A spa, a hammam and mornings on the lawn
Wellness
Eleven treatment rooms and a hammam, from seven in the morning.
Before ten
The quiet side of the property
Wellness here spans two places and three hours. The spa is a building of its own on the east side, with the hammam and the courtyard at the middle of it. The lawn above the beach and the reformer studio are the other half, and they are early.
The whole thing takes about three and a half hours and none of it is strenuous. Most people do two parts of it and go back to the pool.
The shape of a morning
How a morning here runs
6:30
Sunrise yoga, above the beach
Sixty minutes on the terrace above the beach, and the studio if it rains. Sixteen mats and they are not all taken.
8:00
The hammam
Forty-five minutes of heat, then cold, then somebody scrubbing the result off you. It is included with every treatment and it is $70 on its own.
9:30
The courtyard
Half an hour doing nothing, which is the part people skip and the part that makes the rest of it work. No phones, and the staff will say so.
10:00
Pilates, if you want it
Six reformers, so six people, three times a day. It is the one part of the morning that fills up.
Sunrise yoga and Pilates are booked on their own pages, because they are scheduled classes rather than treatments. Sunrise Yoga and Pilates times.
Spa at Paradise
The treatment rooms
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60, 90 or 120 minutes
Every treatment runs at one of the three.
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Eleven rooms
Two of them doubles, around the courtyard.
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Hammam and plunge
Open to anybody with a treatment booked that day.
A building of its own on the east side, built around a courtyard with a cold plunge in the middle of it. Eleven treatment rooms, two of them doubles, and the hammam underneath.
Treatments run from seven in the morning until eight at night. Come ninety minutes before yours: the hammam and the courtyard are included and they are the reason the treatment works.
The spa, its menu and its pricesPlainly
The fitness room
There is a fitness room, and it has eight machines and a rack of free weights in it, and that is the whole of it. If a full gym is part of how you travel, this is not the property for it, and it is better to know that now than at seven in the morning.
What this place has instead is nine miles of coast road out of the east gate, a headland path, and water that is warm enough to swim in from May.
The rest of the morning
Before breakfast
The headland path
Out of the east gate, along the cliff, and back through the town. About ninety minutes and nothing to book.
Walks and hikesEmerald Pool
Open from seven, and it is empty until about ten. The warmest water on the property.
Emerald PoolParadise Greens
The first tee sheet goes out at half past six, which is the round with no wind on it.
Tee times and rates