Sauna, suites and stone
Cedar, warm stone, low light and laundered cotton. Every room at Cedar Hollow Day Spa is set and warmed before a guest walks in, and none of it is shared with the next booking until it has been reset.
I The cedar sauna
A single dry cedar room, open to every guest before and after a treatment.
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01 The cedar sauna, with its slatted bench running the length of the wall: a few quiet minutes here loosen the muscles before a massage begins.
II Cedar and linen
Untreated wood, heavy cotton and fresh flowers, laid out so a guest brings nothing at all.
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02 A plain wooden stool on the tiled sauna floor, where a folded towel is left so nobody sits straight on warm wood. -
03 Laundered towels stacked with a single rose, as they wait in every suite beside the robe and slippers. -
04 The wood-lined sauna from the panelled wall outside, its door left open while it warms between guests.
III Private massage suites
Candlelit, sound-softened rooms with heated tables, made up before anyone arrives.
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05 White roses and lit candles on a low table, set in a massage suite before the guest is shown in. -
06 A dim massage suite with its heated table already made up for a sixty- or ninety-minute signature massage.
IV Stone and quiet
Cool stone, warm water and soft overhead light: the materials the slowest treatments are built on.
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07 A stone bench set into a tiled wall: cool, smooth stone, like the basalt warmed in water for the deep-tissue release. -
08 Small star-shaped lights in the domed ceiling, kept low so the eyes rest while the body does.
Request a treatment or a retreat
Name the treatment and the days that suit. Cedar Hollow Day Spa writes back with what the diary has free and the price of it, and the time is held once it has been agreed.