Wellness hotels Mallorca and Andalusia

Access to the water circuit for outside visitors costs between twenty and forty five euros, and a day package with circuit, a fifty minute treatment and lunch runs between ninety and one hundred and ninety euros per person.

A relaxing massage uses light pressure and enveloping movements over the whole body, a deep tissue massage applies firm pressure to specific areas, a sports massage prepares for or recovers from effort, and lymphatic drainage uses very light rhythmic pressure.

A Finnish sauna runs between eighty and one hundred degrees with very low humidity, in sessions of eight to fifteen minutes followed by cooling and rest, and that cycle is normally repeated two or three times.

The basic spa treatments are body exfoliation, the wrap, hydrotherapy and massage, and their logical order within a single visit is to exfoliate first, wrap or hydrate second and finish with the massage.

A thermal circuit is not advised with uncontrolled cardiovascular disease, marked low blood pressure, fever or acute infection, open wounds, or during pregnancy unless medically advised, because of the effect of heat and contrasts on the circulation.

In a hotel with wellness facilities the water circuit is normally included in the stay, while individual treatments, massages and certain areas are charged separately and should be booked in advance.