Being a Tourist for a Day

I have written about our days at the local spa often and frequently.  Honestly I count those times as some of the best and most relaxing times that I have had here.  Now I know that these places are all over and our local one is one of the larger establishments, but there are others.  We made plans and decided to try out one of the larger and more tourist friendly of these places. 

Dragon Hill was not difficult to find, but it was out of the way for our usual weekend spa trip.  This place was massive.  Our normal place isn’t small by any means, but this place was a virtual palace to comfortable self-indulgence.  What amazed me the most was the amount of stuff that they had there.  Video games, restaurants, massage parlors, nail salons, and of course baths.  We were even treated to a magic show from an in house magician.  Like I said this place was huge and it had everything. 

Now at some point I’ll more than likely head back there with a larger amount of cash, and engage in one of the most self-indulgent exercises that I can conceive.  The locker room even had an in house barber.    What was strange to me was that there was a lot of areas modeled after a pseudo Greco-Roman and Egyptian art styles.  A few heated rooms in particular were pyramid shaped, and decorated with hieroglyphics.  The baths were tiled in a lovely shade of green and decorated with busts and other statues, giving it a real air of class.  It is worth considering that even with all of this decoration and so on and so forth that there is still a level of artificiality, but it is nice. 

One of the other attractions that I particularly enjoyed was a heated “salt sauna”.  It was this burning hot stone room with pits filled with heated salt rocks.  As strange as it sounds it was actually very quiet and soothing.  There was as sign posted on the door that said you must always wear socks inside, but of course no one ever did.  Again it amazed me at how many different things there were.  Down in the basement, there was even a makeshift movie theater.  

Is this a place that I will be going to on a regular basis?  No.  But it is a great place to visit, and more than likely I’ll be taking any folks that visit us there.