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CITYLIFE / Weekend & Holiday






Five star treatment


(That's Shanghai)
Updated: 2007-09-05 11:41





Shanghai's latest five-star hotel Hyatt has given over an entire floor to
its spa in recognition of how important health, well-being and pampering
are to today鈥檚 travelers. Hyatt on the Bund's 3,000 sqm Yuan Spa (see
P68 for details) comprises a 12-suite spa, 25-meter swimming pool, a
whiz-bang fitness center with user-controlled fans and TV screens on each
machine, Next hair salon, lounge and organic juice bar.

Yuan means 'river鈥檚 source', and the water theme provides a strong
undercurrent both in terms of design and treatments offered. A
pebble-strewn stream from a natural spring located below the hotel flows
across the space and laps up to the individual treatment rooms. The
designers have built a contemporary setting using natural materials such
as textured woods and granite, and added iPod docks on the walls as well
as a mechanical bed.

"Each of the Hyatt Pure Spas around the world features unique aspects of
its destination," explains spa manager Amanda Teng. As for the choice of
skin products by Shanghai start-up Ba Yan Ka La, she says, "We thought it
was a good match-we are both offering a contemporary take on Chinese
traditions and of course the use of pure water." (Ba Yan Ka La products
use water from Himalayan springs.)

The signature 90-minute Yuan Infusion Massage is alone worth a trip to
the north Bund. Using Chinese medicinal herbal compresses filled with
ginger, notoginseng and Tibetan saffron to massage the body, the
treatment clears blocked qi and eliminates toxins. Before and after the
treatments clients are free to use the yin and yang plunge pools, sauna,
steam, or retire to the low-slung lounges for a fresh juice under the
occasional burst of spring mist sprayed from nozzles hidden among the
bamboo plants.

Hyatt on the Bund
Location: Jinmao Tower, 88 Shiji Da Dao, near Yincheng Zhonglu
Tel: 021-5047-1234























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