Review / We review Rosewood Hong Kong’s Asaya Lodges: what’s it like to stay in your own private spa – and how about a butler, too?
There aren’t many quiet sanctuaries in Hong Kong where you can truly escape from other human beings – but the Rosewood’s new Asaya Lodges offer the chance to disconnect into the Zen bubble of an on-site stay at the hotel’s wellness centre
Imagine this: you are in desperate need of quality “me” time but cannot get away for a three-day weekend. And the idea of a rushed few hours at a hotel spa for a massage will not quite do the trick for top-to-toe and inside-out pampering. What to do? What to do?
As far as staycations go, there aren’t a lot of choices in Hong Kong if you want a quiet sanctuary away from other human beings for longer than a sneaky spa session. Naturally, you could check into the hotel for a staycation, but then you’d have to traipse through the hotel crowds to the spa each time you want a treatment.
There are, maybe, two hotel spas offering overnight suites in Hong Kong (and one is at the airport!) where the spa will come to you. But that will change when Rosewood Hong Kong throws open its Asaya Lodges doors on January 1, 2020.
An extension to the hotel’s wellness centre, Asaya, the hotel’s two new lodges, will cater for single and double occupancy, respectively. Ahead of its much-anticipated opening, STYLE checked in for an exclusive first-look preview of the facilities and what the lodges will have to offer.
The concept
According to the wellness centre’s literature: “Asaya’s approach to wellness allows you to explore what you need, based on where you would like to go to”. More than just ad hoc treatments offered at most spas, Asaya aims for a more 360-degree wellness concept based on five distinct pillars: emotional balance, fitness and nutrition, physical therapies, skin health and community.
Given today’s demands on us all, at both work and at home, it is an excellent all-encompassing wellness concept which caters to not just physical wellness, skincare and massages, but also acknowledges our need for emotional balance and mental wellness.
