Make New Zealand Spa Aix Massage
Your Tramping Splurge Destination!

If there’s only one luxury you allow yourself on your Down Under backpacking experience, let it be a New Zealand Spa Aix Massage. This unique combination of private massage and water jet therapy produces an extraordinary sensation of full body wellness, self indulgence, and calming relaxation for the perfect counterpoint to often challenging physical travel adventure and New Zealand outdoor activities.

Several Down Under spas & spa pools offer the New Zealand Spa Aix Massage that so appropriately complements the theme of natural thermal pools abundant in the Bay of Plenty region.

Rotorua’s renowned Polynesian Spa uses acidic and alkaline mineral waters in its spa pools. The former, which flows from springs with pumice rock, maintains ever variable temperatures. More alkali water from a boiling spring fills the private pools. Mineralized waters purportedly relieve muscular aches, arthritis, intestinal disorders, skin and female problems, etc.

One of the most popular New Zealand attractions, glowworms exist in the Waitomo Caves of the North Island’s King Country region, 2 hours driving distance from Auckland, which is world famous for this species unique to New Zealand. Tens of thousands of these creatures light up the walls, ceilings, and stalactites of the grotto. A river flowing into the caves supplies abundant food for the worms.

Polynesian Spa sits on Priest Spring, named after its 1878 discovery by a Catholic priest who was said to have been cured of arthritis from bathing in this water. Today, the use of plants and sound of running water reinforce the concept of enjoyment and relaxation in addition to much sought-after healing benefits. The spa offers no painful procedures, such as waxing, in effort to fully achieve this goal.

Four hot mineral natural rock pools set in a landscaped garden overlook Lake Rotorua at Polynesian’s Lake Spa Retreat. Bathing suits are optional in private hot tubs that hold up to six people. Guests are encouraged to soak in these hot mineral pools before any therapy, a distinguishing feature from other spas.

New Zealand Spa Aix Massage, derived from France in the early 20th century, has been offered at Polynesian Spa for over 30 years. If you indulge, a coconut oil massage soothes underneath jets of thermal water that stream over your body.

The ultimate backpacker’s respite from high adventure will restore the traveler’s well being in hot water beaches and natural thermal mineral pools that profess to have healing powers and soothing mud baths that gurgle amidst the area’s stunning scenery. Most of Rotorua hotels and motels offer thermal pools for long hot soaks. The Polynesian Spa therapy further rejuvenates with pampering mud wraps, massages, and skin treatments.

Other spa hydro therapies foster skin care, such as plant derived exfoliation, moisturizing, firming, and penetrating deep skin therapies. Rotorua mud wraps are considered to be among the most decadent treatments. There’s also a café with healthy spa cuisine for guests to enjoy before or after treatments.

Body Mechanics Health & Wellness Centre in Rotorua maintains that “arriving is easy but leaving is difficult,” aptly summarizing the therapeutic feeling you get from a New Zealand Spa Aix Massage. The well known spa staffs registered professional health practitioners, masseurs, homeopath, naturopath, and beauty therapist to give extensive bodywork services to body-weary travelers in a calming environment.

The central North Island resort town of Lake Taupo has been home to Taupo Hot Springs Spa since the late 1800’s. This spa totes magnificent scenery for your senses to absorb while soaking in a hot tub in prelude to a therapeutic New Zealand Spa Aix Massage. Big spa pools, totally private pools, individual hot tubs, children’s pool and water slide are also available.

Taupo refers to its New Zealand Spa Aix Massage as “Living Water” hydrotherapy with “wet massage” water curtains, massage seats, air loungers, and acupressure jets which pamper while soaking in healing mineral water. A beauty therapist may recommend a coordinating line of “Living Nature” face and body treatments to enhance various services or customers may order from the spa’s online store.

Taupo’s most distinctive feature is found in its buildings’ architectural influence of Japanese Onsen thousand-year old traditional bathhouses. Onsens were public baths designed to flatline Japanese hierarchal society order through mutual naked bathing, or “skinship.” Varied bath tub material composition and minerals added to the water are thought to yield different healing powers.

Many other Down Under spas evidence ever increasing thermal bathing popularity among tourists. Business has increased over the last 10 years or so at Waiwera Thermal Resort north of Auckland and more than doubled in at Hanmer Sprints Thermal Pools and Spa. Maori traditions and expanded facilities give unique character to renewed spas such as Hell’s Gate-Wai Ora Spa at Rotorua and Tokaanu Thermal Baths.

Relaxation and healing represent New Zealand’s updated spa concept. Body Sanctum Day Spa in Queenstown offers a spectacular sunset view of the Remarkables in addition to its massage and beauty treatments. Millbrook Resort in Arrowtown offers a large menu of exercise, beauty, and pampering services including ensuite massage.

On New Zealand’s South Island, Kimi Ora’s Health Spa gives some unusual European style therapies including a hydro-electrical bath that delivers low voltage electric currents for blood flow improvement, a vibration massage mechanism that increases spinal extension, underwater massage, and oxygen therapy.

Smaller spas offer more limited services. Even some resorts, villas, and B & Bs offer ensuite massages. Of all spa features, none is tantamount to the ultimately luxurious New Zealand Spa Aix Massage. The combination of thermal jetstreams aimed at your body along with pampering, private massage is an experience not to be overlooked for the most exquisite backpacker’s indulgence on a New Zealand vacation.