About the spa....

During all of my research I heard of a 1 day spa pass.  It was for part of the spa called the Rainforest Room, which sounded really amazing.  I was super set on getting my hands on one of these so I made sure to get to the spa ASAP to sign up.  Well, it turned out that they didn't offer one day passes, just 1 week passes.  I had my heart set on this place so much that I decided to spring for it anyway, even though that was a bit expensive.  Oh well.  

The Rainforest room had 2 main sections, a sort of self-guided spa, and a relaxation room.

I first checked out the different showers.  Each one had different lights, temperatures, and scents.  Within each one you could also choose one of three options.  For example, you could choose "southern storm" in the "tropical thunder" shower.  In that there were lightening flashes and some red lights.  In the rainforest shower I could smell a distinct eucalyptus scent.  Very cool.

After the showers, I tried the "hamam", which was a steamroom where you could also apply a body scrub and rinse it off with a big wooden ladle.   In the subsequent visits I did this first before the showers, so I could rinse off the oils better.  There was also a hotter steam room, as well as a dry sauna.  

After the spa portion of the room you could visit this other room which had these unique tiled loungers that didn't feel hot, but were just the perfect temperature to relax.  just outside the room were 2 small hot tubs, but also a superb view of the ocean, or a port if you happened to be at one! In this room I read my book, or just lay there and enjoyed the fact that I didn't have any chores to do.

An unexpected bonus of the spa were the shower facilities.  Although our room was fine in terms of space, there were several times where I went to the spa later in the day, and showered there and fully dried my hair in the change room.  Plus the change room had higher end shampoos and soaps, as well as an extremely amazing smelling body lotion.  Oh, and a massive shower! I would leave the spa feeling like a million bucks and pretty much ready for dinner.  I would definitely do this whole thing again.  Mike either ran or went to the gym every day, but I didn't feel like doing that on the cruise, and going to sit somewhere with a book would have been ok, but this was better!