BEAUTY GOES “VIRTUAL REALITY” – RITUALS LAUNCHES “MY HAMMAM” EXPERIENCE #MARRAKECH
“Oh how was your hammam"” I asked a lovely woman on a Marrakech spa press trip with me a few years ago. “I don’t know to be honest"!” she replied. “A man came in and chucked water over me while I was half naked!”
I’ve never done the hammam thing, it’s just not my thing (like saunas) – sharing humid spaces with other people, assertive rub-downs, or sports massages. Just like tagines and busy medinas – not my thing.
While Katie was having her hammam experience, I’d (luckily) opted for a more stress-melting massage which was absolute heaven. Hard to get off the massage table when you’re in another world. Afterwards, we sipped some tea by a luminous, low-lit indoor pool feeling very lucky and more than a bit guilty that our “job” for the weekend was visiting three of Marrakech’s top spas with Visit Morocco’s wonderful, funny, charming PR director who’d flown over from London to meet us. It was the best of weekends. Beauty treatments, lush gardens, great food and exquisitely gorgeous interiors. So much design inspiration, so little time. 1001 nights in 48 hours. I’ll never forget it. For a long weekend (particularly in winter) Marrakech is hard to beat. It slows you down…shopping for sequinned straw bags and long silver Berber rings…sipping a “nuss-nuss” half milk, half coffee in chic Gueliz, watching the world go by. You real...
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