846. bintan, the massage

Joy of the day: Thanks peeps for all the birthday wishes!

Sorry peeps. This post has no photos because we were practically naked throughout the entire treatment.

It's my first time having a real full body massage. *ahem* It's a DECENT massage hor. Don't let your imagination stray.

The trip to the massage parlour was a lil scary. Firstly, the massage was on appointment basis outside the resort area. And so, we have to travel out on the provided vehicle from the parlour. Secondly, it was only about 8pm but we could barely see our hands. It's so dark on the street and there is NO street lamps. And so, we were riding and putting our lives on the driver's hands. And lastly, the place has no other tourists except dear and I!!! There's only a few locals and so, if anything happened to us, nobody knows!

Scary eh?

But, the trip was safe.

Once we reached the parlour, we were greeted with smiles and we began the marinating process...

Step 1: Stuff some spices in
They gave us each a glass of cold ginger tea. Seriously, it taste real good and sort of relaxed the body from the long day.

Step 2: Choose the "sauces" to marinate
We were presented with a list of essential oils and each has a different purpose. Examples for calming, detox, relaxing and etc. We are allowed to mix up to 2 different oils. To cater to our needs.

Step 3: Strip down
After making payment, we were brought to a room with 2 beds that look like a chopping board. Haha... We were given each a towel and a disposable underwear. Ok... It's a lil awkward because we weren't mentally prepared to strip down!

Step 4: The marinating starts
The massuers came in after we changed into the disposable underwear and ordered us to lay flat on the bed facing down. They started from the waist up towards the neck area. The first move they did stunned me. She pulled down my underwear and massaged upwards from the tail bone!

Throughout the whole session, she literally oiled me with my chosen "sauces" from head to toe. Yeah, she did massage my head to release all the work and school tensions. And also my feet! The whole marinating process felt so good that I almost fall asleep.

Step 5: Wash off
After the treatment, we decided to wash off the "sauces" because it's damn oily lar! How to wear back my clothes if I'm so oily?

Step 6: Stuff in more spices
After we wash up, we were given each a cup of warm ginger tea. Nice... For the first time, dear was enjoying ginger tea! It wasn't too spicy nor sweet. Just nice.

So, I strongly recommend you to get yourself "marinated" if you go Bintan. Release yourself from all that stress that you had been accumulating. Might wanna visit the one we went. Aroma Day Spa offers traditional Javanese Spa. Tel them at 0770-692072. Their price for our 1hr full body massage is S$42 per pax.

Really... can consider...