest of us, nice professional day spa experience is just beyond reach. That's why we made Sense Of Spa Bangkok. Yes, there are cheaper places in Bangkok. But are you satisfied with them? We at try harder for better services at more affordable price.

For example, The Sense of Spa use only the quality products for skin care progras even though it costs much more. We don't put excessive list price and give big commisions to tour agencies. We do have tour partners, but they only small comissions much lower than other big name spas in Bangkok. We sometimes get offers from some tour agencies who wants to charge big list price and share big commision. We simply say no.

When the customers are about to leave the spa, we don't ask them forced 10% service charge and 7% VAT extra. We have seen some customers are not comfortable with the added stuffs in the bills. Also we think service charges should be voluntarily tip by the customer depending on her/his satisfaction, not some fixed amount of price added on bill.

The Baan Thai Wellness Retreat

The Baan Thai Wellness Retreat
Hidden away down a quiet side street off Sukhumvit Road and isolated from the hustles and bustles of city life, the Baan Thai Wellness Retreat is an oasis of peace and calm.
A stay at the peaceful wellness retreat, even if only brief, enables you to experience the very finest that Thailand has to offer. Gain insights into this amazing kingdom, its mystical culture and time-honoured customs and traditions. Delightful Thai hospitality; exotic spa therapies, revitalizing holistic health therapies and treatments; Thai culinary art; ornate Thai teak architecture — each is part of the kingdom’s enchanting artistic and cultural heritage.

‘Baan Thai’ literally means Thai house. The Baan Thai Wellness Retreat consists of five authentic stand-alone Thai teak homes, some dating back over three quarters of a century. These have been lovingly restored and refurbished to showcase a way of life that few have been able to experience.

The original traditional Thai teak house was designed in a luxurious style and built by M.R. Bongsebrahama (one of King Rama IV’s grandsons) for his family well over 60 years ago. The teak house has remained in the family ever since. Through the years, each generation of the family has restored and added to the original house. In 1965 Baan Thai opened as a restaurant serving fine cuisine and entertainment in the form of traditional Thai dance performances. In the latest chapter of this evolving story, Baan Thai, the house and restaurant, has been transformed into a luxurious cultural and wellness retreat — The Baan Thai Wellness Retreat. All of the original houses have been renovated and several teak wood houses from Ayutthaya, the ancient capital of Siam, have been added to the complex.

The traditional Thai teak houses form the basis of this luxurious wellness retreat developed by renowned cultural interior design expert M.L. Sudavadee Kriangkrai, one of M.R. Bongsebrahama’s two daughters. Two of the traditional teak homes have been redesigned to accommodate the spa. Each of the guests’ rooms and suites affords its own unique qualities and charm while retaining the cultural integrity of the property. Some of the decorative features date back over 200 years. While most are more recent, all are genuine.

The Baan Thai Wellness Retreat offers an extensive range of anti-aging, therapeutic or detoxifying treatments, pampering and beauty therapies delivered in the comfort and privacy of spa therapy rooms and suites. These include a range of authentic Thai treatments, such as Scrubs & Wraps, Baths, Massage, ‘Just for woman’, holistic health treatments, hand and foot care, facials, salon, haircare, as well as Ayurvedic, Asian and Tibetan therapies. Guests can also enjoy the unisex wet area available with hydrotherapy, infrared sauna and steam facilities.

Spa services are provided with the careful supervision of Horwath Spa Consulting, a specialist spa company whose directors have been involved in the development of Destination Spas in Thailand. A team of holistic health practitioners provides professional consultation in Diagnostic Reflexology, Homeopathic Consultations, Acupuncture, Chi Nei Tsang, Rebirthing Sessions and Deep Tissue Massage, while total detoxification programmes are supervised by the retreat’s own resident medical professionals.

Designed to accommodate the latest spa therapies while maintaining the nuances of cultural integration as dictated by the architectural style of the property, the warm, soothing and inviting environment promotes total relaxation and is conducive to process of change and development, and rejuvenation.

THE BAAN THAI RETREAT MENU
Dine in air-conditioned comfort, on the terrace of your room, or in the privacy of your suite. The team of dedicated Thai culinary professionals at the wellness retreat have prepared an ever changing range of menu offerings, specially designed to promote total wellness.

Great care is taken in the preparation of some of the most vivid tasting and intense culinary delights featured on the Baan Thai Retreat menu. This begins with the careful selection of the base ingredients (of which many are from certified organic farms in Thailand) through to the preparation and cooking process. The team is committed to the creation of flavourful cuisine while retaining the integrity of Thai culinary traditions. Other less traditional menu offerings and dishes from other nations also grace the menu, but the majority are native Thai.

The retreat offers a full range of other fresh fruit and vegetable juices, herbal tisanes, tonics and elixirs throughout the day. A wide range of wines and champagnes are served with dinner.

The Baan Thai restaurant has welcome guests such as royalty from Sweden, Denmark and Japan as well as Jackie Kennedy, Tiger Woods and many other celebrities.

TEAK SPLENDOUR
A Journey Back into Time
As you enter the retreat, stop and pause a while. Take in the magnificence that surrounds you — the amazing traditional artwork is very much part of the Baan Thai experience. From the intricately carved doors at the entrance of the retreat to the beautifully carved wood panels and artifacts found throughout the property, the fine collection of genuine traditional art reflects the era in which they were created — a time when skilled craftsmen carved history into wood, passing on to their children and grandchildren, great stories of a magnificent kingdom and the rich cultural heritage they have come to inherit. Even artefacts made in relatively modern times all retain their cultural integrity. None are modern reproductions.

FACILITIES
The Baan Thai Wellness Retreat offers an extensive range of facilities that have been carefully designed to meet the needs of guests so that they can maximize the benefits of their stay.

- 21 guest rooms
- 7 with their own private spa therapy area, 9 with kitchenette facilities
- 5 x single and 3 x double spa therapy rooms — 2 with private steam rooms, 2 with Jacuzzi
- Beauty salon
- 2 x Consultation rooms
- Colonic hydrotherapy room
- Infra-red sauna
- Herbal steam room
- Garden rain shower
- 2 Private swimming pools
- Free form swimming pool
- Modern gymnasium staffed with personal trainers and Stretch, Fit Ball, Yoga and Tai Chi classes
- Aerobics studio
- Meditation pavilion
- Thai spa cuisine restaurant
- Juice & elixir bar
- Open air lounge
- Library
- Mini Bar
- IDD direct dial telephone
- Cable Television
- Wireless internet connection
- Limousine transfers
- Off-street parking

This peaceful wellness retreat located right in the heart of cosmopolitan Bangkok enables you to enjoy a change of pace at your convenience. Within the resort itself, tranquility prevails. Step beyond and a short stroll away, you’ll find easy access to mass transit systems, shopping malls and other modern infrastructure.
Feel Bangkok’s pulse — the city that never sleeps.

Location
The Baan Thai Wellness Retreat is situated between the Thonglor and Phromphong BTS Skytrain station, which is also adjacent to the Emporium shopping complex and the Benjasiri Park.

The Baan Thai Wellness Retreat
7 Soi Sukhumvit 32 Sukhumvit Road
Bangkok 10110
Thailand
Tel : + 66 (0) 2258 5403, 2661 4051-3
Fax: + 66 (0) 2258 9517
Email: contact@thebaanthai.com
Website: www.thebaanthai.com

Bangkok Yoga & Pilates

Yoga is an ancient form of Hindu philosophy and spiritual practice. In broad terms, it aims at deliverance from suffering and pain through meditation to effect a reunion with the Universal Spirit. In more specific terms, it includes the practice of various postures - static and moving, breathing exercises, a disciplined diet, and meditation - which tone the body, mind, and spirit. Yoga is, therefore, not a system of medicine; it is more a discipline.

Yoga is really about creating balance in the body through developing both strength and flexibility. This is done through the performance of poses, each of which has specific physical benefits. The poses can be done quickly in succession, creating heat in the body through movement or more slowly to increase stamina and perfect the alignment of the pose. There is an ideal way that each pose should be done in order to achieve satisfactory results.

Hot yoga is a series of yoga poses done in a heated room. The room is usually maintained at a temperature of 95 - 100 degrees Fahrenheit. As you can imagine, a vigorous yoga session at this temperature promotes profuse sweating which rids the body of toxins. It also makes the body very warm, and therefore more flexible.

Pilates is a physical fitness system that was developed in the early 20th century by Joseph Pilates. Pilates exercises teach awareness of breath and alignment of the spine, and strengthen the deep torso muscles, which are important to help alleviate and prevent back pain. It also helps build your body's core strength and posture through a series of stretching and conditioning exercises.

Plenty of fitness centres in Bangkok offer yoga and Pilates classes, including the hot yoga.

Yoga Elements Studio
Location: 29 Vanissa Building 23rd Floor, Soi Chitlom
Contact: +66 (0)2 655 5671

Absolute Yoga
Location: 4th Floor, Amarin Plaza, Ploenchit
Contact: +66 (0)2 252 4400

The Pilatestudio Bangkok
Location: 888/58-9 Mahatun Plaza, Ploenchit
Contact: +66 (0)2 650 7797

Iyengar Yoga Studio
Location: 3rd Floor, Fiftyfifth Plaza, Sukhumvit 55 (Soi Thonglor).
Contact: +66 (0)2 714 9924

Prana Yoga Bangkok
Sareerarom Studio
Location: 117 Sukhumvit 63, Wattana
Contact: +66 (0)2 391 6487

All Seasons Studio
Location: Unit 801, 8th Floor, CRC Tower-All Seasons Place, 87 Wireless Road
Contact: +66 (0)2 685 3775

source : bangkok.com

Sober and sensible in a Thai spa

They used to call them ‘health farms’ — but these days great food and full-on pampering are on offer, finds Cath Urquhart at the ubiquitous Chiva-Som

PUTTING on weight during a stay at Chiva-Som isn’t quite the outcome most visitors are looking for, but after a week there I can understand how it might happen. I expected a health resort to serve unappetising meals in small portions, but the food at this chic, 57-room retreat in Hua Hin, on Thailand’s Gulf coast, is quite sensational. Disastrously, you can eat as much as you like. You can even drink wine, though few do.

During a cookery class to teach us his healthy recipes, head chef Paisarn Cheewinsiriwat told me: “People think if they come here they may have to eat hospital food, but it’s not true.” Too right. The buffet tables for breakfast and lunch groaned with tropical fruits, freshly baked breads (some wheat-free), dozens of exotic salad ingredients, many from the resort’s own organic garden, fish dishes and tasty clear soups flavoured with coriander and lemongrass.

In the evening, à la carte dinners included a spicy and sour kingfish soup with green papaya and a wonderful chicken and potato curry. Astonishingly, the nutritional information told me that this generous, filling dish had just 292 calories and 10g of fat. Fellow guest Sarah, a stockbroker from Singapore, confessed that on one of her previous visits she had even put on weight.

Before you form the impression that Chiva-Som is all about eating (and with the option of joining a communal table, meals are definitely a sociable high point), there is also the teensy matter of spa treatments and exercise classes.

It was tempting to spend hours in the enormous spa, one of the best organised I have visited. A series of freeform spaces lead you from changing area to the steamroom, sauna and rose-petal- covered plunge pool, eight powerful showers, and a relaxation area with daybeds.
Although the resort was full, at no point did I see more than one or two others in the spa, though with more than 40 treatment rooms and dozens of blue-uniformed Thai staff no one has to wait long for their massage. Chiva-Som’s masseuses were terrific, with a strength that belied their delicate build, and I was glad that my treatments were at the end of the afternoon so I could collapse in a heap for an hour before supper.

But taking exercise is essential if you’re to really benefit from the retreat, and so focused is everyone on getting fit that a sort of collective brainwashing came over us. I rarely find myself in a gym, yet by 7.30am I’d be pounding the treadmill for 20 minutes, running a little farther each morning. I’d also join in the daily classes, such as t’ai chi or aqua-aerobics; my favourite was a stretch class, held in a pavilion where we could survey the resort’s lush grounds to take our minds off the harder positions.

Later I’d swim in the huge outdoor pool or go for a power walk along the beach. Hua Hin is not Thailand’s prettiest resort, and when Chiva-Som’s general manager, Paul Linder, told me that it was “the Hamptons” of Thailand, he was referring to the property prices (boosted by the fact that the popular monarch, King Bhumibol Adulyadej, spends most of his time here), not the rather grubby beach, ugly skyscraper apartment blocks and girlie bars in the town centre.
So it is to Chiva-Som’s credit that its peaceful gardens and landscaping make it easy to ignore the resort on its doorstep.

I did have a few gripes. While the rooms are comfortable, some of the cheaper ones are too close to the restaurant for real privacy. The more expensive Thai pavilions are bigger and set around a private courtyard, but the bathrooms are tired and a much-needed refurbishment is promised. Mineral water is handed out in waste-creating small bottles, instead of being provided by water coolers. Paul Linder said he was looking into changing this system: and as water is served from communal jugs in the restaurant, I don’t think guests would object.

Many of the guests come alone, though they may have partners at home, as the resort has a reputation for being welcoming to single travellers. There are slightly more women than men, but the gap is narrowing. Most come with a specific goal: over dinner one night I discovered that Mark from London had come to stop smoking, Henry from Frankfurt had been sent by his wife to lose weight, while Dawn Dixon, 41, from Cumbria, said it was to save her health and sanity.
She was here for 18 days, taking a break from bringing up four boys, one disabled, and running a property company with her husband. “I felt that my brain was a hamster wheel that would not stop whizzing round, and that was very exhausting,” she said. “But now I’ve got a peaceful mind.”

London couple Oona Van Den Berg and Adrian Heath-Saunders, both 42, were equally enthusiastic. They were at the end of their second stay, and Oona said: “I feel fantastic now — relaxed, nourished, stretched and very balanced. You take away little nuggets of information — for example, drinking hot water and lemon in the morning.”

So did it work for me? Definitely. I lost about four pounds, and have taken some good habits away with me. I regularly go running, I often start my day with hot water and lemon, I drink less coffee and alcohol than before, and I feel much better for it. Since visiting Chiva-Som I’ve been to a travel industry conference, notorious for late, boozy nights, and while I could hardly be described as teetotal, I escaped without a hangover. And as the party season approaches, that’s something of a victory.

source : travel.timesonline.co.uk